Same here. Cocteau twins and Portishead. I think Beth is a bit better singer than Liz, but both are far better than anybody else. Lately I turned to my CD's and put on Blue Bell Knoll. Divine.
How beautiful that vibrato thing she does with her voice is. And I like idiosyncratic way of ... how she chimes to the song with her hands. Oddball-ish and cute.
I think it's a 'goat trill' or 'Monteverdi trill', something which apparently hasn't been in since the early 1600s: ruclips.net/video/ImShp8Sd_GU/видео.html .
@@aliceknows5828 you made me laugh. I suspect Liz Fraser took a little something before the gig, hence the weird fidgeting. It didn't stop her being fantastic and probably improved her confidence
+Hans Carter i was lucky, got to see them in 96 at Paradiso Amsterdam. One of their last performances probably...but they did play 'Pur' one of my favorite tracks ever!
@@piperfox74 I had a roommate once - who is also a great singer - who got to hang out with them backstage at one of their concerts. She said Liz was deathly sick with the flu, but when she went on stage she gave the most amazing performance she'd ever seen. When the concert was over, she came backstage and collapsed. Incredible.
This is the Queen of POP. I heard them live in beginning of th 80s. And It takes me as much as it did then. The half-life has not yet been reached. Cocteau Twins Garlands, Head Over Heels.. are Atomic!
Her hand gestures and rituals are so interesting! I wish she had kept it up and not held back! I guess those types of behaviors were less understood back then.
Wow! What a treat this is! I've been looking for early footage of the Cocteau Twin for a long time. Liz is very cute and bizarre onstage at the same time. I think it's because of her shyness. This has Will Heggie on bass too! Thank you so much for posting.
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane 29 January 1983: Amsterdam, Netherlands De Meervaart LIVE FM broadcast: Alas Dies Laughing / Dear Heart / Feather Oar Blades / Hazel / Shallow Then Hallo / Blind Dumb Deaf / Wax And Wane / It’s All But An Ark Lark
So bloody awesome, incredible sound and picture quality to come from so remote a period in the band's history. Such a shame the Brixton concert footage is not this sharp and clear. Thank you so much for the upload, it's a great service you did for CT fans on RUclips. There's just not enough footage of Heggie's bass playing wizardry to be found.
First time I've seen this. It's amazing! She has the best voice I've ever heard with the exception of Nina Simone. I just love her. I first heard her on the John Peel show in about 1982 when he played Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil. It's my all time fave song. Thanks for posting this.
You should see some of their early 4AD publicity photos. Black & white pics of them fresh out of Grangemouth. What a bunch of scruffs! But this only makes them better - how could a bunch of scruffy punks like this make such phenomenal music?
This is PHENOMENAL footage! Thank you for uploading! Aside from the November 1982 Brixton gig, this is, I think, the next earliest video footage of Cocteau Twins performing live. Amazing. This whole Amsterdam concert, audio only, is on RUclips.
Legendary band, sublimely brilliant singer Liz fraser, etherial guitarist extrodinare Robin Guthrie and the one of the most unique driving basslines ever invented by Will Heggie, one the most underated Bass player of his time.
Best live footage I have seen of them from their earlier years. Liz is captivating to say the least. As New Order was ahead of its time, Robin and Liz were way ahead in terms of making music free of cliches, and full of charm.
Astonishing! I thought i'd seen every live TV performance video there was to be seen by the Cocteau Twins, then this turns up like a thing of rare beauty. What an amazing piece of footage, and such great quality too. Thank you so much for posting this...
Its my birthday today and this is by far the best present i could ever wish for!... such a rare find, my favourite track from "Garlands" and top quality too.... thanks so much for posting this, you made my day! I love all Cocteau, Liz has a unique stage act as well as her unique voice.... don't you just love the way she counts down the next line with her fingers... sheer bliss, a joy to watch and listen too... i'm 43 today, i've loved this band since i was 16.. i can't imagine life without them!
