Kim:Welcome back to live in Toronto my name is Kim, Juliana Hatfield will be in our town on Saturday evening for a peformance at Lee's Palace this is in support of her new record called Bed available in this country through the Mercury label. She joins us now by telephone from North Hampton Massachusetts-good evening Juliana Hatfield

Juliana: Hi, how are you?

Kim: i'm doing great how are you doing?

Juliana: I'm pretty good

Kim: thankyou very much for taking the time and we won't take too much of it but it's nice to finally have you comming back to Toronto, there's a lot of fans here for you i think.

yeah, last time i was there i had a great time, I love playing there

Kim: cool, so lets talk about the record and there's a lot of ground to cover, one of the first things i think that most people, myself included, the first time they hear Bed that there's a certain abrasivness to it, and you recorded this pretty much without reverb and without effects i mean, it's quite a dry recording

Juliana: yeah, well i find in this day and age that a dry raw sound is actually really refreshing, cause it's kind of more like a 70's sound i think. But i dunno, i was just wanting to do something with no gloss on it, where we just relied on the performances and the sounds of the amplifires to make the energy good

Kim: good, so in a way, that's probably a lot truer to the live shows that people are gonna see on Saturday because i mean, how it's gonna be translated live is gonna be sort of pretty much in the raw right?

Juliana: yeah, i think so but there's always a different kind of energy when you play live, there's sort of gonna be a more intense kind of energy just because you get that from the audience, you know

Kim: right, so just to clarify that you had another record that was done but somehow got tied up in a label switcharoo sort of thing and was sort of held back by the label, is that right?

Juliana: yeah well, i spend 2 years working on an album and then at the end of that recording i decided to leave the label, and when i left the label they held on to the album, so it hasn't come out yet, they may decided to put it out i just don't know when, or how, or why

Kim: so i mean. how do you feel about that, was that a record that you were attatched to, was that a record that you were especially proud of?

Juliana: yeah, i was, i spend so much time working on it and i thought it was really good and it was really hard and frusterating when i realised it wasn't comming out when i thought it was but you know, i had to kind of let go of it and move on to the next thing, and i just have to have faith that it'll come out when the time is right.

Kim: right, if you're just joining us by the way we're speaking with Juliana Hatfield who will be here Saturday at Lee's Palace, we're talking about the new record called Bed and i mentioned off the top that you know one of the sort of inital surprises about the record was the rawness of the music, but there's also i playfulness to it, in the way that you portray yourself, the images on the record and lyrically too perhaps a lesser extent sort of playing around with sex and the sort of you know, chaste kind of image that you had, and saying "you know what, i can be a lot of different things, you know i'm not this one dimensional person that i've often been portrayed as"

Juliana: yeah, plus i think i'm just, i'm a different person than i was 5 years ago and i've grown a little hopefully and matured a little and you know that's reflected in the music

Kim:are you still based in Boston?

Juliana:yeah

Kim: what's the scene like is it as healthy now, as ever?

Juliana: yeah, it's great cause there's no hype there, there's no ego and it's just all about people trying to make interesting music and it's really nice, we're all really supportive of eachother, and there's no backstabbing and there's no cometition or any of that

Kim: right, i haven't really kept up with it too much, did you heed the call of the Lilith at any point?

Juliana: i did it last summer, not this summer but the first summer they did it and just for about 10 days that i was on in the east coast

Kim: was that a happy experience for you?

Juliana: happy? i wouldn't say happy

(Kim and Juliana Laugh)

Juliana: i'm very rarely happy but it was interesting and it was worthwhile and i met some interesting people

Kim: cool

Juliana: yeah

Kim: well let's end on this note Juliana and thank you very much for your time and as we mentioned wwe will see you on Saturday at Lee's Palace, what is the rest of the fall hold for you, are you going back to Europe or you going to Australia? what's going on?

Juliana: i don't know, everything's up in the air and hopefully we'll get to Europe, and Australia, possibly Japan, but it's all up in the air, the future is uncertain

Kim: as it always is

Juliana: yeah and how it should be probably

Kim: well listen, thanks a lot of taking the time out, best of luck for the record and we'll see you Saturday at Lee's Palace

Juliana: alright, thanks a lot

Kim: take care Juliana Hatfield, here's music from Bed this is Bad Day on new rock Edge 102

(Play Bad Day)