Seeing Stars

Seeing Stars
Studio album by Seeing Stars
Released 1993 (recorded), 1997, 1999
Genre Alternative rock
Label Border Music, Heyday
Producer Seeing Stars
Seeing Stars chronology

Winter Words
(1992)		 Seeing Stars
(1993)		 Fairy Light Nights
(2000)

Seeing Stars was the only album by the band Seeing Stars. It is of musical significance, however, because it was essentially intended to be the fifth studio album by UK band All About Eve. In the aftermath of the Ultraviolet album's release - its bad reception and lost recording contract - whilst this album was being recorded in early 1993, lead singer Julianne Regan left the band, and All About Eve disbanded.[1]

The remaining members of the group, Andy Cousin (bass), Mark Price (drums), and Marty Willson-Piper (guitars and - on this record - lead vocals), continued their work on the album. It was released four years later on the Swedish Border Music label,[2] as a limited pressing.

In 1999, following the reformation of All About Eve, renewed interest in the band saw a re-release of the album in an limited pressing of 500 copies. Nearly all of them were sold at All About Eve gigs during their Fairy Light Nights period.

Track listing

  1. "Salome"
  2. "I Can't Hate You"
  3. "Where the Rainstorm Ends"
  4. "Staring at the Sun"
  5. "A Drink to Drift Away"
  6. "Ugly and Cruel"
  7. "Venus of Prose"
  8. "Come"
  9. "Mesmerized"
  10. "Pendulum"

Notes

In addition to the Cousin/Price/Willson-Piper line-up, "A Drink to Drift Away" and "Ugly and Cruel" also featured Anna Nyström of The Lucy Nation on piano.

An earlier provisional title of the album was Never Swallow Stars.[3]

The official fifth All About Eve studio album (more an EP), was released in 2002 when the band reformed, and is titled Iceland. It consists mostly of covers, re-recordings and remixes, plus a couple of new tracks.

References

  1. ↑ "Archives". Julianneregan.net. 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  2. ↑ Border Music listing
  3. ↑ "Where In The World Is Marty Willson-Piper ?". Shadowcabinet.net. Retrieved 2012-03-09.

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