All About Eve (band)
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All About Eve were a British
rock
/pop
band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry
born Julianne Regan
(vocals), and the Huddersfield
born Andy Cousin
(bass guitar
), with other members changing over the years. Their biggest commercial success was "Martha's Harbour
" (1988), although the band's tenure ran between 1984 and 2004, and included four UK
Top 50 album
s.
, a former journalist
, played bass in an early line-up of the gothic rock
group Gene Loves Jezebel
. before leaving to join All About Eve, previously known as the Swarm. The initial core of All About Eve was Regan, guitarist
Tim Bricheno
, and bassist Andy Cousin. As a three-piece (plus a drum machine
), they released a series of independent singles in the mid 1980s including "D for Desire", "In the Clouds" and "Flowers In Our Hair". After Regan sang backing vocals for The Mission's God's Own Medicine album, the band received greater attention and were signed to Phonogram
. Drummer
Mark Price
was added around this time.
debut album
was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
and released in 1988. It included the UK
hit single
, "Martha's Harbour
".
The album itself reached #7 on the UK Albums Chart
, with much of its lyrical material drawing from hippie
ideals
, white magic
and dreamlike fairy tale
s, the album's gentle folk rock
inspired pop sound won the band many fans (nicknamed 'angels'). Their music was sometimes considered gothic rock
by the media, some fans claimed the band did not play gothic rock after 1986, though are connected mostly due to the engagements of ex-bandmembers in the musical scene of the time.
In a well-known incident, the band later performed a dubbed version of "Martha's Harbour" on the BBC1
television show Top of the Pops
, but, owing to a studio technical error, the taped vocals were broadcast without the band being able to hear them, resulting in the TV audience hearing the recorded version of the song, while the band members sat motionless on screen waiting for their cue to begin. By way of compensation, the band were invited back on to the show to perform the song the following week, this time with the vocals performed live. This performance passed off smoothly.
The following year, their second album, Scarlet and Other Stories
, was released and the band toured around the UK. It was another Top 10 hit.
for their Vision Thing
era, and subsequent bands XC-NN and Tin Star
) to be replaced by The Church
's Marty Willson-Piper
. They went on to record Touched by Jesus
in 1991 (which featured David Gilmour
of Pink Floyd
on guitar on two tracks), which made the UK Top 20, before changing record label
s and releasing Ultraviolet, the year after. Released by MCA
it reached UK #46. The band continued working on new material, but Regan soon left. Although remaining members continued for a couple more months without Regan's input, they disbanded in early 1993, with the album they had been working on being subsequently released under the group name Seeing Stars.
Regan went on to form Mice, and to work with Bernard Butler
, and she teamed up with Jean-Marc Lederman
in the Jules et Jim
project.
In 1993, bassist Cousin went on to join a reformed Mission, touring extensively and contributing to their albums Neverland (1995) and Blue
(1996) before the band again split.
In 1999, Hussey reformed the Mission yet again and although there was no room in the line-up for Cousin (bass duties being taken by the band's original bassist, Craig Adams) Cousin was asked to approach Regan to invite her to reform All About Eve to open for them. The offer was accepted and the band reformed, with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Willson-Piper, plus Ric Carter (who had been in the Mission with Cousin) on guitars/keyboards and Del Hood on drums. This line-up toured during 2000 and 2001, releasing a live album Live and Electric at the Union Chapel
. In addition, Regan, Willson-Piper and Cousin toured as a pared down, mainly acoustic trio for two years, releasing live albums Fairy Light Nights
in 2000, and Fairy Light Nights Volume 2 in 2001.
In 2002, Willson-Piper left the band to pursue other projects, to be replaced by new guitarist Toni Haimi, previously of the band Malluka and currently a member of the Sohodolls. Later that year, All About Eve released the live album and DVD Cinemasonic
with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Haimi, Carter and Hood. A collection of early recordings was also released, entitled Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings (no second volume has yet appeared).
Also in 2002, Regan and Cousin released their first studio recordings in a decade, with the EP
Iceland – a collection of 'winter songs', including reworkings of "December" and cover version
s of Wham!
's "Last Christmas
", Queen
's "A Winter's Tale
", and "Walking in the Air
".
Regan latterly worked with The Eden House
, In April 2009, Regan stated on her Facebook
page: "All About Eve are dormant and may never happen again. I don't ever like to say never though, but it seems we've all moved on and are exploring other avenues."
