Episode 135: Hannah Vig

[00:00:00] It's always that moment in your concerts where you're playing an acoustic song or something

[00:00:04] It's a really quiet moment and some guy in the back is like

[00:00:09] I heard a story about Dolly one time. She was doing a show and she was really trying to have the audience pay attention

[00:00:16] It was quite slow song this guy in the back goes

[00:00:20] And she just looked up from her song and said I thought I told you to stay in the truck

[00:00:27] You tell him Dolly I mean Taylor I mean Dolly I

[00:00:31] Don't know what's going on Ego and vice episode 135. You've got a real attitude problem with flyer slacker

[00:01:41] Hey, this is Mike this is Ego and vice this is episode 135

[00:01:46] Thank you so much for coming back to Ottawa's original and longest running music podcast

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[00:02:00] You are Ego and vice you are the heartbeat that makes Ego and vice

[00:02:05] Beat so thank you so much. Thank you so much. I can't say it enough

[00:02:10] You don't get enough credit. You really don't

[00:02:14] Anyway on the podcast this week. I am very very excited to have a local singer songwriter

[00:02:22] Currently the winner of the Capitol Music Award

[00:02:27] Newcomer of the year amazing

[00:02:30] That's it. That's that's a heck of a thing. You know, there's a lot of artists in this town lots and to be recognized as

[00:02:40] Very up-and-coming or one of the top that's something to be said so good for her. Her name is Hannah Vig

[00:02:45] Her name is Hannah Vig

[00:02:47] You've probably heard of her you've probably seen her play around Ottawa. She's been

[00:02:52] Playing for about two years or so now

[00:02:55] great songwriter

[00:02:56] great storyteller

[00:02:58] great musician

[00:03:00] lots of greats

[00:03:03] We tried to get together before I

[00:03:08] Think it was before Christmas of last year we had it all the date all all worked out but

[00:03:15] As life does it happened and things didn't work out. So I'm super happy that we finally got together and we finally got

[00:03:22] Got to do the the sit-down and have the conversation

[00:03:25] It was great meeting her and I want you to listen to the conversation which is coming up right after this track

[00:03:30] And I am privileged and I'm honored

[00:03:33] That Hannah has let me

[00:03:36] Debut her new her new single. It's called lose it

[00:03:40] So I believe it's coming out June 2nd, but you can only hear it first here on

[00:03:47] Eagle and vice I've played debut songs before and I'm always

[00:03:51] I'm always super thrilled to do it. So thank you so much Hannah and

[00:03:55] Fans of Eagle and vice fans of Hannah vig collaboration. Here we go. This is the debut

[00:04:01] This is lose it. This is Hannah vig right here on Eagle and vice

[00:04:14] I'm taking shortcuts to design paths on my way home

[00:04:19] I'm never checking for cars before crossing the road

[00:04:24] You get angry when I come back to soon

[00:04:37] You get to see what's on your mind because

[00:04:40] I know that I won't I wonder if you notice all the ways I lose it for you

[00:04:47] You hold

[00:05:13] I talk to you inside my hand

[00:05:20] Every day

[00:05:22] You're always nice to tell me that cuz you have nothing to say

[00:05:27] You call my phone and buy your side just like a pie

[00:05:32] How much more of this I'm supposed to take

[00:05:45] I could have sworn that you were

[00:06:02] I

[00:06:33] Felt I could breathe

[00:06:51] I

[00:07:07] Hey, we're back this is ego and vice this is episode

[00:07:26] 134 as promised in the intro. I am sitting here in South hood studio with

[00:07:32] Hannah vig, how are you? I'm doing great. Thank you for awesome. Thank you so much for coming

[00:07:36] Thank you for having me. Um, I know we tried to

[00:07:40] Figure this out last year and we actually actually was booked and I think I was gonna go to your place and stuff

[00:07:46] And then we'll go and yeah, and then things fell through is a messy time for me health wise

[00:07:52] So yeah, that's okay though stuff happens and

[00:07:56] We worked it out and you actually came to came to my place

[00:07:59] Which is which is easier for me because I can't lug this stuff around anymore. I realized it's just too much work

[00:08:05] Yeah, so thank you very much for coming. So it's a beautiful day and

[00:08:10] There's been a lot of rain but because it's sunny

[00:08:13] What is your favorite?

