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Julie-Ann "Julianne" Regan (born 30 June 1962) is an English-Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. She achieved success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the lead singer of the band
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describes Regan as "certainly one of the more talented singers of the late eighties British goth rock scene".


Early life (1962–1981)

At the age of 15, Julianne Regan was given a Woolworths electric guitar by a cousin and taught herself to play.


From Zig Zag to The Swarm (1982–1984)

Regan moved to London aged 19 and found work as a
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for music magazine
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, while studying at the London College of Fashion. In her capacity as a journalist, she interviewed Gene Loves Jezebel and subsequently joined that band on bass guitar. Soon after, apparently unhappy with the tension between the group's twin frontmen, she left to make music with friend and former Xmal Deutschland drummer Manuela Zwingmann, while working in a book shop on Charing Cross Road after Zig Zag went bust. During this period she met, though friends of friends, both Andy Cousin and Tim Bricheno then both playing for goth band Aemotii Crii. The band that resulted, at first consisting of Regan, Zwingman, Bricheno and James Richard Jackson, was originally called The Swarm, but was changed to
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after Regan and Zwingman watched the classic film at Regan's parents' house in
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, Lancashire.


All About Eve (first era) (1985–1992)

The first line-up recorded the single "D For Desire" in 1985, but, following disagreements around artistic direction between Zwingmann and Regan, the former left the band. Soon after this, Andy Cousin replaced Jackson on bass, thus creating the first well-known All About Eve line-up of Bricheno, Cousin and Regan, plus a drum machine. The group recorded demos and played several gigs. In 1986, Regan met ex-
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guitarist Wayne Hussey. Hussey was then recording the first
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album ''
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'' and was so impressed with Regan's voice that he asked her to contribute backing vocals to the song "Severina". This started a close collaboration between the two bands that continues to this day, and at the time got All About Eve signed to the Mission's record label (on the back of them being support to the Mission's first tour and Regan appearing on several TV programmes with the Mission for performances of "Severina"). Regan also provides backing vocals on The Mission songs "Beyond The Pale," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Black Mountain Mist," and "Wishing Well", which appears on the US version of their early-songs collection album '' The First Chapter''. A full-time drummer
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was recruited to All About Eve in 1988. Following a now-infamous appearance on the
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television music programme ''
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'' in July 1988, All About Eve soon hit the big time with the first album and the single "Martha's Harbour" peaking within the top ten of the
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and
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respectively, along with four other top-forty hits on the latter chart between the summers of 1988 and 1989. Bricheno left the band at the end of 1990 (and joined
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), to be replaced by
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guitarist
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for All About Eve's third album, '' Touched by Jesus'', for which David Gilmour from Pink Floyd also contributed guitar work on two songs. ''Touched By Jesus'' did not quite enjoy the commercial success of the first two albums and All About Eve subsequently changed record labels to MCA in 1992. Here they were to record their fourth (and final) studio album ''
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'', a somewhat psychedelic move in which, as Regan later admitted, her vocals were mixed too far down into the swirling guitars, with the result sounding something akin to Cranes or
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. This alienated fans, and the record did not make the Top 40. MCA dropped the band from their contract.


Into the wilderness (1993–1995)

Regan and the rest of the band parted company during the recording of what would have been All About Eve's fifth album. Cousin, Price and Willson-Piper completed it without her, and it eventually saw the light of day under the group name and title of Seeing Stars. Under the group name The Harmony Ambulance, Regan did release one single very soon after the All About Eve split for
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' Rough Trade label. The double A-side, "Nature's Way" and "All This And Heaven". Regan turned down an offer to work full-time with that band. She also recorded vocals for the Schaft track "Broken English". Regan also occasionally performed live with Fairport Convention, singing some of the lead vocals on " Who Knows Where the Time Goes", "Blackwaterside", and "After Halloween". Some of these tracks can be found on the albums ''Circle Dance – The Hokey Pokey Charity Compilation'', '' Fairport Convention: 25th Anniversary Concert'', and ''Cropredy Capers – 25 Years of the Festival''. Regan then dropped off the public radar. Rumours of a collaboration with
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's
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fluttered briefly and then died out. It later transpired that the rumours were true, but that during the recording session, she and Butler had fallen out in a spectacular fashion. "I don't really know why it exploded the way it did, but it did. It was a small thing that turned into a big thing, that turned into an enormous thing" was Regan's later analysis of these events.


