tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7850887833879538112.post3449754819439164774..comments2024-03-11T03:35:11.850-07:00Comments on Macwood Fleet: Live in 2014: Lloyd Cole at The Globe, Cardiff - Saturday April 12th 2014Meetwood Flachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18119690097840630185noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7850887833879538112.post-77307505365901592412014-04-13T23:47:57.222-07:002014-04-13T23:47:57.222-07:00Nice piece Nick. I'm kinda envious too, given ...Nice piece Nick. I'm kinda envious too, given a decent concert setting. I admire the number of gigs you manage to attend; wish I had the patience and fortitude to tolerate the atmosphere & unruly audiences of the clubs.<br /><br />I've told this story before, but it's good reminder of the drudgery of "the road..."<br /><br />Being a big fan, I've seen Lloyd live several times. Unfortunately, I also witnessed LC play a show whilst terribly ill... I'll first preface by saying that many of the music venues here in Toronto are shit-holes. "The Horseshoe Tavern" is like playing in a dark concrete alley. "Lee's Palace" has to be seen to be believed. Pitch black & everything is smelly and sticky... the floor, the chairs, ugh. The dressing-room looks like a cardboard out-house. The "Palace" indeed...<br /><br />Anyway, a few years ago ("Foreign Language" tour), Lloyd crawled out of Lee's Palace previously mentioned out-house, looking like a cranky professor and grunted, "I'm fucking sick." (Later on his Weblog he reported he was diagnosed with double-pneumonia). It was a painful show to watch, with thick smoke burning the eyes, morons in the audience chattering incessantly, and shouting "Next time bring the Commotions!" Seated, with a large bottle of some type of yellow grog nearby, Lloyd struggled valiantly through the show, croaking and straining & obviously dreadfully ill. However, he still managed to rise from his stool for a brave and touching finale of 'Hey Rusty', 'Heartbroken' and 'Unhappy Song'. Later, my pal Eric and I had a long discussion about how harrowing the gig was, and how being a rock-star ain't as glamorous as it's cracked up to be... Lloyd's been back to play "The Palace" a few times since, and I'd like to see him play again, but I'm getting too old for shit-holes...<br /><br />Not sure how musician's tolerate the grind of touring. I've heard Lloyd grumble on his weblog about the necessity of touring to pay the mortgage and put the kids through school. The show must go on I guess, but a classy artist like Lloyd deserves better...<br /><br />Someday you must have Trev relate a few of his tales of doing gigs way back when... I like the one about performing in places where bathrooms served as "dressing-rooms", having to stand on bricks whilst changing to avoid dipping trousers into pools of pee... <br /><br />PS: Congrats Nick on hitting 10,000 views on your blog... There are a lot of us sitting in the weeds, enjoying your posts. You're doing a great job!Tim Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01089890504560756715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7850887833879538112.post-48062825449932642692014-04-13T05:14:20.384-07:002014-04-13T05:14:20.384-07:00Envious. I haven't seen Lloyd live since the e...Envious. I haven't seen Lloyd live since the early Rattlesnake days...Hissyfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06865300919319235353noreply@blogger.com