Interview with Robin Guthrie

• By Olga Sladeckova
• Penny Black Music
• 18-Apr 2003

If anyone else might have to come up with this line, then it might have been Robin Guthrie. A guitarist and a songwriter, Guthrie emerged on to the music scene in 1979, with one of the most important bands of the late 80’s and early 90’s, the Cocteau Twins.

Shortly before the Cocteau Twins broke up in 1998, Guthrie formed the London-based record label Bella Union, with his long term friend, former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde. In 2000 Guthrie formed a new band Violet Indiana with ex Mono member Siobhan de Maré. The band released an album Roulette in 2001 and also two EPs, Choke and Special and a single ‘Killer Eyes’.

You might have also come across Guthrie’s solo instrumental album Imperial which came out in March this year. At the moment he is concentrating on finishing off a new Violet Indiana album.

All in all he certainly doesn’t leave anything chance in life standing aside. To catch up on everything that has gone on the last 18 months, since Pennyblackmusic last talked to him , I asked for a second interview. The last time I spoke to him, I met with him in London. For this second interview, I spoke to him on the phone at his new home in Paris.

Imperial was released on Bella Union in March this year. The history of the album, however, reaches back to early 2001.

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