All about Eve
| All about Eve | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| founding | 1984, 1999 |
| resolution | 1993, 2004 |
| Last occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Julianne Regan |
bass |
Andy cousin |
guitar |
Toni Haimi |
Drums |
Ben Savigear |
| former members | |
Guitar, vocals |
Marty Willson-Piper (1991-1993; 2000-2002) |
guitar |
Tim Bricheno (until 1991) |
Drums |
Mark Price |
All About Eve were an English indie rock band that enjoyed success in their homeland in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Band history
The starting point of the band was the music journalist Julianne Regan from Coventry . The connection with the band Gene Loves Jezebel came about during an interview for Zig-Zag magazine . There she started as a bassist. Eventually she got ambitions as a singer and was, among other things, background singer for The Mission . They encouraged her to start her own band. First she tried drummer Manuela Zwingman under the name Swarm before teaming up with guitarist Tim Bricheno and bassist Andy Cousin, who previously played with Aemotti Crii . Together with drummer Mark Price they founded All About Eve .
They supported The Mission by hiring them regularly as the opening act. They released their first singles with the indie label Eden . When they hit the UK charts with songs like Flowers in Our Hair and In the Clouds , they were signed to Mercury Records in 1987 . The following year their debut album was released there with the band name as the title with which they came into the top 10. The album stayed in the charts for half a year and was awarded gold . Several songs on the album made it into the top 40 of the single charts, the biggest hit was Martha's Harbor , which reached number 10. The album was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith, founding member of the Yardbirds , who developed her roots, originally in Gothic Rock from The Mission and Siouxsie Sioux , towards alternative rock and pop. Samwell-Smith also produced the follow-up album Scarlet and Other Stories , which was released in the fall of 1989 and was as successful as the debut. Again there was a top 10 placement and gold as well as several top 40 hits.
During this time, Regan and Bricheno had developed a personal relationship and when it broke up, the guitarist left the band. He later went to the Sisters of Mercy . Marty Willson-Piper of The Church replaced him. With the line-up, the musical direction of the band also changed. Following the changing taste in music, they left Gothic music behind and developed into an indie guitar pop band. Her third album Touched by Jesus was produced by Warne Livesey and was released in 1991. Despite the modernization, the success lagged behind that of the beginnings.
After the band was not satisfied with the realignment, All About Eve made another change, this time towards Shoegaze and Dream Pop . Because there were discrepancies with the label, the fourth album Ultraviolet was released in 1992 by MCA . However, the fans no longer followed them and so both the album and the only chart single Some Finer Day missed the top 40. The band broke up a little later.
In the years that followed, the members devoted themselves to various projects, for example Julianne Regan founded the Mice project , was part of the Jules et Jim duo and sang at the Fairport Convention . When Wayne Hussey brought the band The Mission back to life in 1999, which had also been dissolved in the meantime , he asked if they would accompany them on tour again. Then All About Eve got back together and worked mainly as a live band in the following years. They released a number of live albums. The line-up also changed and on the fifth studio album Cinemasonic only Julianne Regan and Andy Cousin were left of the original line-up. Among other things, drummer Mark Price belonged to the band at times, who later played with Right Said Fred and Del Amitri . They had their last chart hit in 2004 with the song Let Me Go Home . In the same year the remaining two members fell out and broke up the band again.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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| 1988 | All about Eve |
UK7th  (29 weeks)UK |
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| 1989 | Scarlet and Other Stories |
UK9 (4 weeks)UK |
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| 1991 | Touched by Jesus |
UK17 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1992 | Ultraviolet |
UK46 (1 week) UK |
More albums
- Live at Brixton Academy (1989)
- Taken from Ultraviolet (1992)
- BBC Radio One: Live in Concert (1993, recorded at Glastonbury Festival in 1989 )
- Fairy Light Nights: Live Acoustic (2000)
- Live at Union Chapel (2001)
- Unplugged (2001)
- Fairy Light Nights, Vol. 2 [live] (2001)
- Live and Electric at Union Chapel (2002)
- Iceland (2002)
- Live at Brixton (2003)
- Cinemasonic (2003)
- Acoustic Nights (2003)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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UK
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| 1987 | Our summer |
UK87 (2 weeks) UK |
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| Flowers in Our Hair All About Eve |
UK81 (4 weeks) UK |
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| In the Clouds All About Eve |
UK47 (5 weeks) UK |
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| 1988 | Wild Hearted Woman All About Eve |
UK33 (4 weeks) UK |
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| Every Angel All About Eve |
UK30 (5 weeks) UK |
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| Martha's Harbor All About Eve |
UK10 (8 weeks) UK |
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| What Kind of Fool All About Eve |
UK29 (4 weeks) UK |
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| 1989 | Road to Your Soul Scarlet and Other Stories |
UK37 (4 weeks) UK |
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| December Scarlet and Other Stories |
UK34 (6 weeks) UK |
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| 1990 | Scarlet Scarlet and Other Stories |
UK34 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1991 | Farewell Mr Sorrow Touched by Jesus |
UK36 (2 weeks) UK |
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| Strange Way Touched by Jesus |
UK36 (2 weeks) UK |
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| The Dreamer Touched by Jesus |
UK41 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 1992 | Phased (EP) |
UK38 (2 weeks) UK |
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| Some Finer Day Ultraviolet |
UK57 (1 week) UK |
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| 2004 | Let Me Go Home |
UK52 (1 week) UK |
swell
- ↑ Julianne Regan - Artist Biography , Chris True, Allmusic, accessed March 1, 2015
- ^ Gold / platinum database of the British Phonographic Industry (search for "All About Eve")
- ↑ Touched by Jesus (album review), Chris True, Allmusic, accessed March 1, 2015
- ^ Ultraviolet (album review), Chris True, Allmusic, accessed March 1, 2015
- ↑ The Big Interview: All About Eve , Peter Woods, BBC, April 10, 2004
- ↑ All About Eve at Soundclick, accessed March 1, 2015
- ↑ A Little About Eve , goony.nl, accessed March 1, 2015
- ↑ a b All About Eve in the UK charts
Web links
- Unofficial website (English)
- Julianne Regan website (English)
- All About Eve on MySpace
- All About Eve at Allmusic (English)