Veda Hille

look, it’s the fits! a photo by the stalwart adam pw smith, taken at To Sir With Love last year. but you can see us fresh and soon on june 17 at the vancouver east cultural centre, helping the lovely Fish&Bird release their new albumchild. more songs about monkeys and dead horses, i promise. some aspect of hille will be playing on june 25 at W2 at a book launch for the lastingly weird Olo J. Milkman. Olo has been an artist pal and a patron and spews good ideas all the time. plus he practically gave me my first c*sio keyboard. he has alot to answer for.

i will also be lifting a glass at the Jessie awards this year, where two shows that i was part of have nominations: both Peter Panties and Dress Me Up In Your Love are up for Innovations awards. plus i have a nomination for PP music, thrilling! more vancouver shows are in the works, and one day i’ll leave town again i swear. i haven’t forgotten the rest of the world. i’m just so busy cleaning up lego and making rhubarb cobbler.

oh, i’ve been a lame blogger. lameblogger. i was reading about Pioneer Woman in the new yorker. she posts EVERY DAY AT 6AM. or something like that. but, I WILL NEVER BE LIKE THAT. oh well. who wants to live on a ranch, anyway.

so, a quick update. i am furiously writing new emily carr songs for the victoria symphony project. ford and giorgio are doing stunning orchestrations. i do hope we can take this to at least a few other places. if anyone has any friends who run a symphony, feel free to drop my name. also in the works: the final writing days for the Craigslist Cantata, which is going up at the arts club next january (a co-pro with the push festival). and then going on tour! next week i start recording the Peter Panties record with the Bank Dogs, a band of teenage boys who are taller and more skilled every day. also, the city of vancouver just gave some money towards a new project called Songs of the False Creek Flats, which i will be writing with Annabel Vaughan my new architect pal. that’ll go up in september. plus i’ve been coaching the teenager in how to ace a job interview, and playing dentist with the toddler (more fun than it sounds). so there, there’s all my lame excuses.

i’ll find a nice picture for the next post. promise.