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Description: Veteran lyrical songsmith embarks on UK tour following the release of Antidepressant, his first solo album in over three years.
Phone: 0870060 1742
Trains: Tube: Covent Garden 
Cult figure: Lloyd Cole never achieved the stardom his early success suggested
What, then, to do when your ungrateful support act cancels on the day of the show? If you're Lloyd Cole, you support yourself and play two, wholly different, solo sets.
Two decades after his pomp, the father of teenage children lives in New England, and jokes unconvincingly about losing his memory.
He was sharp enough to berate a woman whose mobile phone trilled during NYC Sunshine. "It's the babysitter," she wailed. "Tell her I'll be another 20 minutes," he replied.
Yet, for all his seeming ease with his status as a cult figure rather than the star his debut album Rattlesnakes seemed to herald, Cole acidly noted before How Wrong Can You Be? that "I put out a record last year, as you may not have noticed".
That album, Antidepressant, is proof that although his sales have plummeted, little else has changed. Cole remains a would-be, superior pop star.
The new material stood proudly alongside the old, chiefly because it's much the same. He aired the occasional hit and Lost Weekend in particular blossomed from its slowed-down, acoustic re-invention.
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