to be honest, i think the entire planet is going through an existential crisis at the moment. nothing makes sense, time is flying by on speed, and what little time we do have gets sucked up by screens and phones. whooosh
my remedy? I listen to my Eves records. My Mish. that slight rewinding of the clock puts a break on the whooosh, even if its just for an hour, and gives you time to think and take stock. (this isn't a new, omg retro i must dig out the music of my youth, I've been playing it since my youth non stop. Stuff like AAE and Scarlet have been the soundtrack to my entire life, more or less, at this point. Music is grounding. It makes us remember. but, in my experience, not in a maudlin nostalgia way. it takes us back to the person we were before life got in the way. and that person could handle the whooosh. so... (obscure reference) the jar of dirt helps.
I bought it on cassette and then re bought it on cd later. Used to play it on a loop on my Walkman
Saw you at Newcastle city hall on the Scarlet tour and again on the Jesus tour.
I remember you all squeezed into a mini bus parked at the stage door after the gig signing stuff for fans. I wasn’t prepared for it so I had to ask you to sign my ticket and you spotted that I was wearing a bootleg T-shirt 😀
For the record I wore the legit scarlet tour T-shirt literally til it fell apart 😞
Seeing the band up close during the signing was surreal. Actually speaking to a music hero? And reading these very personal posts that you share have the same feeling
Makes me feel privileged to read them. I really hope that sharing helps you
If I look back on my ups, one was when I had a well-payed (and more importantly, respected) job, another was just prior to that when I had fewer commitments and more time and went to an awful lot of gigs (none of which were awful but rather excellent and life-affirming).
Apparently, I turned 60 the other day which means I'm even less likely to pop to Amsterdam for the weekend now but instead have a few glasses of wine and potter about with my hobbies. It just so happens that for me that the work/money/hobby balance at the moment is...acceptable.
The frosts are almost gone and the daffodils are coming out. Surround yourself with friends and engage in activities which give you the most contentment (or are the most distracting, depending on requirements)!
Fellow lover of 'Themes for Great Cities' here, as well as being a lover of your work with AAE.
Sadly I only got to see you perform live once, but it was at the Royal Albert Hall and it was a fantastic gig. A couple of years prior (possibly TMI!) I lost my virginity while listening to 'All About Eve' and 'Martha's Harbour' specifically 😆
Although I haven't heard your latest work with Tim (I just learned about it this week reading a magazine on holiday), I will be checking it out for sure.
My OH works at Bath Spa Uni., so it was fascinating to learn that you'd been working there until quite recently.
I have just turned 53. I started listening to music as an actual pastime at a very young age...maybe 8 or 9 years old. My very first album, my album that I picked and was bought for me, but I actually cherished and loved, was Adam and The Ants Prince Charming, whatever the year that came out against me being born in 72 will tell you what age I actually was. I started listening to All About Eve in 1988 at the age of 16 and I became passionately addicted to their sound, the BANDS sound, their look, their philosophy and of course, the hauntingly beautiful, melancholic, wistful and sometimes joyous sound of the hypnotically beautiful Julianne Regan. The perfect band? They were/are to me. I say "are" for a few reasons. Yes the album(s) were released some time ago....does that matter? The works of Queen, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, AC/DC etc etc were all donkeys ago....but we still love them and they very much still matter, especially to those who love them, those albums are very personal and meaningful, locking in very personal memories and nostalgia like a favourite photograph, only music takes it that stage farther.....on listening, those times actually come back into our heads like magic and the feelings of the time with them. What else can do that? So, the debut and Scarlet were a long time ago, but they are still here and with a quick drop of the needle, press of play button on a cassette player, CD player or even, god forbid, a stream onto some earbuds....they are STILL here and STILL relevant. The passage of time only makes them more valuable, not less. So AAE commercially were not as big as those bands I mentioned earlier, so the mas of people who feel the love may not quite be as large, but for those who do the importance of them is JUST as massive.....maybe more so because, at least personally, I felt like I knew something most others didn't at the time, I had music from the best band in the world to listen to and they didn't, AAE were mine and a select few others....sounds a bit silly but it's how I felt. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say, dearest, most lovely Julianne, is.....you still matter enormously and so does that amazing gift you and your bandmates gave us and left with us forever more to enjoy and pass on. You're a legend, a hero and an inspiration. It's as blissfully simple as that! XXX much love!!
I'm about to turn 55 on the 19th and I remember the day it came out and I bought it from Rhythmic record in Greenock as an early 18th birthday present to myself and as it was an LP was checking out the intro's.
When wild hearted woman came on i distinctly thought " bugger me, that one sounds like Rush!!"
All the more reason to love the band. Alas, I only caught them live twice
Cottier's theatre for fairy light nights and on the Renfrew Ferry. Both Glasgow.
It was a great night though I'm surprised I didn't dazzle you from the audience. I'd just given up the ghost and chopped off my very long but thinking hair and my bonce for the gig. The reflection off my napper must've been outrageous!
It's a classic album and one of which I hope you are very proud. I never managed to see you perform live - I moved from the UK to NZ around the time of Scarlet, and didn't return for almost 20 years. Perhaps, one day, with luck, that might be something I can rectify? All the best, though, with whatever you choose to do - you have made many people (myself included) happy with your music.
