About
Content Source: OztixLloyd Cole will take to the road in 2026 with a run of solo shows in Australia. His elegant solo live performances in recent years have been predominantly acoustic, but for these concerts he has decided to go electric. The performance will run the gamut from his masterful debut with the Commotions Rattlesnakes right up to 2023s acclaimed On Pain touching on all points in between.
Says Lloyd: In 1999, in retreat from mainstream ambivalence, the idea of becoming a troubadour was perversely alluring. Two acoustic guitars, a suitcase, and a round the world ticket. It took a while for me to become comfortable with it, but The Folksinger Show became my staple. And then, somehow or other, twenty-five years were gone, and now I find myself approaching the end of my career, and wanting to be seen more as just a singer, who wrote a body of work, very little of which one would reasonably label folk. So Im back with my Telecaster, my Princeton amp, and my solo show is now electric.
In 2023 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), Dont 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 COLES 2023 ALBUM ON PAIN
Ghostly electronica accompanies meditations on loss, mortality and the passage of time on Coles absorbing new album. 4* Sunday Times
Grappling with the ineffable...a richly detailed synth-pop LP of admirable sophistication...its Coles 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 hes 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. Hes still making erudite melodies, but now theres something new and other to them. At 62, On Pain is the sound of a man just getting started. 8/10 Classic Pop
Coles ruminations on the human condition have rarely been as finely tuned as this. 4* The Sun