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NEIL CLARK RELEASES ALBUM
Former Commotion's guitarist, Neil Clark, has released an album of guitar music called Sundogs.
Neil is best known for his work with Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, but he has also played on almost all of Lloyd Cole's solo releases, too.
Sundogs is available on iTunes UK, US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. There are no plans as yet to release the album on CD, though this may change.
You can visit Neil Clark's MySpace page and listen to some of the album by clicking on the image above.
UPDATE
Neil has added a further MySpace page, Ultramarine Recordings, for his 'other' recordings. Different from 'Sundogs' but equally interesting pieces in their own right.
Influences
T.Rex,
Isaac Hayes,
Steve Reich,
Leonard Cohen,
Sex Pistols,
Willy Nelson,
Kraftwerk.
Sounds Like
Visit the music section of lloydcole.com to hear samples from every Lloyd Cole, The Negatives and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album.
DISCOGRAPHY:
Rattlesnakes (1984)
Easy Pieces (1985)
Mainstream (1987)
1984-1989 (1989)
Lloyd Cole (1990)
Don't Get Weird on Me Babe (1991)
Bad Vibes (1993)
Love Story (1995)
The Collection (1998)
Negatives (2000)
Plastic Wood (2001)
Etc. (2001)
2001 - Collected Recordings (2001)
Music in a Foreign Language (2003)
The Singles (2004)
Rattlesnakes - Deluxe Edition (2004)
Antidepressant (2006)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Live at the BBC Volume 1 (2007)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Live at the BBC Volume 2 (2007)
a four volume collection of b-sides and rarities 1990 - 2006
"Lloyd Cole is one of the finest, and mightily talented, singer-songwriters of the past 25 years. 10/10"Americana Music Review UK
"there are swathes of great music tucked away on this 59-tracker, some inclusions as good as anything on his debut masterpiece Rattlesnakes"Record Collector
"two decades of thoughtful, literate pop . . . one of our finest songwriters"Independent on Sunday (UK)
“A fine introduction to an impressive canon of work”Q Magazine
“lovely stuff, and at it’s best . . . Cole surpasses his influences to create plangent, lyrical pop”Uncut
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions released their debut 'Rattlesnakes' in 1984 to near universal acclaim and success. A few years later it made the New Musical Express 'Top 100 Allbums of All Time' list. The band released two more albums and toured extensively before splitting in 1988. LC then moved, albeit inadvertently, to New York City and released four solo albums, which were critically well received, sold reasonably around the world, but not the return on their investment that Polygram Records had hoped, and after only one hit single - 1995's 'Like Lovers Do' - in 1998 the artist and label agreed to part company.
Since then LC has relocated to New England, releasing albums through various independent labels and continuing to garner critical favour while evading commercial radio play - his last two - 2003's Music in a Foreign Language and 2006's 'Antidepressant' were released through One Little Indian in N. America and Sanctuary in the rest of the world.
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions reformed for the month of October 2004 to mark the 20th anniversary of 'Rattlesnakes', playing sold out concerts in Glasgow, Dublin and London. LC continues to tour the world as a solo acoustic performer.
PAST COLLABORATIONS:
These days I am a solo performer.
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were Neil Clark (guitars), Blair Cowan (keyboards), Lawrence Donegan (bass), Stephen Irvine (drums) and myself (vocals, guitar).
My first two solo albums had an excellent studio band - Fred Maher (drums), Matthew Sweet (bass), Robert Quine (electric guitar), Blair Cowan (keys) and myself (electric and acoustic guitars and keys). In 1997, I formed a New York bar band - The Negatives. The idea being to try to get back to music being something to do for fun, not to make a living. My time with these musicians was the best I've had making music - Jill Sobule (lead and rhythm guitar, vocals), Michael Kotch (lead and rhythm guitar), Dave Derby (bass, vocals), Rafa Maciejak (drums) and myself (lead and rhythm guitar, vocals). The Negatives never disbanded, we are just on sabbatical. I played keyboards in Derby's band Brilliantine for a few years in the late '90s and early '00s.
Since the Negatives I have toured as a folksinger, occasionally with the help of Neil Clark on the guitar.
Lloyd, Thank you for adding me to your list of friends. I really appreciate it. My current project is a fiction novel with CD soundtrack due out soon. Wishing you continued success and a wonderful musical and happy weekend.
Peace and respect,
Joy Miller My author profile page at myspace coming soon. I hope you will join me there too.
You gonna hurry back to Leeds or what then LC? My mate is out of that Makers Mark you gave him after the show... (only kidding... that'll be left undrunk forever mate!)... you should add us to your list, even if just to get a round of golf in... and you just know that the Bradford curry house has a meal with your name on it dude. :) Take care, good health to you. :)
Looking forward to Lloyd's Australian dates starting very soon. I will be at many shows, through Australia and on to Singapore. Coverage will be provided on the forum linked to Lloyd's main site and a new Facebook site of 'Lloyd Cole is My Guru' we have started a new GUru site with more active admin and tweet links pleae join at:
Thank you so much for the friendship. I really like your music, and it's a pleasure to meet you here! Greetings from Denmark, Lene www.nexus-univers.dk
ciao thanks have a great and wonderful day my new friend if you want come in my page and add yourself on my frapper map friends I’ve another new myspace page www.myspace.com/policedogblues
