el proyecto musical de Juliana Hatfield y Matthew Caws el 15 de mayo de 2014 en Madrid. versionando a Robyn Hitchcock Aquí otro de los temas de MINOR ALPS - Live On Tomorrow (15-05-2014) - Sala El Sol - Madrid http://youtu.be/Pm5fYp9kaAc siguenos en Facebook http://www.facebook.com/lachatarreria http://www.lachatarreria.com
Here's a Robyn Hitchcock cover performed by Minor Alps at their Madrid show back in May, but only just posted to YouTube by La Chaterreria. There's also a new clip of Live On Tomorrow from the same event.
Because that's the news you've come here for. Minor Alps videos from 6 months ago, right?
(More on that other thing soon.)
Exclamation mark in post title! Big news!
On the same freaking day that David Lynch announced the return of Twin Peaks, Juliana confirmed the reformation of The Juliana Hatfield Three. It was all a bit much for those of us old enough to remember the early 90s.
I am kind of excited to announce that the Juliana Hatfield Three has reformed to make a new album--our second, after "Become What You Are"
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) October 6, 2014
Last year Juliana mooted the possibility of playing some 'Become What You Are' shows and continued to talk about it during the recent Minor Alps European tour. That she's reforming the band (with Dean Fisher and Todd Philips) and recording new music is even better news. The new album, the second to be released under the JH3 moniker over 21 years later, will be a fan funded thing.
The project is now
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Juliana:
Todd, Dean, and I have just begun recording with the lovely and talented Tom Beaujour (who worked with me and Matthew [Caws] on the Minor Alps album) at the Nuthouse in Hoboken, New Jersey, and so far it is going great. Some of you may have previously heard some version of some of the songs we are working on. For example, one of the songs we are exploring is “If I Could”. We have always loved this song but there have only ever been demos of it; it has never been properly finished or produced. There are multiple attempted versions of it but the nut has never been quite cracked, and this has always sort of haunted me. Now I feel like I finally have the chance to get it right with Todd and Dean. We are also exploring electricized band versions of a couple of the punchier acoustic home-recorded songs from my last album, “Wild Animals”. And there will be some other surprises.
Things of note in the Pledge exclusives:
VIP tour soundcheck passes (for US dates to be confirmed circa March 2015)
God's Foot demos!
Skype guitar lessons
Juliana's Cream SG
There's plenty of other stuff including artwork, clothing and instruments.
Also, Juliana's on-off 'it's complicated' relationship with Facebook appears to be back on. There's now a Juliana Hatfield Three page, together with her reactivated official page.
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UPDATE November 9, 2014 - The project is now 100% funded.
i'm getting the old band back together
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) September 29, 2014
JH3/2
— Todd A. Philips (@taphilips) September 28, 2014
'b-sides' pic.twitter.com/BLBTufv88v
— matthew caws (@nadasurf) September 4, 2014
Nada Surf have today announced a new b-sides compilation, to be released later this month - September 19 (EU) and 23 (US).
The track list features extra tracks from their last 4 albums and includes 'I Wanna Take You Home', which originally appeared on a bonus CD on 'Lucky' in 2008. It has not previously been available for download / streaming.
The song features Matthew Caws and Juliana Hatfield on dual vocal. The first ever Minor Alps song, sort of.
This is Minor Alps (Juliana Hatfield) (Matthew Caws) doing "I Want To Take You Home" live at Main St Records in Manayunk Pa on November 22 2013..
More Blake Babies related news then. Following her live appearance in Chicago back in May, Freda's band are now back in business, recording new songs with possible live shows in 2015.
Thanks to Carlos for the info.
This is the official twitter for the Blake Babies! @johnpstrohm @julianahatfield @jaycoyle @staceesledge @fredalovesmith
— Blake Babies (@blakebabies) August 23, 2014
We'll be posting updates on some projects we're planning. We have no present plans to play shows or make new music, sorry!
— Blake Babies (@blakebabies) August 23, 2014
A Blake Babies official Twitter account launched today. Hopefully it might lead to us hearing some of this:
Some relics here...working on a potential compilation of stuff nobody has ever heard before!
A photo posted by @johnpstrohm on
gotta move out of my apt. into a smaller space & so i'm going to unload a bunch of my paintings on ebay starting tonight to help clear out
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 10, 2014
Self-Portrait With Katy Perry's Body pic.twitter.com/CZLJWRI5rb
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 10, 2014
12 of Juliana's paintings are now for sale on eBay.
UPDATE - Aug 19, 2014 MOAR:
there are a few new paintings and a drawing of mine up for auction here: http://t.co/2vBxOfxzCi
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 19, 2014
UPDATE - July 1, 2015 - there's another auction with a further Katy Perry piece.
