Nick Lowe is an absolute sweetheart... very talented, self effacing & very funny. Saw him at Shepherds Bush Empire last week with the fabulous Los Straitjackets and the show was amazing. It was the first time I’d seen Basher since his Rockpile glory days, & he looked and sounded in very fine fettle indeed.

Happy 70th Birthday to one of the most important figures in English pop/rock history

Darling NICK! We loved all the Brinsleys stuff and all the Rockplie stuff -HUGELY - and now we love you because all of it is so funny,, so right, and/or some moving. None of us who loved your pub rocker or Rockpile persona would ever abandon you. Because what you give us now is as heartfelt as it was then. And BTW, I know none of your incarnations has been a "persona."

what an INTERESTING guy nick lowe is!

Nick Lowe. Greatest living Englishman.

Pure class 😎

Saving NickLowes, saving Times . . .

LOVE LOVE LOVE HIM

I met Nick must have been 1992, I was in New York on business staying at the Plaza Hotel, one night i am drinking at the bar and who walks in and sits down next to me -- Nick Lowe - he was in town doing some promotions -- really nice guy - so we are drinking T and Tonic, Jack Daniels, Johnnie Walker Black, etc - chatting away, getting hammered - then I said "Nick you're married to Carlene Carter, right?" And he says "sure was" -- I said "man she is gorgeous, a real cutey" he says "we're divorced" -- I said "well if you aren't with her anymore, mind giving me her number" - Nick laughs and says "sorry mate" - so I say "well if i can't have her phone number, can I at least smell your fingers?" - Nick falls off his bar stool in hysterics. Great time, great bloke, great memories, man time flies.

The Grapes pub is still standing and is open to this day. It was the original Cavern Club that Nick is talking about that was knocked down and filled in.

What a pleasant guy! :) Great interview! \m/

I'm one of those who sits down because he has to, but I love Nick just the same.

The interviewer frequently cuts Nick short just at the end of his reply. Too much of a hurry to get to the next question. Slow down.

I heard about Nick I believe it was around the time Elvis Costello started. Heard the Breaking Glass song and have been hooked ever since.

The original Grapes pub in Liverpool's Mathew Street that Nick mentions is still there (and still shabby).

Good interview. Well done Geoff Lloyd, liking you on BBC Five live

Too bad the song was cut.

Hi Nick are you left handed seen you sign 45s with your left hand and you play guitar right had [ love your work ]

Nick Lowe joins Geoff Lloyd to try to explain why he's still making records even though he is one of these old people

Is Nick's mic ON? All I can hear is the freakin' interviewer at 800 decibels.

why is the interviewers voice so loud and nick lowes voice so low?

This interviewer seems obsessed with age.

"Middle aged music" WTF!??? Is the interviewer a total fool? Fortunately Nick has probably heard interviewers even dumber than this guy seems to be and answers diplomatically and makes the best of it. I discovered Nick in 1978 when I bought "Pure Pop For Now People" which is a brilliant album that not only rocks out in various styles, but manages to poke fun at many aspects of society. Hope Nick keeps making great albums and rocking even if the interviewer seems to think "old" people can't do that.

wow this interviewer is really hung up on the idea that all "old" people have this one mindset and it's an experience of being on the scrap heap of history, and all the good years over, which this guy thinks are times of partying and being into certain kinds of music, which is apparently what he's into and thinks everybody wants to be into, and this guy seems to think you get to an age where you're too old and tired for rock music, i think that's a stereotype he keeps pushing, Lowe responds to his questions saying things that don't fit the stereotype and the interviewer doesn't seem to hear or have any interest, he interrupts and goes on to the next subject, he already knows everything and doesn't need to listen, i'm 3 minutes into it and am getting pretty bored. At least in this interview, this is a crappy interviewer. Nice listening to Nick Lowe though. geez this interviewer is simple minded.

I'm not completely thrilled with the interview. It seems like Geoff may not have done his research thoroughly enough, or perhaps he just let his asshat show a little? Either way, my feeling was "meh." No reflection on Nick himself of course: he's a god. More or less.

Most interviewers should be sat down and made to read ALL the comments about them on YT. 50 times. Until they GET IT RIGHT! This guy is a typical example of "most interviewers." 👎👎👎👎👎

Nick Lowe is legendary, and the interviewer seems to be obsessed about his age. It's insulting and obnoxious.

WHAT is the deal with Nick saying that he only did BAD stuff up until the 80s. Don't agree. I thought his writing peaked during the first two BS LPs... to me he never did anything as good after. Peace Love and Understanding is good but nothing to go ape about.

Terrible interviewer. Don't interject your Mickey Mouse opinions, and try to not have your mic volume twice as loud as the subject.

"Not for this country"...........Rather for Americanised clever Dickie Nashville twelve bar Bookie Wookie...... Sorry for being cynical, Sure Nick made a few great tunes, but mostly it was Dave Edmunds inspired mid 70's American speeded up Nashville country twelve bar boogie woogie.....which Nick decided that was the direction to go would he have a decent paycheck.........