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Live Review - Boston Herald

“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.

Video - Breakfast & Common At Noon (Nov 1)

Set List - Boston Nov 1

The set list from the Juliana & Evan show last night at Great Scott:

  1. All My Life (Ben Lee)
  2. Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
  3. Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
  4. Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
  5. Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
  6. Down About It (Lemonheads)
  7. My Darling (Juliana Hatfield)
  8. Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
  9. Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
  10. It's About Time (Lemonheads)
  11. Breakfast (Eugene Kelly)
  12. Rain (Blake Babies)
  13. Common at Noon (The Real Kids)
  14. Law of Nature (Juliana Hatfield)
  15. Hospital (Lemonheads)
  16. Too Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
  17. When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
  18. Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
  19. $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
  20. What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
  21. Bit Part (Lemonheads)
  22. My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)
  23. 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.

NYC Shows - More Photo, Video Links

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. Here's When You Loved Me from September 30, part of spiketop's marathon documentation of the shows, which has now spread to the second night.

Play: Juliana Hatfield Evan Dando 10. When You Loved Me (2nd Night)
Watch on YouTube

NYC Review - Village Voice

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"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.

Set List - NYC Sep 30

A couple of tracks were added from Wednesday's set to last night's Juliana & Evan show at the Mercury Lounge:

  1. Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
  2. Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
  3. Rain (Blake Babies)
  4. Hospital (Lemonheads)
  5. Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
  6. Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
  7. Down About It (Lemonheads)
  8. Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
  9. All My Life (Ben Lee)
  10. When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
  11. What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
  12. Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
  13. My Darling (Juliana Hatfield)
  14. Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
  15. Bit Part (Lemonheads)
  16. Tourist (Juliana Hatfield)
  17. Too Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedys)
  18. The End of the War (Juliana Hatfield)
  19. $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
  20. It's About Time (Lemonheads)
  21. Evan (Juliana Hatfield)
  22. Baby Gets High (Madder Rose)
  23. My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)

Groundhog Day - thanks again to Andrew for the photo and sharing this list via This is the Sound.

NYC Review - Spin

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"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.

NYC Reviews - Capital New York & Rock NYC

"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.

NYC Review - Spinner

"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.

Set List - NYC Sep 29

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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.

  1. Paid to Smile (Lemonheads)
  2. Choose Drugs (Juliana Hatfield)
  3. Rain (Blake Babies)
  4. Hospital (Lemonheads)
  5. Butterflies (Juliana Hatfield)
  6. Cells (Teenage Fanclub)
  7. Down About It (Lemonheads)
  8. Waiting For Heaven (Blake Babies)
  9. All My Life (Ben Lee)
  10. When You Loved Me (Juliana Hatfield)
  11. What Is Wrong (Juliana Hatfield)
  12. Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
  13. Brain Damage (Blake Babies)
  14. Bit Part (Lemonheads)
  15. Tourist (Juliana Hatfield)
  16. The End of the War (Juliana Hatfield)
  17. $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons)
  18. It's About Time (Lemonheads)
  19. Evan (Juliana Hatfield)
  20. Baby Gets High (Madder Rose)
  21. My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)

With thanks to Andrew for the photo and for sharing this list via This Is The Sound.

Juliana on Evan - "We could do a lot of damage"

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Photo and following quotes from the press release for the upcoming New York shows with Evan Dando:

Juliana:

"In the past when I worked with Evan it was always in a strictly auxiliary capacity – backup singing, bass playing – but now that we will be on equal footing I think we could do a lot of damage. I’ve always thought that Evan was an underrated songwriter...his good looks and anti establishment attitude have overshadowed his skills."

Evan:

"Juliana and I first met and started playing music together when we were 19. Since then Juliana has only gotten better and better. Now it’s like playing with someone I’m a huge fan of and totally revere."

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If you missed it the above pic was recently posted on Juliana's official blog.