[00:08:15] summertime song

[00:08:18] Right now I've been on a I'm always on a major pop kick. I'm always listening to

[00:08:24] Everything is always some kind of pop but lately on repeat. I've had Gracie Abrams risk on repeat

[00:08:29] It came out. I think like two weeks ago

[00:08:30] It just has this really fun hard-hitting bridge and I've been listening to it on loop

[00:08:35] that and a lot of

[00:08:37] Anything by Muna as well always always very summer silk chiffon

[00:08:43] Kind of girl is the other way them

[00:08:45] Yeah, I think seasons definitely have music attached to them and it's neat how like whether it's like winter or whether it's summer

[00:08:53] It's just like because when I go in the winter when I go snowboarding

[00:08:58] Music which just fits perfectly for the season for the everything and when I go on my bike

[00:09:03] I make like a summertime mix and it's just there's always songs that I pull from so I don't know

[00:09:08] What's your favorite season? What's your favorite seasonal music? Oh, I love I love

[00:09:13] Autumn autumn music that kind of so that just feels like it's leaves falling. Yeah

[00:09:18] I think I think the fall is a lot of favorites too

[00:09:22] I like the fall too because it feels like you know things are changing but it's not super cold yet

[00:09:26] And it's pretty right. Oh, yeah, very nice very nice. So you are a singer-songwriter

[00:09:30] Yes, I am and you are Ottawa based Ottawa born not all born. All right

[00:09:36] I actually was born in Arizona in the US. Oh interesting. Yeah, so I grew up in Arizona

[00:09:41] We moved to Canada when I was nine my dad's Canadian. My mom's American dual citizenship

[00:09:46] You write your own ticket that makes it touring easy. Oh, but I it would it will if I do

[00:09:51] Hopefully fingers crossed. Yes moved to Canada in 2012

[00:09:54] Grew up in the GTA went to school and everything

[00:09:58] Graduated and decided to come to Ottawa for University in 2021 and then have been here have been here since oh cool

[00:10:04] So Arizona you're used to that dry heat. Oh, yeah this 80 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity is god-awful

[00:10:12] 100 degree dry heat right any day I was born and raised in Thunder Bay

[00:10:15] So I've always been like a winter person so I don't like any heat

[00:10:19] I've always found it's easier to put clothes on oh it is didn't stay warm than to

[00:10:23] Stay warm then to take your skin off and try and not super hot

[00:10:26] I hate I hate the heat, but I hate the humidity so during your during your your travels

[00:10:32] Arizona to the GTA eventually to Ottawa

[00:10:36] Where did music come from? What are your early?

[00:10:38] earliest memories of music

[00:10:40] My dad is a little like a little known musician

[00:10:43] he released an album like 2009 but has been writing and playing music since I was little and

[00:10:50] He would always be playing guitar and I would sing with him that was kind of how I

[00:10:54] Started getting into music at all, but I was very very terrified of singing in front of people like family was

[00:11:01] like a big maybe it would take me a lot to to do that even and

[00:11:06] But I did always enjoy it

[00:11:07] I did always like singing and and all and he my dad had been trying to get me to play guitar for

[00:11:11] Years, but I just never really had much interest in it, and it wasn't until around

[00:11:16] 2020 I

[00:11:19] Got bored of my ukulele which I had learned to play and I taught myself

[00:11:22] just a couple basic chords and guitar and my dad was ecstatic that I had finally wanted to pick it up and

[00:11:29] The first time I picked up a guitar

[00:11:31] I picked up like a lefty and my dad was so so happy because he thought I was lefty and so he got it

[00:11:35] restrung for a lefty and everything and then I

[00:11:38] Realized I was like actually no you just picked you just you just did it wrong

[00:11:41] I just did it wrong, but it felt normal cuz I never played it before so I was like okay this works

[00:11:45] And then and then I realized I had much more coordination the other way

[00:11:48] and

[00:11:49] Just but only only picked it up very very briefly

[00:11:53] During kovat, and then there was like a very brief

[00:11:56] Quarantine hobby and then I wrote I think the first time I wrote a song would have been

[00:12:02] Like I the first time I wrote anything that was actually that I actually played for anyone was January of 2022

[00:12:08] But I wrote I think very very

[00:12:11] Few like horrible songs in 2021 that will never see the light of day ever

[00:12:18] But I started actually getting like more into guitar

[00:12:22] Towards the tail end of first year which would have been around January 2022 okay?

[00:12:27] And yeah, I guess you like you had touched on I guess your dad was a guitar player. Yeah, okay

[00:12:31] Yeah, and self-taught

[00:12:34] Yes guitar player which is very cool

[00:12:36] I am also self-taught a lot of people I know are kind of self-taught

[00:12:40] Yeah, it's it's a different a different wheelhouse

[00:12:43] But I I haven't really had much much options otherwise

[00:12:46] I took piano lessons very briefly

[00:12:50] And so I had like basic understanding of some minimal theory, but I forgot all of that like ten years ago

[00:12:56] Do you think that's an important thing to know me to know how to read music to write music?

