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Coventry's Julianne Regan has enjoyed chart success as the brilliant and unique vocalist in the band 'All About Eve' and her profile is also high due to other projects such as Gene Loves Jezebel and Jules Et Jim.
A: So Julianne, can you bring us up to date with what you have been doing
since you were in All About Eve?
J: Well, we 'kind of' split up in 1991 (I think!) and I did nothing to do with music for a while. I was sick of it, or rather, sick of the industry. I tried very hard to NOT do music in fact.
After a while I cracked and started writing songs on my own. I then met a chap called Tim McTighe, who, strangely enough, is from Bedworth although I'd never met him until 1995 in London!
We started writing together and the project blossomed into an album and a tour and was called Mice.
At the time, it got lumped in with all the Brtipop Elastic stuff, but, it wasn't really like it much at all.
I also wrote an album with Bernard Butler (ex of Suede and now of McAlmont and Butler) but we fell out with each other before we could actually record it!
I also wrote a bunch of songs with an old friend from Gene Loves Jezebel days. He's Jean-Marc Lederman and he lives in Brussels. We released a 5 track mini-album and are in the process of writing and recording a follow-up. So far, we've had more success in Europe than here, but that's fine.
A: You have worked with Mice and Jules et Jim. Do you find it easier working with different people and on different projects or dedicating your time to one band?
J: I think that if you have several projects on the go, as long as you dedicate enough time and energy to them, they can all help each other. You can learn things on one project and with one person and then bring it to slightly influence what other things you are involved in.
I get bored and frustrated if you have to live and breathe one thing constantly. It's not healthy and it gets stale and diluted.
Having said that, sometimes it can be appropriate to have a period of tunnel vision and obsession with one thing.
A: Where are you living now?
J: I live in North London and have lived here for about 20 years now.
 I also spent a Christmas there (Coventry) a few years ago and actually went to Church on Christmas day. I hadn't been for years and some of the Church ceiling caved in. My friend's Mum said it was with shock at my turning up there!
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A: Do you still visit Coventry?
J: Very occasionally. I don't have any family there anymore but two of my best mates from school still do and so I sometimes go there with one of them.
The last time I was in Coventry I was quite amazed at how the City Centre had changed over the years.
It seems so much more modern now. I went to a friend's family barbecue in Styvechale last Summer around about this time.
I also spent a Christmas there a few years ago and actually went to Church on Christmas day. I hadn't been for years and some of the Church ceiling caved in. My friend's Mum said it was with shock at my turning up there!
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A: What do you miss about Coventry?
How easy it is to get around it and how it doesn't matter if your mate lives on the other side of town.
In London, if you have friends that live South of the River, it's such a big deal to get to see them.
You know, London taxi's are notorious for doing the old "Nah love, can't go North of the river at this time of night. I'm on my way home...."
I also miss nice walks The Memorial Park....Although here in London, my local park is Alexandra Palace and that can be great too.
A: Why and when was the Mice album re-released with lots of extra B-sides?
J: It was released about a year ago and I wanted it to be more conclusive than the first release.
The first release also died before it was born as the record company that released it went bankrupt (just call me an albatross...).
It seemed like a good opportunity to finish some unfinished business, make it better value and get some songs out that might otherwise not have seen the light of day, songs that I'd just recorded at home and so on.
A: What are you doing at the moment? Have you got any other projects lined up?
J: I've been touring with All About Eve again and we have been writing new songs for the first album in ten years or so. Andy and I from AAE are also working on some harder edged, loop-based material that will hopefully be released as a totally separate project as it is inaccurate to call it All About Eve.
It wouldn't be fair on people if they bought it and expected to hear what we have previously sounded like. We don't yet have a name for the project yet though.
A: All About Eve were very popular and still have a large fan base. Do you
still have good memories of your time with the band or do you wish people
would leave it in the past?
J: I have mixed feelings. We have been doing a lot of gigs playing old material and I want to move on from that as it starts to feel as though you are in a tribute band to your own band!
It gets a pointless after a while, although, it can be great fun. So we have to move on. But I'm grateful that we have an audience and they have every right to expect us to be what we have been and to not throw too many surprises at them.
That's why Andy and I have to do a separate project, so as not to pull the wool over anyone's eyes and to keep ourselves feeling alive and fresh.
You can win Julianne Regan's CD's, Mice, Jules et Jim and two classic All About Eve CD's by following the link on the left.
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