Tag: Cocteau Twins

Photos: Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser shocks superfan Shirley Manson at Garbage gig

Photos: Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser shocks superfan Shirley Manson at Garbage gig

Five days after shocking fans with a rare, unbilled live performance in London, former Cocteau Twins frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser surfaced again, showing up backstage at Garbage’s concert in Bristol on Friday night — much to the shock and delight of singer Shirley Manson. Two photos have now surfaced.

Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser resurfaces for rare live performance in London

Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser resurfaces for rare live performance in London

Elizabeth Fraser, the heavenly voice of the Cocteau Twins who only has played live a handful of times in the last two decades, performed a short set Monday evening in London at an invite-only event witnessed by about 40 people, according to social media accounts of the gig.

Cocteau Twins' 1993-1996 output compiled on 'Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years' box set

Cocteau Twins’ 1993-1996 output compiled on ‘Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years’ box set

The Cocteau Twins’ latter-period work — spanning the years 1993 to 1996 — will be compiled this fall on a new four-disc, 53-track box set that will include the dreampop icons’ final two albums plus two discs’ worth of B-sides, EP tracks, live radio sessions and rarities. Check out the full tracklist right here.

Cocteau Twins' 'Head Over Heels' and 'Treasure' to be reissued on 180-gram vinyl

Cocteau Twins’ ‘Head Over Heels’ and ‘Treasure’ to be reissued on 180-gram vinyl

4AD this March continues its Cocteau Twins reissue series with new repressings of the dream-pop masters’ second and third albums — 1983’s Head Over Heels and 1984’s Treasure — on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl and in “digital HD audio” versions for the download enthusiasts out there.

Vintage Video: Local TV newscasters try to explain 'Cocteau Twins fever' in 1985

Vintage Video: Local TV newscasters try to explain ‘Cocteau Twins fever’ in 1985

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we resurrect something we first shared way back in 2010: a pair of TV news reports from WBNS in Columbus, Ohio, about the “Cocteau Fever” surrounding the Cocteau Twins’ Sept. 19, 1985, concert there — just one of five stops on its U.S. tour that year.

Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, Ride’s Mark Gardener to release 'Universal Road' in March

Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, Ride’s Mark Gardener to release ‘Universal Road’ in March

Sure, he’s got that Ride reunion to deal with, but that’s not the only thing on Mark Gardener’s plate these days: The frontman for the reunited shoegaze legends announced that his long-in-the-works album with Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie is titled Universal Road and finally will see the light of day this March.