May 23, 2008

It was hardly a vintage year for music: Agadoo and I Just Called to Say I Love You were two of 1984’s best-selling singles.

The New Romantic buccaneers ruled the airwaves …

April 17, 2008

IT’S not been the best of times for Lloyd Cole, what with tax woes, dodgy knees, a dose of ‘flu and the small matter of being attacked by a lion. But the Buxton-born singer-songwriter is bearing up well after falling foul of a pocket-sized version of the king of the beasts.

November 9, 2007

“Believe it or not, the most famous I ever was would have been about 1987 in Portugal. Go figure, eh?” Cole says 20 years later by phone from a hotel room in Lisbon, where he is vacationing.

November 1, 2006

EASTHAMPTON — Twenty years ago, after the release of "Rattlesnakes," a record most music critics agree is a modern classic, Lloyd Cole seemed a good bet to hit it big. The British singer was not only handsome with a Presley-esque pile of hair, but he was capable of crafting masterful pop.

October 15, 2006

He’s a rum chap, Lloyd Cole. He can come out with statements so arrogant, they make your jaw drop. But then he’ll conclude them with his strange, emphysematous, almost mirthless laugh, and crack a dry, self-deflating aside. If he’s prickly, he is also refreshingly non-fluent in the language of platitudes.

October 10, 2006

Notre précédente rencontre avec Lloyd Cole remonte à plus de trois ans, à l’époque de son avant-dernier album, le délicat et très dépouillé “Music in a Foreign Language”. De passage …

October 7, 2006

Lloyd Cole tells Robert Sandall why ‘cool’ bores him, and his favourite club is a putter. When Lloyd Cole says that a lot of the things he enjoys “don’t sit very well with youth culture,” you can see his point. Today’s outfit of sweater, slacks and clumpy brown shoes look as if they have been borrowed from his dad.