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From the record Peter Panties. Hear/download the album at http://vedahille.bandcamp.com/album/p....
Watch in HD if you can! Way sweeter.

Song by Niall McNeil, Marcus Youssef, and Veda Hille.
Directed by Stephanie Aitken, Charlotte Jackson, and Veda Hille.
Camera by Julian Gossen, Frances McDonald, Kael Vincent, and Yi Stropky.
Edited by Yi Stropky, Stephanie Aitken, and Veda Hille.
Performers: Niall McNeil, Joseph Abbott, Zak Youssef, Sky Lambourne, Charlie Darragh, Stella Newton, Dawn Avery, Frances McDonald, Julian Gossen, Nellie Gossen, Yi Stropky, James Long, Norah Pontin-Long, Leo Pontin-Long, Tanya Podlozniak, Sasa Brown, Sebastian Boersma, Harry Ferrara, Selina Martin, Charlotte Jackson, Stephanie Aitken, and Veda Hille.

http://www.vedahille.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Veda-Hille
http://www.leakyheaven.ca
http://www.neworldtheatre.com

Okay. Peter Panties is a play written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef. Niall is an actor who has grown up in the Vancouver theatre community. He has Downs Syndrome. He wanted for a long time to work on a version of Peter Pan, and in 2008 Neworld Theatre and Leaky Heaven got together to make the show. Niall and Marcus met every Tuesday for almost two years. Theyy talked and wrote and recorded everything that happened. They also did workshops with directors Steven Hill and Lois Anderson and other folks. I took a version of the script and lyrics to Berlin with me in 2009, and wrote most of the music sitting in a little room by the River Spree. Also while walking around trying to get my baby boy to go to sleep. In 2010 we started rehearsals in earnest. My band for the show was The Bank Dogs, who were four teenage boys. They're practically grown up now. The actors in the show (there were many) all sang when we performed it at the PuSh Festival in 2011.

I love this music, largely because the lyrics that Niall and Marcus gave me were so amazing. I knew we had to make a record. The Bank Dogs and I went to work with John Collins and Dave Carswell in the studio in the summer of 2011. At first I thought we would make a really straight up rock album. And then the chaos was the part that was working, so off we went. We had so much fun. Niall and I made up some blues songs, and lots of people came in and sang. Afterwards we had a big party, and took the pictures for the cover. And then this spring a bunch of us went to Strathcona Community Gardens and shot a whole bunch of video in an afternoon. Which you just watched. We're going to make some more, so come back and visit. Thanks.

Veda Hille, June 2013