Laura Marling 'Alas I Cannot Swim' Live

[LloydBestOfficial]

she makes perfection look so effortless!

[RachelMirror19]

Her smile makes me smile too :)

[DKukiewicz]

Is it wrong to put this on my iPod if I bought the album, this is 100x better?

[peterkiggin]

I love the hair Laura,and the crucifix in the background adds a certain authority to the song.

[weundefeated]

@peterkiggin pahahahaha

[MissyHMC]

Wow! I LOVE her!

[Screwtherules143]

Is the guy playing the bass from Mumford and Sons?

[MrsTedDwane]

@Screwtherules143 Yup! Ted Dwane.

[syahirahsazali]

I love Laura. She's my lady crush.

[SLemonspunk]

Anyone know who's playing the Banjo?

[99whatever99]

She's incredible.

[gwap01]

I really wanna learn this song even if I don't know how to play guitar

[kathiview]

"Work more, earn more, live more, have more fun!!" -good life motto

[Courtkneehead15]

I completely adore how Ted and Marcus put their arms around each other and hug at the end. And seeing Laura and Marcus play and sing together really makes my heart melt. :)

[SPORE03431]

You who disliked: You're the only one. click like next time.

[goodsirphelps]

If this is how church was, I would be the most pious, most devout human being. Don't you wish that this is what it was like?

[ivikiwi89]

i love part 3:30 when Marcus and Ted embrace each other around their waists, it is soo nice, they are like brothers :-)))

[Cocabottle]

That upbeat reprise is one of the best things i heard in my life. IN MY LIFE.

[ivybugg]

I listen to a lot of music. Mostly guys, because girls tend to be pretty horrible songwriters. I'm a girl myself. But Laura Marling.. she's a better writer than so many men. One of the best songwriters I've ever come across. She's different.

[Astrapsody]

@ivybugg Weird. I find the opposite to be true...and I'm a guy.

[emarah10]

I'm cutting my hair like hers :)

[actressinny]

It's true, though. She does look a lot like Draco Malfoy.

[techrobotics]

I almost burst into applause with the audience at 2:04

[Lafayettebluesman]

Oh man, it must have been SO much fun to be there... *sigh* sometimes I wish I didn't live in America.

[CammyS12342]

@Lafayettebluesman you and me both.

[danielc121162]

is that mumford and sons with her here,... too cool nice song

[pedrobenza]

one. person. i dont even... i dont even have anything to say... wtf?

[damiensongs]

1st time listenening to her...nice...a little joanny in her....thanks for uploading

[danielc121162]

@damiensongs you do mean Joni Mitchell correct? I thought so as well

[TurnLockOxford]

i cant help but smile...

2:55 is magic

[TurnLockOxford]

i cant help but smile...

[amylawson18]

she is too cute

[CammyS12342]

Marcus, Ted, and Winston!!

[HereComesTreble23]

...Ted has had that same shirt all these years lol.

[greerjtc12]

ahhh she's singing about Charlie but Marcus is singing it seems so weird! ps. I love Mumford too so don't go h8n, luv it all

[applepieindesky]

FUCK! I can't swim either!

[PoxiAnne]

I wish this song was playing everywhere I go.

[Phinaters]

what the fuck is fake folk? if you wright a song and play it, how is it fake? i guess cause she not some 80 yr old guy, and she probably doesn't life live in the boonies. Plus this is like Irish folk, so what the hell you know about it? @Benvandao

[Phinaters]

what the fuck is fake folk? if you wright a song and play it, how is it fake? i guess cause she not some 80 yr old guy, and she probably doesn't life live in the booneys. Plus this is like irsh folk, so what the hell you know about it? @Benvandao

[lfcdan14]

I love how she smiles at 1:44 when Mumford start to sing with her <3

[iv5620]

i love love LOVE how marcus and ted put their arms around each other at the end :) i love them so much and its unfair how talented and beeeyoootiful and generally amazing laura marling is!

[lfcdan14]

1 Dislike.....I didnt know Cheryl Cole had a YouTube account.

[weundefeated]

@lfcdan14 just awful

[Bevandao]

sounds scottish sometimes.irish others. perhaps a personality disorder. probably a poser. SHE IS FROM READING. folk music loses it fuckin essence when you know its false. same with cumford and shuns. fake folk designed for a knee slapping good old time. its all very emotional.

[mofooooo123]

@Bevandao hey, by the time you get a voice like hers you go right ahead and use it in whatever way you like, k?

[GlubberXx]

She wears that top in Mystery Jets- Young Love. ^_^

[SaltyBks888]

What a talent!

[lizzylikelovesyou]

@SquidXD Haha. Problem solved :)

[SquidXD]

She Should Build a boat :)

[Deconlon]

i love the way she says "fleeting" at 1.33! <3

[mystekal33]

oh hey look it's Mumford & co!

this performance just scored like seventy million more brownie points

[tafairy]

wow..

[joshmb1015]

I agree! Love her voice -3

[DISASTARCAKE123]

this is so much better live than recorded!

[crazylizer27]

@DISASTARCAKE123 ...is there a recorded version?

[DKukiewicz]

@crazylizer27 On the album Alas I cannot swim its a hidden track at the end of the final song.

