 Cale in London. Next week. John Cale is promoting his new EP and probably his new Biography written by Tim Mitchell next week at Borders, Oxford Street. If I don't have to work you'll find me there. Just shout: "Oi, Cartoonist!" and I'll answer accordingly.A great interview with John Cale ist at The Guardian. "Of course, of late, there'll be talk of the war, which has exercised - not to say obsessed - Cale. "It has sickened me. I was just incensed. It was a confirmation that there was not going to be any let up on my disappointment with the road the United States is going down. America was a place of great generosity, and I'm a product of that generosity, but now America has turned back on its origins; and you realise the extent of the corruption at the foundations of this country." "The personal issues are perhaps best summed up in two remarks - on Warhol: "Real friends are hard to find in New York, and Andy was one I knew for 20 years." And on Lou Reed, following the funeral of bass player Sterling Morrison, who died of cancer (Cale's car had been caught in traffic and he was worried he would miss Reed's oration. But his erstwhile friend had not even bothered to turn up): "I realised," said Cale, "what a friend I had lost in Sterling Morrison, and what a friend I had not lost in Lou Reed." See you at Oxford Street. [The Cartoonist]
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On the contrary. Here's another Guardian interview with a former Velvet Underground star, but this one seems to have drifted off into an entirely wrong and bizarre direction. 
