In February 1998, former Velvet Underground member John Cale, then organizing the "With a Little Help from My Friends" festival at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, contacted the Creatures for a collaboration. The concert, shown on Dutch national television, featured an unreleased Creatures song, "Murdering Mouth", composed for the event and sung in duet with Cale. That night, the Creatures also premiered a live orchestra version of "I Was Me" with Cale on viola. In May, Siouxsie and Budgie appeared on British Television show "Later With Jools Holland" with two musicians to perform live two other songs "Disconnected" and "Prettiest Thing" from their forthcoming album.