LLOYD COLE
ANNOUNCES UK TOUR ‘24
“pristine electronic pop…still freighted with the smart, erudite passion that…made his 1980s records so appealing in the first place.” MOJO – TOP 75 ALBUMS OF 2023
“Having experimented with synths for 20 years, Lloyd Cole managed to integrate that minimalism into his pop songwriting to devastating effect.” CLASSIC POP – NO 3 BEST NEW ALBUMS OF 2023
Lloyd Cole will return to the UK to tour solo in September ’24. The full list of shows is:
SEPTEMBER
8 BEXHILL ON SEA De La Warr Pavilion
9 EXETER Corn Exchange
10 BATH Komedia
13 GUILDFORD G Live
14 BURY ST EDMUNDS The Apex
16 BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
18 SHREWSBURY Theatre Severn
19 LYTHAM ST ANNES Lowther Pavilion
21 HAMILTON The Town House
22 GREENOCK Beacon Arts Centre
24 WHITLEY BAY Playhouse
25 ILKLEY King’s Hall & Winter Garden
26 SHEFFIELD Memorial Hall at City Hall
Tickets go on sale on Friday 2nd Feb ’24 and are available via www.lloydcole.com/live
Says Lloyd: “2024 is the year of the one man show. The solo show is quite different from anything I’ve done the last few years, so it feels oddly fresh. In the meantime, I plan to repair my damaged golf swing, lose this Winter weight on my bicycle, and get down to making some new music.”
Last summer Lloyd Cole released ‘On Pain’, his twelfth album as a solo artist. He 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 SAID ABOUT LLOYD COLE’S LATEST ALBUM ‘ON PAIN’
“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
“Cole’s ruminations on the human condition have rarely been as finely tuned as this.” 4* The Sun
