After leaving the Velvet Underground, Cale set off on an epic solo career, starting with the Warner Bros LP Paris 1919, which created a new template in popular music, using sweeping orchestral arrangements on fine guitar and piano based pieces. A move to Island Records saw Cale appear on Nick Drake's Bryter Layter and work with Roxy Music's creative heart, Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera, on the records Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy. The three LPs are complied on a 2CD compilation, The Island Years and feature some savage proto-punk, peerless avant-pop and moments of melodic beauty.

Cale also produced the first Stooges LP and wrote and produced for the doomed Nico, after her departure from the Velvets. He continues to record and tour.

Releases

• Circus - Live - album, out 05/02/2007 on EMI Records. (post review)
• Perfect - single, out 17/10/2005 on EMI Records. (post review)

Past events

• Glastonbury Firday, Fri 27 Jun at Glastonbury Festival. (post review)
• Sun 28 Jan at Cambridge Junction. (post review)
• Tue 23 Jan at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)
• Fri 27 Jan at Bristol Academy. (post review)
• Wed 25 Jan at London Highbury Garage. (post review)

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