A (very) limited number of T-shirts from the recent Juliana & Evan shows are now on sale at Juliana's official site. UPDATE Jan 16 - They are now sold out.
Priced at $20 plus shipping to US, Canada, Europe, Japan & Australia they are available in noir et blanc or couleur.
No sign of the mugs for sale, sadly.
A few more links for this week's Juliana & Evan shows in Boston:
The Boston Phoenix has a blog article on the choice of The Real Kids' Common at Noon in the setlist and the dedication to Billy Ruane. The article also has a YouTube clip of the song from the November 2 show.
As is now customary, spiketop has posted video from both shows at YouTube.
There's also a great set of photos (including the one above) posted at C. Van Slyke's Tumblr.
UPDATE:
Carsten has reviewed the first show with photos at Only Everything.
"Dando explained his cheerful chattiness as a byproduct of his delight in playing with his longtime friend, and Hatfield laughed and smiled more than she normally does onstage as the pair conferred on the set list, chords, and lyrics."
The November 1 Juliana & Evan show, reviewed at the Boston Globe.
(thanks to Carlos for the link.)
The set list from the second of two Juliana & Evan shows at Great Scott:
thanks again to Andrew for sharing this list via This is the Sound.
“I walked into a tree before I came onstage,” Hatfield explained before the pair’s sixth song, Teenage Fanclub’s “Cells.” She’d been on the street looking the other way at a homeless person and - bang.
Last night's Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott reviewed at the Boston Herald.
First mentioned last year, Ryan Schmidt's album Black Sheep, Run is finally released today. It features Juliana's vocals on the track Night The Bells Rang.
The song is available as a digital download from Amazon UK, Amazon US and at iTunes. There's also a CD option available via Ryan's Facebook page.
A couple of covers from last night's Juliana & Evan shows at Great Scott, Allston - Breakfast (Eugene Kelly) & Common At Noon (The Real Kids).
via spiketop
From last night's Juliana & Evan show at Great Scott, Allston - a song they didn't play at the New York shows.
via spiketop
The set list from the Juliana & Evan show last night at Great Scott:
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:
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.
