Timeline: 2026

Negrei3colors cover "Paris 1919"

Spanish indie band Negrei3colors cover Paris 1919 on the Recopilatorio Espora various artists album, released on February 18.

"Wuthering Heights" soundtrack

On February 13 Charli XCX' s Wuthering Heights soundtrack album is released. Cale contributed a spoken word piece to House, which was released as a single in November 2025.

The album reaches the top of the charts in various countries, giving him his first ever No.1 record by proxy.

"Haunts" at Wales Millennium Centre

Cale's Antarctica Starts Here is part of the soundtrack for Haunts, a "single user VR experience" at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, that runs from March 1 until April 12. The exhibition looks back at the Welsh party scene in 2006.

The year is 2006, Tony Blair is Prime Minister, Twitter has just been launched, and young people are quickly getting used to a world where social media and technology are beginning to take hold. 16-year-old Morgan, voiced by Callum Scott Howells (It's a Sin), is searching to understand where he belongs, his journey set against the backdrop of a community in Llanberis - a small town at the foot of Snowdon in Wales.

Chris Spedding on working with Cale

English guitarist Chris Spedding is interviewed Guitar Worldabout a bunch of musicians he worked with. He was Cale's guitarist on Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy in 1975. He also was part of the tours to promote those albums. In 1986, 1987 and 1988 he played a string of shows as a duo with Cale.

"I liked John because he was one of the few people who'd take a chance. He'd change tempos, keys and the order of songs because he was interested in improvising. Some of the other members of the band were kind of freaked out by that because it's not the rock 'n' roll thing.

The rock 'n' roll thing would be to keep rigidly to the song and not to experiment with it too much. But coming from a little bit of a jazz background myself, and John coming from an improvisational classical background, we both liked to mess around with things and hit people with a real curveball.

Since he stopped doing the illicit substances as we all did back then, he's gotten to be a lot more controlled – although he's still a bit of a rebel in some ways. It was a very valuable experience. I wish he was still like that, a bit more of a rebel, because we'd get on a lot better."