Chris Tapley is based in Glasgow, Scotland. His writing has been published by The List, The Skinny, The Line of Best Fit, thi wurd magazine, the Scottish Writers’ Centre, and commended for the Costa Short Story Award.

[H]elped by extensive research, including new interviews with Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde and sleeve designer Paul West, Tapley ... offers more than enough detail and insight to bring Blue Bell Knoll into sharp focus.

• 1. Blue Bell Knoll 2. Meanings untethered 3. Backwards, butterflies and foreign tongues 4. Guthrie’s wall of sound 5. Collected fragments of Cocteau Twins press6. Punk, press and awkward silence 7. A band nearly anonymous 8. Visions in sound 9. Celestial insecurities 10. Feel perpetualAcknowledgements Bibliography Notes

Chris Tapley is based in Glasgow, Scotland. His writing has been published by The List, The Skinny, The Line of Best Fit, thi wurd magazine, the Scottish Writers’ Centre, and commended for the Costa Short Story Award.

[H]elped by extensive research, including new interviews with Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde and sleeve designer Paul West, Tapley ... offers more than enough detail and insight to bring Blue Bell Knoll into sharp focus.

• 1. Blue Bell Knoll 2. Meanings untethered 3. Backwards, butterflies and foreign tongues 4. Guthrie’s wall of sound 5. Collected fragments of Cocteau Twins press6. Punk, press and awkward silence 7. A band nearly anonymous 8. Visions in sound 9. Celestial insecurities 10. Feel perpetualAcknowledgements Bibliography Notes