WE COULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER GUEST FOR THE LAUNCH EDITION OF THE MOUTHCAST.

Lloyd Cole – Derbyshire-born but US-resident songwriter and frontman of 1980s bedsit heroes turned chart troublers Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (PERFECT SKIN, BRAND NEW FRIEND) – took some time out from his UK tour to chat with us over a pint or two about 30 years of putting erudite pen to paper, carving out a sustainable solo career after Top Of The Pops stops calling and your band implodes, and taking a 20-year-old musician son out to sample life on the road. He also tells us a little about his next song-based album and his experiments in electronica…