Julianne Regan
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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
.
in the English Midlands, into an Anglo-Irish working class
Catholic
family. It is written in the sleeve notes to the All About Eve anthology Keepsakes
that her family's roots were impoverished to the point that as a boy, her father had to share a single pair of shoes with his siblings. Little else about her childhood is on the public record other than that she has a younger sister, Lise, who married All About Eve's first full-time drummer
Mark Price
in 1989, although they have since divorced.
, while also studying at the London College of Fashion
. In her capacity as a journalist she was given the task of interviewing Gene Loves Jezebel
and then subsequently joined that band on bass guitar
. Soon after, apparently unhappy with the tension between the group's twin frontmen, she left to make music with good friend and former Xmal Deutschland
drummer
Manuela Zwingmann, while working in a book shop on Charing Cross Road after Zig Zag went bust. It was during this period that she met, though friends of friends, both Andy Cousin
and Tim Bricheno
then both playing for goth
band Aemotii Crii. The band that resulted, at first consisting of Regan, Zwingman, Bricheno and James Richard Jackson, was originally called The Swarm but was changed to All About Eve
after Regan and Zwingman watched the classic film
at Regan's parents' house in Southport
, Merseyside
.
to record the first single "D For Desire", but following a falling out between Zwingmann and Regan, the former left the band. Soon after this Andy Cousin
replaced Jackson on bass
, thus creating the first well-known All About Eve line-up of Bricheno, Cousin and Regan, plus a drum machine
. The group recorded demos and played several well-received gigs.
In 1986 Regan met a girl known to the wider world only as "Crazy Rachael" and her boyfriend ex-The Sisters of Mercy
guitarist Wayne Hussey
. Hussey was at the time recording the first Mission
album God's Own Medicine and was so impressed with Regan's voice that he asked her to contribute backing vocals to the song "Severina". This started a close collaboration between the two bands that continues to this day, and at the time got All About Eve signed to the Mission's record label (on the back of them being support to the Mission's first tour and Regan appearing on several TV programmes with the Mission for performances of "Severina"). Regan also provides backing vocals on The Mission song "Wishing Well", which appears on the US version of their early songs collection album The First Chapter.
During production of the first, eponymous, All About Eve album, Regan formed a relationship with Simon Hinkler
, guitarist with the Mission. Meanwhile a full-time drummer Mark Price
was recruited to the band in 1988
: he would go on to marry Regan's sister and also have a child, Joe (born 1990).
All About Eve soon hit the big-time with the first album and the single "Martha's Harbour" both going Top 10 along with four other Top 40 singles between the summers of 1988 and 1989. Fame, however, did not seem to sit all that well with Regan. She broke up with Hinkler, a situation which inspired Hussey to pen Mission song "Butterfly on a Wheel": this song is often viewed as a direct response to All About Eve's song "Scarlet", even though it contains references to several others. A short time later, Regan started a relationship with her own guitarist, Bricheno.
It was the collapse of her relationship with Bricheno that plagued the recording of the second album Scarlet and Other Stories
. It is on record that Regan suffered something of a breakdown
during this time and would later say "I don't think I've wept as often in my life as I did during the making of Scarlet and Other Stories." Understandably therefore, the lyrics to the songs on this album reflect the unhappiness of their author, particularly in "Scarlet", "December", "Drowning" (the B-side to "December") "Pieces of Our Heart", "Road to Your Soul" and "Only One Reason".
With Regan and Bricheno unable to speak to each other, the latter left the band at the end of 1990 (and join The Sisters of Mercy
), to be replaced by Church
guitarist Marty Willson-Piper
. Two songs, "Strange Way" and "Farewell Mr Sorrow", from All About Eve's third album, Touched By Jesus
, are concerned with the end of this relationship: however this was not an entirely bitter work for she would also write the concluding song, "Are You Lonely?" for her father.
Touched By Jesus did not quite enjoy the commercial success of the first two albums and All About Eve subsequently changed record labels to MCA
in 1992. Here they were to record their fourth (and final) studio album Ultraviolet - a somewhat psychedelic move in which, as Regan later admitted, her vocals were mixed too far down into the swirling guitars, with the net result sounding something akin to Cranes
or Spiritualized
. This alienated fans, and the record did not make the Top 40. MCA ditched the group, and they split up in early 1993.