A double CD collection entitled Keepsakes
, consisting of the singles, key album tracks and previously unreleased rarities, as well as some newly recorded songs, was released in early March 2006, and was initially available with a DVD of the promo videos and TV appearances.
Fairy Lights Nights 1 has also been re-released under the titles Unplugged, Martha's Harbour and What Kind of Fool. †
Winter Words, Keepsakes and Return to Eden Vol. 1 also contained previously unreleased studio, live and/or re-mixed tracks.
† As download only.
United Kingdom
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rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
/pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
born Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan
Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...
(vocals), and the Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
born Andy Cousin
Andy Cousin
Andrew 'Andy' Cousin is an English bassist and, less commonly, guitarist from Huddersfield in England...
(bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), with other members changing over the years. Their biggest commercial success was "Martha's Harbour
Martha's Harbour
"Martha's Harbour" is the 1988 hit single by British rock group, All About Eve. It has become known as the group's signature song, reaching #10 in the UK Singles Chart and helping the group's self-titled debut album reach #7 in the UK albums chart....
" (1988), although the band's tenure ran between 1984 and 2004, and included four UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Top 50 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s.
Foundation
Julianne ReganJulianne Regan
Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...
, a former journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, played bass in an early line-up of the gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...
group Gene Loves Jezebel
Gene Loves Jezebel
Gene Loves Jezebel are a gothic rock band from the early 1980s, now two separate bands of the same name, founded by identical twin brothers, Michael and Jay Aston .-Early years: 1980-1989:...
. before leaving to join All About Eve, previously known as the Swarm. The initial core of All About Eve was Regan, guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Tim Bricheno
Tim Bricheno
Tim Bricheno has been the guitarist and writer with several notable English indie bands, including All About Eve, The Sisters of Mercy, XC-NN and Tin Star...
, and bassist Andy Cousin. As a three-piece (plus a drum machine
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
), they released a series of independent singles in the mid 1980s including "D for Desire", "In the Clouds" and "Flowers In Our Hair". After Regan sang backing vocals for The Mission's God's Own Medicine album, the band received greater attention and were signed to Phonogram
Phonogram Records
Phonogram Records was started in 1962 as a joint venture between Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon. In 1972, Phonogram was merged with Polydor Records into PolyGram....
. Drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Mark Price
Mark Price (musician)
Mark Gerard Price is an English drummer, who is known for being the first full time drummer for All About Eve and being the percussionist of Del Amitri between 1997 and 2002...
was added around this time.
Debut and chart success
Their self-titledEponym
An eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...
debut album
All About Eve (album)
All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve. Commercially, this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 40 singles...
was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
Paul Samwell-Smith
Paul Samwell-Smith is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page...
and released in 1988. It included the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
hit single
Hit single
A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...
, "Martha's Harbour
Martha's Harbour
"Martha's Harbour" is the 1988 hit single by British rock group, All About Eve. It has become known as the group's signature song, reaching #10 in the UK Singles Chart and helping the group's self-titled debut album reach #7 in the UK albums chart....
".
The album itself reached #7 on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
, with much of its lyrical material drawing from hippie
Hippie
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...
ideals
Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the family of views which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing...
, white magic
White Magic
White Magic may refer to:* White magic, healing or "good," as opposed to Black magic; see also magic * White Magic , an American rock band* White Magic , album by Swedish musician ceo...
and dreamlike fairy tale
Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
s, the album's gentle folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
inspired pop sound won the band many fans (nicknamed 'angels'). Their music was sometimes considered gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...
by the media, some fans claimed the band did not play gothic rock after 1986, though are connected mostly due to the engagements of ex-bandmembers in the musical scene of the time.
In a well-known incident, the band later performed a dubbed version of "Martha's Harbour" on the BBC1
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
television show Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
, but, owing to a studio technical error, the taped vocals were broadcast without the band being able to hear them, resulting in the TV audience hearing the recorded version of the song, while the band members sat motionless on screen waiting for their cue to begin. By way of compensation, the band were invited back on to the show to perform the song the following week, this time with the vocals performed live. This performance passed off smoothly.
The following year, their second album, Scarlet and Other Stories
Scarlet and Other Stories
Scarlet and Other Stories is the second studio album by All About Eve. It is widely held to be considerably darker both in tone and lyrics than their first album, All About Eve...
