“Robin Guthrie/Violet Indiana: Interview”

• By Olga Sladeckova
• Penny Black Music
• 21-Jan 2002

Robin Guthrie’s name in the music business has a great deal of success and importance attached to it. Guitarist Robin’s earliest appearance dates back to 1979 when he formed the famous Cocteau Twins with singer Elizabeth Fraser.

The volume of the Cocteau Twins’ name has built up a lot since then as the band worked their way through to the very top of fame. After 18 years the Cocteaus, however, got fed up with having to dealing with other record companies and Robin and the band’s bassist Simon Raymonde decided to found their own label, Bella Union. Unaware of how much it was going to change their lives, they also started signing other artists to the label. When the Cocteaus split up in 1998, Robin found new inspiration with Violet Indiana, which he formed with Siobhan de Maré, who had been previously been the singer in Mono, a London-based group, last year.

Violet Indiana has just finished its first UK tour. “The tour was good”, Robin says, evaluating it positively,as he sits in a Starbucks coffee shop on New Oxford Street in London and talking to me, as if we have been friends for years.

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