tomorrow, 2 p.m., EST (eastern standard time[massachusetts time]) we will launch my new pledgemusic.com peoplefunded project
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) June 1, 2013
That's 7pm British Summer Time, 6pm UTC.
As spotted by Andrew on the This Is The Sound group, there is a new* song titled Miles Away available to listen at Juliana's PledgeMusic profile page.
Bring on tomorrow.
*it's a new old song
Uploaded by Evie170 on 2013-05-31.
Juliana's new album project launches tomorrow (Sunday, June 2). While we wait, here's some further footage from last year's Melbourne shows with Evan Dando as uploaded to YouTube this week by Evie170.
See also Bit Part, All My Life, and It's About Time.
Thanks to Carlos for the tip.
Andrew Youssef:
I follow Hatfield on Twitter and was intrigued when she announced a Pledge Music campaign for fans to fund her new album of cover songs. One of the limited packages was a fifteen minute phone call with Hatfield for fifty dollars. I immediately got out my Visa card and made the donation as I knew it would sell out. The chance to speak with one of my favorite artists and guitar heroes was a no-brainer.
Ironically, at the time she was supposed to call was the day my chemotherapy ran later than usual. So I have a voice mail on my phone from Hatfield saying she would try back later. When I finally did talk to her, my anxieties melted away as it was effortless talking to her about guitar pedals, working with Josh Freese on her album "Only Everything" and how Nada Surf were criminally underrated.
Read the whole article at OC Weekly.
Andrew links to his photos from last year's Q Division shows in his piece. You can view some of his other work at amateurchemist.com.
Low Times Podcast:
Maggie Serota sits down with entertainment lawyer John P. Strohm to chat about his roots in the Boston music scene of the late 80s, founding The Blake Babies with ex-girlfriend Freda Love and Juliana Hatfield and playing in The Lemonheads with Evan Dando. He also discusses the shift from trying to eke out a living as an indie musician to becoming an attorney specializing in working with artists.
It's a very good interview and well worth a listen for any Blake Babies / Juliana fan.
You can hear it via the episode page at Low Times.
John's interview is the last section of the episode and begins after the 1 hour 4 minute mark.
rock and roll! twitter.com/julianahatfiel…
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 10, 2013
For those who don't follow Juliana on Twitter, she posted the above tweet earlier this month, plus others from the studio in New Jersey, where she continues to work with Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.
No further news has emerged on this project which doesn't seem to be following the fan funded route so far.
The two have worked together before of course. They've guested on each other's albums and Nada Surf's Fruit Fly featured on Juliana's eponymous covers album last year.
been making big plans with matthew caws twitter.com/julianahatfiel…
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 31, 2013
From 1p Album Club - Friends buying and reviewing albums bought from Amazon Marketplace for 1p.:
This is an album millions of people would love but hardly anyone owns.
True dat.
Ok then, more.
Here's some terrific videos of the Australian tour taken by Bambino Koresh's leticianischang:
UPDATE: See also Ride With Me (Sydney), It's About Time (Sydney) and Pale Blue Eyes (Melbourne Night 2).
Down About It (Sydney):
Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield perform 'Down about It' Metro Theatre Sydney 20th December 2012
Choose Drugs (Sydney):
from the Metro Theatre 20th December 2012
Ugly (Melbourne Night 2):
from Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield Australian tour Ugly live at the Corner Hotel, Richmond December 19th 2012
Somebody Is Waiting For Me (Melbourne Night 2):
from the Corner Hotel, Melbourne December 19th 2012
Ride With Me (Melbourne Night 1):
'Ride With Me' live at the Corner Hotel, Richmond 18th December 2012
From the Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield Australian Tour 'My Sister' live at the Rosemount, Perth, 22nd December 2012
Set list courtesy of Charlie:
There's video of Juliana channelling Nico.
The Blake Babies (Dinosaur Jr) cover of Severed Lips was a special request from Bambino Koresh - the support band.
During a couple of Evan's songs, Juliana opted to lay on her back, motionless, with a guitar resting on her stomach:
Her attempt at meditating to the Dando sound was interrupted by a member of the stage crew checking she was ok!
This Perth show was the last of Evan and Juliana's late 2012 tours of UK, Ireland and Australia.
