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...CREATURES AND JOHN CALE...
...John Cale and Siouxsie Sioux, supported by Siouxsie's current band, The Creatures, played a beautiful concert. Two well-established musicians of disparate backgrounds and reputations can rarely be expected to work together smoothly; yet these two performers, combining their skills, managed to impress the audience with a flawlessly performed repertoire. The Creatures played backup for Cale, just as Cale gladly lent them a hand during Siouxsie's singing...
...show started a half-hour late and the crowd waited patiently. Slouching in comfortable couches or standing around smoking cigarettes, the audience could easily be separated into Cale and Siouxsie fans based on appearance alone. The bearded middle-aged crowd, interspersed with people wearing shirts featuring Warhol's banana illustration from the classic Velvet Underground album, were clear examples of the former. Teens dressed in black and sporting piercings through brows, eyes and necks were the most obvious examples of the latter. The older audience had come to see Cale; the punks and the goths came for Siouxsie...
...Cale emerged onto the stage and began with a reading of the lyrics to "Lament," beginning to play his keyboard only after he had read out the first few lines. Looking younger than his 56 years, Cale dressed in a black t-shirt and vest. Rarely smiling, he maintained the unenthusiastic stage presence he had established for himself years ago. John Cale's legend began with the release of the first Velvet Underground album in 1967. After being forced out of the band following the release of the band's second record, Cale followed a career of producing albums...
...reading now is a "reissue," in a sense, of my original review. (Maybe the original is in New Zealand.) And now that that's off my chest, I can get back to describing the album(s): reference points for Peter's style are very stripped-down John Cale records and Wire circa 1980--there are no better-known reference points-- and, for Graeme's some combination of Richard Thompson, Lou Read and Joy Division's Ian Curtis. But none of these name droppings will give you the offbeat, beaten-down flavor of tension that's condensed across this record like...