.
This proved a testing time for Regan. She was unemployed, and at one point she found herself working as a cleaner. Under the group name The Harmony Ambulance she did release one single very soon after the All About Eve split for Geoff Travis'
Rough Trade
label. The double A-side, "Nature's Way" and "All This And Heaven", was something of a departure from the All About Eve style, and possibly for this reason Regan turned down an offer to work full time with that band. She also recorded vocals for the Schaft
track "Broken English".
Regan also occasionally performed live with Fairport Convention
, singing some of the lead vocals on "Who Knows Where the Time Goes
", "Blackwaterside", and "After Halloween". Some of these tracks can be found on the albums Circle Dance - The Hokey Pokey Charity Compilation, Fairport Convention: 25th Anniversary Concert, and Cropredy Capers - 25 Years of the Festival.
Regan then dropped off the public radar. Rumours of a collaboration with Suede
's Bernard Butler
fluttered briefly and then died out. It later transpired that the rumours were true, but that during the recording session she and Butler had fallen out in a spectacular fashion. "I don't really know why it exploded the way it did, but it did. It was a small thing that turned into a big thing, that turned into an enormous thing" was Regan's later analysis of these events.
However, things were soon to pick up when an encounter with old acquaintance and ex-Powder
guitarist Tim McTighe led to the creation of a new band, Mice.
luminary Christian Hayes
(aka 'Bic') and original All About Eve drummer Mark Price
, Mice released their first single, "Matt's Prozac", in November 1995. Countrywide touring followed as did an album Because I Can
recorded for indie
label Permanent Records. Many collaborators took part in this band, including both Marty Willson-Piper
and Andy Cousin
which led to people questioning why this band was not launched as another incarnation of All About Eve. Regan said that this was deliberate in that she had wanted the new band to be just that. Musically it did indeed sound somewhat harsher than All About Eve and Regan would later say of it, "It showed that I could be pre-raphaelitic but I still had to get on the bus and go to Tesco's
."
With Because I Can making the Indie Top Ten, the future began to look fairly positive for Mice, but Permanent Records went out of business in 1997 owing Regan (and others) a lot of money and leaving the album and the three singles "Matt's Prozac", "The Milkman" and "Dear Sir" hanging in the shops without promotion or replacement.
There were brief rumours of something being put together with Willson-Piper but - after an apparent fall out between them - this also came to nothing, and Regan dropped into obscurity yet again, surfacing briefly in 1998 to record vocals for songs on This Burning Effigy
's albums Descent and Resolution, and on Mark Thwaite
's band's, BlueMax, self-titled album. Other work included vocals on the Volares track "Asleep in Egypt".
is a collaboration between Regan and Jean-Marc Lederman
(formerly of The Weathermen). In 1999 they released a single, "Swimming", followed by a six-track EP, Subtitles in 2002. Regan also featured on Lederman's soundtracks for the computer games Fairies and Mystic Inn by Funpause, and Rock Legend by Positech; and also vocals on a number of tracks on Lederman's La Femme Verte album project.
a Mission
re-launch was underway and lead singer Hussey - in a repeat of the first time All About Eve had become successful - again asked Regan if she would like to support him on tour. Although she was already involved with Jules et Jim
(who had put out an EP called Swimming earlier that year) Regan acquiesced, rounded up Price (now drumming with Del Amitri
), Cousin and Wilson-Piper, and All About Eve were back (for full details see Recent times).
When asked in 2001 why she had had a change of heart in terms of resurrecting All About Eve and their music she replied:
Since then Regan has maintained more or less continual contact with her fans, a task made considerably easier by use of the internet.
All About Eve split up again in mid-2004 following a disagreement between Regan and Cousin but 2006 has seen this rift apparently healed upon the release of Keepsakes
- an anthology of the group with extremely honest sleeve-notes. This record has seen even Bricheno recalled to the line-up, collaborating with Regan for a new song entitled "Raindrops".
