I hate sounding like the old man I am, but to my fellow old men and women, we are not going to see their like again in our lifetimes. Something like them doesn't happen often enough.
To see them live in Las Vegas on their Heaven or Las Vegas tour (1991 I believe it was) was potentially the most epic concert of my life. I mean, how much more perfect can it get?
Was there as well...in the front...speechless at how literally magical it was...turned once to look at the crowd and the whole room was mesmerised in unison..nothing has or will ever likely come close to the Majesty of that show...
What a great interview, I'm glad I found it. Im more happy that you posted it so many years ago and kept it up for us. Thank you. I've just discovered Liz and the Cocteau Twins this past year and I feel like I've missed a lot of them. I feel like I'm loving her music the more I listen to them. So many beautiful, soul touching songs.
The way 4AD/23e presented their bands visually was unprecedented and legendary. No one can take that away from the label as it was back in the day. Each album cover was beautiful and evocative and it was basically impossible not to buy and eagerly await the next one. That was a stellar period in the art of the album. The insistence on mercurial quality in the presentation of the amazing bands on just that one label at that time made history that continues to resonate.
Yes, their artwork on L.P. covers was just beautiful. 4AD had amazing covers Modern English - Mesh and lace Cocteau Twins - Garlands just 2 beautiful covers, dark and moody but amazing detail. C
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 I was just playing the Mesh and Lace album a couple of days ago and paused to admire the odd mystery of the cover. I was thinking how odd that both album covers for that and After The Snow were redesigned. The original covers were the best. Garlands was an amazing cover as were all to follow. One always looked forward to each release back in those days.
Great to see Liz and Simon looking so relaxed and chatty here..... not long after this point they sadly disbanded (Robin's absence may explain something).... Does anybody realise that the man interviewing them is none other than Richard Jobson (of the Skids and The Armoury Show) - fellow Scot and everything. Probably explains why the duo are so talkative here!! :)
@@sergioferraro3644 ahhhhhhh, y'know I think that was it, and I was a Jedi master shoplifting expert (still am, but you know it goes, I just put stuff on a MasterCard like every other idiot now😆, back then my main targets were food and building supplies). I had the first version of Napster in the Navy in the Ninties, that was a struggle, but worth it 👍
I agree milk and kisses was a instant classic. Every track was great. Violaine and Erpedu are amazing. I can't believe they just parted like that. The music sounded as if they were getting started. Violaine gives me goosebumps every time i play it. There will never be a band or artist of that calibur ever again.
I love the earlier stuff best. I felt they became a wee bit uninspired and began to repeat themselves later on. I still love some of the later stuff like Oil Of Angels, Evangeline, Summerhead, Violaine, Serpentskirt, but I felt they sort of sunk into a safeness in the later years.
Dead Can Dance suffered a similar trajectory: wonderfully inspired album in the same year which also sounded like a band beginning afresh, and then.. fizzle and crash.
Couldn't agree more. Continued to refine their sound and could have been on to new and very exciting things, but it was clearly impossible for them. Personal issues were too much, and it's part of their story, course. Well, their lives.
It's sad to get some insight into this band's unhappiness at 4AD. I'm hoping it wasn't all bad but I still loved their work when they left 4AD. Simon and Liz are lovely here.
double that..1990 to 2008 sounds about right..1996 I moved to US and met my wife ..reasons nowadays kind of suck - kids are getting bullied preyed upon and ruined by internet.. also the political pickering & fighting and news are just plain stupid..one president is so old he cant remember his own damn name and the other one has 35 lawsuits against him..great choices..but music is timeless
@@yaro1401 cool story me new Gf just December of last year bro 😉 I'm in a great spot thus far as far as relationship 💖 so your a foreigner just like me I also moved to the US when I was a kid to San Jose California I'm 40 now and I'm back in my beautiful country the Philippines 🇵🇭 in Beautiful Maitum Sarangani Province in Mindanao Philippines 🇵🇭 🙏 where did you come from 🙂
A (not young) television interviewer as taken directly from the 40ies...on VH-1...with to super musicians...talking about the record label 4AD... You just couldn't make it up! Thank you for sharing this ...of a completely lost era.