Mice (1995–1997)

Revolving around a central core of Regan, Tim McTighe, former
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member Christian Hayes (aka 'Bic') and, for studio recordings, the original All About Eve drummer
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, Mice released their first single, "Mat's Prozac", in November 1995, which charted in the UK. This was followed by a second UK charting EP single "The Milkman" released in April 1996 with the Lynsey De Paul song Martian Man. Countrywide touring followed as did an album '' Because I Can'' recorded for
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label Permanent Records. Many collaborators took part in this band, including both
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and Andy Cousin which led to people questioning why this band was not launched as another incarnation of All About Eve. Regan said that this was deliberate in that she had wanted the new band to be just that. Musically, it did indeed sound somewhat harsher than All About Eve and Regan would later say of it, "It showed that I could be Preraphaelitic but I still had to get on the bus and go to
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's." With ''Because I Can'' making the Indie Top Ten, the future began to look fairly positive for Mice, but Permanent Records went out of business in 1997, leaving the album and the three singles "Mat's Prozac", "The Milkman" and "Dear Sir" hanging in the shops without promotion or replacement.


Jules et Jim (1999–present)

Jules et Jim is a collaboration between Regan and Jean-Marc Lederman (formerly of The Weathermen and Gene Loves Jezebel). In 1999 they released a single, "Swimming", followed by a six-track EP, ''Subtitles'' in 2002. Regan also featured on Lederman's soundtracks for the computer games ''Fairies'' and ''Mystic Inn'' by Funpause, and ''Rock Legend'' by Positech; and also vocals on a number of tracks on Lederman's La Femme Verte album project.


All About Eve (second era) (1999–2006)

Despite having previously been on public record expressing absolutely no wish to resurrect All About Eve, in late 1999 a
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re-launch was underway and lead singer Hussey – in a repeat of the first time All About Eve had become successful – again asked Regan if she would like to support him on tour. Although she was already involved with Jules et Jim (who had put out an EP called ''Swimming'' earlier that year), Regan acquiesced, rounded up Price, Cousin and Wilson-Piper, and All About Eve were back. When asked in 2001 why she had had a change of heart in terms of resurrecting All About Eve and their music, she replied: ''
I think I just really needed a break from it. It had lost its magic for me. Totally. Also, for some reason, I had to have a bit of a rebellion against AAE. Maybe it's something along the lines of why teenagers fall out with their parents and find everything about them embarrassing... Then they grow up a bit and realise that their Mum and Dad aren't too bad at all.
'' All About Eve became dormant again in mid-2004 following a disagreement between Regan and Cousin, but 2006 has seen this rift temporarily healed upon the release of '' Keepsakes'' – an anthology of the group with extremely honest sleeve-notes. This record saw the songwriting partnership between Regan and Bricheno rekindled, as they collaborated for a new song entitled "Raindrops". Although material for a fifth full All About Eve album had been worked on by Regan and fellow band-member Andy Cousin, it seemed unlikely that this album will be completed. In April 2009, Regan stated on her Facebook page:
''All About Eve are dormant and may never happen again. I don't ever like to say never though, but it seems we've all moved on and are exploring other avenues.''


