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Fun from Falkirk—Fat Chance?
- NME/New Musical Express
- 06 Nov 1982
Getting tae ken the Cocteau Twins
Friday night is cardboard box kicking night.
It’s punky party time in Glasgow with celebrations spilling over from the festival of The Damned being held at Tiffany’s.
The born-too-late…
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Review of ‘Lullabies’
- NME/New Musical Express
- 16 Oct 1982
It’s a sad comment on the state of Music Today (assumes grandad-like posture and nestles into rocking chair) that there are hundreds of groups who make their livings by impersonating their heroes as accurately…
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New 2 U: Cocteau Twins
- Sounds
- 11 Sep 1982
Hailing from Grangemouth, Scotland, the Cocteau Twins are, in fact, a three piece: vocalist Elizabeth, Will on bass, and Robbie on guitars. Mixing strong Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division influences, the band are in the unusual position of…
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Cocteau Hour
- Sounds
- 11 Sep 1982
Plodding the urban mile in search of some subterranean recording studio on a rainy Sunday afternoon is not my idea of fun. But this time the end will justify the means—I’m in hot pursuit of the latest enigma of the independent charts, the Cocteau Twins.
“Who?”…
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