Mice

Revolving around a central core of Julianne Regan, Tim McTighe, former Levitation luminary Christian Hayes (aka Bic) and original All About Eve drummer Mark Price, Mice released their first single Matt's Prozac in November 1995. Countrywide touring followed as did an album Because I Can recorded for indie label Permanent Records. Many collaborators took part in this band, including both Marty Willson-Piper and Andy Cousin which lead to people questioning why this band wasn't launched as another incarnation of All About Eve. Julianne 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 Julianne would later say of it "It showed that I could be pre-raphaelitic but I still had to get on the bus and go to Tesco's."

With Because I Can making the Indie Top Ten, the future looked quite rosy for Mice, but for the fact that Permanent Records went out of business in 1997 (owing Julianne and others a lot of money) and leaving the album and the three singles Matt's Prozac, The Milkman and Dear Sir hanging in the shops without promotion or replacement.

There were brief rumours of something being put together with Marty Willson-Piper but - after an apparent fall out between them - this also came to nothing, and Julianne dropped into obscurity yet again, surfacing briefly in 1998 to record lead vocals for two songs on This Burning Effigy's album Descent.

Discography (albums)

* Because I Can (1996)
* New And Improved (2001)