THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD opens tomorrow at the cultch in vancouver. runs through saturday, no public show on thursday. wednesday is pay what you can, with a talk back! i will talk back if you like. COME SEE THIS SHOW. i love it, not everyone will, i’d like to know what you think. is that attractive? hope so. i think this thing is wild. theatre replacement, let their photos convince you.
that was a good morning. rabbits in the brambles too. for a while i didn’t think about the DEVASTATING ARTS CUTS. whoops. think about ducks, think about ducks.
the theatre replacement greatest cities show is looking good. opens at the cultch in vancouver on march 9, and goes on to play in montreal, ottawa, kitchener, and at the shadbolt in burnaby over the next few months. really intricate weird borrowed language, collected in tennessee by the actors and director. i love it.
all the things i’m working on right now are lucky things. meaning, i feel lucky. greatest cities, leaky heaven and neworld theatre’s peter panties, plus an expanded craigslist cantata with my pals bill richardson and ami gladstone. and this weekend, the oscars! have i mentioned that i love the oscars? i make up a new cocktail every year. this year is Fantastic Mr. Vodka. when i have the ingredients worked out i’ll let you know.
hey! i’m playing on granville island tomorrow (saturday) at 4:30 at performance works. and it’s free!
this is what my husband likes to do after work: imagine himself as a happy forest creature.
in other news: our dec 12 concert at the vancouver east cultural centre is ready to listen to at cbc online. some songs with the old quartet, some songs with the current 9 piece extravaganza. some clapping. you know the type of thing.
what else has been going on? i just finished a little piece for the standing wave ensemble, a 2 minute remembrance of parks from my childhood. that will premiere on may 10 in vancouver. i’m working on music for the new theatre replacement show Greatest Cities in the World, opening march 9 in vancouver and travelling to montreal, ottawa, and kitchener. i have to start collecting complaints for a song for the vancouver complaints choir: send them in! and we’re still working on the new fits record, aiming to get that out for the summer time. and peter panties carries on, new songs coming without my even asking for them. ok, i think i need a nap.
more hille back catalogue is up at zunior, including the long out-of-print path of a body!
ok team: go to the ravishing beasts taxidermy exhibit at the museum of vancouver. go to the push festival and i forgot to mention a few months ago, if you’re in berlin go to the museum der dinge, the museum of things. full of things.
as promised, you can now buy digital versions of auditorium and you do not live in this world alone at zunior. more back catalogue will be up there soon!
hello there peoples. sorry to have abandoned my post for a few weeks. i’ve been testing the air, i suppose. figuring out how i feel in this new decade. so far so good. we had a great time on gabriola last weekend, and you can look at pictures taken by victor over here. next up comes duplex on saltspring, this coming sunday. more ferry rides!
what else is up? i’m going to be a mentor! i could be your mentor. the vancouver east cultural centre has a program called Ignite, and you can go here to find out more about the program and the application process. i am staying home working on vancouver projects most of this year and i will be doing some private teaching. get in touch at veda@vedahille.com if you’d like piano or songwriting lessons.
and hey, my pals myths, who are apparently now one of the hottest new bands in canada, are going to join me for a few songs at the pitt gallery benefit on jan 30. while i was looking for songs to do with them i found this old demo of ace of the nazarene. just me and justin rocking out at the hive.
well here we go my friends; your last christmas gift from me this year is the Song of the Moldau, written by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler and based on a old czech folk song. we recorded this all in one big room together, me and my pals. this is my favourite reminder of the inevitability of shift and change and hope. merry christmas to you all.
ok, this is one of the songs that i wrote in berlin for the upcoming leaky heaven/neworld theatre show Peter Panties. the script and lyrics were written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef. i’m singing the part of Wendy Darling and Josepha Conrad is singing Mrs. Darling. Reimar Servas is playing drums. we recorded it at studio upstream in weissenssee. i think i’ll be putting out a little ep of our berlin recording once we’ve mixed it, and eventually we’re planning a full length album of the songs with cast. that’ll be in 2011 sometime.
