GP's Song of the Day: Lloyd Cole

By Graeme Whitfield on Mar 30, 09 04:30 PM

I am very pleased at the news that Lloyd Cole will be playing at The Sage Gateshead later this year.

After an early career as an earnest (if rather good) singer-songwriter, Lloyd has of late developed a fine line in self-deprecation. I saw him at the Riverside in Newcastle in 1995 and he spent most of the gig joking about his sliding popularity, which was all rather engaging.

My favourite song of his is Love Ruins Everything, which wryly depicts his falling in love from the point of view of his dissolute former friends ("Who`s going to carry us home? Who`s going to drink `til the morning? Who`s going to carry us home? Ah, love ruins everything.")

It's rather lovely...

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