A lot of people had been fans for almost 20 years and had never seen us. When we got out on tour, we realized that many people have become fans after the band broke up, like from movies, ‘Josie and the Pussycats’, ’10 things’: all that stuff had happened after we broke up. It ended up being the EP Back to Nebraska, which was just a very quick and dirty EP. We got together and wrote a bunch of songs. There are big ideas, and a lot of the time you don’t follow through. Every time we would see each other out and about, we would talk about doing stuff, but the follow-through just wasn’t there. We’d been talking for years about doing a show, writing some music.
Kay Hanley: I guess we started doing it in 2016 or 2017. Could you talk about how you came to get back together after many years of inactivity? Other than last year, these tours have been a regular thing. In a phone interview, Hanley discussed the recent Letters to Cleo tour and her other work.
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She is also a co-founder of Songwriters of North America (SONA), a rights advocacy group for professional songwriters. Hanley’s primary focus has been writing music for kids’ television shows such as Doc McStuffins.
The current line-up is rounded out by original members Michael Eisenstein (guitar), Stacy Jones (drums) and bassist Joe Klompus, who joined in 2008.Īll of the members are involved with other projects outside of Letters to Cleo.
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They developed a large local following and gained national attention with their 1993 single “Here & Now.” Their music was featured in many TV shows and films in the 1990s, with the band themselves appearing in 10 Things I Hate About You. Vocalist Kay Hanley and guitarist Greg Mckenna formed Letters to Cleo in Boston in 1990. While Covid-19 led them to skip 2020, they resumed in 2021 with a tour that concluded with two homecoming shows at The Paradise in Boston. In 2016, Letters to Cleo returned with Back to Nebraska, their first release in 17 years, and started a tradition of short annual tours. Folksinger Don White at the Rose Garden Coffeehouse.The following interview was done in 2021, in advance of the Letters to Cleo tour last fall.ġ1/5 The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, CA TIXġ1/17 Portland House of Music Portland, ME TIXġ1/18 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA TIX // Two Day Passġ1/19 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA TIX // Two Day Pass Rachael Yamagata's indie pop at City Winery. Nonpareil acoustic bluesman Chris Smither lights up the Spire Center. English DJ Jonas Blue is a big deal at Big Night Live. A benefit with multiple bands at The C-Note, in the annual Wreckless Wreck Chords show beginning at 5 p.m. Don't forget the earplugs when Michigan hardcore outfit I Prevail takes over MGM Music Hall. Hard rockers Turnstile open a two-night stand at Roadrunner. SATURDAY: Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz worth a trip to The Burren. The English Beat gets City Winery jumping. The Lizard Lounge is reopened and the Gravel Project is ready to rock it. Ali Gatie raps and grooves at Big Night Live. Baltimore power popsters Pinkshift at Brighton Music Hall. The "science fiction fusion" trio Consider the Source warms up Soundcheck Studios. Toronto quintet Alvvays and their indie pop at Roadrunner. The Good Trees River Band rocks The C-Note. The folk-pop quartet Darlingside arrives at the Spire Center.
Ironically, she had a guest guitarist on those gigs, rock veteran Bill Guerra, whose day job is general manager at the Paradise.įRIDAY: A cool double bill for roots fans at Boston Harbor Distillery with Peter Parcek and Danielle Miraglia. Hanley was in Boston in the spring for a pair of solo shows at City Winery. “Īnd then there are song that they will never leave off the set list: ‘Awake’ or ‘Here and Now.” There might be certain things we don’t play, and never did, but in the main, if anything is in our set it is because we all love it. I never get sick of playing anything from our past. it is a really fun aspect of our catalog. Every soundtrack has music people know and want to hear, from the ‘Josie and the Pussycats’ stuff, to songs from (the 1999 movie) 'Ten Things I Hate About You.' People really dig the soundtrack music. “One of the most popular things is our soundtrack music. “It is funny, but a lot of people like different records,” Hanley said. It would be easy to expect many fans to want tunes from “Aurora Gory Alice,” their hit debut album, which included the hit single “Here and Now.”
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