[DISASTARCAKE123]

@crazylizer27 Yes, it was a bonus track that came on after Your Only Doll I believe.

[willowpuff]

LOVE IT

[ursulee]

this is incredibly good and entertaining performance!!! i wish was there ;/

[kc42291]

@bioneek

this song is a hidden track on Alas, I Cannot Swim,

it's about a minute or so after "Your Only Doll (Dora)"

[girlinthetrilby]

I LOVE HER SO MUCH IN A NONSTALKERWAY PROMISE :P

[belle051291]

I love Laura

[philofelinist]

love that the highest rated comments are both expressing a man-crush or girl-crush

have to agree completely

[adamfowler12345]

she has on the same top that in the mystery jets video.

i fucking love her.

[muse1are2sick]

I love the fact her band is marcus, ted and winston from mumford & sons and tom from noah and the whale !!!... those two bands and her are going to start a new era of music this decade !!!

[Volendammtje]

@muse1are2sick Where is Winston? Certainly not on banjo. Right?

[seaforthpiper]

The lyrics are VERY simular to an old Pathan love song called the Zahkmi Dil (The Wounded Heart) the chorus of which goes "There's a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach, but alas I cannot swim".....Coincidence? I think not.....

too funny.

[bioneek]

@seaforthpiper

I'm trying to find this song, I don't doubt you, I just wanna hear it.

[SachalKhan]

@seaforthpiper I think it was based on that actually... I read this comparison somewhere else.

[GeorgSimmel88]

in a church? WTF

[XxmotioncityxX]

@GeorgSimmel88

Acoustics

[Q2K2008]

I really really wanna cover this song. Its so simple, yet its so difficult to sing like her....

She has so much talent. I love her so much.

[TudesofAlex]

Oh man, as soon as Marcus joined in (singing) I was in heaven. As if it wasn't amazing enough :D

[TheOneWhosBored]

well this song is after your only doll, birds tweet for like 3 minutes and then alas I cannot swim comes on...

[Narciciss]

I love Marcus. He's my man crush.

[milkthen]

whaaa? her voice has changed into another voice, her demos are so different to all her new stuffe. still brilliant and beautiful. she just changed her voice lol

[cinemudogriton]

love this version : )

[kristinaelis]

i love her hair, it suits perfectly to her face. anyway, fantastic song

[Jarrahnut]

She's gorgeousl. Greetings to one and all from Jarrahnut in wonderful Western Australia. Thank you LadyPetraForsythe. You sound most regal ... are you the Queen's cousin ... or something like that?

[Jarrahnut]

Where is this place? Is it the same venue where Mumford and Sons did their Little Lion Boy video clip?

[LadyPetraForsythe]

Union Chapel in London?

[dreamerfin]

wouldn't be surprised... their frontman's playign the drums here.

[MissTreacey]

I love that smile she gives at 1.41. :)

What a sweetheart.

[TheOneWhosBored]

She wore that t-shirt in the young love video!

[indie360]

I want that t-shirt. If I can't find one, I will actually just go mental :)

[marchela11]

I love Laura 's voice live more than on a record

[blackguarding]

Have I gone crazy, or is the song Alas I Cannot Swim not on the album Alas I Cannot Swim? Its driving me a bit crazy.

[lostone16]

It's a hidden song, it comes after "Your Only Doll (Dora)"

[blackguarding]

Ah okay, thanks. I went mad in the car the other day trying to find it for a friend. Doh.

[hamburger3phone]

oh somebody, already helped you...

[hamburger3phone]

it's at the end of your only doll.

[pulltheripchord313]

it's like bonus track after Your only doll. (Just keep listening after the song + forest sounds.)

:)

[lubylui]

It's like a hidden song.. just keep the album on ten or so minutes after the last song and you'll find it (:

[zandersharp04]

incredible, I am head over heels !!!

[wellylover94]

Why is it in a church?

[MedicalMarijuana]

so you would ask

[samisorad]

Excellent acoustics?

No matter where she sings

she is amazing, period. <3

[yakkitori]

What a perfect venue..

[Haliwells]

bloody fantastic!

[kingserj1]

just so amazing. what else is there to say?

[irschik]

your right. there´s nothing left to say. her voice is so beautiful and so unique and I love it

[ohlookitskirstie]

jesus, this is bloody amazing. xx

[angelitab19]

i'm a girl and i'm straight, but i think i'm in love with Laura :)

[lubylui]

Its the way she writes! So so.. intriguing? Is that the right word? im not sure :]

[picicsill]

@angelitab19 I'm a girl too and I feel the same :)

[Catch33]

@angelitab19 i'm a boy and i'm straight, but i know i'm in love with Laura :)

[soilstories]

@Catch33 i'm a girl, i'm lesbian and i love laura marling :)

[ChrisBarron09]

Fave song, fave singer :D

[Freindlyghost88]

Great video, she's so good! It's not fair

Thanks for posting

[boylelaura]

this was at st pauls in london i was there :D

[nihilistichick]

hilarious ending.

[around15]

oooh, nice reverb in the room. :D

[lostinjapan22]

Where is this? I love Laura she's amazing!

[CerieeFromPoland]

woww.. :] 2dn part is... amazing!! country climate xP

[lusciouslol2]

:-)