Not only did she sing on 'Teardrop' she co-wrote it with Massive Attack, along with two other songs from their multimillion selling 'Mezzanine' album. Because her voice is so fantastic, she never gets credit for her songwriting.
@@ouime7337 The song is about her ex Jeff Buckley who drowned in the Mississippi River while the song was being recorded. In 1984 long before she met Jeff, Liz covered 'Song To The Siren' with 'This Mortal Coil' which was written by Jeff's Father, Tim Buckley. In Greek mythology the Sirens would lure sailors to a watery death with their music.
I could be wrong but was it at this point that Liz Frazer was dating Jeff Buckley or a year or so later before his tragic death. There voices and music seemed to find each other
1996- I was 16 and had just discovered them. Someone gave me their music so I didn’t know anything about who they were. I remember thinking that EF was two women because of her vocal range. I remember being shocked and confused when I found out “they” were her. 😍
@@plejady I am 52 57 kgs small provincial hamlet of Glasgow Scotland easterhouse.im contactable 07564650966.alanmacdnald@g.mail.com. There s no fear in giving enjoyment to others I'll humbley speach to you visit Glasgow we LL go for a jar and be best friends.invitation open hope to speak soon
Me too I had a chance to see them on the Heaven or Las Vegas tour. I couldn't find anyone to go with me. Being a young female i didnt want to go alone. I regret not going
This band were awesome & its a great shame they split shortly after the release of milk and kisses. Liz Fraser is absolutely beautiful & has a voice simply angelic and sublime in its quality. Would have loved to have seen them live back in the day.
I'm living for Simon in this interview. He's not with the bullshit at all. But, honestly, it still breaks my heart there were no more albums after this. :(
This was the end for Cocteau Twins. They disbanded a year later (1997) after the release of their last album, Milk & Kisses. I understand that Liz and Robin broke off their relationship over irreconcilable difference and that was it for the band. It's too bad. They were a great band and had very unique sound.
They broke up as a couple in 1993. It was difficult emotionally for Liz to be in the same place at the same time as Robin. The personal relationship between them was too broken and by 1997 she'd had enough. All Robin's fault and all due to drugs
WOW I imagined at the time, being at 4AD.... in The Cocteaus, collaborating with Vaughan Oliver etc.etc....must've been wonderful. Never seen Liz Fraser say that before!! Yet another mythological balloon burst about being creative, being signed and being in the industry.
I know Elizabeth Fraser's sister! and I very occasionally message Simon Raymonde (bassist), and Will Heggie (one of the founders). I own a lot of their vinyl etc which has been signed by Simon, Robin and Will! sadly I don't have Elizabeth's YET! an amazing group who have created and released timeless classics like.. Blue Bell Knoll Victorialand Garlands - C 28 - 09 - 2023
I had VH-1in that year on cable (Telewest) in the UK/GB, I loved watching it in the evening ... However I NEVER SAW THIS to end the Cocteau Twins were an musical enigma, as you could not define the genre they resided in .... whatever it is ... its Wonderfull .
@@MisAnnThorpe Thank you Miss Thrope. Maybe I was, but I didn't know it cause I'd never heard of her. Gave a couple of songs a listen, sounded pretty good. I'll add her to my British Female Rogue's Gallery. She is British, right?
@@klausrain111 Yes, another very talented Scot, I believe. First time I heard Mercy by Duffy, I was convinced it was Carmel (McCourt). Oddly enough, Mercy is also the title of one of Carmel's better known songs (beautifully produced by Brian Eg, er, sorry, Eno) from The Falling, album. Highly recommend you listen to some tracks from that. In particular, Tok, Sticks and stones and the title track. Fortunately, the French appreciate just how good she is. Virginia Astley and Laura Mvula are interesting too.
I used to have a Cocteau Twins poster on my bedroom wall as a teenager. Everyone who caught Liz Fraser's eyes, so to speak, would ask (and exclaim), "Who's that?!". Female, male, family, friends, child, adult. "Wait 'til you hear her", I'd say.