Despite the fact that material for a fifth full All About Eve album had been worked on by Regan and fellow band-member Andy Cousin, it currently seems unlikely that this album will be completed. In April 2009, Regan stated on her Facebook page:
with All About Eve
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
singer, song writer, 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...
, bass guitarist and keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve
All About Eve (band)
All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
.
Early life (1962-1981)
Julianne Regan was born in CoventryCoventry
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...
in the English Midlands, into an Anglo-Irish working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
family. It is written in the sleeve notes to the All About Eve anthology 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 ....
that her family's roots were impoverished to the point that as a boy, her father had to share a single pair of shoes with his siblings. Little else about her childhood is on the public record other than that she has a younger sister, Lise, who married All About Eve's first full-time 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...
in 1989, although they have since divorced.
From Zig Zag to The Swarm (1982-1984)
Regan moved to London at the age of 19 and found work as a journalist for music magazine ZigZagZigZag (magazine)
ZigZag was a British rock music magazine. It was started by Pete Frame and the first edition rolled off the printing presses on 16 April 1969...
, while also studying at the London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, short courses and business-training in fashion, make-up, beauty-therapy and lifestyle industries...
. In her capacity as a journalist she was given the task of interviewing 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:...
and then subsequently joined that band on bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
. Soon after, apparently unhappy with the tension between the group's twin frontmen, she left to make music with good friend and former Xmal Deutschland
Xmal Deutschland
Xmal Deutschland , often written as X-Mal Deutschland, was a musical group from Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they became successful outside their native country. The lead singer of the band is vocalist Anja Huwe...
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...
Manuela Zwingmann, while working in a book shop on Charing Cross Road after Zig Zag went bust. It was during this period that she met, though friends of friends, both Andy Cousin
Andy Cousin
Andrew 'Andy' Cousin is an English bassist and, less commonly, guitarist from Huddersfield in England...
and 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...
then both playing for goth
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...
band Aemotii Crii. The band that resulted, at first consisting of Regan, Zwingman, Bricheno and James Richard Jackson, was originally called The Swarm but was changed to All About Eve
All About Eve (band)
All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
after Regan and Zwingman watched the classic film
All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...
at Regan's parents' house in Southport
Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. During the 2001 census Southport was recorded as having a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England...
, Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...
.
All About Eve (first era) (1985-1992)
The first line-up of the group hit the studio in 19851985 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...
to record the first single "D For Desire", but following a falling out between Zwingmann and Regan, the former left the band. Soon after this Andy Cousin
Andy Cousin
Andrew 'Andy' Cousin is an English bassist and, less commonly, guitarist from Huddersfield in England...
replaced Jackson on bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, thus creating the first well-known All About Eve line-up of Bricheno, Cousin and Regan, 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...
. The group recorded demos and played several well-received gigs.
In 1986 Regan met a girl known to the wider world only as "Crazy Rachael" and her boyfriend ex-The Sisters of Mercy
The 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...
guitarist Wayne Hussey
Wayne Hussey
Wayne Hussey is a British musician, best known as lead singer of The Mission and guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy....
. Hussey was at the time recording the first Mission
The Mission (band)
The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
album God's Own Medicine and was so impressed with Regan's voice that he asked her to contribute backing vocals to the song "Severina". This started a close collaboration between the two bands that continues to this day, and at the time got All About Eve signed to the Mission's record label (on the back of them being support to the Mission's first tour and Regan appearing on several TV programmes with the Mission for performances of "Severina"). Regan also provides backing vocals on The Mission song "Wishing Well", which appears on the US version of their early songs collection album The First Chapter.
During production of the first, eponymous, All About Eve album, Regan formed a relationship with Simon Hinkler
Simon Hinkler
Simon Thomas Hinkler is a guitarist, keyboard player, songwriter and producer from Sheffield, most notable for being the lead guitarist for the British rock group, The Mission from 1986 to 1990....
, guitarist with the Mission. Meanwhile a full-time drummer 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 recruited to the band in 1988
1988 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
: he would go on to marry Regan's sister and also have a child, Joe (born 1990).
