Totally agree.....saw the Cocteaus four times, she was so much better a singer live than on record, every time the atmosphere was like Beatlemania. Heard she did some low key gig in Leeds recently? (My friend texted me from it, grrr)
Unfortunately I've never got my shit together and gone to see her live... all I know is that I've never heard anything she's been involved with that I don't like - she seems to pull the sweetest of melodies right out of the air on a whim. Even the stuff she did with The Future Sound of London; the Lifeforms EP - she managed to totally uplift their music and and add her own special brand of lushness. She seems to adapt her stye to anything she cares to have a crack at.