October 10, 2010

What did you have for breakfast today? I had fruit and boiled egg on a bread roll with bacon and cheese. I also had a cup of Earl Grey tea. If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?

September 24, 2010

SHELLEY MARSDEN meets the quirky, unassuming and immensely talented Lloyd Cole, as he prepares to play Irish festival Sligo Live…

September 21, 2010

Er hat viele Kriege geführt – mit der Musikbranche, ehemaligen Bandkollegen und in letzter Konsequenz auch mit sich selbst. Nun kehrt Lloyd Cole mit einem seiner besten Alben zurück und erklärt, warum Gute Laune nicht unbedingt das ist, was sein neues Werk “Broken Record” maßgeblich beeinflusst hat.

June 20, 2010

‘Throw me out into the street with nothing and I’d find a way of making money. I always have: that’s how it is,” says Vince Power. He makes his claim quietly, no boasting, just stating the facts…

February 3, 2010

LLOYD COLE HAS had to reinvent himself many times.

As leader of the ’80s smart-pop band the Commotions, which had three hit albums in the U.K. and cult status in the …

January 27, 2010

His fans know it’s astounding what he can ring off inside four minutes. Besides pop hooks and tender epistles, you get literary gibes and folk-derived strolls through suburban dreams, slacker …

January 20, 2010

“It gets to the point where the show is 75 percent scripted,” Cole says, “which is kind of like a stand-up comedian’s show. It’s just being on the stage on my own; there’s only so much ad-libbing that you should do. I just felt like I wanted to try and do something different.”

November 17, 2009

The View, King Creosote and Mott the Hoople will perform at this month’s Tartan Clef Awards, while Lloyd Cole and the Commotions will reunite for one night only.