Old New Stuff for Weird People

1998

November 24th

• Julia on Scottish TV --

  ``Julia will be appearing on "The Stark Truth About Everything" on Grampian TV (Scotland) which will either be broadcast on Friday 4th, 11th or 18th December.''

October 20th

• Added The Julia Fordham Collection to the discography.

• Added lyrics from (specificly) The Julia Fordham Collection.

August 28th

• Added Neil Gunther's guitar chords for Your Lovely Face and Manhatten Skyline.

August 19th

• Added Marisa's parody of Genius to Pawcelain.

August 16th

• Added a new Banana Demon button idea!! (T-shirt idea?)

August 10th

Happy Birthday Julia!!!

August 9th

• Added a new Banana Demon button idea.

• Added a sound samples page to the site. (Currently only a list of the off-site samples that I know about.)

August 3rd

• Updated the recent news page.
  (thanks Jorgen!)

July 10th

• Updated the discography with some CD-5 entries
  (thanks Chris!)

June 28th

• Added Meowmie and Tunafish (both courtesy of Marisa) to the parodies.

June 12th

• The site is finally back online!!

  My sincere apologies to those who have missed it!

1997

September 8th

• Moved web site (as you can see :)
• Added new Tokyo tour date.

August 19th

• Added a new link to YC's Music Pages, which includes lots of reviews of music I think many other Jules fans would like!

August 18th

• Egad. I just stumbled across another major web site dedicated to Julia... why does no one tell me these things? :)

  Visit the Julia Fordham Database online

August 17th

• Added links to some reviews of east west (thanks, Henry!)

August 12th

• More tour dates

August 10th

Happy Birthday Julia!!!

July 29th

• I added that link at the top of the page which you might have used to skip the announcements and so forth (which I wanted to keep in front.)
• Four Japan tour dates added!
• I finished entering the lyrics for east west (which some of you may have noticed sitting there partly-done...) If anyone spots any errors, please tell me.

  WARNING: Reading lyrics prior to hearing the actual rendition of the song can be a bad idea! You tend to get your own idea of how it will sound, and you'll most likely be wrong, which means the song may sound wrong when you get to hear it... (written from experience :)

July 24th

• Four new tour dates! Yay :)

July 22nd

• Scanned pictures from east west. (Some of the colours in the scans are a little washed out compared to the originals, unfortunately. I also forgot to make greyscale versions before deleting the original tiff files, so it's only colour jpegs this time.)

July 21st

• Updated the tour info to include the expected two extra Lilith Fair dates.
• There's also a new Banana Demon button idea by moi which I quite like -- bright, simple, and smiley :)

July 19th

• Added a button suggestion to the Banana Demon button gallery. (And if you have any ideas of your own, send 'em along!!)

July 17th

• The mailing list has changed address. The new details are on the Falling Forward list page.

July 12th

• Two tour dates have been added to the Recent News page.

July 5th

• There's a (link to (it's off-site)) a new article/interview on the Interviews and Press Releases page.

June 17th

• Updates to the east west info on the Recent News page.

June 12th

• A new link on the other musical links page. Musicspot now has a Julia entry including Real Audio samples of some songs from Swept and Falling Forward !! (Side note: I'm unable to play these myself, so if anyone wants to verify that they work and let me know, I'd appreciate it :)

June 6th

• east west released in Japan today! There's something new to look at on the Recent News page. thanks to toshiba-emi.co.jp and a nice fan who let me know about it :) (Thanks, H!)

June 3rd

• Further News about east west, including a track listing.

May 29th

• I've made some minor additions to the Recent News page regarding the (lack of information about the) new album and tour...
• Discovered that Julia's entry in The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music is available (and indeed has been since May 30th; many thanks to Steve & Neile!), and added these pages to the Other Musical Links page. The Guide is a great resource, and you'll find some comments by fans about Julia's albums on her page.

April 5th

• A new (to the site) interview -- many thanks, Kevin! (sorry for the delay -- I forgot about it *blush*)

March 7th

• Two new designs.

February 22

• See request #2, above.

February 21

• See announcement #2, above.

February 3

• Made the title page writing fancier :) (and yes, the back background to the words is intentionally not transparent, as the text is antialiased to that colour, but I didn't want to mess with the background of the entire page.)

January 18

• Further (and hopefully final) delays to the release date of "East West", and an initial word about the supporting tour on the recent news page.

