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A younger generation would perhaps know Saint via the line “She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront” in the chorus of the title track of the hit …

Last week, as Ofcom announced restrictions on TV food advertising that could cost the broadcasting industry £39 millon a year, and BSkyB geared up for its £940 million move on …

Hi Lloyd, did you know that during the 100 best stand up comedian show on Channel 4 (uk), Rattlesnakes was played over some sketches of Billy Connelly, who was actually voted the winner by the Channel four viewers.

68 . “Chelsea Hotel,” Lloyd Cole (Leonard Cohen) Every bit as urbane and wry as the original, except that Cole can actually sing.

In his song What’s Wrong With This Picture?, Lloyd Cole neatly skewers the miserabilist mindset: “Smile, she said, and if you want/I’ll look the other way/Till you regain your melancholy disposition/Or until you get over yourself.”

Last Friday you and The Commotions got a mention and on an excellent BBC4 programme called Caledonia Dreaming which told the story of Postcard records and then proceeded on through …

This is a girl that looks like Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront and reads Simone de Beauvoir. Surely they’re all obliquely referring to some of us humans and inferring the ‘hypnotically deadly’/’resplendent yet venomous’ nature of mankind. At least I think they do.

Strange as it may seem today to write this, I believe it is true. I’m really not sure what I would have become if I didn’t hear Isaac Hayes in …

Toronto — “You don’t go out to the Dakota, you go in,” says Jason Collett, one of Broken Social Scene’s guitarists, as he saddles up to the wooden bar of his downtown local at Dundas and Ossington on Toronto’s Portuguese west side.

One of the short stories in author/poet/critic/photographer and Lloyd Cole fan Kelvin Hayes’s upcoming book ‘Beats Per Minute’ is titled after Lloyd’s ‘Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?’ (all stories are named after songs – see list below).