Julianne talks about All About Eve, live recordings, the touring and TV appearances

About 95% of the time, I really enjoyed touring. No offence to the Brits, but I'd have loved the opportunity to have done more in Europe. I liked the taste I had of it. I particularly liked Germany as we did a fair bit there. I love France though, but I don't think they liked us as we did an awful gig there supporting The Mission and our fate was sealed. Italy ? We played there once and I loved it, especially Florence. Holland ? Brilliant every time. I wish so much that we'd played Spain and Portugal.

The UK was a different thing obviously, because we were so known. When we had that special chemistry going, we would have a formidable time playing live. We'd feel invincible. I have to say, that I particularly loved the light show / projections we had on the UV tour. I also have to say, that there were few goosebump moments more intense than hearing several thousand people singing 'Martha' along with Tim and I.

However, I loathed the mindless boredom of travelling around in vans and coaches. There's not much scope to do anything much other than vegetate in front of a video you don't really want to watch, or listen to an album for the trillionth time. Mind-numbingly boring.

Other places we played were Ljubliana in the former Yugoslavia. That was fantastic. We supported the Mission. Prior to our gig, the last 'artist' (ahem), to play there, 6 months earlier, had been Sam Fox, a woman who's voice rarely springs to mind as her most obvious asset. So, they'd been a little starved of live music, and they gave us the biggest and warmest of welcomes. We've played Belgium, Austria, Denmark (lovely) and Sweden (also lovely).

TV ? Well, I usually hated appearing on TV. TOTP was always a long and boring day. So many rehearsals and run throughs, just to mime sometimes ! Highly drab. The audience would invariably not know who we were, or, would clap out of time to the song. I did like our What Kind Of Fool appearance, because we looked so uncool. I was dressed in serious hippie garb, and Tim was toting a fantastic double-neck guitar. And we weren't even being post-modern ! I love how we didn't fit in.

James Whale Show was fun, because I though James W was going to be a very horrid man, judging by his TV persona, but, he was extremely nice and smart....He just didn't suffer fools, gladly or otherwise. Pebble Mill was very boring indeed. I don't think we even got to meet that gardening god, Alan Titchmarsh. I don't know why we chose to do More Than The Blues. Probably just another AAE random decision.

If there are any good quality live gigs recorded, I don't know of them. I don't collect live tapes of us, and certainly wouldn't want to listen to them. I know several bands who listen to a desk recording of the night's gig while in the van on to the next gig. That's my idea of hell. I prefer memories to be memories. Similarly, no gigs were properly filmed...ever. Sorry to be so unhelpful on this count.