All About Eve soon hit the big-time with the first album and the single "Martha's Harbour" both going Top 10 along with four other Top 40 singles between the summers of 1988 and 1989. Fame, however, did not seem to sit all that well with Regan. She broke up with Hinkler, a situation which inspired Hussey to pen Mission song "Butterfly on a Wheel": this song is often viewed as a direct response to All About Eve's song "Scarlet", even though it contains references to several others. A short time later, Regan started a relationship with her own guitarist, Bricheno.
It was the collapse of her relationship with Bricheno that plagued the recording of the 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...
. It is on record that Regan suffered something of a breakdown
Nervous breakdown
Mental breakdown is a non-medical term used to describe an acute, time-limited phase of a specific disorder that presents primarily with features of depression or anxiety.-Definition:...
during this time and would later say "I don't think I've wept as often in my life as I did during the making of Scarlet and Other Stories." Understandably therefore, the lyrics to the songs on this album reflect the unhappiness of their author, particularly in "Scarlet", "December", "Drowning" (the B-side to "December") "Pieces of Our Heart", "Road to Your Soul" and "Only One Reason".
With Regan and Bricheno unable to speak to each other, the latter left the band at the end of 1990 (and join The Sisters of Mercy
The 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...
), to be replaced by 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...
guitarist 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...
. Two songs, "Strange Way" and "Farewell Mr Sorrow", from All About Eve's third album, 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...
, are concerned with the end of this relationship: however this was not an entirely bitter work for she would also write the concluding song, "Are You Lonely?" for her father.
Touched By Jesus did not quite enjoy the commercial success of the first two albums and All About Eve subsequently changed record labels to MCA
Music Corporation of America
MCA, Inc. was an American talent agency. Initially starting in the music business, they would next become a dominant force in the film business, and later expanded into the television business...
in 1992. Here they were to record their fourth (and final) studio album Ultraviolet - a somewhat psychedelic move in which, as Regan later admitted, her vocals were mixed too far down into the swirling guitars, with the net result sounding something akin to Cranes
Cranes (band)
Cranes are a British music group formed in 1986, whose style has been described as "gothic minimalism".-History:Formed in 1986 in Portsmouth, England by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw, and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for the childlike,...
or Spiritualized
Spiritualized
Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce after the demise of his previous outfit, space-rockers Spacemen 3...
. This alienated fans, and the record did not make the Top 40. MCA ditched the group, and they split up in early 1993.
Into the wilderness (1993-1995)
Regan split from the rest of the band during the recording of what would have been All About Eve's fifth album. Cousin, Price and Willson-Piper completed it without her, and it eventually saw the light of day under the group name and title of Seeing StarsSeeing Stars (band/album)
Seeing Stars was the first album by the band Seeing Stars. It is of musical significance, however, because it was essentially intended to be the fifth studio album by UK band All About Eve...
.
This proved a testing time for Regan. She was unemployed, and at one point she found herself working as a cleaner. Under the group name The Harmony Ambulance she did release one single very soon after the All About Eve split for Geoff Travis'
Geoff Travis
Geoff Travis is the founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops. A former drama teacher and owner of a punk record shop, Travis founded the Rough Trade label in 1978.-Biography:...
Rough Trade
Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
label. The double A-side, "Nature's Way" and "All This And Heaven", was something of a departure from the All About Eve style, and possibly for this reason Regan turned down an offer to work full time with that band. She also recorded vocals for the Schaft
Schaft
Schaft is a Japanese musical side project whose main members are Fujii Maki of Soft Ballet and Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick. Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that Maki and Imai form the core of the group and a rotating roster of collaborators, who are well-known within their genres,...
track "Broken English".
Regan also occasionally performed live with Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
, singing some of the lead vocals on "Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" is a song written by the English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny. Denny originally recorded the song as a demo in 1967, singing and playing guitar on the track...
", "Blackwaterside", and "After Halloween". Some of these tracks can be found on the albums Circle Dance - The Hokey Pokey Charity Compilation, Fairport Convention: 25th Anniversary Concert, and Cropredy Capers - 25 Years of the Festival.