I remember that Richard Jobson had a show called Jobson's Choice on VH-1 around that time. I saw it when they showed the day's schedule, but I never got to see it because it was shown at midnight.
She's just BARELY HERE, if at all. It's seems to be with the greatest of effort that she unrolls the masquerade that she's actually even really from here. Venus? Mars? A planet we don't know about? Could be, literally, anywhere. I hope these compliments are seen as such. I think her followers will understand.
I can't tell if Liz is trying to cover up her accent or if she maybe moved to England for a while and now has a weird mix of Scottish and English in how she talks. Really awesome band though. Only listened to Treasure for the first time yesterday and I'm absolutely hooked. Phenomenal stuff.
Simon reminds me of Anthony Michael Hall's character from The Breakfast Club here for some reason xD. The way he keeps looking up when he's babbling about the BS of 4AD had me in stitches.
I feel a great sadness when I think that not long after this interview they would be separated. After wonderful work, beautiful music ... I think maybe they still had breath for more 2 or 3 albums and suddenly it was over. I don't know, of course they had their reasons, but I never quite understood why the band broke up. Just when they were a magical musical moment. Cocteau is the band I love most. How I miss new music of them .
Jesus, you take the words out my mouth. It literally sounded like they got really comfortable with they're instruments. My God they made the most amazing music ever and they are deeply underrated. God bless the twins.
oh well i always thought the bass player was a nice quiet bloke but he is one of these "if i dont like it ill tell you idiots" so thats burst my bubble thank god liz is such an amazing lady that he can fade into the background without even knowing he's gone.
Liz is so cool man. The shirt looks so smart and mainstream but then the necklace looks like a bondage chain, which gives it this subversive hard look. It suits her manner, her constant striving for a totally authentic representation of herself -- hard to soft, serious to foolish, changing from second to second. People interpret that kind of display of the inner self as "anxiety" these days, they pathologise it -- partly because people have become so conformist and controlling. That freedom to express reactions makes people who are unaccustomed to express or experience Liz's kind of volatile liveliness nervous. But to me it's just being full of life and generosity, a kind of personality worth celebrating and striving for and I fucking love you for that, Liz Fraser.
Simon always reminded me of someone but I couldn't figure out who until a fan noted that he resembles Bart Simpson, ha. I think that's pretty cool tho'!
Is it possible for this interviewer ( Mr. Wit )to get more of his questions-statements wrong ??? One of the Wit brothers......... Slim/Nit/ Half You decide which one he is!!!!
I saw them twice. The first show in 1990 had a great venue, but Liz had a "sore throat" and we got 3 songs then they quit. She sounded dreadful. The I saw them again in March 1994 and they sounded awful because the venue was bad it was just a wash of noise and Liz was buried in the mix. Love the band but, they never sounded very good live when I saw them.
Also, it is BLOODY hard to sing against those guitars in a live situation. It can be mixed properly in a studio environment but if you haven't got a technician at each and every gig that understands the fragility of Liz's voice, you're not gonna get the best out of her. I remember her throat *bleeding* from trying to sing live against the guitars.
Yup. Saw them on the last two tours. First time, Liz did the Sinead O'Connor "shriek" through much of the show to compensate for the volume on the guitars. Not a fan of that style of singing at all. Second time was much better (smaller venue, and thus less space to fill with sound). They were very, very good; but if Liz ain't at 100%, it's just not going to cut it.
I too was priveliged to see them live twice - first time supported by Seefeel at the UEA in Norwich (14 Feb 1994 .. my idea of how valentine's day should be celebrated) and at the Ritz in Manchester in 1996 (a rescheduled gig because Liz lost her voice for the original date and had to postpone) I just wished I'd got to see them live in the mid 80s. Both were wonderful gigs, but yes, Liz struggled to compete against the ocean of sound. Both times I was mesmerized not by Liz, but by Simon - he's incredibly skilled and very underrated. He seems so personable, with a self-deprecating sense of humour.
I read that Liz often got stage-fright live and that affected the quality of her singing. I can certainly hear that on a couple bootlegs I have. I love Liz's singing but always loved the guitar sounds best. Twins did struggle with a lot of issues when performing, at least until the later years when technology improved.
