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Blake Babies FTW.
12 songs from the LA show in a YouTube playlist courtesy of spiketop.
There's some photos at Pink is the New Blog and a Caws-heavy set by vertouiseau at Flickr, and from the previous night in San Francisco by Bryan Gordon.
KEXP have posted a review of the show. See also their photos at Flickr.
Theres a nice photo set by David Lee at Flickr.
The first Minor Alps show ever. #Barsuk15 pic.twitter.com/q6StXMQEcy — Seth Sommerfeld (@sethsommerfeld) November 9, 2013
Minor Alps set list Nov 8, 2013 pic.twitter.com/DhL1mHfRvl — matthew caws (@nadasurf) November 9, 2013
After a radio session earlier in the day, Minor Alps debut live appearance took place last night at the Neptune Theater, Seattle as part of the Barsuk Records 15th anniversary.
They both played acoustic guitar with Juliana also on keyboards, while Matthew ran the effects and drum loops.
Notable setlist moments:
Live On Tomorrow, baby! Live On Tomorrow with special Juliana guitar solo no less.
Candy Wrappers with Matthew on lead vocal.
Thanks to Charlie for the info.
Minor Alps will play an in-store acoustic set at Main Street Music, Manayunk, Philadelphia at 6pm on November 22.
This is ahead of their previously announced World Café Live appearance later that evening.
Juliana performed a live acoustic show today, broadcast via Livestream as an exclusive for PledgeMusic subscribers.
There was an unscheduled break halfway through when the stream broke down completely, and although some reported further problems those of us lucky ones without such issues saw a stream that was of a decent quality and Juliana sounding great.
This is the first time she has done anything like this and she seemed keen on feedback with a view to doing more. She said it felt odd not to see or hear her audience response. This, and indeed the whole atmosphere, sound and actual physical experience simply do not translate when the audience isn't in the room. For those of us privileged to have seen Juliana perform in person in recent years this virtual event didn't compare. At all.
So it was best not to think of it as a substitute for an actual gig, be thankful for what it was and as the set was largely made up of requests sent in by pledgees prior to the show, enjoy those live rarity treats.
The setlist:
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.
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):
Choose Drugs (Sydney):
Ugly (Melbourne Night 2):
Somebody Is Waiting For Me (Melbourne Night 2):
Ride With Me (Melbourne Night 1):
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.
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.
Blake Babies FTW.
Also, photosets by Pete Dovgan at The AU Review and Maria de Vera at Flickr.
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.
Juliana Hatfield's just dedicated My Sister to the royal spawn. Just had Evan's Big Gay Heart with a saw. Been that kind of night.
— Jude Rogers (@juderogers) December 4, 2012
It was that kind of night.
If you haven't seen it yet, don't miss the pro photoset by Beanotown Photography on Flickr.
As for the saw, you can see the saw on a seesaw by the seashore on this photo and on this YouTube clip. You'll note that Juliana sat this one out. She backed off whenever the woman with the saw (Mara Carlyle) came out. Very wise.
It was a great finale to the 5 night tour of England, Ireland and Scotland in the plush all seated surroundings of London's Royal Festival Hall.
Despite what you may have read elsewhere it was well attended. It's a 2,500 capacity venue and apart from the upstairs area the hall was largely sold out.
Out of shot in Juliana's photo are imposing balconies which flank the hall, giving it the feel of a posh galactic senate from Star Wars. They're quite impressive pods despite their failure to levitate or contain Natalie Portman.
It's fair to say most of the crowd were more familiar with Evan and the Lemonheads material. Expecting everyone to know a Madder Rose cover from a Blake Babies album is perhaps too ambitious!
Juliana's songs were well received though - notably her excellent takes on 'Ugly' and 'I Picked You Up' (a request earlier in the day on Twitter), together with the one most people knew - 'My Sister'. She grew into the performance as the night went on, taking inspiration from the venue rather than being intimidated by it.
Craig's sidebar: I took a friend along for their first Hatfield experience. Afterwards I was asked which of Juliana's albums I would recommend. We may have a convert! Also, hello to Lieve, Carsten and Charlie who I spent some time with. It was great to share the evening with you.
Surprisingly there were a few negative comments on Twitter from a handful of people who clearly went with very different expectations to the type of show these two have been performing in recent years. These views appear unrepresentative of the overwhelmingly positive atmosphere in the hall.
Juliana is a highly talented singer and guitarist performing songs which many of us have a long standing emotional attachment to. Evan's songs were effortlessly performed showcasing his talent as one of the most gifted songwriters of his or any generation - Juliana saying as much with an impromptu compliment to her partner during the set.
What's not to love?!
Evan and Juliana winging it as they go along is rather charming - someone commented that it was like watching talented teenagers jamming in the bedroom.
When they returned for the encore their lack of clear planning was even more evident. A late crowd request for 'Rain' was picked up by Evan and nearly paid off as he looked to Juliana for her consent. There's every chance this unrehearsed song so reliant on harmony might have come off as shambolic, but it's a chance a lot of us would have been happy to take.
Instead, Juliana decided that this was her time to say her goodbyes to London, leaving Evan to close the show on his own with what remains the finest Lemonheads cover song.
Mrs Robinson? Mrs Shmobinson.
No, of course it was 'Different Drum' - an odd but somehow fitting end. Evan and Juliana may appear to travel to a different beat yet there is a beautiful connection, enhanced by 25 years of exceptional songwriting.
It was a privilege to witness and for many of us in the crowd there's no other place we'd have rather been.
From the same uploader - see also My Sister / Ride With Me / Hannah & Gabi and Brain Damage. Elsewhere, this:
There's a photoset at Picasa.
UPDATE Another photoset by Rick & Mindy at Flickr