Thanks to all who have helped to tell the story of these shows including contributors to this site (including Carlos for various links), together with the members of This Is The Sound, and the forum at evandando.co.uk.
Juliana Hatfield & Evan Dando, @ The Metro, Sydney, 20th December 2012 "My drug buddy"
Reviews of this Sydney show (plus a photoset by Maria de Vera*) and the preceding night at Melbourne are at Tone Deaf.
UPDATE: Maria's Sydney photos are also on Flickr, where browsing / navigation is better.
Juliana Hatfield & Evan Dando @ The Metro, December 20th 2012, Sydney. "Lament" Blake babies
Blake Babies FTW.
Also, photosets by Pete Dovgan at The AU Review and Maria de Vera at Flickr.
Juliana Hatfield & Evan Dando, The Metro, Sydney 20th December 2012. "Somebody is waiting for me" and "Ride with me"
Uploaded by rilovski on 2012-12-18.
There are some great photosets by Andrew Briscoe at East13 Photography, by Mary Boukouvalas at The AU Review, and Tony Proudfoot at Tone Deaf.
Also, a nice blog review by ana74x at A Day In The Life..:
Then came time for Evan and Juliana. They alternated between his and her songs, most of the time singing on each others anyway. I desperately wanted to hear them sing Gram Parsons’ “$1000 Wedding”, which they did beautifully, as well as The Velvet Underground’s “Pale Blue Eyes”. So so good. They sound so amazing together, and seemed to be having a good time.
There are some other comments from attendees at the This is the Sound group.
If you read Melody Maker 20 years ago, you'll remember writer Everett True.
In his unique style True writes about the Brisbane show for Collapse Board:
Two guitars, nothing else, and the mood is how you’d hope Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris once managed to capture it – Juliana and Evan are clearly very familiar with, and comfortable with, each other’s work. They alternate leads, except when they don’t. Everything drags slightly. That’s fine. We’re older now. Some songs it works just great. Others it doesn’t.
A report from Charlie, a Pom down under on tonight's show in Melbourne:
Can't really believe it, but just been to show at Corner Hotel. Very relaxed atmosphere lots of laughter, smiles and banter. Pretty much the same set as UK although shorter 'coz of support act.
Only noticeable difference is "Tourist" was included and that Evan also played electric but only on "Pale Blue Eyes" which has been last song/encore on both nights.
Tonight Evan played three solo songs to close the night and Juliana, who'd left the stage came back on for PBE.
The vocals are meshing better with each passing show.
The support, Bambino Koresh, are an electric drum, bass, guitar three piece who, clearly, like Neil Young, so there's plenty of electric guitar to enjoy there too.
Another little Aussie Q&A with Evan and Juliana at news.com.au:
J: We don't talk much about feelings. We have this thing in common, we like to make music and it's a language we both can speak. We don't really have to connect in other ways.
Ahead of the Australian tour which begins on Sunday (Dec 16), Melbourne's Beat Magazine has a short interview with Evan & Juliana:
Dando remembers encountering the members of the Black Babies (sic), albeit with the odd skewed image. “The drummer had a really nice rack,” adds Dando, to Hatfield’s amusement. “She did, she had a really nice rack,” Hatfield laughs. “Yeah, it was a great rack of toms,” Dando clarifies. “Actually, she didn’t have a rack of toms at all,” Hatfield counters.
blake babies "epilogue" --our very last record release/ep---is out now --available for the first time for your digital downloading pleasure
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) December 11, 2012
'Epilogue' - the last Blake Babies release from 2002, is now widely available for the first time from today via most digital outlets including iTunes and Spotify.
The EP was originally available in limited numbers on CD and sold principally at the final Blake Babies live shows in the US.
It features 3 covers (Fleetwood Mac's 'Walk A Thin Line', MC5's 'Shakin' Street' and The Ramones' 'I Wanna Be Sedated'), a remix of 'Nothing Ever Happens', and an original Hatfield / Strohm composition - 'My Motor'. It's not automatic. You've got to work that stick.
'Epilogue' was the first release on Juliana's Ye Olde Records label. A handful of remaining cds found at Ye Olde HQ were sold by Juliana at $200 each as part of her first PledgeMusic project in 2011.
It's a bit cheaper now.
