September 26, 1987
LLOYD COLE is sick of being a cult. He wants to go mainstream, like, er, Dire Straits. Can this be true?
January 1, 1987
Paul Mathur talks to LLOYD COLE, who is about to return from his self-imposed exile with a brace of new songs.
The pursuit of delicious articulacy is vanishing fast from our …
January 1, 1987
It’s hard being a thinking popstar. One whiff of grey matter and the music press will have you consigned to the bedsit forever. But with the Commotions’ auspiciously named new …
April 4, 1986
An aura of appreciation for the literary follows singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole everywhere he goes — even on airliners.
“My flight was fine, except I didn’t seem to get much peace,” he …
May 10, 1985
The almost acoustic texture of the Smiths, minus the stomach-churning unhappiness makes Lloyd Cole and the Commotions the most appealing band to burst stateside this year. Four young Scotsman and a transplanted Man-chesterian owned a year and a half age and quickly won a recording contract from Polydor.
April 1, 1985
‘We wanted an ironic name. We’re quite a quiet group.’
‘…We didn’t have any depth to our material, we wrote most of the songs on the LP as we were recording …
January 1, 1985
He and his cohorts ought not to fit into today’s pop marketplace – a noisy, gaudy, last-gasp bazaar wherein sales stratagems, product-targeting and blind brand loyalty shout very loud and …
January 1, 1984
Lloyd Cole doesn’t care for fast cars, thinks Simon le Bon is ‘just beefcake” and would hate to be a member of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. He also reckons the …