So the show for Vancouver City Limits went AMAZINGLY well! Will Ripley and Erin Frances, my guitarist and one of my backup vocalist, joined me for an acoustic set and the chemistry on stage was amazing, and we had a ton of fun and the feedback was super positive! I got to jam with some fun musicians at the end of the night, it was great.
Some favorite moments of the evening:
* Will carrying my extremely heavy Korg Triton (we now call it the Tri-TON... as in 3 tons? Get it? Haha?) ... and while we were going through the parking lot, he started pretending it was a bazooka. Erin and I were killing ourselves laughing!
* Us trying to find the actual room we were playing in at the Vancouver Rowing Club. There were a lot of hallways, a lot of stairs... and Will was carrying the Tri-TON up and down the stairs... and him being all manlike and saying:"Good thing I worked my biceps today!"
* Me starting to talk about the story behind a song you will soon hear "What You Did" ... I started to get personal with it and Erin literally shook her head and did the whole "cut it out" sign on stage and I said:"Well then! I guess I'll just sing the song then!" - it got a laugh.
* Closing our set with "Busted" ... it brought the house down!
* Bringing up one of my students to sing. She was great!! Thanks AK!
* Trying to crash a private party upstairs that my student and her friends got to join... A lady, who was obviously the HR Manager, busted us. She was like:"Who the hell are you guys?!" and before I could get a word in, Will said:"The janitors" (Erin and I CLEARLY were dressed up like janitors!) ... and the lady was like:"Get the F^% out!" ... so we got kicked out. But my student and her friends... they ended up partying with them the whole night! Hilarious!
Again, thanks Bruce from Vancouver City Limits for asking me to do this show. I will definitely be doing it again! So much fun!
I have had not one day off from work, rehearsing, networking... I've been tired. But I'm looking forward to Christmas Day and Boxing Day... my two days off... I will do... NOTHING! :o)
I now have a YouTube Channel, I will be soon uploading videos of myself plugging away getting the album together and other adventures I embark on while I get Kat Gillis out there to the public! As of now, I uploaded a video for "Busted" ... just pictures and whatnot, this is for some of you who have contacted me and said they had trouble hearing the song on the other networks. So now you can hear it finally!
Thanks again for all the support everyone. More to come!!
Luv Kat
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