Every tour of theirs I've seen live since BBK, Liz welcomes the audience straight, then sketches-out when she sings, then plays it straight again. So I don't think it could be drugs. I guess it's her groove-thing. And Stevie Wonder has his groove-thing. In fact I've seen Liz do Stevie's groove-thing too. ;)
I would have loved to have been a young man in Scotland back around the time CT formed, became friends with Robin Guthrie ... but Elisabeth Frazer's lover and future husband instead of good ol' Robin ... My god I'm so in love with her in these early 80's videos ...
The Dutch VPRO showed this on television in a show called Hotel Suburbia and they also had a broadcast of about 30 minutes of this performance on the radio in a show called Spleen. I recorded this but I think I lost the tape.
this gig has been broadcasted in the 29/1/1983 and the band performed a whole concert...the tracklist is the following: Alas dies laughing Blind dumb deaf Dear heart Feathers oar blades Hazel It's all but an ark lark Shallow then halo Wax and wane you can listen to the tracks (without video) on a channel called fatcatbuzz,the songs are titled Live in Amsterdam paraatheid,if you have the entire gig,please upload it!:D!
Wow.....what a coincidence, I discover this on youtube exactly to the day 22 years after it was recorded. I am amazed at the video quality of this, either this was reshown and recorded from that or someone has managed to preserve a quality VHS or Betamax recording. This alongside the Brixton Academy gig (supporting Killing Joke) are about the earliest tv recordings out there.
this song is awesome, used to think of my old friends listening cocteau twins & other 1980 good things, oh time! carrying prose broke my real friend the devil bites dirty we wax and we wane the devil bites dirty we wax and wane the devil bites dirty we wax and wane the devil bites dirty we wax and wane
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This band completely changed my perspective on music, which basically changed my life. My favorite band of all time.
Same here. Cocteau twins and Portishead.
I think Beth is a bit better singer than Liz, but both are far better than anybody else. Lately I turned to my CD's and put on Blue Bell Knoll. Divine.
So True! I think when all said and done they were the most unique and interesting band of the 80's. Love Them!
you took the words right out of my mouth
Well said, exactly true!
in which way?
Liz Frazer sounds the very same live, as she does on the albums. She has the most amazing, beautiful voice, ever.
That’s the tru tru! I have seen it twice… just amazing.
Not since Curtis will you see such frenetic gestural hand movement. Love you Liz.
How beautiful that vibrato thing she does with her voice is. And I like idiosyncratic way of ... how she chimes to the song with her hands. Oddball-ish and cute.
Melismatic
I think it's a 'goat trill' or 'Monteverdi trill', something which apparently hasn't been in since the early 1600s: ruclips.net/video/ImShp8Sd_GU/видео.html .
When I start to move that way my wife rolls me a joint. Truly an amazing singer and band.
@@aliceknows5828 you made me laugh. I suspect Liz Fraser took a little something before the gig, hence the weird fidgeting. It didn't stop her being fantastic and probably improved her confidence
Even better her voice is this performance is immense
She looks so gorgeous. I can't believe she's real
This is one of bands I really wish I had seen in concert.
+Hans Carter i was lucky, got to see them in 96 at Paradiso Amsterdam. One of their last performances probably...but they did play 'Pur' one of my favorite tracks ever!
I had tickets once. They canceled as Liz was having problems with her voice. I was... disappointed.
I saw them in Dc probably 1990
One of the most amazing shows
Only Dead can Dance live was better
That was a religious experience
@@piperfox74 I had a roommate once - who is also a great singer - who got to hang out with them backstage at one of their concerts. She said Liz was deathly sick with the flu, but when she went on stage she gave the most amazing performance she'd ever seen. When the concert was over, she came backstage and collapsed. Incredible.
@@matthewsalive3964 I saw dead can dance as support act of the Cocteau Twins in Nijmegen in 1983. Epic!
Scotland's Cocteau Twins really were the pioneers of shoe-gazing...marvellous stuff!
Will Heggie! Wow! So cool to see him. One of the most unique bass players ever.
Lowlife - another scottish band where Will played after leaving CT and keeped his unique bassline
This is the Queen of POP. I heard them live in beginning of th 80s. And It takes me as much as it did then. The half-life has not yet been reached. Cocteau Twins Garlands, Head Over Heels.. are Atomic!
As i herd them live, Elizabeth was not so nervous.
Her hand gestures and rituals are so interesting! I wish she had kept it up and not held back! I guess those types of behaviors were less understood back then.
