Arts: In a Commotion ; Lloyd Cole Tells Melvin Hicks How He Did All the Mid- Life Crisis Songs in the 1980's.Now,He's Just Doing What He Likes

Daily PostJanuary 31, 2004

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IT'S A reflective Lloyd Cole who talks to the Daily Post. Maybe it's the bad flu he suffered with while moving house back home in Massachusetts before he flew into Britain. Maybe the fact he's had to leave his beloved golf clubs at home for this two-week tour of Britain grates too.

(He's had to reluctantly decline an offer from the Daily Post to play West Lancashire golf club in Blundellsands due to the aftereffects of the illness. His Crosbyraised father, a former pupil of Merchant Taylors' school in the town, regularly played the famous links course in his formative years on the way to being a club professional.) Either way,it isn't the same cocksure archly ironic hipster who fronted Scots pop outfit the Commotions to no little chart success in the 1980s and then embarked on an acclaimed solo career more than a decadeago.

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Arts: In a Commotion ; Lloyd Cole Tells Melvin Hicks How He Did All the Mid- Life Crisis Songs in the 1980's.Now,He's Just Doing What He Likes

No, rather the married father- of two celebrates his 43rd birthday at Birkenhead's Pacific Arts Centre tomorrow night with a quieter and more relaxed acoustic show. It w...

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