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On this day, 16 January 1999, Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer and founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall.
The previous year, Cale spent on tour with singer Siouxsie Sioux. In February, he was the curator of one day festival called "With a Little Help from My Friends" that took place at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with the presence of the Metropole Orchestra.
The concert was shown on Dutch national television and featured a song specially composed for the event and still unreleased, "Murdering Mouth", sung in duet with Siouxsie and her second band the Creatures.
Cale and Siouxsie then did a double bill tour in the US for two months from late June until mid-August, both artists collaborating on stage on several songs including a version of "Venus in Furs".
Cale's autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?, was written in collaboration with Victor Bockris and published in 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
To promote the book he tours Europe with the John Cale trio (with Mark Deffenbaugh & Lance Doss, starting at St Davids Hall, Cardiff - January 16.
John Cale: vocals, piano, guitar
Lance Doss:lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Mark Deffenbaugh: guitar , flute, harmonica, banjo, Jew’s harp
Setlist
Lament
On A Wedding Anniversary
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Buffalo Ballet
Chinese Envoy
Child's Christmas in Wales
Some Friends
Darling I Need You
You Know More Than I Know
Ship Of Fools
Set Me Free
Leaving It Up To You
Cable Hogue
Cordoba
Dying On The Vine
Heartbreak Hotel
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
Style It Takes
Thoughtless Kind
Hallelujah