Happy Anniversary to the album! I saw you on almost every date of the March 87 tour with The Mission and it was wonderful. In The Meadow and Shelter From The Rain both stone cold classics 👏
to be honest, i think the entire planet is going through an existential crisis at the moment. nothing makes sense, time is flying by on speed, and what little time we do have gets sucked up by screens and phones. whooosh
my remedy? I listen to my Eves records. My Mish. that slight rewinding of the clock puts a break on the whooosh, even if its just for an hour, and gives you time to think and take stock. (this isn't a new, omg retro i must dig out the music of my youth, I've been playing it since my youth non stop. Stuff like AAE and Scarlet have been the soundtrack to my entire life, more or less, at this point. Music is grounding. It makes us remember. but, in my experience, not in a maudlin nostalgia way. it takes us back to the person we were before life got in the way. and that person could handle the whooosh. so... (obscure reference) the jar of dirt helps.
I bought it on cassette and then re bought it on cd later. Used to play it on a loop on my Walkman
Saw you at Newcastle city hall on the Scarlet tour and again on the Jesus tour.
I remember you all squeezed into a mini bus parked at the stage door after the gig signing stuff for fans. I wasn’t prepared for it so I had to ask you to sign my ticket and you spotted that I was wearing a bootleg T-shirt 😀
For the record I wore the legit scarlet tour T-shirt literally til it fell apart 😞
Seeing the band up close during the signing was surreal. Actually speaking to a music hero? And reading these very personal posts that you share have the same feeling
Makes me feel privileged to read them. I really hope that sharing helps you
If I look back on my ups, one was when I had a well-payed (and more importantly, respected) job, another was just prior to that when I had fewer commitments and more time and went to an awful lot of gigs (none of which were awful but rather excellent and life-affirming).
Apparently, I turned 60 the other day which means I'm even less likely to pop to Amsterdam for the weekend now but instead have a few glasses of wine and potter about with my hobbies. It just so happens that for me that the work/money/hobby balance at the moment is...acceptable.
The frosts are almost gone and the daffodils are coming out. Surround yourself with friends and engage in activities which give you the most contentment (or are the most distracting, depending on requirements)!
I love your writing. Thanks for sharing these thoughts and real time epiphanies!
Fellow lover of 'Themes for Great Cities' here, as well as being a lover of your work with AAE.
Sadly I only got to see you perform live once, but it was at the Royal Albert Hall and it was a fantastic gig. A couple of years prior (possibly TMI!) I lost my virginity while listening to 'All About Eve' and 'Martha's Harbour' specifically 😆
Although I haven't heard your latest work with Tim (I just learned about it this week reading a magazine on holiday), I will be checking it out for sure.
My OH works at Bath Spa Uni., so it was fascinating to learn that you'd been working there until quite recently.
Please keep making music if you can!
I have just turned 53. I started listening to music as an actual pastime at a very young age...maybe 8 or 9 years old. My very first album, my album that I picked and was bought for me, but I actually cherished and loved, was Adam and The Ants Prince Charming, whatever the year that came out against me being born in 72 will tell you what age I actually was. I started listening to All About Eve in 1988 at the age of 16 and I became passionately addicted to their sound, the BANDS sound, their look, their philosophy and of course, the hauntingly beautiful, melancholic, wistful and sometimes joyous sound of the hypnotically beautiful Julianne Regan. The perfect band? They were/are to me. I say "are" for a few reasons. Yes the album(s) were released some time ago....does that matter? The works of Queen, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, AC/DC etc etc were all donkeys ago....but we still love them and they very much still matter, especially to those who love them, those albums are very personal and meaningful, locking in very personal memories and nostalgia like a favourite photograph, only music takes it that stage farther.....on listening, those times actually come back into our heads like magic and the feelings of the time with them. What else can do that? So, the debut and Scarlet were a long time ago, but they are still here and with a quick drop of the needle, press of play button on a cassette player, CD player or even, god forbid, a stream onto some earbuds....they are STILL here and STILL relevant. The passage of time only makes them more valuable, not less. So AAE commercially were not as big as those bands I mentioned earlier, so the mas of people who feel the love may not quite be as large, but for those who do the importance of them is JUST as massive.....maybe more so because, at least personally, I felt like I knew something most others didn't at the time, I had music from the best band in the world to listen to and they didn't, AAE were mine and a select few others....sounds a bit silly but it's how I felt. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say, dearest, most lovely Julianne, is.....you still matter enormously and so does that amazing gift you and your bandmates gave us and left with us forever more to enjoy and pass on. You're a legend, a hero and an inspiration. It's as blissfully simple as that! XXX much love!!
Ha! My first album was Prince Charming too 😀
I'm about to turn 55 on the 19th and I remember the day it came out and I bought it from Rhythmic record in Greenock as an early 18th birthday present to myself and as it was an LP was checking out the intro's.
When wild hearted woman came on i distinctly thought " bugger me, that one sounds like Rush!!"
All the more reason to love the band. Alas, I only caught them live twice
Cottier's theatre for fairy light nights and on the Renfrew Ferry. Both Glasgow.
The Cottier Theatre, I remember it as a really pretty venue!
It was a great night though I'm surprised I didn't dazzle you from the audience. I'd just given up the ghost and chopped off my very long but thinking hair and my bonce for the gig. The reflection off my napper must've been outrageous!
Such a beautiful album. I saw you at the Albert Hall around the time of the Scarlet album. Wonderful gig. And yet another gorgeous album!
Same here - fantastic gig!
It's a classic album and one of which I hope you are very proud. I never managed to see you perform live - I moved from the UK to NZ around the time of Scarlet, and didn't return for almost 20 years. Perhaps, one day, with luck, that might be something I can rectify? All the best, though, with whatever you choose to do - you have made many people (myself included) happy with your music.
Still my all-time favourite album x
Happy Anniversary to the album! I saw you on almost every date of the March 87 tour with The Mission and it was wonderful. In The Meadow and Shelter From The Rain both stone cold classics 👏