John Cale on screen
TV Appearances: the Nineties
June 8, 1990 - Arts & Entertainment Revue, USA
Cale and Reed are interviewed (separately) on Arts & Entertainment Revue program about The Velvet Underground and Songs For Drella. They performed Nobody But You.
June 16, 1990 - Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches, France
Acts as interviewer and interviewee on French TV show Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches. Filmed at Parisian cabaret Shéhérazade. Broadcasted on June 16, 1990.
March 3, 1991 - Kulturreport, Germany
Last Day on Earth rehearsals with Bob Neuwirth in the WDR program Kulturreport.
November 26, 1992 - Later With Jools Holland, UK
Cale performs on the BBC tv show Later With Jools Holland, broadcasted on November 26, 1992. He plays two songs - Dying On The Vine and Hallelujah, accompanied by the Duke String Quartet.
November 26, 1992 - Le Cercle de minuit, France
Performs on the French tv show Le Cercle de minuit, broadcasted on November 26, 1992. He plays Dying On The Vine.
January 19, 1993 - Tonight Show with Jay Leno, USA
Performs Paris 1919 with The Soldier String Quartet and Sterling Morrison on guitar, followed by a brief chat with host Jay Leno on January 19. According Cale this happened on November, 1992:
"In November 1992 I appeared on The Tonight Show and said the VU were going to get back together, for the money. I was joking. Money has always been a consequence of what we’ve done, not a goal. And it remains that way. What was ultimately gratifying was that people would get to see what contributions people other than Lou and I made to the sound we had. That was very important. They saw what role Sterling had, and reinforced everything they understood about Maureen."
April 19, 1993 - Tales of Rock 'n' Roll - Heartbreak Hotel
His cover of Heartbreak Hotel is used in the BBC documentary in the Arena series Tales of Rock 'n' Roll. It is aired on April 19. The series is directed by James Marsh, who made a documentary about him in 1998.
June 25, 1993 - MTV Europe
Sweet Jane live at the Glastonbury Festival. Interview with Sterling & Moe. Note; Sterling is mistaken for John Cale by the clueles interviewer.
October 1993 - Mal Pope Show, Wales
Is a guest on the show by Welsh musician and composer Mal Pope, who flew out to New York to interview him at The Rockerfeller Centre. Contains live footage from Leaving It Up to You Fear from the Fragments of a Rainy Season video (shown in B&:W for some reason), and Autobiography and Heartbreak Hotel from the 1984 Rockpalast show at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany on October 14, 1984 .
October 8, 1994 - Pay per view, USA
Performs Heartbreak Hotel at Elvis - The Tribute Concert, live at The Pyramid Arena in Memphis, TN, USA.
1995 - Czech TV
Broadcast of the June 5, 1994 show recorded at the opening of the Archa Theatre in Prague, collaborating with the Japanese dancer Min Tanaka. Partial setlist: Grandfather's House, Riverbank, Chinese Envoy, Broken Hearts, Cordoba, Fear Is A Man's Best Friend with part of the brutal noisy solo on distortion Stratocaster.
1995 - Rock & Roll, PBS, USA
Cale is interviewed about The Velvet Underground for the PBS series Rock & Roll. He is featured in Episode 7 (The Wild Side).
May 24, 1996 - Charlie Rose show, USA
He appears on the Charlie Rose show on May 24, 1996 with director Mary Harron and professor Robert Rosenblum, discussing Andy Warhol:
First, Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and current member of Congress talks about politics in America and his relationship with Bob Dole. Then, New York Times film critic Janet Maslin, October Films managing executive Bingham Ray, and Newsweek magazine's, David Ansen discuss the recent Cannes film festival, which notably included the films Secrets and Lies and Kansas City. Finally, Mary Harron, writer and director of I Shot Andy Warhol, John Cale, a member of Velvet Underground, and Robert Rosenblum, a professor of fine arts at New York University, discuss the famous artist, Andy Warhol, who combined art with pop culture and continues to captivate America years after his death.
September 25, 1996 - Tonight Show with Jay Leno, USA
Performs Dancing Undercover on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. BJ Cole on pedal steel.
1997 - Arena, UK
Long running BBC documentary series Arena devoted an entire episode to the banana. Cale on the Andy Warhol cover.
August 26, 1997 - American Masters, USA
Is interviewed for the American Masters series on PBS. On the sound of The Velvet Underground and Nico:
"The sound of the group really came from the way we to know guitars, all guitars were down to and the drums were really very, very bass. Do we have one example of how the sound remained? The same was that Mo had a drum stolen once at the dam. The only thing we had left to play with were garbage cans. So she put up with the stink of the garbage cans for one performance and nobody noticed the difference in the drum sun. So this thumping element that was there, plus the grating, kind of the viola. What you did was give it give it space. It gave you kind of landscape a really flat, wide open landscape in which this rhythm happened. And it was we were trying to be intelligent about our way of interpreting Phil Spector first fact, to have his rhythm and blues quotient that was backed with a kind of Wagnerian, an orchestral backing. And so we thought that there was a combination here that might work. And, you know, it took us. If you if you pay attention to the banana box set, it shows you the distance that those arrangements came. And I was it this? It took about a year. So that first banana album was representative of roughly your year's work."
March 9, 1998 - Dutch NPS Television
Footage of the February 25 show at the Paradiso. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The show was billed as With A Little Help From My Friends. He shared the stage with Siouxsie & The Creatures, Carol van Dijk (singer with Bettie Serveert) and Het Metropool Orkest conducted by Dick Bakker. Performs Dying On The Vine, Chinese Envoy and Paris 1919 and with the orchestra, Silent Spring with Carol van Dijk, I Was Me, Gun and Murdering Mouth with Siouxsie. The latter was written during the rehearals in the run-up for the show. The footage is repeated regularly over the years on Dutch Television.
March 25, 1998 - BBC Wales
BBC Wales airs the James Marsh directed documentary on their The Slate program.
1998 - Czech TV
Broadcast of a concert of the John Cale Trio at the Archa THeatre, Prague, May 20, 1998.
January 12, 1999 - The Jack Docherty Show, UK
He is interviewed by Scottish writer, actor, presenter and producer Jack Docherty about the What's Welsh for Zen autobiography. Broadcasted on Channel 5 on January 12.
May 14, 1999 - Later With Jools Holland, UK
Plays Cable Hogue on the May 14 broadcast of Later With Jools Holland.
September 7, 1999 - BBC "Songwriters Circle"
John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde. Recorded live for the Songwriters Circle program at the Subterania Club, London UK, broadcasted by the BBC on September 7, 1990. The actual recording took place on May 12, 1999.
John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde. Recorded live for the Songwriters Circle program at the Subterania Club, London UK, broadcasted by the BBC on September 7, 1990. The actual recording took place on May 12, 1999.
The concept of this programme was having 3 singer-songwriters meeting up only 1 hour before and to come up with a 1 hour acoustic set for filming. This was also broadcast by the digital/satellite arts channel UK Arena (now defunct) as "Later In The Round".