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Does anyone recall when Julianne Regan guested at Cropredy? I really liked her vocals in All About Eve, and thought she brought something a little different to those 1989-92 festivals...

J

that was before my cropredy time, but i am a huge fan of hers and i wish i'd been there to see it, sorry i wasn't, also would love to see her gigging again.
abby x

She's done some wonderful singing on my new album and she is about to start recording a new album with Wayne Hussey

http://www.myspace.com/julianneregan

She is a lovely thing  ;D

Indeed.  A great voice and much missed from the stage.  I think she's well and happy though from what I read, which is fab.

I think the last time was 1992. She is on the 25th Anniversary album. I seem to remember her doing great versions of Blackwaterside and One Way Donkey Ride but I can't remember in which year.

This is what she did (I'm sure!):

1989 - The Lady, Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Plus full All About Eve set)

1990 - After Halloween, I'm A Dreamer

1991 - One Way Donkey Ride, Blackwaterside

1992 - Flowers In Our Hair, More Than The Blues.

J

All About Eve have played Cropredy since 1992 though - they headlined Thursday in 2000

Yes they did, sorry. But did she sing with Fairport that year - unsure...

I'd love her to come back - I know Simon would too as he's mentioned it on this board.

maybe we should start a campaign....  :)

She really really doesn't do any live gigs now and from my conversations with her recently, it's unlikely that she will..

look at her myspace where she is very definite about it.

NOTE from Julianne. "I am not available to sing at your wedding / birthday party / etc. although I genuinely hope you have a nice day. Live dates *at this point in time* are as likely as a forest fire taking hold in the Arctic circle. I also do not want to take part in any 'Washed Up Goths Train Puppies to Juggle Dead Mice in the Rainforest' shows, so please don't bother asking. (By the way, unlike Ringo Starr, these questions and requests don't make me angry nor do they make me feel the need to make a podcast.)"

Hounded by goths - how sad....

So what made her quit?

Jules

i do not know julianne regan, any more than the next person who talks to her online, but AAE were then, and remain now, right upthere with led zep as one of my very favourite bands. i feel strangely defensive toward her, and you know what, if she doesn't want to she doesn't have to and she certainly doesn't have to justify herself to the likes of us.

Absolutely.

And that applies to all musicians. Just because one might buy their product, weirdly some then expect those artists to be forever beholden.....

damn you chris i thought you were gonna disagree with me xxxx

While I'm not disagreeing about your sentiment, I do have to wonder how expressing curiosity about someone's motives is the same as demanding that someone "justify herself" or displays an expectation of eternal beholding ...

All of a sudden we're not allowed to be curious?


Edit: Retraction in response to Chris's reply

I was referring more to Julianne's "I also do not want to take part in any 'Washed Up Goths Train Puppies to Juggle Dead Mice in the Rainforest' shows" comment than anything posted here....

Which I took in the spirit I am sure it was intended to be ie to be an entirely humourous comment about her not wanting to be on the 'Goth reunion' tour ladder.

I saw her do 'WKWTTG' at Cropredy when I was a pup and it's one of my best memories.

Why do we assume that - if its the music business - someone aged in their 40s still wants to do the same job they did when they were 20.

I hope that Julianne is leading a full and happy life dipping her toe in and out of music as and when she wants to.

DW

I don't know David, but it seems to me to be as valid an assumption as the one you seem to be making ... unless you have some inside information of course  :).

While reading through the thread, I was feeling curious about it myself and if Jules hadn't asked I probably would have in the hopes that if she had made the reasons public someone would have pointed us at those reasons, and if not, a simple "we don't know, she hasn't shared her reasons" would definitely have sufficed. Instead, Jules gets pilloried for asking a simple question, and your response seems to be piling on (unless I'm reading too much into it - if so I take it back).

I sometimes wonder if people put these threads up to see if I'm still awake - yep, I'm here!!  And sure enough, I can mention there's a nice photo of Julianne Regan on page 87 of 'Festival Folk' from her performance at Cropredy in 2000

I thought that her appearances in the 'Sandy spot' in the 90's were the best of the various ladies (until Chris While took over recently, that is)

For a while I received an AAE fanzine. It seems to me that the band members went their own ways and Julianne realised that the creative moments and chemistry of it all had passed. Best quit while the party is swinging than become the Freddy & the Dreamers of the genre. Remember Simon or Peggy saying that about FC years ago.

