Julianne on the Harmony Ambulance project
This was the first thing I did, very much on the rebound, after All About Eve folded following the apparent 'failure' Ultraviolet. Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records knew me vaguely through my then manager. He had the idea to team me up with a guy called Gilbert Gabriel, one of The Dream Academy, and Gilbert's chum Tim.

I recorded a single with them, (that they wrote), for the Rough Trade Singles Club called 'All This And Heaven'. The B-side was a cover of a song called 'Nature's Way' originally done by a 70's band called Spirit.
It was all very enjoyable, Tim and Gilbert were vibey guys, but, it felt so 'wrong' after All About Eve. It felt too 'soon'.

They asked me to join full-time and Geoff was really into the idea,but, it was really not where my heart was heading. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but it wasn't this.

Natures Way / All This And Heaven

Dai Davies took me to see Geoff Travis, fabled man behind Rough Trade and other legendary things. He said he'd like me to do something for the Rough Trade Singles Club, with a guy called Gilbert Gabriel who had been in The Dream Academy, and Gilbert's friend Tim.

I went round to their place, listened to some stuff, sang a few songs....It was all good stuff, but, it wasn't All About Eve and I was still wandering around with a ghostly umbilical cord attached. Still, there was one song I liked a lot. It was called 'All This And Heaven', so we made a demo of it and brough it in to play to Geoff. He loved it, and suggested that we also do a cover of a song called 'Nature's Way' by a band called Spirit. For 'ATAH', the line-up was me, Gilbert, Tim, a chap called Monti,( who was in Curve), who sorted out the drum loops, and on bass, a girl called Claire Kenny, who'd been in Shakespears Sister and various other things.

For 'Nature's Way', it was just me, Gilbert and Tim. Engineering it was a chap called Andy Jackson, a friend of Gilbert, who works with Pink Floyd. And so, The Harmony Ambulance had it's first and only release. The name comes from my unnerving obsession with having to harmonise with everything I hear. I even do it when an ambulance drives by.

Although I really do like that record, it was only ever going to be a one-off. Geoff was keen for us to do more, but I was persuing something else. I didn't really know what it was yet.

a. nature's way vocals : julianne keyboards : gilbert guitar : tim recorded at mystic sound by gilbert gabriel mixed by andrew jackson b. all this and heaven additional music by tim broughton vocals : julianne guitars, keyboards : gilbert guitars : tim bass : claire kenny drum magic : monty produced by gilbert gabriel and chips at ezee studios. cover photo by lise price thanks to everyone who drove the ambulance