I don’t really gel with the last couple of albums that much, but ‘Alice’ violaine B-Side is without a doubt my favourite track they ever did and possibly one of the last recorded?. It was also used on the Lovely Bones which was a perfect choice. ua-cam.com/video/Sy2o6dzE9w8/v-deo.html
elizabeth fraser has one of the most incredible voices in modern music.
The. The most incredible.
Yes yes!!!¡!
Saw them live in a small space in '86 and her voice was amazing to hear. She never wavered for. 2 hr show.
@@FrankDellario Isn"t that amazing?
she is AMAZING !
I hate sounding like the old man I am, but to my fellow old men and women, we are not going to see their like again in our lifetimes. Something like them doesn't happen often enough.
Yes we will.
I met them all:) it was amazing man. Hugged liz and hung with the whole band!
Do you like Beach House? Listen to the album Bloom
+BonesBrigade73 yes they are fab
I feel fortunate to have seen them twice and got to meet the whole band and chat them up a little. It was amazing.
Simon is a great man, very friendly and easy to talk to, a great bassist as well.
Elizabeth is adorable in the classical sense. Meaning everyone should adore her.
One of the finest vocalists ever
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Elizabeth Fraser is an angel who bring musical gifts from Heaven. The music is divine.
Her voice is so much higher than I expected!!! It's beautiful.
Elizabeth's quirkiness is too cute...True artist!
Liz is so adorable. I wanna hug her
I think Liz looks Beautiful. Especially when she laughs
MrJampot64 I love her smile. So much
She is so charming
To see them live in Las Vegas on their Heaven or Las Vegas tour (1991 I believe it was) was potentially the most epic concert of my life. I mean, how much more perfect can it get?
SO lucky you ! I had a chance to see them live year or two before they split but I didn't ! If I only knew.
You didn't have to choose :)
Was there as well...in the front...speechless at how literally magical it was...turned once to look at the crowd and the whole room was mesmerised in unison..nothing has or will ever likely come close to the Majesty of that show...
And Galaxie 500 opened for them, too.
@@TheIllegalWiretaps Saw the them. Irvine. Rainy cold. Perfect.
I was super lucky to see them perform in Cincinnati, Ohio USA
ps.... Elizabeth and the band performance was amazing
Me - 1990 Heaven or Las Vegas tour in St. Louis. Mesmerizing memory I will take to the grave.
what year?
0:40 "cinematic expansions" Liz having a great laugh at Simon is the cutest thing to watch :D she's so adorable
What a great interview, I'm glad I found it. Im more happy that you posted it so many years ago and kept it up for us. Thank you.
I've just discovered Liz and the Cocteau Twins this past year and I feel like I've missed a lot of them. I feel like I'm loving her music the more I listen to them. So many beautiful, soul touching songs.
With Her beautiful octaves GOD I LOVE Cocteau twins
This is Richard Jobson lead singer with the Skids doing the interview, 2 fantastic Lead singers together.
Interviewer: “It’s interesting, isn’t it?”
Simon: “Not really, no”
Liz looking around confused.
Better than sketch comedy.
00:31
Liz reminds me of a little bird. A songbird of course, lol.
me too
lol this was cute
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.. 😉The be good Tanya's.
Really fucking creepy ngl
Always thought she had a bird like quality. Isn't there a line about "bird lips" in "Cherry-Coloured Funk?" It's like she knew it too haha
The way 4AD/23e presented their bands visually was unprecedented and legendary. No one can take that away from the label as it was back in the day. Each album cover was beautiful and evocative and it was basically impossible not to buy and eagerly await the next one. That was a stellar period in the art of the album. The insistence on mercurial quality in the presentation of the amazing bands on just that one label at that time made history that continues to resonate.
Bollox.
Yes, their artwork on L.P. covers was just beautiful. 4AD had amazing covers
Modern English -
Mesh and lace
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
just 2 beautiful covers, dark and moody but amazing detail.
C
@silverapples75 yes you are 🧠 less 😂.
