"He's the only musician I’ll mention if people ask who I play with. There’s only one name. He’s the greatest. He has more of an impact on me than any drummer, more than anyone, in my adult life."Deantoni Parks
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Recent additions to the site
A website is forever a work in progress...
Last updated: April 4, 2025
Recently added or updated
- Timeline updates: 1964, 1986, 2005, 2019 and 2025.
- Added: Berlin 2025-04-03 setlist
- Added: Hamburg 2025-04-02 setlist
- Updated: John Cale - Tracks on samplers, tributes and movie soundtracks
- Added: Dublin 2025-03-31 setlist
- Added: Liverpool 2025-03-30 setlist
- Updated: Discography John Cale - Unreleased soundtracks & scores
- Added: Cardiff 2025-03-29 setlist
- Added: Bexhill-on-Sea 2025-03-27 setlist
- Added: Newcastle upon Tyne 2025-03-25 setlist
- Added: Warburg 1984-09-24 setlist
- Added: Glasgow 2025-03-24 setlist
- Added: Birmingham 2025-03-23 setlist
- Added: London 2025-03-21 setlist
- Added: Nottingham 2025-03-20 setlist
- Added: Utrecht 2025-03-17 setlist
- Updated: Covering John Cale
- Updated: John Cale on tour (rescheduled shows in Germany)
- Added: Schwabach 2025-03-12 setlist
- Added: Esch-sur-Alzette 2025-03-10 setlist
- Added: Stuttgart 2025-03-09 setlist
- Added: Munich 2025-03-07 setlist
- Added: Karlsruhe 2025-03-06 setlist
- Added: Brussels 2025-03-04 setlist
- Added: Paris 2025-03-03 setlist
- Added: Maasmechelen 2025-03-01 setlist
- Added: Groningen 2025-02-28 setlist
- Added: Lille 2025-02-26 setlist
- Updated: Discography John Cale - Unreleased songs (Long Way Out Of Pain)
- Added: Rouen 2025-02-25 setlist
- Updated: Promoting John Cale - Video clips
What's happening
The timeline has gotten a major overhaul. It's the core of the site really - and dozens of (minor) edits, additions and updates have been added. So now you can check on which floor he lived at 56 Ludlow Street in New York in 1965. Or watch a weird self-interview on French TV in 1990.
Setlists archive
The biggest section by far. More than 900 shows are listed, plus a wealth of confirmed dates of shows with no known setlists. Each decade is preceded by a "highlights" introduction. All in all more than 1800 dates are listed.
Making it click: cross-referencing
There is a lot of cross-referencing going on, which is a process that never stops, basically. Here's an example from 1991:
"Sanctus" in New York
He performs Sanctus with The Orchestra of St Luke's at Town Hall in New York on June 8 and 9. Also on the bill were David Byrne and Glenn Branca.
The composition - labeled as Four Etudes For Electronic Orchestra - is released on the Paris s'eveille - suivi d'autres compositions album. It was written for the Randy Warshaw Dance Company in 1987.
Close watch: Cale on YouTube
This site pre-dates the launch of YouTube in 2005. Quite a bit of Cale footage has surfaced and it is being added to the site. Like this one from his performance in Prague on June 5, 1994 when he played at the festive opening of the Archa Theatre in Prague with the Japanese dancer Min Tanaka.
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Order the remastered and expanded Paris 1919 album (2LP, CD) via Domino Records
Order the remastered and expanded The Academy in Peril album (LP, CD) via Domino Records
