I really had a bad reputation for not doing the same things twice, and really with a vengeance. People would be like, “is that song?” It’s nice now to get people to expect that. I think I’ve worn a groove there that you don’t know quite what it’s going to be. But for me, I can’t go on the road and do the same things all the time. Drives me nuts."John Cale
Live reviews
Heartbreak Hotel
Reading My Mind
Hey Ray
Model Beirut
Helen Of Troy
Sold Motel
Walkin' The Dog
Common Cold
Big White Cloud
Outta The Bag
Hush
Chinese Envoy
Ghost Story
You Know More Than I Know
Things
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
Dirty Ass Rock 'n' Roll
Perfect
Leaving It Up To You
E: Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
Chorale
Gravel Drive
Cambridge 2007-01-28
Junction, Cambridge, UK
Michael French
JC came on stage at 9pm and proceeded to play a brilliant combination of old and new for the next 2 hours. He started off as with Sheffield with a deconstruction of Heartbreak Hotel very intense and very electronic with his voice put through an effects processor to sound like something out of Doctor Who! I haven't got a copy of the set list but early on he played a new song called Ray which seemed a natural progression from blackAcetate but not as powerful as Jumbo in tha Modernworld. I remember thinking the lyrics sounded interesting. Helen of Troy, Walking the Dog, Cable Hogue were all played.
Highlights of the set were Dirty Ass Rock'n'roll and an encore of Gravel Drive, but sadly no Pablo Picasso. The Junction is a good place with a good atmosphere worth making the early evening journey up from London. Looking forward to Oxford in march!
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