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 I was just playing the Mesh and Lace album a couple of days ago and paused to admire the odd mystery of the cover. I was thinking how odd that both album covers for that and After The Snow were redesigned. The original covers were the best. Garlands was an amazing cover as were all to follow. One always looked forward to each release back in those days.
Great to see Liz and Simon looking so relaxed and chatty here..... not long after this point they sadly disbanded (Robin's absence may explain something).... Does anybody realise that the man interviewing them is none other than Richard Jobson (of the Skids and The Armoury Show) - fellow Scot and everything. Probably explains why the duo are so talkative here!! :)
The first CD I ever shoplifted: Four Calendar Cafe😆
excellent choice
What was the second?
@@sergioferraro3644 ahhhhhhh, y'know I think that was it, and I was a Jedi master shoplifting expert (still am, but you know it goes, I just put stuff on a MasterCard like every other idiot now😆, back then my main targets were food and building supplies). I had the first version of Napster in the Navy in the Ninties, that was a struggle, but worth it 👍
In my day it was a Three Dog Night 8 track tape!
They seemed like they were in such great form in 1996. Such a pity it all ended soon after that.
I agree milk and kisses was a instant classic. Every track was great. Violaine and Erpedu are amazing. I can't believe they just parted like that. The music sounded as if they were getting started. Violaine gives me goosebumps every time i play it. There will never be a band or artist of that calibur ever again.
I love the earlier stuff best. I felt they became a wee bit uninspired and began to repeat themselves later on. I still love some of the later stuff like Oil Of Angels, Evangeline, Summerhead, Violaine, Serpentskirt, but I felt they sort of sunk into a safeness in the later years.
Micah Newman "after"
Dead Can Dance suffered a similar trajectory: wonderfully inspired album in the same year which also sounded like a band beginning afresh, and then.. fizzle and crash.
Couldn't agree more. Continued to refine their sound and could have been on to new and very exciting things, but it was clearly impossible for them. Personal issues were too much, and it's part of their story, course. Well, their lives.
it's as much fun to hear her talk as it is to hear her sing.
When I listened to Four Calendar Cafe right after Heaven or Las Vegas I got the sense from the mixing and production that they had more freedom
It's sad to get some insight into this band's unhappiness at 4AD. I'm hoping it wasn't all bad but I still loved their work when they left 4AD. Simon and Liz are lovely here.
I freaking miss this time 😊 1996 what an incredible time 😊 from 1990 to 2008 was great
double that..1990 to 2008 sounds about right..1996 I moved to US and met my wife ..reasons nowadays kind of suck - kids are getting bullied preyed upon and ruined by internet.. also the political pickering & fighting and news are just plain stupid..one president is so old he cant remember his own damn name and the other one has 35 lawsuits against him..great choices..but music is timeless
@@yaro1401 cool story me new Gf just December of last year bro 😉 I'm in a great spot thus far as far as relationship 💖 so your a foreigner just like me I also moved to the US when I was a kid to San Jose California I'm 40 now and I'm back in my beautiful country the Philippines 🇵🇭 in Beautiful Maitum Sarangani Province in Mindanao Philippines 🇵🇭 🙏 where did you come from 🙂
A (not young) television interviewer as taken directly from the 40ies...on VH-1...with to super musicians...talking about the record label 4AD...
You just couldn't make it up!
Thank you for sharing this
...of a completely lost era.
I am in love with her voice and her eyes 🥰
We need a Cocteau Twins DVD with singles, studio sessions and the band's history (as we would all love to find out what happened between them and 4AD)
we need a CT dvd with everything and anything by and from them
"Facing the Other Way" is an excellent history of the label, with lots of CT info.
Liz sings on the beautiful "Teardrop" from the Massive Attack album "Mezzanine".
No shit...i have that song on my playlist but never realized it was her...
Not only did she sing on 'Teardrop' she co-wrote it with Massive Attack, along with two other songs from their multimillion selling 'Mezzanine' album. Because her voice is so fantastic, she never gets credit for her songwriting.
