Lloyd Cole live in concert at Leeds Town Hall on 15th October 2019 with his ‘From Rattlesnakes to Guesswork 2019 Tour’. Guesswork mirrors the uncertainty of the world as you enter your third act, and is consistent with a record whose protagonists seem reluctant to venture confidently beyond the moment. In terms of minutes, it’s his longest, but in terms of songs, it’s shorter than any of his previous eleven solo albums (fourteen if you count those he made with The Commotions). This might come as a surprise to those who primarily remember Lloyd for the precocious literary pop dispatches of 1984’s Rattlesnakes, the debut album which earned him an unlikely place alongside Wham! and Duran Duran in the following year’s Smash Hits/Panini sticker book.