January 1, 1991
The location is Dublin’s RTE studio; or more precisely, the dressing room toilet. How do you begin an interview when your quarry has just gone into the comfort station? Do …
November 25, 1990
Lloyd Cole may have discarded his intellectual image along with the Commotions, but his solo work still struggles with pessimism. SIMON REYNOLDS talks to the man who finds optimism redundant.
October 1, 1990
BRITISH singer/writer/instrumentalist Lloyd Cole, formerly of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, recently debuted his first solo LP Cole, a mainstream star in Europe but a cult figure here, doesn’t necessarily …
June 10, 1990
“My kind of music appeals to journalists and critics,” said English rocker Lloyd Cole, whose first solo album has just been released by Capitol Records.
February 25, 1990
LLOYD COLE, once responsible for pretty-boy pop songs like Perfect Skin and Brand New Friend, has gone serious. The former lead-singer of the clean-cut Commotions, prime movers in the early …
January 1, 1990
FOR YEARS LLOYD COLE HAS BEEN VILIFIED AS THE MAN WHO PUT THE NANCY INTO POIGNANCY. SHAM OR POP SHAMEN, BOGUS BOHEMIAN OR BRILLIANT BEATNIK – THE ARGUMENT RAGES ON. …
January 1, 1990
In Britain, the newly solo Lloyd Cole is still trying to shrug off his precious Bohemian undergraduate image. But in France, he’s regarded as a maverick genius, stubblesome style guru …
December 1, 1989
“I would argue against a word like contrived,” says Lloyd Cole, looking up from his lunch. “All I’m interested in is being remembered as someone who wrote good songs, I …
November 28, 1987
It’s easy to hate Lloyd Cole, that I will grudgingly admit. He’s neither reinventing pop in the manner of Young Gods, M/A/R/R/S or Big Black nor, is he working playfully within an almost determined traditionalism like Throwing Muses, 10,000 Maniacs or R.E.M. Lloyd Cole kind of seeps, consumes, stays raggedy at the edges of a sort of square pool. He’s got it tough.
November 21, 1987
Cornered on tour in Dublin, LLOYD COLE – a renowned man of letters (and postcards) -explains to ROY WILKINSON why his songs on the new Commotions LP ‘Mainstream’ are less …