[00:13:00] I don't think it's absolutely necessary, but it definitely does help

[00:13:02] I think like I I took a music theory class just in I'm in university

[00:13:06] I just took a element music as an elective just this French this music theory class in French and

[00:13:12] because I

[00:13:14] wanted to learn because I figured knowing a little more about

[00:13:17] Like the basics and scales and stuff might just help me improve my my writing right it has a little bit

[00:13:22] I'm better at transposing things just off the bat because my bassist Matt scarf will always get upset if I

[00:13:30] Send the chords, and it's a capo, but it's not relative to not a capo

[00:13:34] Yeah, so but I've gotten better just on the fly being like okay these chords are it's in this key year

[00:13:38] It's these chords instead since since taking that theory class which has been helpful

[00:13:41] Yeah, that's fair and you're a songwriter as well

[00:13:44] So I'd imagine the more you know the more you can use towards the actual writing yeah

[00:13:51] Cowboy chords as they call them. Oh, yeah, you know just straight up

[00:13:53] But you know the simplest stuff is the easiest stuff

[00:13:57] But if you could throw in something or just change something up just to know I'm I'm definitely a rhythm guitarist over over anything else

[00:14:02] I do not I'm with myself a lead. I mean I'm in that group

[00:14:06] I've been playing guitar for like 25 years, and I'm probably worse now than I was when I started

[00:14:12] I've just forgot things and I've gotten so lazy

[00:14:14] Anyway, that's cool. Do you remember some of your early?

[00:14:18] Inspirations like music used to listen to even before you played me played

[00:14:21] I have always been a pretty big fan of Taylor Swift that was always one of the big ones

[00:14:26] My dad was a very big country music fan, so I grew up on a lot of

[00:14:30] George Strait Reba McIntyre kind of that kind of vibe

[00:14:35] But I I didn't really actually start listening listening to music until probably like grade 8 grade 9

[00:14:41] I started kind of having my own taste

[00:14:43] I listened to a lot of like a lot of the the emo music of the days like the panic of the panic of

[00:14:49] the disco fallout boy

[00:14:51] But Taylor Swift was always like a big one and I got more into

[00:14:55] Like indie indie pop within the last within the last four or five years

[00:15:00] But Taylor Swift Phoebe Bridgers Maggie Rogers is another very big inspiration

[00:15:08] Maisie Peters is one of the more recent ones. I like I like Phoebe Bridgers. Yeah, she's really good. I love that song

[00:15:16] Motion six. Oh, yeah, it's great. Right? It's like speaking of summer music

[00:15:20] That was always a driving song for me just the way it kicks in. Oh, yeah

[00:15:23] Is that really kind of melancholy low beat is awesome

[00:15:26] When you listen to stuff like that when you were starting to get inspired by music and that you're dead

[00:15:31] Like you said your dad was a musician. I've asked this question before

[00:15:34] If he wasn't do you still think you still think you'd be going down the path?

[00:15:37] I think I might still I did always just like singing for fun, and I do love performing

[00:15:42] I was very terrified of it for a very long time

[00:15:46] There's a video that exists. It's not anywhere online

[00:15:48] I've showed it to I think three people total but it's a coffeehouse

[00:15:53] Fundraiser that happened at a local theater that a friend of mine went to and I went to this was April of 2019

[00:15:58] And I was so terrified of singing in front of people my friend and I did this duet to like I'm gonna lose you

[00:16:05] With like a backing track the John Legend Meghan Trainor and it was it was god-awful

[00:16:09] It was like she she is a beautiful voice powerful incredible

[00:16:13] I was terrified like kept like not being able to breathe and after that I was like I'm never doing that again

[00:16:18] That was horrible

[00:16:20] Like towards that it was it was kind of fun, but I was like I this freaks me out way too much

[00:16:24] Yeah, it wasn't until coming up here for school being in first year like freshly 18

[00:16:29] I was like I kind of want to get over that fear because playing and singing is something I like doing and I

[00:16:34] Wanted to be able to to do that in front of people

[00:16:38] Yeah

[00:16:38] If it's a passion you have to overcome some things and I wonder how many

[00:16:41] Musicians will never know of because they couldn't get over like the fear of like the stage and yeah like public speaking and stuff

[00:16:47] So that's awesome. You broke through so

[00:16:50] Thank you. Yeah, that's good first that first gig queer connection in March of 2022 was my first time really performing in front of anyone other than

