Creation's promising guitar Turks The Loft. Their promise was short lived as it proved. But for a brief while in 1984, NME readers and devotees of The Byrds, The Velvet Underground, Television, A Level Romantic Poetry and Soul Music hoped there might be something good on Top of the Pops on Thursday night for a change.
It wasn't to be. By 1985 The Loft were gone. After an acrimonious band split onstage in a support slot for Colourfield at the Hammersmith Odeon. They left behind a couple of fine jingling jangling 45's and some great radio sessions. And a question mark. What might they have been capable of had ego not intervened and they'd sat down instead and talked through their issues,
Such is youth. And life often. Pete Astor combed back his quiff. Packed his Telecaster, his leather trousers and polkadot shirts and started afresh with The Weather Prophets. Anyhow the Byrds, The Velvet Underground, Television, A Level Romantic Poetry and Soul Music were actually destined to make it onto Top of the Pops in 1984 after all. In the shape of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions. Coming up on here in a week or so.
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