Favorite Bands You Might Not Know #5 - All About Eve

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Alright, as Lynne Thigpen said in The Warriors, lets get down to it, boppers. #5 in my Favorite Bands You Might Not Know series is England's All About Eve. Named for the classic Bette Davis film, All About Eve was led by vocalist (and former Gene Loves Jezebel bassist) Julianne Regan. The band formed in 1984 and placed four albums in the Top 50 (two of them Top 10) in the UK. Although I don't really think so, All About Eve is often lumped in with the goth crowd, although before they successfully morphed into a shoegazer band, they had more of a folksy thing going on. In fact, the attached song is about the most goth thing they've done, and it's really not all that goth. The goth tag comes primarily from the band's association with The Mission. Regan performed backing vocals on The Mission's God's Own Medicine album. Mission leader Wayne Hussey did the backing vocals on the attached song, and then-Mission drummer Mick Brown played drums. Furthermore, All About Eve bassist Andy Cousins would go on to play in The Mission, keyboardist Ric Carter would come from The Mission, and guitarist Tim Bruchino would move on to Hussey's former band, The Sisters of Mercy. Got all that? Still not really goth, though. And did I mention that Julianne Regan has a gorgeous voice? Well, she does. (Info verified by Wikipedia)