A couple of covers from last night's Juliana & Evan shows at Great Scott, Allston - Breakfast (Eugene Kelly) & Common At Noon (The Real Kids).
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From last night's Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott, Allston - a song they didn't play at the New York shows.
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The set list from the Juliana & Evan show last night at Great Scott:
- All My Life (Ben Lee)
- Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
- Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
- Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
- Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
- Down About It (Lemonheads)
- My Darling (Juliana Hatfield)
- Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
- Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
- It's About Time (Lemonheads)
- Breakfast (Eugene Kelly)
- Rain (Blake Babies)
- Common at Noon (The Real Kids)
- Law of Nature (Juliana Hatfield)
- Hospital (Lemonheads)
- Too Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
- When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
- Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
- $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
- What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
- Bit Part (Lemonheads)
- My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)
- Evan (Juliana Hatfield)
The Real Kids cover was dedicated to Boston promoter and scene regular Billy Ruane, who died last week.
Thanks to Andrew for sharing this list via This is the Sound.
Dando: "We never did anything 50/50, like a band, a duo. We helped each other out on our albums. We’ve never written together, but we’re going to try. We should really make up a name up for it, but I guess Juliana & Evan is good enough."
It's becoming clear from the recent run of interviews with Juliana and Evan that there is more to it than just a few low key acoustic shows from the pair. They have a positive influence on each other and appear to be at the embryonic stages of a new project, if not a fully fledged musical duo for the future. Yay.
The latest feature can be found at the Boston Herald.
"I didn't know what to expect after not seeing him for a long time — you never know if you're going to get the up Evan or the down Evan. When I wrote about 'shafts of light that dart down between the trees,' that's the part of Evan I was describing. Being his friend can be hard, and it's only lately that I've come to accept him as he is and not want to change him."
From a feature in the Boston Phoenix - 'Dando & Hatfield rekindle a musical courtship'
A second Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott, Allston, MA has been added for November 2, 2010.
Hatfield laughs and rolls her eyes. “Have you ever seen that movie Leaving Las Vegas?” she asks. “Evan and I are kind of like Elisabeth Shue and Nicolas Cage.” Dando nods, then asks, “Wait, are you a hooker?”
Juliana and Evan interviewed inbetween their recent New York shows in an article at New York Magazine.
A roundup of the latest links for the Juliana & Evan shows:
There's a nice set by Andrew at Cheap and Plastic covering both shows, including the merch - a Juliana & Evan mug anyone?
Other photosets from the September 30 show can be found from georgia.kral at Flickr, waydown_watson at Flickr, and at QRO Magazine.
There's also a blog review and photos at {City Girl} Knows.
The YouTubeification continues too. Arty farty but still cool angle alert in the following clip of Rain from September 29 by pilmgrimsprogress, who has more of the same at YouTube. This is followed by When You Loved Me from September 30, part of spiketop's marathon documentation of the shows, which has now spread to the second night.
The entire Juliana & Evan show from Wednesday September 29, 2010 at New York's Mercury Lounge can now be viewed on YouTube thanks to Spiketop's arm muscles of steel.
"This is explicitly about having sex with you," Dando mumbled, prefacing the hit "It's About Time."
"I didn't know that until we were rehearsing recently," Hatfield quipped, making light of it. "But I never did it."
"That's true," he said.
The second Juliana & Evan show at New York's Mercury Lounge reviewed with photos at The Village Voice.
A couple of tracks were added from Wednesday's set to last night's Juliana & Evan show at the Mercury Lounge:
- Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
- Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
- Rain (Blake Babies)
- Hospital (Lemonheads)
- Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
- Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
- Down About It (Lemonheads)
- Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
- All My Life (Ben Lee)
- When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
- What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
- Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
- My Darling (Juliana Hatfield)
- Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
- Bit Part (Lemonheads)
- Tourist (Juliana Hatfield)
- Too Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
- The End of the War (Juliana Hatfield)
- $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
- It's About Time (Lemonheads)
- Evan (Juliana Hatfield)
- Baby Gets High (Madder Rose)
- My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)
Groundhog Day - thanks again to Andrew for the photo and sharing this list via This is the Sound.
"On tracks off her latest release, 2010's Peace & Love, Hatfield sang diary-entry-esque lyrics about "butterflies landing on my pillow" ('Butterflies') and "missing your dreams" ('What Is Wrong'). They were sometimes abstract, sometimes intensely confessional, as in her ode to her singing partner, 'Evan.'"
Last night's Juliana & Evan show in New York reviewed (with photos) at Spin.
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"There’s a timelessness to their deceptively simple, distractingly pretty songs about drugs and despair and dreams (as momentary relief from insomnia)."
The September 29 Juliana & Evan show reviewed at Capital New York.
"the set is a meandering, pleasant enough meander through songs nobody bought for very good reason: because they aren't very good."
This 'meandering, pleasant enough meander' of a review is at Rock NYC.
"On the jaunty likes of 'Hospital' and 'Bit Part,' both Lemonheads tunes, they joined their voices in not-quite-perfect harmony, his resigned, foghorn bellow serving as a foil for her pained, strained -- yet somehow still gorgeous -- delivery."
Last night's Mercury Lounge show reviewed in Spinner.
The songs played at last night's Juliana & Evan show at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. Magnificent stuff and yes, they played the one he wrote about her and the one she wrote about him.
- Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
- Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
- Rain (Blake Babies)
- Hospital (Lemonheads)
- Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
- Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
- Down About It (Lemonheads)
- Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
- All My Life (Ben Lee)
- When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
- What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
- Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
- Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
- Bit Part (Lemonheads)
- Tourist (Juliana Hatfield)
- The End of the War (Juliana Hatfield)
- $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
- It's About Time (Lemonheads)
- Evan (Juliana Hatfield)
- Baby Gets High (Madder Rose)
- My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)
With thanks to Andrew for the photo and for sharing this list via This Is The Sound.
"Rather than a reunion, I think it's an experiment, trying to unify the two of us.Or an experiment in trying to blend the two of us, which is kind of a new thing. "
Juliana talks about the shows with Evan, plans to go to school, and using julianalogic explains why rock 'n' roll is dead to her in an interview with QRO Magazine.
It's been confirmed that Juliana will be playing another show with Evan Dando, this time in MA at Great Scott, Allston on November 1, 2010.