John Cale (with the Creatures)
1998, July the 17th
The Glass House, Pomona, CA
8 p.m. $18.50

1. Lament
2. Riverbank
3. Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)
4. Magazines
5. Hedda Gabbler
>>> Siouxsie enters
6. Disconnected
7. 2nd Floor
8. Take Mine
9. Tattoo
10. Venus Sands
11. Pluto Drive
12. Murdering Mouth
>>> Siouxsie exits
13. Evidence
14. Model Beirut Recital
15. Leaving It Up to You
16. Gun
Siouxsie enters
17. But Not Them
18. Prettiest Thing
19. I Was Me
20. Exterminating Angel

>> encore
21. Thumb
22. Venus in Furs
>> encore 2
23. Pablo Picasso

The following photographs were taken by Paula Zidich © and borrowed (without permission) from http://www.untiedundone.com ©. No copyright infringement is intended. - editor.

Los Angeles Times - July 16, 1998
Cale, Creatures Display Range in Inventive, Spirited Show
By SANDY MASUO

John Cale’s music encompasses everything from the Velvet Underground, which he co-founded with Lou Reed, to folk, pop
and avant-garde classical. Siouxsie Sioux’s career has also covered a lot of ground, including noisy punk, flirtations with world
music and, in the final phases of Siouxsie & the Banshees, innocuous mainstream pop.

Tuesday at the Palace, Cale joined forces with the Creatures, the drum-intensive side project that Sioux and Banshees drummer
Budgie (her husband) have maintained over the years. The result was more than two hours of relentlessly inventive music.

Rather than two separate sets, the show was a collaboration. Cale fronted the Creatures for the first five numbers, then Sioux took
over, and for the rest of the night they alternated and joined forces.

Enhanced intermittently by Cale’s guitar and keyboard, the Creatures’ spare arrangements were a flattering setting for Sioux’s
distinctive vocals, and she played the voodoo chanteuse with gusto, crooning, wailing and vamping for the adoring audience. Cale’s
solo interludes included beautiful, pensive ballads as well as chunky rockers. His gruff take on “Heartbreak Hotel” seethed with as
much raucous energy as his outburst of classical piano in “Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend.”

But the most powerful moments were the collaborations between Cale and Sioux, especially the two encores--the Velvets’
“Venus in Furs,” which suited Sioux to a T, and a saucy rendition of Jonathan Richman’s classic “Pablo Picasso.”

Art-rock can be a tedious affair--too often the pretenses of the art smother the spirit of the rock. Cale and the Creatures’ inspired
performance struck a perfect balance between the two.

* The Creatures and John Cale play Friday at the Glass House, 200 W. 2nd St., Pomona, 8 p.m. $18.50. (909) 424-3400.