Fun fact: Georgina Born, bassist/cellist of Henry Cow is related to country-pop singer Olivia Newton-John, cousin-wise - they both share the same grandfather Max Born.

Henry Cow at their rehearsed to death prime. Now I can detect the pop music and I like this band more than at anytime I can recall. Even so the pure improvisations were and are the meat of their extensive catalogue.

Great band, great song, no doubt. It intrigues me why I like Dagmar Krause so much. I do try to understand where the beauty and power of her singing lie and cannot answer. She is just amazing, different, unique, be it with Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Art Bears, Kevin Coyne. Love her.

Phil Ochs' antiwar song "I Ain't Marching Anymore" is one of the most powerful songs ever written.. brings me to tears. I'm pleased to learn that Henry Cow covered one of his tunes. ♥

OK - Just the words "flower in a flame" are well worth the price of admission.

Une magnifique chanson de Phil Ochs par le plus grand groupe de rock !

THIS is amazing...to actually see this band perform live....I have most of their recordings, live in the USA, so Ive never saw them peform. I love RIO, Zappa, the Italian prog band AREA

Phil Ochs, you will always be my hero.

I was thinking "why, in a band full of stars, does the camera always focus on the bassist". Then I went to do some research on Georgina Born and found that now she is a professor at Cambridge! Henry Cow, what an odd and exquisite band

why do I watch this every single week?

That's drumming. Dagmar Krausse really touches.

Was just here looking at Phil Ochs. Cool bad!

The fact that this amazing video was made available after 33 years gives me some hope that some footage from Magma's 1973/74 concerts will be found .....

So beautiful, so powerful.

Wow, magnificent vocal range

Oh my goddess, this is incredible. I've listened to both Ochs and Henry Cow for decades, and had no idea this recording existed. Thanks for posting.

Great! Dagmar!!

I've rolled in here on a gentle wave of early morning insomnia and it seems like a nice space to chill for a few minutes before being tugged back out into the digital ocean of night and it's restless tidal forces.

This is real music, awesome.

Yes. Thanks for posting this. Henry Cow were one of my favourite bands (saw them a few times) and Dagmar is absolutely peerless. Her 'Tank Battles' is worth a few hundred listens. As is anything by Art Bears.

And D definitely want to point out that she is one heck of a singer, even if her voice takes a little getting used to (and some can never deal with Krause's singing).

man that's brilliant.

i love this song

one of my favorite songs of all time !!

VERY VERY GOOD ...............................

Great song ...!

Super,super,this is the first time i seem Henry cow in video,excelent video.

life is strange.. i've beeen a henry cow fan since 1975. Now I need to find out more about Phil Ochs!

Henry Cow performed this piece when i saw them live at the Queens Hotel, Westcliff on Sea in 1977

great to see Georgie Born playing. Not too easy to find. She's great

Great clip- fantastic!! Thanks for posting it

So good!!!!!!!!

I seem to remember that Georgina Born played bass guitar on "1/2 The Sky" off the Western Culture album.

Yes it is. this video comes from the bonus DVD of the aniversary box. I choosed this song for copyright reasons. The concert DVD just worth the price of bying the entire box. BUY IT! If you are a true fan, you won't regret. (en français: c'est extrait du DVD bonus du coffret 40ème anniversaire. Pour des raison légales, je ne vais pas publier l'intégralité du concert, ACHETEZ LE, ça vaut le prix).

yeah c'est magnifique R.I.O. mega group with a vocal

Браво !

This is so beautiful. In every thinkable way. Goosebumps.

Far out. The Most Intimidating Vocalist In Art/Progressive Rock in all her glory. And at this time, from what I understand, she was not in the best of health. Which only makes this performance all the more remarkable.

Magical ! Thanks for posting.

Amazing.. Great performance..

Phil forever.

Great! Thank you!

a real youtube treasure!

Brillante...

Lidsay Cooper is playing bassoon!

Fantástico, thanks, Mercy, obrigado!!!!

I remember this one in concert back in 1976/77... one of the best live experiences in my life.