@@ouime7337 The song is about her ex Jeff Buckley who drowned in the Mississippi River while the song was being recorded. In 1984 long before she met Jeff, Liz covered 'Song To The Siren' with 'This Mortal Coil' which was written by Jeff's Father, Tim Buckley. In Greek mythology the Sirens would lure sailors to a watery death with their music.
@@ericyorgan1822SAME...
I could be wrong but was it at this point that Liz Frazer was dating Jeff Buckley or a year or so later before his tragic death. There voices and music seemed to find each other
Crumbs, I can actually understand what she is saying ! Lol.
1996- I was 16 and had just discovered them. Someone gave me their music so I didn’t know anything about who they were. I remember thinking that EF was two women because of her vocal range. I remember being shocked and confused when I found out “they” were her. 😍
Liz has a strange but beautiful Scottish/English accent it seems to morph from one to the other.
It does switch as a nobody myself just saying with all art
she is rubbish human being totaly fake
@@plejady
Why do you say that?
Rainblaze he’s just a troll trying to get a reaction.
@@plejady I am 52 57 kgs small provincial hamlet of Glasgow Scotland easterhouse.im contactable 07564650966.alanmacdnald@g.mail.com. There s no fear in giving enjoyment to others I'll humbley speach to you visit Glasgow we LL go for a jar and be best friends.invitation open hope to speak soon
A melhor banda! Saudades deles é enorme...
Just LOVE her!
She’s trying so hard to conceal her Grangemouth accent lol
I was just wondering about that. She sounds a bit like a character out of Harry Potter on this.
From what I'd read years ago, neither she nor Guthrie had happy memories of the place. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe their feelings changed since then.
The best thing I see in this day , see Liz smiling
The singer of The Skids keeps putting his foot in it here!!
I want to live inside of her smile
I regret not seeing them live.
Me too
I had a chance to see them on the Heaven or Las Vegas tour. I couldn't find anyone to go with me. Being a young female i didnt want to go alone. I regret not going
Liz fraser so beatiful ♡♡♡
Liz looks stunningly adorable during this time. My gosh.
ur.a.pedo
@@kaiyaeatscrumpets What's a pedo?
I miss the 80’s, I want to go back. ❤
This band were awesome & its a great shame they split shortly after the release of milk and kisses. Liz Fraser is absolutely beautiful & has a voice simply angelic and sublime in its quality. Would have loved to have seen them live back in the day.
I'm living for Simon in this interview. He's not with the bullshit at all.
But, honestly, it still breaks my heart there were no more albums after this. :(
Same voice as Liz. It's so beautiful!
This was the end for Cocteau Twins. They disbanded a year later (1997) after the release of their last album, Milk & Kisses. I understand that Liz and Robin broke off their relationship over irreconcilable difference and that was it for the band. It's too bad. They were a great band and had very unique sound.
They broke up as a couple in 1993. It was difficult emotionally for Liz to be in the same place at the same time as Robin. The personal relationship between them was too broken and by 1997 she'd had enough.
All Robin's fault and all due to drugs
THE BEST COCTEAU TWINS YEAR.... :-(
Adorable laugh.
things like this are why i still love youtube. thank you, Sardine!
i can feel her strong empathy feel.
Simplesmente foi a melhor banda do mundo.
WOW I imagined at the time, being at 4AD.... in The Cocteaus, collaborating with Vaughan Oliver etc.etc....must've been wonderful.
Never seen Liz Fraser say that before!! Yet another mythological balloon burst about being creative, being signed and being in the industry.
I know Elizabeth Fraser's sister! and I very occasionally message Simon Raymonde (bassist), and Will Heggie
(one of the founders). I own a lot of their vinyl etc which has been signed by Simon, Robin and Will! sadly I don't have Elizabeth's YET! an amazing group who have created and released timeless classics like..
Blue Bell Knoll
Victorialand
Garlands
- C 28 - 09 - 2023
I had VH-1in that year on cable (Telewest) in the UK/GB, I loved watching it in the evening ... However I NEVER SAW THIS
to end the Cocteau Twins were an musical enigma, as you could not define the genre they resided in .... whatever it is ... its Wonderfull .
Let's make a petition
Liz is beautifully bonkers here, all ticks and quirks and withdrawal symptoms. Greatest female vocalist ever? She's got to be up there.
