{"id":313328,"date":"2026-08-04T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313328\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:42:42","slug":"lloyd-cole-the-queens-hall-edinburgh-live-review-2-08-26-no-more-workhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313328\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Cole \u2013 The Queen\u2019s Hall, Edinburgh \u2013 Live Review \u2013 2\/08\/26 \u2013 No More Workhorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/category\/gig-reviews\/\" class=\"post-lead-category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gig Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lloydcole.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"103860\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/2016\/08\/21\/dublin-event-guide-22-08-16-28-08-16\/lloydcole-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lloydcole.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2004,1331\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lloydcole\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nomoreworkhorse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lloydcole.jpg?w=829\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lloydcole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"424\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Cole \u2013 The Queen\u2019s Hall, Edinburgh \u2013 Live Review \u2013 2\/08\/26<br \/>by Killian Laher<\/p>\n<p>The Queen\u2019s Hall in Edinburgh was the rather fancy venue for the visit of Lloyd Cole.\u00a0 Having played acoustically for several years, this time he promised a set on solo electric guitar.\u00a0 It was never going to be a power chord fest as Cole, clad in white, opened with the slow-burning 29 and No More Love Songs.\u00a0 Frontloading the set with Rattlesnakes, Perfect Skin and Brand New Friend, his unshowy guitar playing was really impressive.\u00a0 He played a slinky version of the seldom played Speedboat and a very Dylan-sounding Period Piece.<\/p>\n<p>An unusual brand of frontman, he still maintains the \u2018headful of attitude\u2019 of old, in a schoolmasterly kind of way, with his on-stage quips.\u00a0 But somehow it works.\u00a0 The recent World Cup was on his mind, as he gently teased the Scottish audience for having a collection of Argentina, Croatia and Ghana jerseys (England\u2019s opponents).<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his first set with 2cv, Lloyd Cole returned with the still resonant Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken, and from there he could do no wrong.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t all nostalgia; guitar-based versions of The Afterlife and On Pain sounded really good, even if, as Cole said, the latter uses the same guitar chords as he always uses!<\/p>\n<p>He led the audience to sing along with The Idiot and Jennifer She Said, before finishing with a stripped-down Hey Rusty and the prophetic I\u2019m Gone.\u00a0 But not before Cole encored with Lost Weekend and Forest Fire, sending the crowd happily into the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gig Reviews Lloyd Cole \u2013 The Queen\u2019s Hall, Edinburgh \u2013 Live Review \u2013 2\/08\/26by Killian Laher The Queen\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-313328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}