Lloyd Cole releases a video to accompany his new single ‘The Idiot’,
LLOYD COLE
RELEASES NEW VIDEO TO ACCOMPANY NEW SINGLE
‘THE IDIOT’
NEW PHOTO OF LLOYD BY MARK DELLAS HER
VIEW THE VIDEO TO ‘THE IDIOT’ HERE: https://youtu.be/9k-RYJW1R0U
We’ll move to Berlin
Stop being drug addicts
We’ll cycle and swim
Stop being drug addicts
We’ll enter society
You’ll take the serious guise
I’ll be the idiot
Today (25th August ’23) Lloyd Cole releases a video to accompany his new single ‘The Idiot’, the second single from his new album ‘On Pain’ via earMUSIC. The film is another collaboration between Lloyd Cole and Canadian film maker Doug Arrowsmith from Feltfilm, (who filmed Lloyd’s video for his previous single ‘Warm By The Fire’).
‘The Idiot’ was filmed at the legendary Horseshoe Bar in Toronto, and stars dancers Kaelin Isserlin (as ‘David’) and Ryan Kostyniuk (as ‘Jim’). It is choreographed by dance artist Nyda Kwasowsky from the National Ballet School of Canada.
On 23rd June ‘23 Lloyd Cole released his twelfth album as a solo artist. Entitled ‘On Pain’, it features eight new Lloyd Cole songs, four of which are co-written by Commotions founding members Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who also perform on the record. The album is produced by Chris Merrick Hughes and was recorded in Lloyd’s attic studio The Establishment in Massachusetts.
Lloyd released a selection of mixes of the closing song on the album ‘Wolves’ prior to the album’s release.
Lloyd Cole has announced a UK/European tour in the autumn. The full list of dates for the ‘On Pain’ tour is:
OCTOBER 2023
Fri 06 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Tyne Theatre and Opera House
Sat 07 LIVERPOOL The Philharmonic Hall
Sun 08 DUBLIN Olympia Theatre
Tue 10 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Thu 12 ABERDEEN Tivoli Theatre
Sat 14 EDINBURGH Usher Hall
Sun 15 GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
Tue 17 YORK Barbican
Thu 19 LONDON Union Chapel
Fri 20 LONDON Union Chapel
Sat 21 LONDON Union Chapel
Mon 23 BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
Tue 24 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Wed 25 IPSWICH The Corn Exchange
Fri 27 BUXTON Opera House
Sat 28 COVENTRY Cathedral
Sun 29 NOTTINGHAM Albert Hall
Tue 31 BRIGHTON Dome
NOVEMBER
Thu 02 COLOGNE Tanzbrunnen
Sat 04 PARIS Le Trianon
Sun 05 LEUVEN, Belgium Het Depot
Mon 06 AMSTERDAM Melkweg
Joining Lloyd on stage will be Blair Cowan and Neil Clark as well as Glaswegian Icelandic drummer Signy Jakobsdottir.
Tickets are available from http://www.lloydcole.com/live/
Lloyd Cole has released 17 studio albums including three with The Commotions [‘Rattlesnakes’ (84), ‘Easy Pieces’ (’85), Mainstream (’87)] twelve solo albums [‘Lloyd Cole’ (’90), ‘Don’t Get Weird On Me Babe’ (’91), ‘Bad Vibes’ (’93), ‘Love Story’ (95), ‘Plastic Wood’ (’01), ‘Music In A Foreign Language’ (’03), ‘Anti Depressant’ (’06), ‘Broken Record’ (’10), ‘Standards’ (’13), ‘1D’ (’15), ‘Guesswork’ (’19), ‘On Pain’ (’23)], one with The Negatives [‘The Negatives (2000)] and one with Hans Joachim Roedelius [‘Selected Studies Vol. 1’ (’13)].
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY ABOUT LLOYD COLE’S NEW ALBUM ‘ON PAIN’
“Cole’s ruminations on the human condition have rarely been as finely tuned as this.”
4* The Sun
“Ghostly electronica accompanies meditations on loss, mortality and the passage of time on Cole’s absorbing new album.”
4* Sunday Times
“Grappling with the ineffable…a richly detailed synth-pop LP of admirable sophistication…it’s Cole’s growing sound design expertise – and ever unique lyrical voice – that ensure his 40-year career still has legs.”
4* MOJO
“’A storied songwriter comes of age (again)… He too has become more of what he always was. And somehow he’s achieved that by paring his music down to its rawest essence.”
8/10 Uncut
“…beautiful and special, the kind of miminalist adventure we hoped Mark Hollis would return with one day, only with added tales of bloodthirsty wolves and drug-addled rockers…Cole is on a roll. He’s still making erudite melodies, but now there’s something new and other to them. At 62, ‘On Pain’ is the sound of a man just getting started.”
8/10 Classic Pop