, was released and the band toured around the UK. It was another Top 10 hit.
Activity through the 1990s
In 1990, Bricheno left the group (later to join The Sisters of MercyThe Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company...
for their Vision Thing
Vision Thing
-2006 Re-issue:Along with the group's previous two releases, Vision Thing was re-issued in November 2006 with bonus tracks, which, listed as follows:-Personnel:*Andrew Eldritch - vocals, guitar, keyboards*Andreas Bruhn - guitar*Tim Bricheno - guitar...
era, and subsequent bands XC-NN and Tin Star
Tin Star (band)
Tin Star were a British techno band formed in 1996. The group signed to V2 Records and released their debut album, The Thrill Kisser, in 1999. The group scored a hit on US rock radio with "Head", which peaked at #10 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts in 1999...
) to be replaced by The Church
The Church (band)
The Church is an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave and the neo-psychedelic sound of the mid 1980s, their music later became more reminiscent of progressive rock, featuring long instrumental jams and complex guitar interplay...
's Marty Willson-Piper
Marty Willson-Piper
Marty Willson-Piper is a guitarist and member of Australian independent rock band The Church.After busking his way around the world, he arrived in Australia...
. They went on to record Touched by Jesus
Touched by Jesus
Touched by Jesus is the third studio album by All About Eve. It was the first album to feature Church guitarist Marty Willson-Piper on guitars. Despite this, the album fell short of the commercial achievements of both the first album and Scarlet and Other Stories only reaching No. 17 in the UK charts...
in 1991 (which featured David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...
of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
on guitar on two tracks), which made the UK Top 20, before changing record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
s and releasing Ultraviolet, the year after. Released by MCA
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
it reached UK #46. The band continued working on new material, but Regan soon left. Although remaining members continued for a couple more months without Regan's input, they disbanded in early 1993, with the album they had been working on being subsequently released under the group name Seeing Stars.
Regan went on to form Mice, and to work with Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler
Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
, and she teamed up with Jean-Marc Lederman
Jean-Marc Lederman
Jean-Marc Lederman is a Belgian keyboard player and producer. He has worked with numerous bands including Fad Gadget, The The, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Weathermen, Belgian rock band Streets, and Front 242, and with other artists including Julianne Regan and Alain Bashung.His main projects are The...
in the Jules et Jim
Jules et Jim (band)
Jules et Jim is a trip hop / drum and bass band consisting of Jean-Marc Lederman and Julianne Regan . A 1999 press release describing their music reads: "While their sound is eerie, the vocal's in your face. When the voice whispers, the music slashes like a flick-knife...
project.
In 1993, bassist Cousin went on to join a reformed Mission, touring extensively and contributing to their albums Neverland (1995) and Blue
Blue (The Mission album)
Blue is a studio album by The Mission. It was released in 1996 and was their last album of the decade. It reached #72 on the UK Albums Chart and #11 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.-Track listing:# "Coming Home"# "Get Back to You"...
(1996) before the band again split.
In 1999, Hussey reformed the Mission yet again and although there was no room in the line-up for Cousin (bass duties being taken by the band's original bassist, Craig Adams) Cousin was asked to approach Regan to invite her to reform All About Eve to open for them. The offer was accepted and the band reformed, with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Willson-Piper, plus Ric Carter (who had been in the Mission with Cousin) on guitars/keyboards and Del Hood on drums. This line-up toured during 2000 and 2001, releasing a live album Live and Electric at the Union Chapel
Live and Electric at the Union Chapel
Live and Electric at The Union Chapel is a live album by All About Eve, recorded at their Union Chapel concert on 9 December 2000. It was released as both a standard version, and as a limited edition double CD, the second CD containing three more tracks from the same concert.-Track listing:#"Lady...
. In addition, Regan, Willson-Piper and Cousin toured as a pared down, mainly acoustic trio for two years, releasing live albums Fairy Light Nights
Fairy Light Nights
Fairy Light Nights is the collective term for a large number of acoustic gigs performed by All About Eve between January 2000 and February 2002. The name stems from the fact that fairy lights were hung from the music and microphone stands...
in 2000, and Fairy Light Nights Volume 2 in 2001.