1996

December 17

• A few updates to and a slight reorganisation of the discography.
  (Notes about discography items will now be located at the end of the discography file, rather than in seperate files of their own.)

November 3

• More news on the forthcoming album! (Advance warning -- it's been delayed until March... but there's good news as well :)

November 1

• Brief news item.

September 12

• Updated the Other Musical Links page.

September 2

• I've changed the background image on the gallery pages. Does this cause problems for anyone (eg. make the text difficult to read) ?

August 10

Happy Birthday Julia!!!

May 24

• Added a ``back [well, forward really] to the home page'' link to the bottom of all the non-home pages. May be useful if more than one page away from the home page, and also in case anyone links to particular sections of the site and not the home page itself. I imagine most people will wish to simply use the `back' function of their browser most of the time rather than muck up their history list by going forwards to pages they've already been to, but hopefully it will be useful every now and again :)

May 19

• Fixed up the home page welcome image so that it looks more like the original photo. I won't bother with details save to say that when I started this site my graphical tools were considerably less helpful than they are today :)

May 17

• A scan from a photo of Patti Nolan's painting "Woman Spirit in Motion" has been added to the miscellaneous section of the gallery.

May 11

• Added four more promotional pictures to the gallery.

May 8

• Pictures from the original promo cassette for Julia's first album are now available!

May 7

• Changed the title graphic for the gallery pages. Comments appreciated as always (better? worse? ways to improve it? be honest -- I don't get mad :)

May 6

• Started adding Paul Gardener's pictures into the gallery. (Look for the sections marked as new.)

May 5

• I've changed the format of the gallery so that it isn't just the folks who can't (or don't) load graphics who see the descriptions of the images. (Okay, so they're not very exciting descriptions *grin* but I thought it was more useful than not having them...)
• Right, I've changed this again, so (hopefully) it only shows them when not totally inane and pointless :)
• I've also fixed a mistake :) a picture from the "Happy Ever After" single was labelled as being from "I Can't Help Myself"...

April 11

• I've added a recent news page, with the intention of keeping current information about Julia's music there. If anyone thinks that I'm missing anything, be sure to let me know, as always!

April 8

• Greg Correll has kindly allowed me to add his litho crayon and ink wash picture of Julia to the miscellaneous section of the gallery.

April 5

• Updated the FAQ to version 16.

March 4

• Updated the gallery page for Swept.

February 15

• Angela Garry has sent in a picture of herself with Julia, which I've put in the miscellaneous section of the gallery.

1995

November 21

• Added information about HMS Media's documentary Just Passing Through to the interviews and press releases section.

October 1

• My Little Secret is now on the lyrics pages too.

September 27

• I've added Marisa & Angela's transcription of Home to the lyrics pages.
• Changed the "Last update:" message on the home page to the correct month :) (Thanks Marisa!)

September 24

• The discography.is undergoing changes...

September 20

• Updated the FAQ to version 13.
  (An exciting month :)

August 15

• Updated the FAQ to version 12.

August 8

• Download the gzip'd postscript file of the ``Happy Birthday Julia'' card! (Note that you'll not be able to view this unless you can gunzip gzip'd files, and display postscript documents.)
  
  There are also four gif images of the card :)
  tiny (463 x 328) is 6k (unreadable, but shows how it looks)
  small (927 x 657) is 18k
  medium (1114 x 786) is 24k
  large (1248 x 887) is 28k
  
  The last one is by far the easiest to read, but please note the size of the images (ie. 1248 x 887 may not be practical for some of you...)
  
  Alternatively, if you have a graphical browser, switch off your auto-image-loading and select the version you want to look at from this page.
  
  Many thanks to Kevin for putting the card together!!!

August 6

• I put a background texture on the home page for browsers that can show them. Feedback would be appreciated regarding this sort of thing! :)
  (I've since removed this texture, as I noticed it made things hard to see on a PC running Netscape that I looked at...)