Yeah, the UK esp has some great ones. Tracey Thorn, Beth Orton, others I can't think of now. All beautiful voices, and they all sing such great songs!
@@klausrain111 You were thinking of Carmel!
@@MisAnnThorpe Thank you Miss Thrope. Maybe I was, but I didn't know it cause I'd never heard of her. Gave a couple of songs a listen, sounded pretty good. I'll add her to my British Female Rogue's Gallery. She is British, right?
@@klausrain111 Yes, another very talented Scot, I believe. First time I heard Mercy by Duffy, I was convinced it was Carmel (McCourt). Oddly enough, Mercy is also the title of one of Carmel's better known songs (beautifully produced by Brian Eg, er, sorry, Eno) from The Falling, album. Highly recommend you listen to some tracks from that. In particular, Tok, Sticks and stones and the title track. Fortunately, the French appreciate just how good she is. Virginia Astley and Laura Mvula are interesting too.
@@MisAnnThorpe Thanks! I'll check those out.
I love Cocteau Twins 👍
who else came here to hear her talk english
Cocteau Twins rock!
I used to have a Cocteau Twins poster on my bedroom wall as a teenager. Everyone who caught Liz Fraser's eyes, so to speak, would ask (and exclaim), "Who's that?!". Female, male, family, friends, child, adult. "Wait 'til you hear her", I'd say.
stop dating younger woman Jim
her laugh is so harmonic
God i love her...
She is lovely. Like a little bird.
Elizabeth Fraser is so underrated, as are The Blue Nile.
I remember that Richard Jobson had a show called Jobson's Choice on VH-1 around that time. I saw it when they showed the day's schedule, but I never got to see it because it was shown at midnight.
lizzy is an absolute angel
She's just BARELY HERE, if at all. It's seems to be with the greatest of effort that she unrolls the masquerade that she's actually even really from here. Venus? Mars? A planet we don't know about? Could be, literally, anywhere. I hope these compliments are seen as such. I think her followers will understand.
So she's not of this world?
Could it be,,, Malona? I wonder - but I trust the feeling in my heart will guide me to the truth of greatest good.
Love them sm
Still waitin for the end of the break
Can't believe they broke up not that long after this, a great loss to music😢
How cute is Elizabeth here?
I’d say heavenly...
She is quite lovely !!
The accent - lush!!!
to each his own
How uncomfortable is she ?
I can't tell if Liz is trying to cover up her accent or if she maybe moved to England for a while and now has a weird mix of Scottish and English in how she talks. Really awesome band though. Only listened to Treasure for the first time yesterday and I'm absolutely hooked. Phenomenal stuff.
I loved their music. Only came across them again latetly after years of raising children. Update and educate me please..
Good interviewer... why is this so rare. Cocteau Twins are shy but this guy could get good answers from them. It's not like they arent trying.
It's the great Richard Jobson (Skids) they probably seriously admired him.
I love 4AD.. but that the little laugh between Simon and Liz when she talks about 4AD. Said a lot, eh
.
Very attractive woman
How could you not be satisfied with their output ? At least they quit when they were on top of their game. Contented from Wessexshire Forest
Very enlightening
Simon reminds me of Anthony Michael Hall's character from The Breakfast Club here for some reason xD. The way he keeps looking up when he's babbling about the BS of 4AD had me in stitches.
I feel a great sadness when I think that not long after this interview they would be separated. After wonderful work, beautiful music ... I think maybe they still had breath for more 2 or 3 albums and suddenly it was over.
I don't know, of course they had their reasons, but I never quite understood why the band broke up. Just when they were a magical musical moment.
Cocteau is the band I love most. How I miss new music of them .
I resonate with your words. I would love to see them live even on a bad day. Timeless classics:
Jesus, you take the words out my mouth. It literally sounded like they got really comfortable with they're instruments. My God they made the most amazing music ever and they are deeply underrated. God bless the twins.
