John Cale

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When:

Mon 15 Oct ’07

Where: Bruce Mason Centre, Cnr Hurstmere Rd & The Promenade, Takapuna Show map

Related Artists:

John Cale

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Clare Dill
Allcity

For over four decades, John Cale has remained at the vanguard of innovation.

From his early - 60s internships with classical revolutionaries John Cage and La Monte Young to his epochal contributions as a member of the Velvet Underground; his landmark production duties for The Stooges, Patti Smith, and the Happy Mondays to his abundant soundtrack, ballet and orchestral detours and his 16-album strong solo canon, the one constant in his work is a characteristic unconventionality.

Cale's last performance in Auckland was in the mid-1980s at the Gluepot in Ponsonby, and though the intervening years have seen that suburb gentrified and up-marketed, John Cale has not inched any closer to the mainstream nor become an artefact preserved from days gone by.