Actress
Electronic musician and producer. Appears on the Extra Playful: Transitions 12" and Mercy album.
Tony Allen
Nigerian/Ghanaian drummer. Appears posthumously on the Mercy and MiXology (volume 1) albums.
Carl Barât
English musician, member of The Libertines. Performed at the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
Bruce Brody
Keyboard player with the 1977 and 1978 touring bands.
BJ Cole
Pedal steel guitarist. Plays on Walking on Locusts Performed live on and off live with Cale from 1989 onwards.
Tony Conrad
Former member of The Dream Syndicate in the early sixties. Driving force of The Table of the Elements label which released the New York in the 1960s CD's. He died in 2016.
Étienne Daho
French musician. Performed at the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
Deerfrance
Backup vocalist from 1978 to 1981. Performs on the Sabotage/Live and Even Cowgirls Get The Blues albums.
Peter Doherty
English musician. Performed at the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
Lou Doillon
French musician. Performed at the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
David Dramm
Guitarist with The Meatgrinders at the 2005 Meltdown festival in London.
Brian Eno
On Fear, June 1, 1974, Words For The Dying and Wrong Way Up.
Nick Franglen
Keyboards and sound FX. Occasional guest during live shows. Most recently at the Music for a New Society show in Aarhus (August 29, 2013) and the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
Ollie Halsall
Played bass and guitar during the 1985 and 1986 tours. He died in 1992.
Andy Heermans
Bass player in 1983-1984. Co-writer of Never Give Up On You.
Terry Jennings
Avant-garde saxophone player. Plays on Terry's Cha-Cha on Stainless Gamelan:
Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol III.
Michael Jerome
Drums and percussion 2005-2011. Performs on blackAcetate, Circus Live, Extra Playful and Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood.
Joe Karnes
Bass player 2005-2011. Performs on blackAcetate and Circus Live.
Mark Lanegan
American singer who performed at the 2008 and 2010 Life Along Borderline: a tribute to Nico concerts, the LA show of Paris 1919, and the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016. He died in 2022.
Cate Le Bon
Welsh musician who performed at the John Cale (2019-1964): A Futurespective concerts in Paris in 2019. He plays Ride, a track from her Michelangelo Dying album
(2025)
Angus MacLise
Avant-garde musician. First drummer of The Velvet Underground. Cale is featured on the posthumous album The Cloud Doctrine. He died in 1979.
Sterling Morrison
The Velvet Underground guitarist. Joined Cale on stage in Austin (April 19 and May 17, 1979), New York (December 5, 1992), and Pittsburg (November 18 and 19, 1994). He died in 1995.
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Bob Neuwirth
Guitarist. Collaborator on Last Day On Earth. Toured with Cale in 1994 and 1995. He died in 2022.
Nico
Former Velvet Underground chanteuse. Cale produced many of her solo records. He organised four Life Along the Borderline: a tribute to Nico shows: London (October 11, 2008), Wroclaw (March 27, 2010), Rome (April 11, 2010) and New York (January 16, 2013). She died in 1988.
Sturgis Nikides
Guitar player during the Honi Soit days. Primary source of information for the Sedition and Alchemy biography. Back in the day one of the moderators for the Sabotage2 mailing list. He died in 2024.
Deantoni Parks
Experimental drummer. Played with Cale in 2003, 2004, 2010 and 2023. Performs on Circus Live, Extra Playful, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, M:FANS, and Mercy.
Anja Plaschg
Austrian singer who goes by the stage name Soap&Skin. Performed at the Life Along the Borderline: a tribute to Nico shows in Ferrara (May 10, 2009), Wroclaw (March 27, 2010) and Rome (April 11, 2010).
Lou Reed
Guitarist, singer and co-founder of The Velvet Underground. Together again on Songs for Drella, the surprise performance in Jouy-En-Josas in 1990, and the short lived 1993 reunion tour. He died in 2013.
Terry Riley
Experimental composer. Collaborator on the Church of Anthrax album.
Erik Sanko
Bass player. Performed on Extra Playful EP.
Larry "Ratso" Sloman
Author and journalist. Co-wrote the lyrics for the Caribbean Sunset and Artificial Intelligence albums, the Ooh La La single and She Never Took No For An Answer.
Dave Soldier
Neuroscientist and composer. Play violin and/or serves as arranger on Antártida, Paris s'eveille, Last Day On Earth, Walking on Locusts, Eat/Kiss and Dance Music. Toured with Cale between 1992 and 1998 (with The Soldier String Quartet).
Chris Spedding
Performs on Slow Dazzle. Guitarist in the 1975 and 1980/1981 live bands. As a duo in 1987.
Maureen Tucker
Drummer with The Velvet Underground. Performs on the
Eat/Kiss and Walking on Locusts albums. Cale plays on her I Spent A Week There The Other Night album.
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter. Duets with Cale on the Hector Zazou album Songs From the Cold Seas (1995) and a cover of Leonard Cohen's So Long Marianne on the folk tribute album Bleecker Street - Greenwich Village In The 60's (1999).
Saul Williams
Performed at the Velvet Underground re-imagination show in Paris in 2016.
Randall Woolff
Composer-mentor for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Created arrangements for the American Psycho and Saint Cyr scores, the Paris 1919 live orchestra concerts, and the Nico tribute shows.
James Young
Keyboard player on Artificial Intelligence. Co-producer of Nico's Camera Obscura album. Author of Nico - Song They Never Play On The Radio.
Charli XCX
British singer-songwriter. Cale features on her single House, released in 2025.
La Monte Young
Experimental composer who worked with Cale in the early sixties in The Dream Syndicate and The Theatre of Eternal Music. |
