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Music review Still causing a gentle commotion among fans
The Guardian
|January 23, 2025
Lloyd Cole is singing songs of love and pain, and singing them very well. But, ach, you can't please everyone.
"Lost Weekend!" shouts a fan in the balcony, requesting a hit from 1985. Cole, dapper in a white suit, takes a moment before replying: "I'm definitely too old to play Lost Weekend." "But that's why we're here," comes a second voice. That, blunt to the point of rude, is the difficulty facing older artists who are still creative, still writing good songs, but whose early success sells tickets. One of the best tracks Cole plays tonight is recent-ish: The Idiot, a Kraftwerk-like tribute to Bowie and Iggy'
This story is from the January 23, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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