October 1, 2004
“Can I tell you about the albums I bought yesterday, rather than my all-time favourites?” asks Lloyd Cole, who emerged from the icy climes of Glasgow in the early 1980s …
September 30, 2004
VETERAN pop star Lloyd Cole has re-opened a 20-year-old feud with Wet Wet Wet by claiming their reunion is ‘sad’.
The singer has re–formed Lloyd Cole& The Commotions for a short …
September 18, 2004
une 1984 really was a foreign country. They did things differently there. By the time Lloyd Cole and the Commotions debut single, Perfect Skin, was nudging its way up the top 50 at the second time of asking, Morrissey and Edwyn Collins were in need of some serious back up.
September 5, 2004
Favourite film – Gosford Park by Robert Altman – the best picture I’ve seen of the English class system. And can you imagine a better cast? Favourite album – Kraftwerk’s Computer World…
August 19, 2004
Speaking to Lloyd Cole is rather like listening to his music — his articulate, philosophical bent eventually warms to laughter, and his no-holds-barred opinions are couched in such sensical terms that you might not mind that, though he heaps on praise where he thinks it’s deserved, he slags everything Lou Reed did past 1971, or that he thinks Elvis Costello sings like a strangled cat.
August 1, 2004
Lloyd Cole writes smart, bitter, funny songs, but in the late 1990s we didnt really get to hear many of them because of a myriad of record-company problems that plagued …
June 17, 2004
I extend compliments to Lloyd Cole; he shrugsthem off. And so it goes throughout a half-hour conversation that confirms his recent reputation as one of the most unnecessarily self-critical interviews in all of music.
May 13, 2004
Lloyd Cole’s latest disc begins with the soft-voiced title track, “Music in a Foreign Language,” and the lines “I am cold, distant, increasingly resistant to your smile/ This I don’t …
March 31, 2004
Acclaimed English singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole, long absent from the new-releases racks of North American record stores, is reemerging on these shores this spring with the belated release of his three …
February 15, 2004
Being a Commotion was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. Lloyd Cole was the singer and the main songwriter, which meant he had to deal with most of the hassles that came with being in a band – dealing with clueless A&R men and NME writers. It also meant he got the biggest chunk of the money. But that didn’t matter to me.