Regan then dropped off the public radar. Rumours of a collaboration with Suede
Suede (band)
Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
's 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...
fluttered briefly and then died out. It later transpired that the rumours were true, but that during the recording session she and Butler had fallen out in a spectacular fashion. "I don't really know why it exploded the way it did, but it did. It was a small thing that turned into a big thing, that turned into an enormous thing" was Regan's later analysis of these events.
However, things were soon to pick up when an encounter with old acquaintance and ex-Powder
Powder (band)
Powder were a Britpop band, who existed between 1994 and 1997, and released three singles on Parkway Records. Signed in late 1994 by music public relations agents John Best and Phill Savidge, they were the first band on the label. Powder were fronted by Pearl Lowe, with songwriters Mark Thomas on...
guitarist Tim McTighe led to the creation of a new band, Mice.
Mice (1995-1997)
Revolving around a central core of Regan, Tim McTighe, former LevitationLevitation (band)
Levitation were an English rock band fronted by ex-House of Love guitarist Terry Bickers. Levitation's music and attitude challenged an early 1990s UK alternative music scene dominated by shoegazing and Madchester....
luminary Christian Hayes
Christian Hayes
Christian Hayes , also known as Bic Hayes, is an English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. His highest profile musical role has been fronting the band Dark Star between 1998 and 2001, whom he formed with fellow ex-Levitation members David Francolini and Laurence O'Keefe.He has also played in a...
(aka 'Bic') and original All About Eve drummer 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...
, Mice released their first single, "Matt's Prozac", in November 1995. Countrywide touring followed as did an album Because I Can
Because I Can (Mice)
... Because I Can is the first studio album by Mice, and released through the Permanent Records label. Although a second album, New And Improved, was released, this was not a new album but rather an extended re-issue, released through the Jamtart label.-History of Mice:Mice were formed in 1995 by...
recorded for indie
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
label Permanent Records. Many collaborators took part in this band, including both 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...
and Andy Cousin
Andy Cousin
Andrew 'Andy' Cousin is an English bassist and, less commonly, guitarist from Huddersfield in England...
which led to people questioning why this band was not launched as another incarnation of All About Eve. Regan said that this was deliberate in that she had wanted the new band to be just that. Musically it did indeed sound somewhat harsher than All About Eve and Regan would later say of it, "It showed that I could be pre-raphaelitic but I still had to get on the bus and go to Tesco's
Tesco
Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...
."
With Because I Can making the Indie Top Ten, the future began to look fairly positive for Mice, but Permanent Records went out of business in 1997 owing Regan (and others) a lot of money and leaving the album and the three singles "Matt's Prozac", "The Milkman" and "Dear Sir" hanging in the shops without promotion or replacement.
There were brief rumours of something being put together with Willson-Piper but - after an apparent fall out between them - this also came to nothing, and Regan dropped into obscurity yet again, surfacing briefly in 1998 to record vocals for songs on This Burning Effigy
This Burning Effigy
This Burning Effigy were an Irish goth band, originally formed in Dublin in 1993, and consisting of members Stephen Carey , Ger Egan , Micheal Cowley , Brian Fallon...
's albums Descent and Resolution, and on Mark Thwaite
Mark Thwaite
Mark Gemini Thwaite has been the guitarist for a number of British rock bands and artists over the last two decades, including The Mission, Tricky, Peter Murphy, New Disease, Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Mob Research , and Canadian band National Velvet plus various guest appearances...
's band's, BlueMax, self-titled album. Other work included vocals on the Volares track "Asleep in Egypt".
Jules et Jim (1999-present)
Jules et JimJules 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...
is a collaboration between Regan and 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...
(formerly of The Weathermen). In 1999 they released a single, "Swimming", followed by a six-track EP, Subtitles in 2002. Regan also featured on Lederman's soundtracks for the computer games Fairies and Mystic Inn by Funpause, and Rock Legend by Positech; and also vocals on a number of tracks on Lederman's La Femme Verte album project.
All About Eve (second era) (1999-2006)
Despite having previously been on public record expressing absolutely no wish to resurrect All About Eve, in late 19991999 in music
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a Mission
The Mission (band)
The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
re-launch was underway and lead singer Hussey - in a repeat of the first time All About Eve had become successful - again asked Regan if she would like to support him on tour. Although she was already involved with 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...