Gorgeous and intense.

holy awesome

thankyou for posting this. this is the first henry cow footage i've seen.

Such an unknown band. Too bad. Thank you.

this song was on Phil Ochs' greatest hits album. very interesting arrangement. one of my faves. very sad song. is there anybody home...? thanks!

I like this record very much ;-)

Salut miss Charlotte, merci d'être passée :) Biz.

Thank you!

Just the very thought of vintage Henry Cow footage EVER...and colours???!!!

gracias a capusotto escuche esta gran cancion

>YO TAMBIEN LOCO GRACIAS A CAPUSOTO LA ESCUCHE . ALTO TEMA

You can find this song on the Stockholm & Göteborg live album.

Not quite. Art Bears is composed of former members of Henry Cow, true, but they are different bands.

de Leyenda!!!

SO GOOD ~! !~ ~

True. Art Bears was Krause, Cutler and Frith. Tim Hodgkinson and Lindsay Cooper didn't play with Art Bears, to the best of my knowledge, not live anyway. Georgina Born played bass on the first Art Bears album, but none of the rest of them.

Merci pour cette vidéo, enfin un live d'Henry Cow sur KZfaq ! J'imagine que c'est extrait du DVD 40th anniversary box ?? I'm going to buy it ! J'ai vu Henry Cow en concert en 1975, 76 et 77, ça reste des souvenirs énormes... Et les revoir à travers une vidéo c'est fantastique.

@96ThePericles This song is a cover of Phil Ochs(as it said in the description box).

Curiously, the art music direction Phil Ochs was heading with his last couple of albums isn't that far from this - certainly not as far as his older folk material. After listening to Pleasures of the Harbor, I could hear this same backing track with Phil singing.

You should hear what Henry Cow did to a Yabirds song.

I'm sort of new to this kind of music...I love this. Would he be turning? sounds good to me?

Phil Ochs committed suicide just a few months prior to this concert. Chris Cutler had high praise for Phil Ochs in his R.I.O. notes

Great cover. Be sure to check out the Celebrating Phil Ochs 75th Birthday Facebook page or the Celebrating Phil Ochs website.

@96ThePericles None. It was only played live

she reminds me of peter hammill.

yo tambien lo conozco x capusotto :) es hermoso

this is from the box set..go buy it!

良いですねえ。たっぷり見たい。

On the more trivial side I noticed they all dressed in paramilitary gear.

@BernardMontmartre OK. Thanks.

A guy said: "This sounds like a high-school rock band." Hahahaha. Oh man, when one does not know anything of Henry Cow.

1976 -- that was the year Ochs committed suicide. Would this be a tribute? In any event, Henry Cow does right by the song.

Hello hello hello Is there anybody home? I've only called to say I'm sorry The drums are in the dawn And all the voices gone It seems that there are no more songs

Didn't Tim and Lindsay play on the first AB CD "Hopes & Fears" ? And Georgina on the last HC CD "Western Culture" ?

What do they saw in French at the beginning of this video? I understand "notre chanson… de Phil Oaks… (Something I don't understand) … américain… écrivent de chanson, il chanteur été americain (Some other thing that I don't understand) qui s'appelle "Plus de chansons" What are the other things he says? Help

somos cuatro

Oops. I meant "And I definitely..."

I do not know anything of Henry Cow but I know a bad sounding band when I hear one,and this is indeed one !

cinco

PUES MIRA SI QUIERES SENTIR MAS LOS TEXTURIZADOS, Y SI QUIERES TENER QUE EVTAR COMPRAR LUBRICANTE PUES LOS LUBRICADOS

@paullavan2011 sorry but i think Dagmar's on a different level to Toyah .........

From which album is this song?

You are more of a scholar than I am. My AB and HC CDs are in storage right now, but Wikipedia confirms that you're dead right.

Who is the bassist?

Not quite true - they always claimed that the name was just "in the air" and crying out to be used. They never said that they got it from Cowell. But they might have been being disingenuous.

Weenie white guy music

music for squatters.

This is one of the oddest covers of a Phil Ochs song I have ever heard. I think Phil is turning over in his grave.