John Cale and the Heritage Orchestra | Pop review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMost rock musicians suffer from cultural cringe in the face of more highbrow art forms. They plaster over insecurity with ostentation; they splash out on orchestras, then don't know quite what to do with them; they can't do something clever without shouting, "Look at me everybody, I'm being clever!" But John Cale came to the Velvet Underground via Aaron Copland and La Monte Young, and he hasn't seemed fazed since. Only he could make an orchestral art-rock album inspire...

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