Retirement should never be considered a bad thing (see the Bob Johnson thread elsewhere on here).

Let us wish her well, enjoy the memories and the live at Cropredy tracks.  :)

Was I being pilloried?  I thought I felt a small twinge.

 ;D

Jules

I'm sure I remember Julianne Regan doing WKWTTG on the Friday night in 1992. Didn't she do the Friday night with the (then) current band (+CL depping for Ric) and then Vikki Clayton appeared on the Saturday night with the Leige and Leif line up? Or was it the other way round??

Good version of More Than The Blues on the 25th anniversary CD.

If you read her myspace page (or listen to Jude talking about her new album), she is far from retired from music..she just doesn't get her kicks playing live any more.

And which year was it, when she had a brilliant gig with annA rydeR at the Mill, the night before the festival?

I think Julianne told us of her feelings about performing live amongst other things when she was our guest here on talkawhile.
http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=16695.0

soory jules, and everyone else, for starting this row, it's just, as tasha says, julianne has made her position quite clear - i am really a massive fan and would also love to see her live again, but (as i said in the first instance) *because* i love AAE so much, i feel like i want to protect her from that

abby x

I went to the 1992 cropredy and was sure she sang "Who Knows where the times goes?"

Thanks Tasha. I had not realized she had done a guest spot here. Now that I'm looking, I see a few more guests I missed out on. Looks like I have quite a bit of reading ahead of me.

She did, a recording of which is on A Box of Peggs.

The show she did at the Mill was amazing - a couple of songs which (I think) were only ever performed once and never officially recorded. Happy days indeed, and a wonderful singer... ;D

I had the great fortune to see AAE at Cropredy in the early 1990s, and  then their slimmed-down version supporting Fairport more recently.  Marvellous.
Speaking of Marvellous, there`s a really excellent DVD of AAE available performing live on Rockpalast, the German TV show, recorded on the Farewell Mr Sorrow tour.  Highly recommended.

With an emphasis on the officially.

 ;D  ;) ;D

She is a great singer, and for me personally in my late teens she was a great link between Fairport and the then current music scene.

People should seek out AAE's last album before the first split in 1992, "Ultraviolet", which was fantastic.

J

what a pity they'll only ever be remembered for the cock up on totp

Which was...?  (I obviously don't remember it!)

In the bad old miming days (but a live broadcast).  The music started.  They, sadly, didn't.....

You can see it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JIe8Zlvr4

That's nasty!  I can't bring myself to watch it again... it's too horrible to bear...and you just know it's not their fault at all...

Didn't TOTP let them on again the following week to perform "Martha's Harbour" live to make up for the cockup ?
By the way AAE's first two albums are superb !

All four of their albums are superb.

Yes, TOTP did let them back on the following week which boosted sales of the single and first album.

The 2-CD compilation "Keepsakes" covers all 4 albums plus a 2004 single and 4 (then) new 2006 tracks. There's also a bonus DVD of promos and videos which includes the TOTP appearance from the following week when everything worked.

Ah, yes.  Martha's Harbour is one of my favourite songs of all time.  Truly beautiful.  Can't say I ever really discovered All About Eve though (more of an oversight than there being anything I didn't like about them) - might be time for some catching up.

Is there a "best of" album? - Ah, question answered while I was typing!  Thanks Jamie, I'll have a look for that.

I only recently (about a year ago?) got hold of the first album, and I really like it.  Another band I discovered too late (sigh...)

never too late, will ;D

If you're friends with her on Facebook, you'll know this already, but Julianne is looking for people to sign up to her new email mailing list prior to a possible crowdfunded album.

This is what she wrote on Facebook:

If I am to make an album via crowdfunding, I need to have a mailing list. This seems to be a requisite for platforms such as Pledgemusic. It would be great if you could sign up, it'll take just a minute and it's the first step in the process. You know I will never use your email addresses for anything other than good! Thank you so much. I would really appreciate it x

http://julianneregan.us4.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=09974420b722811dc91b7bec7&id=93741e8930

Done!  :)