Lloyd Cole releases a short film to accompany his new single ‘Warm By The Fire’, the first single from his forthcoming new album ‘On Pain’ via earMUSIC. The film is a collaboration between Lloyd Cole and Canadian film maker Doug Arrowsmith from Feltfilm.
Inspired by the biblical wildfires that swept across California prior to the pandemic? The end of days warnings of Greta Thunberg? The pension riots in Paris? A treatise on the human desire for destruction? Cole won’t say. ‘Warm By The Fire’ is a JG Ballard story in miniature.
‘Warm By The Fire’ the mini-movie was filmed on the shores of Lake Ontario, and features an interpretive performance by dance artist Nyda Kwasowsky from the National Ballet School of Canada; the video is further punctuated by a handful of Toronto skaters and global riot footage, interspersed with Lloyd’s AI generated images of LA.
Says Lloyd Cole: “I wanted skateboards. Doug found Nyda. We’ve ended up with a dance interpretive of something which may or may not be happening.”
Says Doug Arrowsmith: “We were looking for a way to create a kind of game-like repetition of images at the core of the video, fuelled by Kwasowsky’s celebration of the insurgency. Lloyd is very fast – the entire thing was shot and delivered in just under a week. And can I just add…. I MEAN COME ON!! IT’S LLOYD COLE! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? His music has been massive for me. I remember hauling hordes of people back to my place from a university party to make them watch Lloyd perform on the David Letterman Show. Thirty kids huddled around a TV in the dead of Canadian winter. Amazing. Different works for different seasons, the songs are crucial. Always will be.”
On 23rd June ‘23 Lloyd Cole will release his twelfth album as a solo artist. Entitled ‘On Pain’, it features eight new Lloyd Cole songs, four of which are co-written by Commotions founding members Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who also perform on the record. The album is produced by Chris Merrick Hughes and was recorded in Lloyd’s attic studio The Establishment in Massachusetts.
Lloyd has already released a selection of mixes of the closing song on the album ‘Wolves’.
Lloyd Cole has announced a UK/European tour in the autumn. The full list of dates for the ‘On Pain’ tour is:
OCTOBER 2023
Fri 06 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Tyne Theatre and Opera House
Sat 07 LIVERPOOL The Philharmonic Hall
Sun 08 DUBLIN Olympia Theatre
Tue 10 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Thu 12 ABERDEEN Tivoli Theatre
Sat 14 EDINBURGH Usher Hall
Sun 15 GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
Tue 17 YORK Barbican
Thu 19 LONDON Union Chapel
Fri 20 LONDON Union Chapel
Sat 21 LONDON Union Chapel
Mon 23 BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
Tue 24 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Wed 25 IPSWICH The Corn Exchange
Fri 27 BUXTON Opera House
Sat 28 COVENTRY Cathedral
Sun 29 NOTTINGHAM Albert Hall
Tue 31 BRIGHTON Dome
NOVEMBER
Thu 02 COLOGNE Tanzbrunnen
Sat 04 PARIS Le Trianon
Sun 05 LEUVEN, Belgium Het Depot
Mon 06 AMSTERDAM Melkweg
Inspired by the biblical wildfires that swept across California prior to the pandemic? The end of days warnings of Greta Thunberg? The pension riots in Paris? A treatise on the human desire for destruction? Cole won’t say. ‘Warm By The Fire’ is a JG Ballard story in miniature.
‘Warm By The Fire’ the mini-movie was filmed on the shores of Lake Ontario, and features an interpretive performance by dance artist Nyda Kwasowsky from the National Ballet School of Canada; the video is further punctuated by a handful of Toronto skaters and global riot footage, interspersed with Lloyd’s AI generated images of LA.
Says Lloyd Cole: “I wanted skateboards. Doug found Nyda. We’ve ended up with a dance interpretive of something which may or may not be happening.”
Says Doug Arrowsmith: “We were looking for a way to create a kind of game-like repetition of images at the core of the video, fuelled by Kwasowsky’s celebration of the insurgency. Lloyd is very fast – the entire thing was shot and delivered in just under a week. And can I just add…. I MEAN COME ON!! IT’S LLOYD COLE! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? His music has been massive for me. I remember hauling hordes of people back to my place from a university party to make them watch Lloyd perform on the David Letterman Show. Thirty kids huddled around a TV in the dead of Canadian winter. Amazing. Different works for different seasons, the songs are crucial. Always will be.”
On 23rd June ‘23 Lloyd Cole will release his twelfth album as a solo artist. Entitled ‘On Pain’, it features eight new Lloyd Cole songs, four of which are co-written by Commotions founding members Blair Cowan and Neil Clark, who also perform on the record. The album is produced by Chris Merrick Hughes and was recorded in Lloyd’s attic studio The Establishment in Massachusetts.
Lloyd has already released a selection of mixes of the closing song on the album ‘Wolves’.
Lloyd Cole has announced a UK/European tour in the autumn. The full list of dates for the ‘On Pain’ tour is:
OCTOBER 2023
Fri 06 NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Tyne Theatre and Opera House
Sat 07 LIVERPOOL The Philharmonic Hall
Sun 08 DUBLIN Olympia Theatre
Tue 10 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Thu 12 ABERDEEN Tivoli Theatre
Sat 14 EDINBURGH Usher Hall
Sun 15 GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
Tue 17 YORK Barbican
Thu 19 LONDON Union Chapel
Fri 20 LONDON Union Chapel
Sat 21 LONDON Union Chapel
Mon 23 BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
Tue 24 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Wed 25 IPSWICH The Corn Exchange
Fri 27 BUXTON Opera House
Sat 28 COVENTRY Cathedral
Sun 29 NOTTINGHAM Albert Hall
Tue 31 BRIGHTON Dome
NOVEMBER
Thu 02 COLOGNE Tanzbrunnen
Sat 04 PARIS Le Trianon
Sun 05 LEUVEN, Belgium Het Depot
Mon 06 AMSTERDAM Melkweg