In 2002, Willson-Piper left the band to pursue other projects, to be replaced by new guitarist Toni Haimi, previously of the band Malluka and currently a member of the Sohodolls. Later that year, All About Eve released the live album and DVD Cinemasonic
Cinemasonic (album)
Cinemasonic is a live album by All About Eve. It was released both as a CD and as a DVD and is a recording of the band's gig on 31 May 2002 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire.-Track listing :# "Let Me Go Home" – 3:56...
with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Haimi, Carter and Hood. A collection of early recordings was also released, entitled Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings (no second volume has yet appeared).
Also in 2002, Regan and Cousin released their first studio recordings in a decade, with the EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
Iceland – a collection of 'winter songs', including reworkings of "December" and cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
s of Wham!
WHAM!
Wham! were a short-lived British musical duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with an American band....
's "Last Christmas
Last Christmas
"Last Christmas" is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1984, on a double A-side with "Everything She Wants". It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo...
", Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
's "A Winter's Tale
A Winter's Tale (song)
"A Winter's Tale" is a song by Queen, from the album Made in Heaven, released in 1995 after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. It was written after the Innuendo sessions, inspired as Mercury was staring out the windows of their recording studio, at Lake Geneva...
", and "Walking in the Air
Walking in the Air
"Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book The Snowman. In the film the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty...
".
Latter days
Carter and Hood departed, with Ben Savigear taking over on drums. In mid -2004, shortly after the release of their first single in a decade, "Let Me Go Home", the band split once again. Their last gig, with a line-up of Regan, Cousin, Haimi and Savigear, was at the Mean Fiddler in London on 30 April 2004, at the end of a British tour; this was filmed and copies of the performance were made available through a fan website.Regan latterly worked with The Eden House
The Eden House
The Eden House is a collaborative musical project, initiated by Stephen Carey and involving a collection of guest musicians and vocalists; then later joined by Tony Pettitt .Their debut album Smoke & Mirrors was released on April 6, 2009 in the United States and...
, In April 2009, Regan stated on her Facebook
Facebook
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page: "All About Eve are dormant and may never happen again. I don't ever like to say never though, but it seems we've all moved on and are exploring other avenues."
A double CD collection entitled Keepsakes
Keepsakes
Keepsakes - A Collection is an anthology by All About Eve released on 13 March 2006. It is available either as a double CD or as a limited edition double CD and DVD set ....
, consisting of the singles, key album tracks and previously unreleased rarities, as well as some newly recorded songs, was released in early March 2006, and was initially available with a DVD of the promo videos and TV appearances.
Studio albums
| Title | Date of release | US chart position | UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
|---|---|---|---|
| All About Eve All About Eve (album) All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve. Commercially, this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 40 singles... |
1988 | - | 7 |
| Scarlet and Other Stories Scarlet and Other Stories Scarlet and Other Stories is the second studio album by All About Eve. It is widely held to be considerably darker both in tone and lyrics than their first album, All About Eve... |
1989 | - | 9 |
| Touched by Jesus Touched by Jesus Touched by Jesus is the third studio album by All About Eve. It was the first album to feature Church guitarist Marty Willson-Piper on guitars. Despite this, the album fell short of the commercial achievements of both the first album and Scarlet and Other Stories only reaching No. 17 in the UK charts... |
1991 | - | 17 |
| Ultraviolet | 1992 | - | 46 |
Singles
- 1985 "D for Desire"
- 1986 "In the Clouds"
- 1987 "Our Summer"
- 1987 "Flowers In Our Hair"
- 1987 "In the Clouds" UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
#47 - 1988 "Wild Hearted Woman" UK #33
- 1988 "Every Angel" UK #30
- 1988 "Martha's HarbourMartha's Harbour"Martha's Harbour" is the 1988 hit single by British rock group, All About Eve. It has become known as the group's signature song, reaching #10 in the UK Singles Chart and helping the group's self-titled debut album reach #7 in the UK albums chart....
