John Cale on screen
Beautiful Mistake
Director: Marc Evans (2000). Welsh title: Camgymeriad Gwych.
Color. 72 minutes.
This movie follows a group of Welsh musicians interacting and playing in the studio. Premiered at the Cardiff International Film Festival on November 29, 2000.
Cale did the score for the film. Music by the Welsh bands Catatonia and Super Furry Animals. The film was released in 2001.
Cale plays piano and organ throughout the film. He performs Ready For Drowning and Some Friends with James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers, Buffalo Ballet with Derrero, and I Keep A Close Watch with Cerys Matthews from Catatonia. Viola on Gwyddbwyll with Tystion.
The director, Marc Evans , also directed House of America, scored by Cale in 1997 and Dal: Yma/Nawr (Still: Here/Now) in 2003.
All songs with Cale performing:
- James Dean Bradfield (of Manic Street Preachers) - Ready For Drowning; Some Friends
- Catatonia - Whispering Room; (I Keep A) Close Watch)
- Super Furry Animals - Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead; Presidential Suite
- Zygotic Mynci (Gorky) - Oh Caroline II
- Julie Murphy - Farmer
- Patrick Jones (and Pink Assasin) - Scalpel and Heart; Of Temazepan and Petroleum
- Manchild - Something In My System
- Big Leaves - Synfyfyrio (Daydream)
- Derrero - Buffalo Ballet
- Tystion - Gwyddbwyll (Chess)
- Fernhill - Dole Teifi (Banks of The River Teifi)