UK legend Lloyd Cole 5-Date NZ tour October 09October NZ concert tour for UK’s Lloyd Cole

UK legend Lloyd Cole celebrates a bumper year of new releases with a five-concert NZ tour in late October – part of his biggest Australasian tour to date.

The tour includes concerts in Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, from October 26 to 31.

2009 has seen the release of his critically acclaimed Cleaning Out the Ashtrays 4-CD box set and two live Folksinger albums.

These releases continue the journey for Lloyd Cole fans, many of whom have been onboard since the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions albums Rattlesnakes and Easy Pieces embedded themselves worldwide in the consciousness of 1980s image conscious 20-somethings (as part of an onslaught of cerebral English trendsetters like The Smiths and The Cure).

NZ TOUR DATES:

Monday October 26 (Labour Day): Sale St, Auckland

Wednesday October 28:
The Cabana, Napier

Thursday October 29:
Bodega, Wellington

Friday October 30:
Al’s Bar, Christchurch

Sat October 31: Sammy’s, Dunedin.


Cole will be dipping into a catalogue that includes gems like Lost Weekend, Perfect Skin, Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken, Jennifer She Said, and Like Lovers Do – songs which have helped him to five Top 20 UK albums.

* Tickets available for general sale on Thursday August 27 from www.Ticketmaster.co.nz and Real Groovy, and in Napier from Music Machine.

Things you didn’t know about Lloyd Cole:

• Cole is an avid golfer who chooses concert towns suspiciously close to famous courses. He shares this passion (and his golf handicap of 5) with shock rocker Alice Cooper, and the unlikely pair are tied 11th place on Golf Digest’s top 100 golfing musicians. Coincidently, Alice Cooper is touring NZ in September.
  

• Cole's songs have been covered by many, including a version of "Rattlesnakes" on a recent Tori Amos album, while Sandie Shaw has recorded a version of "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken”
  

• In 2006, Scottish band Camera Obscura released the song "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" in response to Cole's 1984 hit "(Are You) Ready to Be Heartbroken?"
  

• TV3’s  John Campbell is a big fan: “Lloyd Cole – bloody marvelous”
  

• Cole is now based in the United States (Easthampton, Massachusetts).