Recent music-related work

Regan's work since the last split of All About Eve includes: * Tim Bricheno – with whom she wrote and recorded the song "Raindrops", which appeared on the All About Eve retrospective collection '' Keepsakes''. In 2008, the duo recorded a new version of "Ophelia", a song which had originally been demo-ed for the All About Eve album '' Scarlet and Other Stories'', but was never released. The re-recording was made especially for inclusion on a charity record, 'Let There Be Life', released to raise funds for research into
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. Regan also contributed a solo song, "The Angel's Share", to the same album. Their latest composition
Pale Blue Earth
was aired on YouTube on 20 July 2019, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Le Cygne Noir
– Regan sings backing vocals on several releases. * The Mission – Regan sang backing vocals on the 2007 album '' God is a Bullet''. * All Living Fear – Regan contributed backing vocals on the track "Home Too Soon" from the 2007 album ''Fifteen Years After''. * The Eden House – a collaborative project, initiated by Tony Pettitt (formerly of
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) and Steve Carey (formerly of This Burning Effigy) and involving a collection of guest musicians and vocalists. The album, ''Smoke & Mirrors'', featuring Regan on three tracks, was released April 2009. A further track featuring Regan was released on the EP ''The Looking Glass''. *
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– Regan contributed vocals to the tracks "C'est la Vie" and "Harp Song", which feature on Dyble's 2009 album '' Talking with Strangers''. Dyble and Regan co-wrote the song "Headful of Stars", with Dyble providing the lyrics, and this appears on Dyble's album '"Flow and Change". * La Femme Verte – A new
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project by Jean-Marc Lederman, the album ''Small Distortions'' features Regan contributing vocals and instruments alongside Gene Loves Jezebel's Jay Aston and others to a number of tracks including Nine Inch Nails' " Hurt", Angelo Badalamenti/
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's " Falling", the Rolling Stones track " Moonlight Mile", the Pet Shop Boys' "
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", and
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' " Monday Monday". * '' Leader of the Starry Skies'' – a tribute album for Tim Smith of Cardiacs, on which Regan contributes a
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of the Sea Nymphs track "Shaping the River". *The Curator – Regan performed vocals on "On the Great North Road" and the title track from the album ''Sometime Soon''. *
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- a joint effort with The Mission's Wayne Hussey, the album ''Curios'' was released in November 2011 and includes 12 tracks, including versions of Depeche Mode's "
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", Duran Duran's " Ordinary World", an a cappella version of The Mission track "Aquarius and Gemini", and a cover of All About Eve's "Calling Your Name". A charity single, "
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", produced in aid of
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(an official charity of Liverpool Football Club) was also released. * Vocals on tracks "Before We Fall" and "Change Me Once Again" on the Memories of Machines album '' Warm Winter''. * Backing vocals on the track "Under My Skin" on the charity single released by The Last Cry. * Co-wrote and sang on "Starstruck Eyes" for
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's album ''Volumes''. * The Mission - backing vocals on the album '' Another Fall from Grace''. * Wayne Hussey: Regan and Hussey co-wrote the song "Madam G" from the album ''Candlelight and Razorblades''.


Personal life

Regan graduated in 2014 from
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in Bath, Somerset, with a master's degree in Songwriting. By 2016, she has already been a lecturer on the BA Commercial Music programme and MA Songwriting at the university's College of Liberal Arts. In a March 2008 BBC News Magazine article regarding gender stereotypes too often influencing which musical instrument schoolchildren learn, the electric guitar is still seen as a male instrument, despite great female exponents in recent years, according to Regan. Based on her own experiences, she said: "There was no opportunity to learn anything other than traditional orchestral instruments at school and so I muddled along on my own and felt quite isolated as I went to an all-girl school and none of my peers seemed to have any interest in electric guitar. It seemed like a freakish thing for me to be interested in. I was quite popular at school and had a load of friends, but this was just seen as 'one of my little quirks'." In 2020, Regan had the chapter "Three Pronged Attack: The pincer movement of gender allies, tempered radicals and pioneers", published in the Routledge title ''Gender in Music Production''. She also has a chapter due to be published by Equinox in September 2023 in the book ''Venue Stories: From Back Room to Rave Room, from the Toilet Circuit to the Town Hall''.


Album discography

Guest appearances on other artists' albums not shown.


with All About Eve

* ''
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'' (1988) * '' Scarlet and Other Stories'' (1989) * '' Touched by Jesus'' (1991) * ''
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'' (1992) * '' Winter Words'' (1992) * '' Fairy Light Nights I'' (2000) * '' Fairy Light Nights II'' (2001) * '' Live and Electric at the Union Chapel'' (2001) * '' Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings'' (2002) * ''Iceland'' (2002) * '' Cinemasonic'' (2003) * '' Keepsakes'' (2006)


with Mice

* '' ...Because I Can'' (1996) * '' New and Improved'' (2001)


with Jules et Jim

* ''Swimming'' (1999) * ''Subtitles'' (2002)


with Hussey-Regan

* ''Curios'' (2011)


References


External links


Official Julianne Regan Site
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