John Cale (with Band and the Wordless Music Orchestra)
2017, November 17
Howard Gillman Opera House / BAM in Brooklyn, New York, NY
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico

1. I’m Waiting For The Man
2. White Light / White Heat (w/ Thee Oh Sees and Kurt Vile))
3. All Tomorrow's Parties (w/ MGMT)
4. Venus In Furs
5. I’ll Be Your Mirror (w/ Sky Ferreira)
6. There She Goes Again (w/ Animal Collective & Conan Mockasin)
7. Run Run Run (w/ Kurt Vile)
8. The Black Angel's Death Song (w/ MGMT)
9. Femme Fatale (w/ Caroline Polachek)
10. Lady Godiva's Operation (w/ Conan Mockasin)
11. European Son (w/ Thee Oh Sees)
12. Sunday Morning (w/ Caroline Polachek)
13. Heroin (w/ Babatunde Adebimpe)
14. Sister Ray (w/ all guests)

John Cale: vocals, viola, keyboards
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar, samples
Joey Maramba: bass
Deantoni Parks: drums, samples

Wordless Music Orchestra:
Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris: violin
Caleb Burhans, Drew Forde, Isabel Hagen, Caitlin Lynch: viola
John Altieri: sousaphone
Sam Nester: trumpet, flugelhorn

In a unique multi-night engagement featuring two productions, John Cale returns
to BAM to curate a 50th anniversary celebration of the groundbreaking 1967
album The Velvet Underground & Nico with members of the Wordless Music
Orchestra and special guests on November 16 and 17. In celebration of the 50th
birthday of this musical masterpiece, only three performances of the album in its
entirety were planned—earlier performances in Paris and Liverpool, and now the
sole US performance at BAM.

 

Poster Handbill

The following photographs were taken by Mike Benigno © and borrowed (without permission) from the BAM Hamm Archives ©. No copyright infringement is intended - editor.

With Connan Mockasin, dressed as a nurse, accompanying Cale on “Lady Godiva’s Operation” (left) and TV on the Radio’s, Tunde Adebimpe singing lead vocal on “Heroin”.

Here with Caroline Polachek stage right and Connan Mockasin stage left (left) and Caroline Polachek again (right)

Kurt Vile (left) and again, with Cale (right), performing "Run Run Run".