Might been from anxiety from public performing.
This is phenomenal, thank you so much. Elizabeth is such a strange little bird, her body language is almost as astonishing as her voice stylings.
Very true
'strange little bird'; great description, and only in good ways.
Liz Fraser demonstrates how beautiful music can be...there has never been anyone like her...
Loved this band since 80's.. crossed over to Portisehead.. and PJ is still doing this.
Liz very cute back then. Craziest hand movements since Ian Curtis
Only discovered this tune a few weeks ago, to my shame.
It does something special to me. Such a cool composition.
Wow! What a treat this is! I've been looking for early footage of the Cocteau Twin for a long time. Liz is very cute and bizarre onstage at the same time. I think it's because of her shyness. This has Will Heggie on bass too! Thank you so much for posting.
Underrated
Banda de culto
Saludos desde Perú 🇵🇪
Garlands was their first and best album in my view.
I’m of the very same opinion
Yes totally. Captured a weird moment in time and I got completely in sync with it.
I always loved this song. With the first picture I see of Will Heggie and a punkie Liz and Robin, how better could it get ?
I turned 40 this year, and have been listening to the Cocteaus since 1988, when I watched Carolyn's Fingers on 120 Minutes. This band saved my life.
everything about this is brilliance X 1,000
Everything about this video is timeless.
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane 29 January 1983: Amsterdam, Netherlands De Meervaart LIVE
FM broadcast: Alas Dies Laughing / Dear Heart / Feather Oar Blades / Hazel / Shallow Then Hallo / Blind Dumb Deaf / Wax And Wane / It’s All But An Ark Lark
What a curious little creature she is, absolutely mesmerising and quite rightly went on to be one of the best out there.
i love it when she plays her weird air guitar while looking at robin
i had sleep paralysis while listening to this song, creepy experience
So bloody awesome, incredible sound and picture quality to come from so remote a period in the band's history. Such a shame the Brixton concert footage is not this sharp and clear. Thank you so much for the upload, it's a great service you did for CT fans on RUclips. There's just not enough footage of Heggie's bass playing wizardry to be found.
wow, this is such rare footage.. brilliant..thank you for posting..
Yeah, seems pretty rare pretty #based footage
First time I've seen this. It's amazing! She has the best voice I've ever heard with the exception of Nina Simone. I just love her. I first heard her on the John Peel show in about 1982 when he played Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil. It's my all time fave song. Thanks for posting this.
Alison Dilnutt if I remember correctly, we can find more of this gig... sure for the same period 2 or 3 other songs.
Perfect song, perfect band.
I can't get enough of this!!!!!!!!!
Superb. Was lucky to see them live around the time of their 1st album.
Very very interesting! Magnificent
Such a dichotomy of emotions.
I’ve been trying to understand their music for the last 30 years. Impossible, but absolutely magical and fantastic. Thanks, guys!
Love the outfit and hair! I’ve never seen her like this
You should see some of their early 4AD publicity photos. Black & white pics of them fresh out of Grangemouth. What a bunch of scruffs! But this only makes them better - how could a bunch of scruffy punks like this make such phenomenal music?
omg Elizabeth is adorable
Man her eyes are as ethereal as her voice
This is PHENOMENAL footage! Thank you for uploading! Aside from the November 1982 Brixton gig, this is, I think, the next earliest video footage of Cocteau Twins performing live. Amazing. This whole Amsterdam concert, audio only, is on RUclips.
Legendary band, sublimely brilliant singer Liz fraser, etherial guitarist extrodinare Robin Guthrie and the one of the most unique driving basslines ever invented by Will Heggie, one the most underated Bass player of his time.
Been looking for the complete concert but that's the only song i get.
The complete concert is here, but just the audio ruclips.net/video/f7W8cX4OsyA/видео.html
so great
wonderful viewing - the Cocteaus at their best
Great album i love it
Great to find this video here
superb
Best live footage I have seen of them from their earlier years. Liz is captivating to say the least. As New Order was ahead of its time, Robin and Liz were way ahead in terms of making music free of cliches, and full of charm.
Wow!!!
I wish I could like this a hundred times! This is rare and awesome! More please!!!
