ALL ABOUT EVE

All About Eve have been around for a long time and, understandably, a lot of people have an outdated idea of what they sound like. Hopefully this will be chance for people to get to know the band again or even get to know them for the first time.

1 9 9 2 to 2 0 0 2 All About Eve split in 1992 but re-formed (briefly with Mark Price back on drums but who since joined Right Said Fred (!) and then Scotlands Del Amitri), in late 1999, and played three shows supporting old chums The Mission. They then began to play acoustic shows at venues such as Liverpools Neptune Theatre, The Leeds Varieties Playhouse, and Ronnie Scotts. Since 1999, they released two volumes of live acoustic recordings, and also released a live electric album from their sell-out Christmas 2000 show at Londons Union Chapel. In December 2001, they repeated their sell-out of the Union Chapel. They will play the Union Chapel again in December 2003 They did an electric tour of the UK in May, showcasing songs from which will appear on their first studio album for a decade scheduled for release in 2004. Prior to the tour, the band parted company with guitarist Marty Willson-Piper due to the age-old adage of musical and personal differences! Willson-Piper was replaced by Toni Haimi who had been in NME-hopefuls Malluka and also in Nozzle (with Dave Blomberg of New Model Army and Dance on Glass) and prior to that, in Finlands cult band, Lowdown Shakin Chills. NME on Toni HaimiThankfully, Malluka are free of the patchouli'n'panstick nightmares of yore. Malluka are goth, like Joy Division or Girls Against Boys were goth - not in the details, but in their morbid romanticism, the scorched-earth bareness of their sound, the way they fetishise being pale, skinny and intense. Were Malluka a great deal less subtle, less earthy, they'd be Placebo. Guitarist Toni Haimi looks like a young and - impressively - more sinister Jimmy Page, alternating between noose-tight rhythm lines and loose, flowering solos with ease. Christmas 2002 The band release Iceland, through their website only a themed Winter album comprising new compositions alongside covers of Last Christmas by Wham and A Winters Tale by Queen. It received very favourable reviews on many Internet publications and also in Uncut magazine. 2 0 0 3 All About Eve embarked upon a UK tour from April 3rd through to May 3rd. Drummer Del Hood had to leave the band due to his geographical re-location (!) and was replaced for this tour by the colourful powerhouse that is Robin Guy (ex of cool cult Glamsters Rachel Stamp). Robin also has a few Summer festivals with Bruce Dickinson on his C.V! "Robins usual tireless self and showmanship come as a welcome break. Metal Hammer" One British drummer determinedly keeping showmanship alive Rhythm Magazine AAEs drummer situation took another Spinal Tap turn when Robin Guy had a clash of commitments and had to go out on the road with Martin Grech (car advert man!) just as the Eves needed him. Very amicably, Robin put the band in touch with the man who was to be his replacement. Ben Savigear. Live DVD and CD Cinemasonic was released to coincide with tour (Contains 18 tracks and 6 new songs and a majestic cover of Bowies Life On Mars and 15 minutes of candid footage. Also an 11 track CD released for those not yet DVDd up. Both available initially mail order at www.allabouteve.net ) WHITBY GOTHIC WEEKEND NOVEMBER 2003 All About Eve headlined the final night of the WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND http://topmum.co.uk - "All About Eve? I'm astonished to find myself saying this, but they were absolutely storming. I've cordially disliked AAE ever since their hippy days, and I fully expected them to deliver a set of weedy folkiness at Whitby. But that set was PUNK ROCK! Masses of energy and humour, rip-roaring guitar-work (you can't beat a soundly thrashed Gibson Les Paul, that's what I say), and Julianne dropping in the one-liners like she was doing stand-up. SOLO and COLLABORATION Julianne Regan has been involved in various side-projects, having worked with members of The Dream Academy (best known for Number 1 hit Life In A Northern Town), Jah Wobble, The Mission, Irelands critically acclaimed darkwave band This Burning Effigy, Bernard Butler of Suede and Japanese art-rockers Schaft. She released a solo album under the guise of a band called Mice in 1996, critically acclaimed but deemed at the time to be too much of a departure from her roots by the All About Eve audience. Now re-released under the title New & Improved, it is enjoying more success. With Jean-Marc Lederman, a friend from the early line-up of Gene Loves Jezebel that Julianne was in before she formed All About Eve, she has a project called Jules et Jim and has released a mini-album of sophisticated electro-pop, called Subtitles. Andy Cousin, having once spent a 3 year stint in The Mission, masterminded a successful project called The Lucy Nation who contributed a song to the multi-platinum selling soundtrack to the last Austin Powers film and were signed by Madonnas Maverick label.