When Liz talks, she’s like anyone else. When she sings - she is like no one else

elizabeth fraser has one of the most incredible voices in modern music.

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.

Elizabeth is adorable in the classical sense. Meaning everyone should adore her.

Simon is a great man, very friendly and easy to talk to, a great bassist as well.

One of the finest vocalists ever

Elizabeth's quirkiness is too cute...True artist!

Elizabeth Fraser is an angel who bring musical gifts from Heaven. The music is divine.

Liz is so adorable. I wanna hug her

0:40 "cinematic expansions" Liz having a great laugh at Simon is the cutest thing to watch :D she's so adorable

Her voice is so much higher than I expected!!! It's beautiful.

She is so charming

I think Liz looks Beautiful. Especially when she laughs

Liz reminds me of a little bird. A songbird of course, lol.

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?

Interviewer: “It’s interesting, isn’t it?” Simon: “Not really, no” Liz looking around confused. Better than sketch comedy.

I was super lucky to see them perform in Cincinnati, Ohio USA

This is Richard Jobson lead singer with the Skids doing the interview, 2 fantastic Lead singers together.

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.

There's an interesting thread here about the sad impossibility of CT ever reuniting and the many bands that are influenced by them but can't reach similar heights in artistry. However, the three members of CT are putting out fresh music now. Liz with her partner released a fine EP as Sun's Signature. Simon partnered up with several artists and has been recording as Lost Horizons, a sound evocative of CT to the point of showing his influence on his former band. And finally, Robin never stopped recording as a solo artist and with late friend Harold Budd, and for a while led Violet Indiana with a very different singer, releasing under their name several tracks originally intended for CT's scrapped latest album. So life goes on albeit on unpredictable paths.

They seemed like they were in such great form in 1996. Such a pity it all ended soon after that.

With Her beautiful octaves GOD I LOVE Cocteau twins

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.

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😆

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.

A melhor banda! Saudades deles é enorme...

Crumbs, I can actually understand what she is saying ! Lol.

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

Liz sings on the beautiful "Teardrop" from the Massive Attack album "Mezzanine".

it's as much fun to hear her talk as it is to hear her sing.

The singer of The Skids keeps putting his foot in it here!!

I want to live inside of her smile

The best thing I see in this day , see Liz smiling

I freaking miss this time 😊 1996 what an incredible time 😊 from 1990 to 2008 was great

Just LOVE her!

Liz has a strange but beautiful Scottish/English accent it seems to morph from one to the other.

I am in love with her voice and her eyes 🥰

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.

Liz fraser so beatiful ♡♡♡

Liz looks stunningly adorable during this time. My gosh.

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)

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. 😍

I regret not seeing them live.

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.

Simplesmente foi a melhor banda do mundo.

She’s trying so hard to conceal her Grangemouth accent lol

things like this are why i still love youtube. thank you, Sardine!

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. :(

I miss the 80’s, I want to go back. ❤

THE BEST COCTEAU TWINS YEAR.... :-(

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.

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.

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 .

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.

Same voice as Liz. It's so beautiful!

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.

Adorable laugh.

Cocteau Twins rock!

Love them sm

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

Liz is beautifully bonkers here, all ticks and quirks and withdrawal symptoms. Greatest female vocalist ever? She's got to be up there.

i can feel her strong empathy feel.

I love Cocteau Twins 👍

God i love her...

Elizabeth Fraser is so underrated, as are The Blue Nile.

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.

Very enlightening

who else came here to hear her talk english

Still waitin for the end of the break

I loved their music. Only came across them again latetly after years of raising children. Update and educate me please..

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.

Can't believe they broke up not that long after this, a great loss to music😢

How cute is Elizabeth here?

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.

her laugh is so harmonic

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 .

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.

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

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.

I love 4AD.. but that the little laugh between Simon and Liz when she talks about 4AD. Said a lot, eh .

Okay, I love them too, they were truly astounding. Utterly unique. But also... is that Jerome Flynn?

They were channeling something extremely powerful (hint: the Siren) when they were writing and performing, especially Fraser.

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.

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'!

I pray for a new album... come on!...grr...

😍😎

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.

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/id9iopmV36udp2w.html

I dont know if anyone Said this yet...but i do Believe Bron from game of the thones...yup

Did Scottish people still try and hide their accents this late into the 90s? I thought it was only Sheena Easton that did that

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!!!!

Nice to hear them talk even if it was to a bad interviewer.

Liz is high like a kite, enjoy 😊!!!

Che , falta el barbudo

Bet she’s a good sub

Liz and reminds me Rachel in friends