" UK #10 - 1988 "What Kind of Fool" UK #29
- 1989 "Road to Your Soul" UK #37
- 1989 "December" UK #34
- 1990 "Scarlet" UK #34
- 1991 "Farewell Mr. Sorrow" UK #36
- 1991 "Strange Way" UK #51
- 1991 "The Dreamer" UK #41
- 1992 "Phased" UK #38
- 1992 "Some Finer Day" UK #57
- 2004 "Let Me Go Home" UK #52
- 2006 "Keepsakes" †
Live albums
- 1991 BBC in Concert Transcription Disc #526
- 1993 BBC Radio One Live in Concert
- 2000 Fairy Light Nights 1Fairy Light NightsFairy Light Nights is the collective term for a large number of acoustic gigs performed by All About Eve between January 2000 and February 2002. The name stems from the fact that fairy lights were hung from the music and microphone stands...
- 2001 Fairy Light Nights 2Fairy Light NightsFairy Light Nights is the collective term for a large number of acoustic gigs performed by All About Eve between January 2000 and February 2002. The name stems from the fact that fairy lights were hung from the music and microphone stands...
- 2001 Live and Electric at the Union ChapelLive and Electric at the Union ChapelLive and Electric at The Union Chapel is a live album by All About Eve, recorded at their Union Chapel concert on 9 December 2000. It was released as both a standard version, and as a limited edition double CD, the second CD containing three more tracks from the same concert.-Track listing:#"Lady...
- 2003 CinemasonicCinemasonic (album)Cinemasonic is a live album by All About Eve. It was released both as a CD and as a DVD and is a recording of the band's gig on 31 May 2002 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire.-Track listing :# "Let Me Go Home" – 3:56...
- 2003 Acoustic NightsFairy Light NightsFairy Light Nights is the collective term for a large number of acoustic gigs performed by All About Eve between January 2000 and February 2002. The name stems from the fact that fairy lights were hung from the music and microphone stands...
, a re-packaging of the two Fairy Light Nights albums as one double album.
Fairy Lights Nights 1 has also been re-released under the titles Unplugged, Martha's Harbour and What Kind of Fool. †
Bootleg live albums
In common with several British bands of the era, there also exist numerous live bootleg recordings and "fanclub only" vinyl records and cassettes of varying quality, the most well known of which is:- 1991 Blessed by Angels - unofficially released, although the album was legally available (at that time) in parts of mainland Europe. It comprises eleven tracks from 1988 and 1991, several of which were later included on the later official-release compilation album KeepsakesKeepsakesKeepsakes - A Collection is an anthology by All About Eve released on 13 March 2006. It is available either as a double CD or as a limited edition double CD and DVD set ....
.
Videography
- 1989 Evergreen (VHSVHSThe Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
) - 2003 CinemasonicCinemasonic (album)Cinemasonic is a live album by All About Eve. It was released both as a CD and as a DVD and is a recording of the band's gig on 31 May 2002 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire.-Track listing :# "Let Me Go Home" – 3:56...
(DVD) - 2008 Live in Bonn 1991Live In Bonn 1991Live in Bonn 1991 is a concert DVD from the British alternative rock band All About Eve. The DVD comprises the full September 5 live concert at the Biskuithalle in Bonne, Germany, part of the band's 1991 European tour promoting their recently-released album, Touched by Jesus...
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Compilation albums
- 1992 Winter Words - Hits and RaritiesWinter Words (album)Winter Words - Hits & Rareties is a compilation album by All About Eve by their then former record label Mercury with whom they had had an acrimonious split one year earlier...
- 1999 The Best of All About Eve
- 2002 Return to Eden Vol. 1 - The Early RecordingsReturn to Eden (album)Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings is a compilation by All About Eve put out in early 2002 on their own JamTart label and widely sold at gigs at that time, though also it was available to buy in shops and online...
- 2006 Keepsakes - A CollectionKeepsakesKeepsakes - A Collection is an anthology by All About Eve released on 13 March 2006. It is available either as a double CD or as a limited edition double CD and DVD set ....
(CD and DVD) - 2007 Sixty Minutes With
Winter Words, Keepsakes and Return to Eden Vol. 1 also contained previously unreleased studio, live and/or re-mixed tracks.
† As download only.
External links
- Julianne Regan's personal site
- The band's official MySpace site, including audio clips
- Regan's MySpace site, with audio clips of her solo work and collaborations
- Official Marty Willson-Piper site
- Unofficial (but approved) All About Eve fansite
- Early history of the band site (Archived 2009-10-25)
- Another unofficial All About Eve site
- Ectophiles' site
- Soundclick site, with audio clips
- Every Angel (Archived 2009-10-25) - Unofficial Japanese All About Eve site