Minor Alps, on the question of more music and that song they worked on in Europe:
Juliana Hatfield : On n’a pas de projets. Matthew a commencé à travailler sur le prochain Nada Surf donc il va surtout faire ça et on n’a pas de projet après ce soir, notre dernière date. Aucun projet.
Matthew Caws : Si ! On a commencé à parler d’un enregistrement ! On a cette reprise…
Juliana Hatfield : On a aussi écrit une chanson sur scène.
Matthew Caws : Ah oui ça aussi !
Juliana Hatfield : On a écrit une partie de la chanson et on veut enregistrer cette reprise qu’on joue en live donc il y a ces deux idées.
Matthew Caws : Oui, c’est cool ! On ne sait jamais, peut-être que ça pourrait aller ensemble : on a ce refrain qu’on a écrit au début de la tournée et on ne sait jamais, ça pourrait être le couplet ce qui serait énorme. Parce que... c’est dur à dire. On a écrit le couplet le plus joyeux du monde… et puis il y a la reprise…
Juliana Hatfield : Il y a toujours d’autres trucs qui peuvent mener à des futurs trucs…
The full interview (en français) from the final night of the recent European tour in Paris can be read at Froggy's Delight. There's also a review of the show.
Thomy Keat's photo portraits used in the interview can be viewed in higher res at Taste Of Indie.
There's a few on and off stage photos of Juliana from the variety show in New York last week at withreservation.
Also, from the recent Minor Alps shows in Europe these sets on the Flickr by Carsten:
Bonus nostalgia pic from Flickr search:
Matthew Caws, on the cover art for 'Get There':
It’s a photograph from the Olympic Peninsula, near Seattle. It’s not an Alp. We actually were messing around with a lot of photos of the Alps themselves; there were some really cool ones, night time ones, but it was hard to make them work. They were awesome, but really weird and dark. I’ve actually had a bad experience with that in the past, with a Nada Surf record we did called Lucky. You don’t always know how it’s going to print; you’re looking at your computer screen and thinking it looks great, but obviously the screen is generating light. You get the real thing and think “oh, man. This is not how I thought it was gonna look, it’s really fucking flat.” We love that picture too, though. It’s a nice fit, I think.
Dating back to their Manchester show in April, there's an interview with Juliana and Matthew published today at Drowned In Sound.
John Strohm (Blake Babies) song performed at The Hideout, Chicago, May 26, 2014
Freda returning to the live stage, performing with Robbie Fulks last week in Chicago. See also Out There, Temptation Eyes, Steamboat Whistle Blues, Lord, Can You Hear Me, Mad At A Girl and Nothing Ever Happens.
Thanks to hmc1410 for uploading and Carlos for spotting this on the YouTube.
la flèche d'or, paris 19 may 2014
Linkage not previously posted here:
Carsten's Tour Database / Google Maps overview of the tour
YouTube:
Lausanne (whole show)
Out There @ Madrid
Inside Of Love @ Bordeaux
Candy Wrappers @ Paris
Bette Davis Eyes @ Paris
Reviews:
Rave Child (Glasgow)
Bearded Magazine (Brighton)
Let's hope this is not the last we hear of Minor Alps. Big thanks to Matthew and Juliana for bringing this project to Europe.
Taken from mariovzq's Flickr uploads of last night's show in Madrid.
There's a separate set by Bsides.es too.
Thanks to Estanis for these photos taken at last night's show in Barcelona.
See the full set at el dedo índice.
Estanis reports that this week is the first time Juliana has ever played in Spain so this was a pretty big deal for Spanish fans.
Juliana is billed to appear as part of a variety show at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York on June 18, 2014.
'Meet Me In The Bathroom And Tell Me All Your Secrets' is curated by comedian Dave Hill and tickets are available via Ticketfly.
Juliana's cover of 'Needle In The Hay' by Elliott Smith is released today* on the 'I Saved Latin!' compilation album - a tribute to Wes Anderson.
*It is available in physical and digital formats in the US. The UK digital stores and stream services also have it today with Amazon UK showing a CD date of May 26. Other regions may vary.
Matthew+I are going 2 informally play some songs @8 tonight @ la place de la cathedrale in Strasbourg. if it rains, rue des grandes arcades
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 12, 2014After Bordeaux at the end of this week it will be 25 nights without a break.
Concert acoustique improvisé Minor Alps (Nada Surf), rue des Grandes Arcades #Strasbourg pic.twitter.com/SFTT3bn8gZ
— alain walther (@alainwalther) May 12, 2014Uploaded by inaleaguewithsatan on 2014-05-11.
Also, Maxon