(who had put out an EP called Swimming earlier that year) Regan acquiesced, rounded up Price (now drumming with Del Amitri
Del Amitri
Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...
), Cousin and Wilson-Piper, and All About Eve were back (for full details see Recent times).
When asked in 2001 why she had had a change of heart in terms of resurrecting All About Eve and their music she replied:
I think I just really needed a break from it. It had lost its magic for me. Totally. Also, for some reason, I had to have a bit of a rebellion against AAE. Maybe it's something along the lines of why teenagers fall out with their parents and find everything about them embarrassing... Then they grow up a bit and realise that their Mum and Dad aren't too bad at all.
Since then Regan has maintained more or less continual contact with her fans, a task made considerably easier by use of the internet.
All About Eve split up again in mid-2004 following a disagreement between Regan and Cousin but 2006 has seen this rift apparently healed upon the release of 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 ....
- an anthology of the group with extremely honest sleeve-notes. This record has seen even Bricheno recalled to the line-up, collaborating with Regan for a new song entitled "Raindrops".
Despite the fact that material for a fifth full All About Eve album had been worked on by Regan and fellow band-member Andy Cousin, it currently seems unlikely that this album will be completed. 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."Regan's Facebook page Retrieved on 27 May 2009.
Recent work
Currently Regan is involved with:- Tim BrichenoTim BrichenoTim 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...
- with whom she wrote and recorded the song "Raindrops", which appeared on the All About Eve retrospective collection 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 ....
. In 2008, the duo recorded a new version of "Ophelia", a song which had originally been demo-ed for the All About Eve album Scarlet and Other StoriesScarlet and Other StoriesScarlet 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...
but was never released. The re-recording was made especially for inclusion on a charity record, released to raise funds for research into ovarian cancerOvarian cancerOvarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
. Regan also contributed a solo song, "The Angel's Share", to the same album. - The MissionThe Mission (band)The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
- Regan sang backing vocals on the 20072007 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.-January:*January 1 - George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame...
album God is a BulletGod Is a BulletGod Is a Bullet is the tenth and final studio album by The Mission. It was released in 2007.-Track listing:# "Still Deep Waters" - 3:10# "Keep It in the Family" - 3:59# "Belladonna" - 3:34# "To Love & to Kill With the Very Same Hand" - 4:27...
. - All Living FearAll Living FearAll Living Fear are an alternative rock band from the South West of England. The band was formed in 1992 by Matthew North and the core of the band was sealed in 1994 with the arrival of vocalist Andrew Racher....
- Regan contributed backing vocals on the track "Home Too Soon" from the 20072007 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.-January:*January 1 - George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame...
album Fifteen Years After. - The Eden HouseThe Eden HouseThe 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...
- a collaborative project, initiated by Tony Pettitt (formerly of Fields of the NephilimFields of the NephilimFields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...
) and Steve Carey (formerly of This Burning EffigyThis Burning EffigyThis Burning Effigy were an Irish goth band, originally formed in Dublin in 1993, and consisting of members Stephen Carey , Ger Egan , Micheal Cowley , Brian Fallon...
) and involving a collection of guest musicians and vocalists. The album, Smoke & Mirrors, featuring Regan on three tracks, was released April 2009. A further track featuring Regan was released on the EP The Looking Glass. - Judy DybleJudy DybleJudith Aileen Dyble, better known as Judy Dyble , is an award winning British singer/songwriter most notable for being one of the vocalists with, and founder members of, Fairport Convention and Trader Horne; in between these she was very briefly with Giles, Giles and Fripp, which evolved into...
- Regan contributed vocals to the tracks "C'est la Vie" and "Harp Song", which feature on Dyble's 2009 album Talking with StrangersTalking with StrangersTalking with Strangers is a 2009 album by Judy Dyble featuring Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Julianne Regan, Simon Nicol, Tim Bowness, Jacqui McShee, Pat Mastelotto, Alistair Murphy, Celia Humphris, Laurie A'Court, Rachel Hall, Mark Fletcher, and Harry Fletcher.The album features a near 20-minute...
