John Cale has announced tour dates for March 2025, with a series of European dates followed by appearances in the UK – including gigs in London, Cardiff, Liverpool and Glasgow.
The artist released POPtical Illusion earlier this year – his second album in just over a year.
Tickets for the tour, which also include dates in Newcastle, Nottingham, Dublin, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Bexhill on Sea, go on general sale at 10am on September 12.
Announcing new tour dates 82 year old Cale released the video for “Davies and Wales”, directed by the Emmy-nominated Jethro Waters.
Waters says: “Davies and Wales is such a perfect example of the kind of things that only John Cale can do all at once: upbeat, melancholic, happy, shapeshifting, nostalgic, modern, beautiful heartache. There is such a melange of feelings packed into this song – his youth in Wales, his time in NYC and California – and I wanted to try and translate that time travel in a joyful, purposeful way.”
He has a sage insistence that change is always possible. In ‘Davies and Wales’, a new wave he sings: “If you’ve done things you’d wished you’ve never done, think of the things you’re going to do tonight.”
John Cale has always been a musician of the times, helping to usher in titanic shifts in sound and culture. The bleeding edge drones of his Sun Blindness Music opened the path to The Velvet Underground. The frantic rock of Fear and Slow Dazzle, and his production work with Patti Smith and the Stooges, framed a half century of punk, post-punk, and art-rock to come. And his curiosity about the way electronics could be more than a gimmick in rock music served as an inspiration to an uncountable number of crucial scenes.
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