Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:43 PM
Confirmed artists for the John Cale led tribute LIFE ALONG THE BORDERLINE: A TRIBUTE TO NICO, which will be held on Saturday 11 October at the Southbank Centre, London:
- Broadcast
- Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
- The Fiery Furnaces
- James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers)
- Nick Franglen
- Guillemots
- Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance)
- Liz Green
- Natasha Khan
- Mark Lanegan
- Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse)
- Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)
More names to be announced.
Update: photos and setlist of the show.
» southbankcentre.co.uk | Ticket Office: 0871 663 2500
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(Thanks: Ziggy)
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# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/21/2008 2:26 AM by
This is excellent! I am so glad that Peter Murphy is taking part in that! Seeing how Bauhaus did once perform with Nico! Would be great to see Marc Almond there as well. Wonder if Lou Reed would play?
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/22/2008 9:44 AM by
I see here that Natasha Khan is included.
http://www.last.fm/event/746698
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/22/2008 6:08 PM by
Shara Worden should be considered if this is the way its going.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/22/2008 6:41 PM by
Joe Karnes plays bass with Shara from time to time. Great voice!
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/23/2008 12:14 AM by
Er...my level of expectation has changed dramatically since seeing Cale at Azkena with purple hair....i tell you anything could happen at this event...first flash of EDEN?
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/23/2008 12:45 AM by
... with less than 3 weeks to go and a 1,000 tickets to sell a Cale/Eno live in London must be on the cards...(anyone remember all the "where's Eno" calls during the '75 tour!) ...i do not believe Lou Reed could help ticket sales even if Cale makes (a monumental...and he's way too smart) climbdown.
Cale's busy in the middle of recording a new cd and could have said "No" to hosting this event, its easy to criticise him for making Nico's music so inaccessable and now networking/benefitting/credited by such an event as this,
indeed its rare that rock and roll history can be viewed in advance...what is unfolding could be a rare example of this phenomena.
Cale has regrets (as much as a visionary could) not seeing Hendrix live...don't make the same mistake across the borderline.
RIP Nico (sweet one)
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/23/2008 9:49 AM by
Wow, g, these are sensitive scribes from you. Nicely put.
RIP Nico (sweet one).
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
9/25/2008 5:11 PM by
I see here that Nick Franglen is included. He played keyboards with a band Cale put together for Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in 2005 – The Meatgrinders. They were AMAZING! That was at the Royal Festival Hall.
http://www.nme.com/news/john-cale/39870
http://www.clickmusic.com/articles/9167/John-Cale-Hosts-Tribute-To-Nico.html
# John Cale: Life Along The Border: A Tribute To Nico
9/26/2008 2:39 PM by
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/1/2008 4:31 PM by
Lisa Gerard (Dead can dance) just been announced – gorgeous voice.
Well, apart from Peter Murphy, Mark Lanegan, Mark Linkous, and JDB, I'm not too up on the others, but having listened to them since they've been announced here, I do like what I hear.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/1/2008 5:34 PM by
Lisa Gerrard. 2rrs?
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/3/2008 1:07 PM by
Just saw Liz Green in Bristol - fantastic gig - wonderful bluesey singer-songwriter with a great (memorable) voice.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/3/2008 2:26 PM by
Yeah! been listening to her MySpace songs. Unusual style. She chews her words. I like that.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/4/2008 1:01 PM by
Guillemots, too.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/7/2008 10:09 AM by
thump thump Michael Jerome too...who undoubtedly will be the star of the show!
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/8/2008 2:16 PM by
Now, now, Sonja darling. Getting bitchy are we ‘cause Cale didn’t invite you.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/8/2008 4:39 PM by
It would have been great if highly talented 18-year-old Austrian singer Anja Plaschg (aka Soap&Skin), who just did a cover of "Janitor of Lunacy" on her first EP and will play one incarnation of Nico in a theater production in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, and Prague this winter, would have been included in the line-up.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/10/2008 10:49 PM by
Cale was interviewed about the concert and his memories of Nico in this morning's Today programme on BBC Radio Four. It's a good segment lasting a few minutes and is right at the end of the programme.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/default.stm
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 7:28 AM by
Did anyone go? Any reviews? I'd love to hear all about it!
: D
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 9:56 AM by
Concert was pro filmed...Cale and band were awesome, especially Dustin Bower. Cale playing "Desertshore" is something i will not forget in a hurry.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 2:10 PM by
Yes the Desertshore finale was fantastic and so was Lisa Gerard but my highlight was My Only Child as done by the Guillemots(I think that's who it was) but who was the woman who played the harmonium in the first half?
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 3:53 PM by
Anybody got a full setlist??
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 4:36 PM by
<<who was the woman who played the harmonium in the first half?>>
She was Liz Green. Excellent!
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/12/2008 7:47 PM by
Thanks Zig, she was great
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 1:16 AM by
It's a Dulcitone, not a harmonium - the keys activate soft hammers on metal forks, giving it that spooky fairy-tale sounding tinkle...
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 1:17 AM by
oh, and Mark Linkous was pretty special too...
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 10:28 AM by
Yes, it was a Dulcitone, h. Mark Linkous. Loved his nervy stage presence, “I’m Boo Radley”. Loved his straw hat, and the fact that he couldn’t handle the microphone stand and had to call to Cale to help him. Wish I was more up on Nico songs ‘cause he sang two beauties. Also loved the applaud the stage-hand got whenever he came on to move boxes and cables – especially when someone called, ‘More!”.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 12:23 PM by
Ha! no, thinking about it, it was the music stand that Cale (in his elfin boots) had to raise for Mark Linkous because he couldn't see the words to the song – which I think was, You Forgot To Answer.
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 3:45 PM by
THE SHOW
Part 1
John Cale – Frozen Warnings
Pete Murphy – Mutterlein
Guillemots – My Heart Is Empty
Lisa Gerrard – The Falconer
Eleanor Friedberger – Evening Of Light
Liz Green – Ari's Song
Mark Linkous –You Forgot To Answer
Mark Lanegan – Roses In The Snow
James Dean Bradfield – Janitor Of Lunacy
Part 2
Lisa Gerrard – No One Is There
Pete Murphy – Abschied
Mark Linkous – Afraid
Guillemots – My Only Child
John Cale – Sixty/Forty
Mark Lanegan – Win A Few
Eleanor Friedberger – Fearfully In Danger
John Cale – Facing The Wind
John Cale – All That Is My Own
* * * *
# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/13/2008 4:37 PM by
Its was pro-filmed? Does this mean a DVD will appear? A pal thought the new arrangements were a litte mainstream for his ears. But Nico is like a towering lyrical genius, and hearing her words through the remarkable fresh interpreteations of the great musicians that Cale invited, was astonishing, It was very emotional, especially the song about her litte boy in the first half. Thanks Boyo, you did good for your old friend.
# Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
10/28/2008 7:23 PM by
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# re: Nico Tribute: line-up announcements
11/15/2008 9:20 PM by
Linkous died once