Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder playing at The Palais, Melbourne Australia
Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nick Lowe Mellows

By VVN Music

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:00:32 +1100

Nick Lowe has been touring North America and visited Toronto last week.

Lowe has been touring North America for the last few weeks with his band, the first time he has brought them along in ten years. According to an interview that he did recently with the Boston Globe, he's mellowed a bit with age, not dipping back too often into his music from the 70's.

Q. Will we be hearing you bring back some of your oldest songs, things like “Shake and Pop’’?

A. I think the answer is no. Nothing quite that vintage. I will go back to the ’80s. We do “Ragin’ Eyes,’’ which is about ’83.

Q. Would it feel strange to play songs from the ’70s? You’re a different guy.

A. In the main, as long as I feel I can actually sing the lyric without feeling like an idiot, I’ll do it.

Lowe also said not to look for a reunion with Dave Edmunds and Rockpile. "I’m just too old to play that loud. I don’t like playing that sort of music. It was great fun at the time, but there’s something sort of disgusting about seeing a bunch of old guys try to do things that they did when they were kids."

Here's Nick's set from his October 13 show at The Mod Club in Toronto.

Main Set

People Change (from Labour of Lust, 1979)

Heart (from Nick the Knife, 1982)

What's Shakin' on the Hill (from Party of One, 1990)

What Lack of Love Has Done (from Dig My Mood, 1998)

Raging Eyes (from The Abominable Snowman, 1983)

Lately I've Let Things Slide (from The Convincer, 2001)

Has She Got a Friend? (from The Convincer, 2001)

I Trained Her to Love Me (from Labour of Lust, 1979)

I Live on a Battlefield (from The Impossible Bird, 1994)

Indian Queens (from The Convincer, 2001)