Okay, I love them too, they were truly astounding. Utterly unique. But also... is that Jerome Flynn?
oh well i always thought the bass player was a nice quiet bloke but he is one of these "if i dont like it ill tell you idiots" so thats burst my bubble thank god liz is such an amazing lady that he can fade into the background without even knowing he's gone.
They were channeling something extremely powerful (hint: the Siren) when they were writing and performing, especially Fraser.
Liz is so cool man. The shirt looks so smart and mainstream but then the necklace looks like a bondage chain, which gives it this subversive hard look. It suits her manner, her constant striving for a totally authentic representation of herself -- hard to soft, serious to foolish, changing from second to second. People interpret that kind of display of the inner self as "anxiety" these days, they pathologise it -- partly because people have become so conformist and controlling. That freedom to express reactions makes people who are unaccustomed to express or experience Liz's kind of volatile liveliness nervous. But to me it's just being full of life and generosity, a kind of personality worth celebrating and striving for and I fucking love you for that, Liz Fraser.
You've hit the nail on the head with this. Wow.
Simon always reminded me of someone but I couldn't figure out who until a fan noted that he resembles Bart Simpson, ha. I think that's pretty cool tho'!
Mike White
Is it possible for this interviewer ( Mr. Wit )to get more of his questions-statements wrong ???
One of the Wit brothers.........
Slim/Nit/ Half
You decide which one he is!!!!
I saw them twice. The first show in 1990 had a great venue, but Liz had a "sore throat" and we got 3 songs then they quit. She sounded dreadful. The I saw them again in March 1994 and they sounded awful because the venue was bad it was just a wash of noise and Liz was buried in the mix. Love the band but, they never sounded very good live when I saw them.
+Jim Walker from all the live videos I agree, problem is she does like 3 parts of vocals on a studio track, her anxiety got in the way
Also, it is BLOODY hard to sing against those guitars in a live situation. It can be mixed properly in a studio environment but if you haven't got a technician at each and every gig that understands the fragility of Liz's voice, you're not gonna get the best out of her. I remember her throat *bleeding* from trying to sing live against the guitars.
Yup. Saw them on the last two tours. First time, Liz did the Sinead O'Connor "shriek" through much of the show to compensate for the volume on the guitars. Not a fan of that style of singing at all. Second time was much better (smaller venue, and thus less space to fill with sound). They were very, very good; but if Liz ain't at 100%, it's just not going to cut it.
I too was priveliged to see them live twice - first time supported by Seefeel at the UEA in Norwich (14 Feb 1994 .. my idea of how valentine's day should be celebrated) and at the Ritz in Manchester in 1996 (a rescheduled gig because Liz lost her voice for the original date and had to postpone) I just wished I'd got to see them live in the mid 80s. Both were wonderful gigs, but yes, Liz struggled to compete against the ocean of sound. Both times I was mesmerized not by Liz, but by Simon - he's incredibly skilled and very underrated. He seems so personable, with a self-deprecating sense of humour.
I read that Liz often got stage-fright live and that affected the quality of her singing. I can certainly hear that on a couple bootlegs I have. I love Liz's singing but always loved the guitar sounds best. Twins did struggle with a lot of issues when performing, at least until the later years when technology improved.
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Liz is high like a kite, enjoy 😊!!!
LOL! I'm surprised no one else picked up on this. She was most certainly on something in this interview.
Or just been high 1,000 times too many?
Oh I could tell. Her eyes are about to pop out of her head lol
Did Scottish people still try and hide their accents this late into the 90s? I thought it was only Sheena Easton that did that
I pray for a new album... come on!...grr...
Liz and reminds me Rachel in friends
Richard Jobson
Easy to say with hindsight but Robin is on the record that leaving 4AD was the dumbest mistake they had ever made.
Che , falta el barbudo
I don’t really gel with the last couple of albums that much, but ‘Alice’ violaine B-Side is without a doubt my favourite track they ever did and possibly one of the last recorded?. It was also used on the Lovely Bones which was a perfect choice.
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Nice to hear them talk even if it was to a bad interviewer.
I dont know if anyone Said this yet...but i do Believe Bron from game of the thones...yup
She doesn't have much of a Scottish accent. Is that normal for people from Grangemouth?