August 4

• Whew! I've just finished making some fairly extensive alterations to the code, having discovered how to get Mosaic to do the jump-to-a-link-part-way-down-a-page thing :-) These kinds of links occur in the FAQ, the discography. the lyrics, and the Pawcelain parody. (Users of other browsers won't notice much difference, but hopefully Mosaic users will be much happier!)
• The one change (related to the above) that all users will see is the new index at the top of the FAQ, which lists all the questions and lets you jump straight to the answer!
• Oh yes, I've also changed the format of the "Last update" line on the index page, so that noone can get confused regarding which number is the month, and which the day of the month :-)
• As always, if I've messed anything up, please let me know :-)

July 30

• Happy KaTemas everyone!!
• Added some links at the bottom of the album photo pages that let you skip between the albums without having to go back to the gallery index.
• Deleted the July 27th entry by mistake and thanked emacs for having a backup file :-)

July 27

• Fixed the Swept photo page.
  (At least some people were unable to access it! Thanks to David Osborne for pointing this out.)
• Added a scan of the cover of the "Live" album to the miscellaneous pictures page.
  (Thanks to Kevin Quinn for the scan.)

July 20

• Admin. stuff: fixed up the FAQ link to the Gay Times interview, and moved ``The Shaping of Julia'' into the Interviews section, as I'd forgotten to do so before. I renamed the Gay Times interview from "interview.html" to "GayTimes.html" as well, as hopefully there'll be more of them in the future!
• I've also decided I won't update the "Last Update" line on the home page unless there's actually something new to be seen around the place, as opposed to small changes or fixes like those above.

July 19

• I've finally added something I meant to pop in at the start -- a page of links to other musical pages of interest! Please feel free to suggest other pages that you'd like to see on the list!

July 16

• I've added an Interviews and Press Releases link, and moved both the Gay Times interview, and the newly-added Falling Forward press release into it.

July 9

• Added the seperate back-cover piccies to the ICHM section of the gallery.

June 9

• Added a couple of Keith's ICHM piccies to the gallery.

May 17

• I've discovered the "mailto:" URL :-)
  This means that you ought to be able to send comments from within your browser by selecting my address at the bottom of the home page, and also by selecting the "let me know" link in the problems page. (Provided your browser is set up to deal with this type of URL correctly!)
  It seems that "mailto:" can't be given arguments such as a default subject line, however, so I haven't used it for sending list-subscription requests... If anyone knows differently, I'd love to know if it can be done without resorting to using forms :-)

May 16

• Updated the FAQ to version 11.
• Altered the ff page according to the new list info in the FAQ.
• Fixed a few HTML problems with the pages. (Yay for weblint :-)
• Linked The Shaping of Julia to the end of the interview, which I'd forgotten to do before!

May 12

• The discography.now includes a videography as well! (Thanks Marisa!)

May 11

• I've added an interview, which Marisa posted to falling-forward recently, to the main page.

May 1

• There are two new images on the Miscellaneous pictures page (a greyscale photo, and an embossed version of it), courtesy of a fan who sent me some nice mail :-) The photo's not entirely dissimilar to the front cover photo for "Julia Fordham" (although in a different pose).

April 29

• The lyrics for "Swept" are completely completed :-)
  (I've also added the 'Love Moves' lyrics to the page for that CD-5)

April 28

• Some pictures from "Swept" have been added to the gallery.
  (More will be added in the near future...)
• There's now a wee piccy - - to mark new stuff on the pages themselves.
• I've done some weird things to one of the photos in the "Swept" booklet, and placed it in the Miscellaneous pictures page.

April 24

• The lyrics for "Swept" have begun to be entered. (Marisa joins the fray! :-)
• I've put the rest of the lyrics for the "Live" album onto its page (I simply copied them from the "Julia Fordham" lyrics page... If there are any changes needed, someone will have to tell me, as I don't have the live album.)
• I also altered the layout of the main lyrics page slightly, as I thought the Live album would be better situated with the studio albums, rather than the CD-5s.
• The CD-5 lyric pages now have links to each song as well. I've also filled out the lyrics for the singles from the album lyric pages, where possible.

April 23

• The lyrics for "Falling Forward" are available! (Guess who :-)

April 22

• The lyrics for "Julia Fordham" are now completed, thanks (once again) to Urs Stafford.

April 21

• Studio album lyrics pages: Made the titles of the songs for which the lyrics have been entered into links which jump to that song.
• Fixed the 'greyscale' version of the "Falling Forward" album cover so that it actually points to the greyscale version :-)

April 20

• "Invisible Paw"
• I have replaced the "Pawcelain" link on the main screen with a 'Song Parodies' page which will have links to all parodies available here.
• Lyrics from "Julia Fordham" have begun to be entered.

April 19

• This page :-)
• The lyrics for "Porcelain" are now completed, thanks to Urs Stafford.

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