Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole ( born January 31, 1961 in Buxton, England ) is a British singer and songwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1980s with his band Lloyd Cole and The Commotions.
Life
The philosophy student Lloyd Cole and some of his fellow students at the University of Glasgow founded in 1982 the band The Commotions. Originally founded as a large soul band, the number of members reduced rapidly to five: In addition to Cole as a singer, these were the keyboardist Blair Cowan, guitarist Neil Clark, bassist Lawrence Donegan and drummer Stephen Irvine. In 1984 the band released in the Major Polydor debut album Rattlesnakes. The first single Perfect Skin (UK 26) has already reached the Top 30 in the UK. The follow-up album Easy Pieces threw Lost Weekend (UK 17) and Brand New Friend ( UK 19 ) from two veritable radio hits. The third album was in 1987 at the same time mainstream climax and end of the band's career. The single My Bag (UK 46) even reached the disco charts.
Lloyd Cole moved to New York City and was continued to work as a solo artist. While his debut - 1990 appeared under the name of Lloyd Cole and Fred Maher (drums ), Robert Quine (guitar) and Matthew Sweet ( bass) recorded - still resembled the independent work with the Commotions, fully led the 1991 album Do not Get Weird on Me, Babe a twist to perfectly produced (Paul Buckmaster ) and string lastigem pop.
The great commercial success failed, and so Cole had trouble finding a U.S. distributor for his 1993 released album Bad Vibes. With the album Love Story Cole took place in 1995 back to its roots with the Commotions, not least because Neil Clark again played the guitar. The relationship with Polydor was disturbed due to unsatisfactory sales figures, although Lloyd Cole first time in several years with Like Lovers Do (UK 24) again had a Top 30 hit in the UK charts. The record company refused, the 1996 album rehearsed Etc. to publish. A 1998 -released compilation called Collection sold again not good enough that you wanted to bring a new album on the market.
It was not until 2000/2001 Cole was able to free contract as artistic and both negative with his one - album - one - tour band The ( Jill Sobule with, Dave Derby, Adam Schlesinger and Michael Kotch ) the album The Negatives (produced by Stephen Street ) publish, and in rapid succession album Etc. finally bring out its foray into Electronica Plastic Wood and a bootleg Loaded: Live in New York to introduce the fans.
2003 saw the album Music in a Foreign Language with Nick Cave Cover People Is not No Good. For the 20th anniversary of the debut album was 2004 Polydor Deluxe Edition of Rattlesnakes out. For a short tour in Ireland and Great Britain with a total of five concerts in Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester and London, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions found in October 2004, again together with the original line. 2006 saw the album Antidepressant. 2007 published three BBC recordings Live at the BBC, including two live CDs Lloyd Cole And The Commotions (among a recording of Glastonbury appearance in 1985 ) and a live CD from 1995 with solo pieces by Lloyd Cole. In April and June 2008, Lloyd Cole was for 16 concerts in the UK and Ireland, where during two concerts in Dublin recordings were recorded for a live CD in April 2008. This first live CD of Lloyd Cole is end of January 2009 published along with a recording of Radio Bremen in October 2003 under the title Folk Singer Vol 1 and 2. Also in late January 2009, published by Tapete Records Hamburg in a number of rarities (B- sides, album outtakes, promotional and cover versions ) from the years 1989 to 2006 a total of four CDs under the title Cleaning Out The Ashtrays.
In April 2009, Lloyd Cole toured a total of six one-man -show club concerts (Berlin, Hamburg, Oldenburg, Münster, Cologne and Karlsruhe) by Germany.
On 10 September 2010 was released the new album Broken Record at Tapete Records in Hamburg. First time in several years there was the August 27 published Writers Retreat! again a single from the album, which was released exclusively as a vinyl single. With his new band The Small Ensemble ( Matt Cullen and Mark Schwaber ) Lloyd Cole has also come to Germany in November 2010 as part of a European tour again for a total of seven concerts. Similarly, Lloyd Cole has traveled in early 2011 with The Small Ensemble again for an extensive tour through Germany and Western Europe.
Private
Lloyd Cole is an avid golf player with a handicap of 5.3. Cole is married and lives with his wife and two children in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Discography
- 2000 The Negatives March / XIII Bis
- 2001 Etc. Megaworld / XIII Bis
- 2001 Plastic Wood Megaworld / XIII Bis
- 2001 Loaded: Live in New York Megaworld / XIII Bis
- 2003 Music in a Foreign Language Sanctuary Records
- 2004 The Singles CD & DVD / Universal UK
- 2006 Anti Depressant Sanctuary
- 2009 Folk Singer Series Part 1 / Tapete Records Germany, Hamburg
- 2009 Folk Singer Series Part 2 / Tapete Records Germany, Hamburg
- 2009 Cleaning out the Ashtrays (4- CD box set ) / Tapete Records Germany, Hamburg
- 2010 Broken Record / Tapete Records Germany, Hamburg, D 58
- 2013 Standards / Tapete Records Germany, Hamburg, UK 74