All About Eve (band)
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All About Eve are a goth / rock band. Julianne Regan (vocals) and Andy Cousin (bass guitar) are the creative duo behind the band, with other members changing over the years.
Julianne Regan, a former journalist, played bass for the popular goth rock group Gene Loves Jezebel. After singing backing vocals for The Mission UK she was persuaded to form her own band, drafting in Tim Bricheno (guitar) and Andy Cousin (bass) from Aemotti Crii and drummer Mark Price.
Their self-titled debut album was released in 1988 and produced the UK hit single Martha's Harbour. The album was full of references to hippiedom and white magic and drew influences from both the goth rock and folk rock genres. Scarlet and Other Stories was released the next year and the band toured around the UK.
In 1990 Bricheno left the group, later going on to join The Sisters of Mercy, and was quickly replaced by Marty Willson-Piper, of The Church. They went on to record Touched By Jesus in 1991 before changing record companies and taking a quite dramatic style-change by releasing Ultraviolet the year after. The album was not welcomed by their new record company, seeing the change to be for the worse, and the band subsequently went their separate ways. Regan went on to form Mice, and to work with Bernard Butler, but an album with the latter never came to fruition due to internal wranglings. She also teamed up with Jean-Marc Lederman (with whom she had been in Gene Loves Jezebel) with the highly atmospheric Jules et Jim project.
At the end of the 1990's, old friends The Mission UK reformed after a short break and started touring. They invited Regan to open for them and their offer was accepted, starting the second era of the band. Soon after the tour the newly reformed (Regan, Willson-Piper & Cousin) All About Eve toured for two years, releasing Fairy Light Nights, a live and unplugged collection in 2000, with Volume 2 following in 2001, and later followed by two more live albums Live And Electric At The Union Chapel and Cinemasonic (the latter of which was also released as a DVD). A collection of early recordings was also released, entitled Return To Eden, Volume 1 (Volume 2 has yet to surface).
While pretending to spend time in Alaska (but really being in unsnowy North London), Julianne and Andy recorded the EP Iceland – a collection of "winter songs" including reworkings of previous fan-favourite December and cover versions of Wham!'s "Last Christmas", Queen's "A Winter's Tale", and the popular song from the animated short The Snowman, "Walking in the Air".
In mid 2004, and just after the release of their first single "Let Me Go Home" in a decade, AAE split once again and seem to be no more, with Julianne Regan possibly about to embark on writing a solo album, and Andy Cousin forming another band. The new, almost completed, full studio album that was being worked on remains unreleased.
External link
- Julianne Regan .net (http://www.julianneregan.net)
- Julianne Regan's personal site (http://clix.to/julianneregan)
- Highly comprehensive fan site by 'Goony' (http://www.goony.nl/aae/aae.htm)