Timeline: 2018
Days of Steam on Lady Bird soundtrack
Days of Steam, from his album The Academy In Peril, is included in the soundtrack for the new movie Lady Bird. It is the second time that this track was used in a movie, after being featured in Paul Morrissey's Heat in 1972, as part of a trade for the cover by Andy Warhol.
The soundtrack also features songs by Alanis Morissette, Haim, The Monkees, Reel Big Fish, Love, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Ani Difranco. The album is released on Lakeshore Records.
John Cale (2018-1964): A Futurespective in London
He performs two career-spanning shows @ Barbican Hall in London (March 9-10) with the London Contemporary Orchestra and the Houzse Gospel Choir. The shows are billed as John Cale (2018-1964): A Futurespective:
Since before his time as the Velvet Underground’s Avant-Gardist-in-residence, Cale has been a totally uncompromising artist, embracing manifold musical approaches across his remarkable career. Tonight, joined by the LCO, he's exploring the enormous scope of his musical output; playing selections from the Velvet Underground, the proto-minimalist songs of The Dream Syndicate – his collaboration with La Monte Young and others – and the richly enigmatic music from his landmark solo albums.
His is a difficult career to summarise succinctly – who else could have collaborated with both Terry Riley and the Happy Mondays? He’s a Classical composer and Pop genius; virtuosic violist and vitriolic Rock’n’Roller; moody Drone artist and pastoral Welsh songwriter.
I Keep A Close Watch on Robert Kirby album
(I Keep A) Close Watch is included on the When The Day Is Done - The Orchestrations Of Robert Kirby compilation. Kirby wrote the string and choir arrangments for the song that was released on Helen of Troy. Cale and Kirby had first ran into each other during the recording of
Velvet Underground 50th Anniversary Memorial Concer in Shanghai
On July 11 he re-imagines trscks from The Velvet Underground & Nico and the bulk of White Light/White Heat once again at Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai, China. Billed as a Velvet Underground 50th Anniversary Memorial Concert.
The Velvet Underground Experience in NYC: October 10 - December 30
Two years after The Velvet Underground - New York Extravaganza exhibition in Paris, the artefacts, sounds and movies get another outing in the band's hometown New York. Renamed The Velvet Underground Experience it opens on October 10 at 718 Broadway. He does a Q& on October 11.