Chords for Cocteau Twins Interview 1994

But firstly though, MTV recently caught up with the Robin and Liz and asked them how
they felt about their influence on fellow musicians and the endless string of compliments.
It's just as [B] difficult as the criticism. _ _ _
_ _ But I'd like to think that we'll be able to [C] cope
with that [B] because_
I smile politely and go, thank you.
That's amazing.
See that's what it's all about.
I don't mean it though, what [C#] do you mean?
What do you mean?
[F] See [B] that's taking responsibility for what you do, being able to take the compliments
as well as the [C#] criticism. _ _
_ [B] And it's a reward, that's a reward for all that hard work.
_ _ I think I finally get some acceptance that what I do is alright and it's worth [C#m] the compliment.
_ _ [C#]
It doesn't [G] mean that I'm alright, but what I do is definitely alright.
[B] _
With a band made up of publicity shy musicians never fronting their album covers or sprouting
musical philosophies, the Cocktailers' live experiences were pretty few and far between.
Yet with the release of their 10th album, the band took to the road and have since toured
Europe and are currently wowing the American audiences.
We asked them [D#] the rather obvious question about the differences between being in the
studio and playing live.
[F#] Live is different, live is _ _ instant gratification.
[A#] You don't get anything like that in the studio.
[F] And you don't, _ [A#] I'm really on my own _ in the studio I feel.
[A#m] _
_ [N] But I mean when you're singing
in front of an audience, _ _ _ there's so much love. _
[F#] It sounds corny, I don't know how else to
describe [A#m] it, but _ _ there's a real, you know, there's a real connectedness there and it's
just, _ I've never noticed it before. _
_ [Cm] Maybe I'm a little [F] less afraid, _ [A#] maybe I can take,
maybe I'm not afraid to notice things that are going on around me now.
And that's what I notice. _
Since then, the Cocktailers [D] have pretty much had three turbulent years, burying children,
leaving their record company 4AD, building their own studio and then signing to their
new label, Fontana Records.
At one of their gigs, we asked Liz and Rob, after three years
away from the live stage, what happened to the band that were their own worst enemies
and how had their faith and confidence in their ability [G]
changed?
Being 30, _ [A#] having a child, _ _ [G] _ _ [B] being in therapy, _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ cleaning up, _ cleaning house, you know, _ _ realising
that you can't, [F#] especially having a [C#] child, you know, I mean I found I was more immature
and cheap _ before now. _ _
_ Yeah, you learn a lot from your children.
Yeah.
[N] _ _ _ That's probably the biggest influence.
_ Already aware, of course, that the album was again received with welcoming arms, I'll leave
the last word to Robert and Liz as they explain how they perceive [D] 4Calendar Cafe in relation
to what they've released in the past and given to obsessional audiences since their birth
in the early 80s.
[F#]
It's just the right album.
It's the album it was meant [A] to be.
Yeah, we've always done, [C#] that's what we do, we do the best we can at the time.
[F#] And it
sounds like the Cocktail Twins and [A] it sounds like _ _ [N] the next _ _ phase, it's always, _ [A] _ _
[A#] it's just
always evolved [A] into the next thing.
But it's, I mean it's always us. _ _
But it did feel like
a, _ _ _ it did feel like a fresh start, _ [N] this album.