. - La Femme Verte - A new cover versionCover versionIn 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...
project by Jean-Marc Lederman, the album Small Distortions features Regan contributing vocals and instruments alongside Gene Loves JezebelGene Loves JezebelGene 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:...
's Jay Aston and others to a number of tracks including Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt", Angelo BadalamentiAngelo BadalamentiAngelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...
/Julee CruiseJulee CruiseJulee Cruise is an American singer, and actress.With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks...
's "Falling", the Rolling Stones' track "Moonlight Mile", the Pet Shop BoysPet Shop BoysPet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
' "Being BoringBeing Boring"Being Boring" is a single by the British pop group Pet Shop Boys.As the second single from the 1990 album Behaviour, after "So Hard" which was released before the album, "Being Boring" was not particularly successful upon release, only reaching number twenty in the UK Singles Chart and being the...
", and The Mamas & the PapasThe Mamas & the PapasThe Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian/American vocal group of the 1960s . The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and 11 Top 40 hit singles...
' "Monday Monday". - Leader of the Starry Skies - A tribute album for Tim Smith of CardiacsCardiacsCardiacs are an English alternative rock/psychedelic pop band formed in 1977 and led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and...
, on which Regan contributes the track "Shaping the River". - The CuratorAlistair MurphyAlistair Murphy is a British songwriter, record producer and musician.He is most noted for his work on Judy Dyble's 2009 album, Talking with Strangers. Murphy contributed piano, organ, guitar and other instruments, as well as having completed most of the recording...
- Regan contributes vocals on the album Sometime Soon to the tracks "On the Great North Road" and "Sometime Soon" . - Hussey-ReganHussey-ReganHussey-Regan is a collaborative project between Wayne Hussey and Julianne Regan . The duo started to work together in 2006, as well as their other personal projects...
- A joint effort with The MissionThe Mission (band)The Mission are a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams , soon adding...
's Wayne HusseyWayne HusseyWayne Hussey is a British musician, best known as lead singer of The Mission and guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy....
, the album Curios is due for release September 2011 and includes 12 tracks, including versions of Depeche ModeDepeche ModeDepeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
's "Enjoy the SilenceEnjoy the Silence"Enjoy the Silence" is Depeche Mode's twenty-fourth UK single, released on 16 January 1990, and the second single from the then upcoming album Violator....
", Duran DuranDuran DuranDuran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
's "Ordinary WorldOrdinary World"Ordinary World" is the first single from Duran Duran's self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts...
", an a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
version of The Mission track "Aquarius and Gemini", and a cover of All About Eve's "Calling Your Name". - Vocals on Memories of MachinesMemories of MachinesMemories Of Machines is a band formed by Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra in April 2006.-History:Memories of Machines emerged as a full project following Bowness' first collaborations with Nosound during the mid-2000s. This began with a song called "Someone Starts to Fade Away" which eventually...
' album Warm Winter. - Vocals on the album System Songs by The Nervous System.
with All About EveAll About Eve (band)All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
- All About EveAll 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) - Scarlet and Other StoriesScarlet and Other StoriesScarlet 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) - Touched by JesusTouched by JesusTouched 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) - Ultraviolet (1992)
- Winter WordsWinter 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...
(1992) - Fairy Light Nights IFairy 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...
(2000) - Fairy Light Nights IIFairy 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...
(2001) - Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings (2002)
- IcelandIceland (album)Iceland is an EP released by All About Eve in 2002.It was described mainly as a winter EP, although five out of seven of the songs do contain references to Christmas or are songs particularly connected with it....
(2002) - 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) - 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 ....
(2006)
with Mice
- ...Because I CanBecause I Can (Mice)... Because I Can is the first studio album by Mice, and released through the Permanent Records label. Although a second album, New And Improved, was released, this was not a new album but rather an extended re-issue, released through the Jamtart label.-History of Mice:Mice were formed in 1995 by...
(1996) - New and ImprovedNew and Improved (Mice)New And Improved is a compilation album by Mice that was released on All About Eve's label JamTart in 2001. It contains all of Mice's one and only album ... Because I Can as well as three of the B-sides and five Mice and/or Julianne Regan demos from the same period...
(2001)