Juliet is usually accompanied on stage by guitarist Brian Grace. Most of the shows on the "People have Names" tour are opened by special guest Gentry Morris.
Influences
Sounds like herself but at the minute is listening to Nickel Creek, Imogen Heap, Seth Lakeman, Cara Dillon, Stina Nordenstam, Arcade Fire, Aaron Espe, Beth Orton, Over the Rhine, Ray LaMontagne, John Spillane, Sigur Ros, Thea Gilmore, Gentry Morris, Ry Cooder, Patti Griffin, Troy Young Campbell, Kate Rusby, Foo Fighters and Juno Falls
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With three studio albums, a live album, double platinum sales and a Meteor Music Award under her belt, Juliet Turner decided that a change of scene was needed and in October 2006 returned to Trinity College Dublin to undertake a four year BSc in Clinical Speech and Language Studies
Alongside the studies, the songwriting and performing continues and Juliet has been recording a fourth studio album with producer Keith Lawless in a warehouse in Dublin. The new album, “PEOPLE HAVE NAMES” was released on the 6th June 2008 and has been garnering rave reviewsBelfast Telegraph
JULIET TURNER: People Have Names
(Hear This) 4 Stars ****
You’d be hard pushed to find a flaw in Juliet Turner’s musical armoury.
The Omagh-born songstress has usually delivered in both recording studio and stage. She’s a natural at encapsulating a marriage between folk and the singer-songwriter genre. “Season of the Hurricane” from 2004 was an excellent body of work — but since then she’s swapped the studio for the lecture hall and gone back to Trinity College Dublin to do a four-year degree in speech and language therapy.
Fast forward to 2008 and Turner has just made the album of her life.
People Have Names is a quite stunning collection of material — gorgeously presented by simple, sumptuous arrangements that are underpinned by Turner’s delicate vocal chords. The single Trickster is among the many highlights, but the two outstanding tracks are High Hopes and the opener Invisible to the Eye
HotPress Music Magazine ****Irish Maverick is Album of the Year Contender.
Whereas many of her contemporaries have lost momentum, their best work behind them, Juliet Turner’s fourth studio album is an intoxicating example of an adventurous artist moving forward, discovering fresh topics, literate themes and intriguing sounds with which to tease her artistic muse. “Invisible to the Eye” is a striking song with Turner’s voice at its most sublime. The Cohenish “High Hopes” looks at the vicissitudes of love, “Elder of the Tribe” focuses on contrasting generational differences, while the unsettling, country-tinged “Tuesday Night Ladies” - boasting a particularly exquisite vocal from Turner - is a graphic depiction of modern lives lived with no direction home. Despite the slow tempo, “Joy” is uplifting and brash, with a self-confident sweet swagger, but “Trickster” is the real gem, a deceptively catchy tune with the refrain “What do you mean you don’t like shopping? What do you mean you don’t watch TV?”
Keith Lawless’s production, drizzled with warm strings and splashes of accordian and brass, brings a seductive and uncluttered feel to a bunch of songs that Turner seems to have been tenderly nurturing for a while. “People Have Names” is about as faultless as it gets and is a serious contender for album of the year. (Jackie Hayden)
Sunday 22 June: Sunday Life - JULIET TURNER - People Have Names (Hear This!):
Turner has quietly evolved into one of our best singer/songwriters, and this fourth album, with a rich production and an increasingly sophisticated musical palette, may just be her best yet. Its songs are personal snapshots that reflect on the hard, bitter truths of life and are suffused with an air of sadness and regret that chime perfectly with the melancholy edge to Turner’s voice
Irish Times four stars. ****
“Just as Juliet Turner’s palate for life’s sweet and salty moments has evolved, so her palette of sound has rumbled onwards as well, and her appreciation for life’s minor chords has grown. The title track (left to the end of the album, where it can seep into the subconscious) is a thought provoking meditation on life’s defining qualities: “It’s the work of a life time to love and be loved in return, to love to the end”. Lyrically, Turner’s attention turns to the big and small ticket stories; loneliness (Tuesday Night Ladies), romance (High Hopes) and the contradictions of youth and age (The Elder of the Tribe). Arrangements are spacious and unforced, with suitably tinted brass and strings, and Turner’s wisdom in letting her cds percolate for olympian periods is palpable on this gloriously taut collection”. (Sinead Long)
Juliet Turner stumbled into making music. She was given a guitar for her fifteenth birthday and met a poet who told her to start writing her own songs. In 1996 whilst at university in Glasgow, she was offered the chance to record those songs in a little studio called Heaven with small independent label Sticky Music. The result was Lets Hear it for Pizza. People are still buying the album years later for songs such as Pizza and Wine, Beyond the Backyard and Indian Summer. It is a rough and ready album with some gorgeous lyrics. Innocent yet a little twisted.
Juliet moved to Dublin to finish her degree and to start playing live shows. Word travels swiftly on the Dublin music scene and soon Juliet was opening shows in the city for international artists such as Bob Dylan, Gabrielle, Natalie Merchant, Sting, U2 and Brian Adams and was touring with Joan Armatrading, Brian Kennedy, Ron Sexsmith and Roger McGuinn.
In 2000 Juliet set up her own label Hear This! Records with her manager Derek Nally. She released her second album Burn the Black Suit on the label and it went double platinum in Ireland. This album, produced by Gerard Kiely, was a little more ambitious pop veering into darker territory as one reviewer put it. It gave the world three catchy pop tunes "Dr Fell", "Take the Money" and "Burn the Black Suit". Also the haunting "Belfast Central" and the duet with Brian Kennedy on "I hope that I dont fall in love with you" written by Tom Waits. This album was recently voted one of the top 100 Irish albums of all time by Hot Press Music Magazine Readers. Number 51.
Season of the Hurricane was released in Feb 2004 and went platinum in Ireland in June of the same year. This offered the radio hit Everything Beautiful is Burning and went to No. 8 in the Irish album charts. It also found itself nestling at no. 5 in the Amazon internet charts between Norah Jones and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Less immediate than the previous album with smoother production values, Turners music became even more difficult to categorise and her subject matter more intriguing. The stand out track on this album is the starkly beautiful No Good in this Goodbye.
There was no love as ordinary as ours.
We walked hand in hand through this work day world.
And the swiftness of your leaving caught me by surprise.
There is no good in this goodbye.
Turners live shows should be experienced. She is a quiet, relaxed performer with a wicked sense of humour. Her voice is unusually clear and sweet and her between song anecdotes are amusing, eccentric and off-the-cuff. Prepare to be drawn in and bowled over.
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hey juliet.. love your music. my friend always used to include belfast central into her set and i played it with her a few times. tis lovely. hope all is well ! phil :)
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They have also released their third album called Invitation Time and is available in all good music stores.
Little Palace will be touring Ireland to support the release of their album and can be seen/heard at these venues.
March 29th CRANE LANE - CORK March 31st ROISIN DUBH - GALWAY April 1st DOLANS WAREHOUSE - LIMERICK April 3rd THE SPIRIT STORE - DUNDALK April 4th HEADFORT ARMS - KELLS April 7th WHELANS - DUBLIN April 9th THE BACKROOM - NAVAN
Thanks for the add. I'm so excited about Monday night - after all this time I finally get to hear your amazing voice live! Any chance of Belfast Central?
Don't suppose you know how many tickets are sold, yet, do you? :)) Just would be a pain to treck right down that way, only to be turned away at the door :o/
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