Before founding Mice, Julianne Regan (b. 1964, Coventry, England) had made her name with 80s neo-gothic group All About Eve, a moderately successful outfit she formed after furtive musical beginnings as a part-time member of Gene Loves Jezebel and as a writer for ZigZag magazine. After All About Eve failed to yield anything beyond cult status, she spent ‘two full years on the dole, doing shit piecework (cleaning studios and transcribing market research questionnaires) and writing songs'. Eventually she linked up with guitarist Bernard Butler, but their attempts to record an al...