It was in 1983 and on a Friday night that I first saw and heard the Cocteau Twins on ‘The Tube’ and this is the one of the songs they were performing. There was quite a bit of ‘experimental’ music during the 1980s and the Cocteau Twins seemed to me to embody this perfectly. Instead of the glamorous singer and snappily well-dressed new romantics that were doing the rounds which I personally loved and adored these guys were the complete opposite! From the amazing hair and jumper combo of Robin Guthrie combined with his deliciously relaxed performance style to the bizarre and atmospheric vision and voice of Elizabeth Fraser accompanied by a tape machine, this screamed ‘radical’ to me and I have loved it and the group ever since.
I was 15 years old at the time and loved ‘The Tube’ on a Friday which was a genuinely ground breaking show from Tyne Tees and it introduced me to so many new and exciting things. I could say more about this song and the Cocteau Twins but for some reason I think the music speaks for itself! I still listen to them regularly on the way to work and when I post a status on facebook which says ‘Tom is listening to the Cocteau Twins’ I AWLAYS get comments and a number of people who ‘like’ this….
Listen to the song and watch that ‘Tube’ Performance….
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