Why Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde says the group is more popular than ever

Simon Raymonde memoir: Cocteau Twins are behind him

Simon Raymonde had for years refused to write a memoir about his life in Cocteau Twins, the dreamy British post-punk group he’d been in with Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie from 1983 to 1997. He’d never cared much for rock musician memoirs, finding most shallow and uninspired. And since Cocteau Twins ended, he’d been focused on his day-to-day life running the English record label Bella Union, which has released music by acts including Father …

Why Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde says the group is more popular than ever

Raymonde, who played bass and keyboards in the influential English band, and founded the Bella Union record label after it ended, comes to Southern California on a book tour for his memoir, "In One Ear: 'The Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me.'"