Legendary member of The Velvet Underground and acclaimed composer John Cale performs his seminal solo album, Paris 1919. Cale's footprints are stamped all over the past four decades of musical history. Through co-founding The Velvet Underground and the music he has made as a solo artist, as well as a mind-boggling array of collaborations, he has amassed a deserved reputation as a pioneering, deeply influential presence.
Frequently considered his best and most accessible album, 1973's Paris 1919 finds him blending rock, soul and classical with quietly anthemic songwriting. With shifting instrumentation Cale describes the songs as "an example of the nicest ways of saying something ugly". This performance is sure to sell out fast so book early to avoid disappointment.
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got my ticket!....just cannot miss this chance to see proper rock royalty.
By juliette from manchester on Mon 1 March 2010
Looks like a great show - I’ve always wanted to see John Cale!
By Jack Armley from Greenwich, London on Fri 5 March 2010
Got my ticket—would love to hear the gift
By Alison Birmingham from Norwich on Wed 24 March 2010
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Review 1
Implausibly hale for a man days from his 68th birthday, his voice resonant, Cale shows every sign of going on for ever. He sets about his masterpiece with vigour. If the purely orchestral title track sounds as majestic as you would hope, then some songs sound even better than before.
7 Mar 2010
Review 2
“Hello London, nice to see you,” John Cale greeted his audience at the Royal Festival Hall in his rich, mildy clipped Carmarthenshire accent, like one might a neighbour in a post office. It was as though his 1960s sojourn as the dark, menacing surrealist in the Velvet Underground in New York had never happened.
That was a long time ago, yet so was the subject of his performance here, his 1973 album Paris 1919. Written while he was in exile in LA and fuelled by narcotics and Cold War paranoia, as well as a longing for European experience, it was an album that, however obscurely, riffed on the Treaty of Versailles while sounding like a lost collaboration with Paul McCartney.
8 Mar 2010
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