Please more! Great quality...
Astonishing! I thought i'd seen every live TV performance video there was to be seen by the Cocteau Twins, then this turns up like a thing of rare beauty. What an amazing piece of footage, and such great quality too. Thank you so much for posting this...
Liz is definitely an inspiration to Arcade Fire's Régine Chassagne.
Its my birthday today and this is by far the best present i could ever wish for!... such a rare find, my favourite track from "Garlands" and top quality too....
thanks so much for posting this, you made my day!
I love all Cocteau, Liz has a unique stage act as well as her unique voice.... don't you just love the way she counts down the next line with her fingers...
sheer bliss, a joy to watch and listen too... i'm 43 today, i've loved this band since i was 16.. i can't imagine life without them!
They are so amazing...original and perfect. I wish the music industry hadn’t civilized them, even though they still sounded more than great.
Great clip, though I really wish the camera person would actually ever show what Robin Guthrie is doing :/
Every tour of theirs I've seen live since BBK, Liz welcomes the audience straight, then sketches-out when she sings, then plays it straight again. So I don't think it could be drugs. I guess it's her groove-thing. And Stevie Wonder has his groove-thing. In fact I've seen Liz do Stevie's groove-thing too. ;)
oh... Elizabeth is SO CUTE !
timeless little gem of a song and video..thanku so much for the up
I would have loved to have been a young man in Scotland back around the time CT formed, became friends with Robin Guthrie ... but Elisabeth Frazer's lover and future husband instead of good ol' Robin ... My god I'm so in love with her in these early 80's videos ...
WOOW!!! Thanks for the upload!!!
Well that is phenomenal, intense performance. She had it down, epic.
beautiful.
A high quality live performance by the Twins! Thanks so much.. If you have more from this concert please upload it asap!!
The Dutch VPRO showed this on television in a show called Hotel Suburbia and they also had a broadcast of about 30 minutes of this performance on the radio in a show called Spleen. I recorded this but I think I lost the tape.
Just, thank you.
this gig has been broadcasted in the 29/1/1983 and the band performed a whole concert...the tracklist is the following:
Alas dies laughing
Blind dumb deaf
Dear heart
Feathers oar blades
Hazel
It's all but an ark lark
Shallow then halo
Wax and wane
you can listen to the tracks (without video) on a channel called fatcatbuzz,the songs are titled Live in Amsterdam
paraatheid,if you have the entire gig,please upload it!:D!
29th January 1983
Concert in 'De meervaart' Amsterdam, organised by Vinyl-magazine. The other bands were Fad Gadget and ...
Wow.....what a coincidence, I discover this on youtube exactly to the day 22 years after it was recorded. I am amazed at the video quality of this, either this was reshown and recorded from that or someone has managed to preserve a quality VHS or Betamax recording. This alongside the Brixton Academy gig (supporting Killing Joke) are about the earliest tv recordings out there.
them dance moves!!!
Comment if you are still listening to the Cocteau Twins in 2020!
Just ...WOW !!
just a fuchking heaven
Liz was so cute back then. Awesome live version.
I love them.
Curiously, Will plays with right hand bandaged.
Love her outfit tooooo
Chino Moreno from Deftones brought me here.
De Meervaart, Amsterdam 29th January 1983
LA VOZ DE DIOS!
Así empezó todo realmente muy asombroso!!!!!!!!!!
God,I love Liz...
Te amo tanto tanto, Liz.
Impressionante o som do Cocteau twins
Gosto muito
This is the true sound of ethereal wave.
What a treasure.
AWESOME
Nobody
My dad: sending me videos of music
29 January 1983 in Amsterdam
this song is awesome, used to think of my old friends listening cocteau twins & other 1980 good things, oh time!
carrying prose
broke my real friend
the devil bites dirty
we wax and we wane
the devil bites dirty
we wax and wane
the devil bites dirty
we wax and wane
the devil bites dirty
we wax and wane
GENIALLL
so badass...
Elisabeth has the most adorable knees.
❤
Ух-ты!!! Ещё первый состави такое качество!!!
Will Heggie is awesome.
MY KISSES COCTEAU TWINS!
Such a shame they split up :-(
this owns so hard
Que potente canción
love love