Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) On The Autumns And Lift To Experience

Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins talking about the time The Autumns took him and Robin Guthrie to see the band Lift To Experience at a taco shack in Texas, where (as Steve Elkins of The Autumns recalls): "our internal organs were liquidated as an angel of the Lord descended to usher in the apocalypse, prompting Simon to sign them to Bella Union on the spot. I will never forget the ground literally shaking as they bellowed lyrics about 'the coming storm' which would usher in the fall of the American Babylon, while an actual thunderstorm appeared behind them in the distance, turning the sky black and illuminating the band with spectacular flashes of lightning as Pearson's rotating Leslie speaker crowned with a bull skull revolved like a stagecoach wheel on some metaphorical trail of tears…and the tacos weren’t bad." More on The Autumns and Lift To Experience in the "Music" gallery here: https://www.steveelkins.net