Run into the street and embrace strangers. Juliana's mp3 download project is back. Featuring 6 previously unavailable demo quality songs - Run, Cold In Here, Always In The Mood, I Don't Belong Anywhere, I Wish, X's and O's, plus Love Is Heaven and Not Enough (previously MySpace / iTunes exclusives) and a collection of songs from previous projects. As before this is part of the 'Honor System' so don't forget to use the 'donate' button.
“I make music because I’m compelled to make music, and I don’t know why. It’s just something I’m born with. I do find it hard to communicate in everyday life, and music has always been a way for me to communicate with people — much easier than talking.”
Juliana interviewed by The Duxbury Reporter ahead of her appearance at the Duxbury Free Library on 22 February.
After selling her Les Paul last week Juliana is now offering a Yahama acoustic, complete with her name carved on it. In a posting on the official messageboard she says she will award the guitar in exchange for her most liked poem submitted by email this week.
The Blender Blog has posted a recent video of Juliana performing an acoustic cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'Cover Me'. (She previously played this song at a Springsteen tribute show in April 2007)
Juliana is selling her Les Paul guitar from the Only Everything / 1995 era. The guitar was used in the video for 'What A Life' and was used as far back as 1993.
UPDATE 6 FEB - bids are now closed.
"A few unpublished chapters" from When I Grow Up are being made available in installments on Juliana's official site.
"Familiar Stranger" is available now. UPDATE - the chapters have since disappeared with Juliana's blogs but are, for now, available on Juliana's myspace blog.
Juliana's book reading / discussion at Northeastern University, Boston on 14 January 2009. A downloadable version is available on iTunes.
The Highway Girl interviewed Juliana at the Cafe Du Nord show in San Francisco in September. The video also includes clips from Live at Lime.
Recent interviews are now up at The Herald Dispatch and Friends Of Animals.
Photo / Video / Article links are now up here for the Chicago and Kansas City shows in December 2008.
"My brain is always working, but when I'm writing or playing music my brain sort of shuts down and goes into a mode where I don't have to worry about anything. In the creative process time stops, and you're just totally in the moment, and the whole rest of the world falls away."
Juliana Hatfield, interviewed by Joe Uchill for expressmilwaukee.com
"I needed support rom anywhere I could find it. I wanted to tell the truth and let people know what was going on. I'd had to cancel a book reading without an explanation, so it only seemed fair. I've had tons of reaction: people have been very sweet and kind."
Juliana, interviewed by The Observer.
Limewire has released a (US only) 6 track live EP - 'Live at Lime with Juliana Hatfield', recorded in New York in October 2008.
The tracklist:
- The Fact Remains
- Shining On
- My Sister
- My Baby...
- I Picked You Up
- Your Way Or The Highway
There's a video of part of the performance. Here.
Update
on 2010-12-08 22:13 by Craig
The LimeWire Store is closing on December 31, 2010.
Hopefully the 'Live at Lime' sessions will be made available to other retailers, but as it stands this Juliana recording will no longer be available anywhere.
Juliana read from her book and performed acoustically at New York's Housing Works Bookstore on 23 October 2008.
There's a photoshoot by Brad Walsh. The set list and other links are here
The Fact Remains - uploaded to YouTube by thedailycrosshatch
Listen to Juliana's interview for World Cafe where she performed This Lonely Love and The Fact Remains here
Pictures from the UK and Ireland shows have been posted by Carsten at the Only Everything site. Other fan photos at Flickr - London, London, Dublin.
Caroline Sullivan reviewed the London show (not altogether positively!) for The Guardian.
"The quality of life is really nice -- and sensible. And people don't seem as stressed out and angry as they are in the States. You get the feeling they're not struggling and pushing hard all the time. They're living their lives and there's an appreciation of things rather than a constant striving to see how far you can get. At this stage in my life, I'm just sort of into living."
Juliana speaks to Jae-Ha Kim of her love of Sweden in a travel oriented interview at Sun Sentinel