[00:16:56] That blip in 2019 and the few friends I'd played my songs for and so a sold-out show

[00:17:03] It saw with 200 some people from my first gig was kind of nerve-wracking

[00:17:08] It's a little overwhelming. Yeah a little terrifying

[00:17:10] You could definitely hear it in the first few songs

[00:17:12] My voice is a little shaky but then I got then I got comfortable with it and then the adrenaline after that

[00:17:16] I was like I want to do this again. I want to do this forever

[00:17:19] My next question was has it gotten easier but oh, yes

[00:17:22] I still get a little bit a little bit nervous sometimes

[00:17:25] But I I feel like if you're not at least a little bit nervous

[00:17:28] I maybe you're not doing right. Yeah, you don't become too complacent. I always find that it's not real nerve

[00:17:32] It's not like scared nerves anymore. It's more like nervous energy. Yeah want to do it, right?

[00:17:36] Exactly. You want to do it well and yeah

[00:17:38] Just it's it's it's that there's nothing like you can write music and you can record music and you can release music

[00:17:44] But there's just something about performing and being on that stage that just almost gets in your blood

[00:17:47] Yeah, you just can't it's like a bug. Yeah

[00:17:50] I will know that's part that's the big part

[00:17:52] um

[00:17:53] The older that I've gotten I found that the producing or the engineering of music is kind of equivalent now

[00:17:58] But back in the day performing was like a big big big deal

[00:18:01] Yeah, when it comes to music itself and your inspirations or even when you're writing

[00:18:07] What is it that grabs you? Is it the music? Is it the lyrics is it?

[00:18:11] You know when I'm listening to other well anything you said when you were younger and you didn't play yeah instruments

[00:18:16] I have always been a writer. That was my like growing up. I loved creative writing

[00:18:20] I wanted to be an author for a good long while. I just always loved

[00:18:23] creating and making stories and

[00:18:25] Once I got a little bit older

[00:18:27] I kind of realized that it was a very just a good out for me to get things out in a healthy way

[00:18:30] I love journaling

[00:18:31] that was a big thing my mom was always trying to get my sister and I to journal whenever just to kind of

[00:18:35] keep track of our lives and I

[00:18:37] Don't know mark down memories and stuff, but I I did always like writing and I think around the time

[00:18:42] I was like 16 17. I realized that it was a lot

[00:18:48] healthier than some other coping mechanisms that I had at the time and

[00:18:52] So it just it's just kind of been something that I always turn to whenever I need to process

[00:18:56] Something that's a little harder to deal with so it's definitely about the words

[00:19:00] Yeah, always lyrics I I keep them like a list of lyrics that I hear that hit me kind of hard and yeah

[00:19:06] There's something about great lyrics that are just like especially when you're listening to music as I was talking

[00:19:11] What do you what do you what kind of moves you as far as music or lyrics and sometimes?

[00:19:15] It's just a little hook or one line. That's oh, yeah

[00:19:18] Like punches me in the chest yeah

[00:19:21] That's just me that's so that hit me like that's so heavy for me. Yeah, I get that and yeah totally yeah

[00:19:27] Cool, do you remember the name of the very first song you ever wrote?

[00:19:31] Yes, I think okay well if we're going off of ones that were like I think I remember writing something

[00:19:36] I wrote something for my ex back in like 2020 this

[00:19:39] Person I dated who was kind of horrible awful to me and then after we broke up

[00:19:44] I wrote a song about it and just about some of the BS that they that they'd pulled and

[00:19:49] I remember I called it my mom told me not to write this because my mom told me

[00:19:54] I think a little bit after we broke up

[00:19:55] I was sitting on the couch with my mom in her place

[00:19:58] And she's like just whatever you do just don't write a song about I'm like too late mom

[00:20:02] I already did like I this is how we deal with things and so I called that it's still

[00:20:07] I'm sure there's still some voice memos of it somewhere, and I played it live a couple times. I think

[00:20:12] summer of

[00:20:13] 2022 and maybe winter fall 22 once or twice, but it is it has since been

[00:20:18] Been buried in the vaults my mom told me not to write. Yeah, it's okay

[00:20:22] It's also kind of emo

[00:20:24] Yeah, like cuz the whole first line is my mom told me that I shouldn't be writing any more songs about people who've

[00:20:29] Hurt me that was the first line of it right okay. That's cool. Yeah

[00:20:34] So after your first show I guess you started performing more I noticed that you did have some shows

[00:20:40] I guess it's only been 2022 so it's only been a couple of years

[00:20:44] Yeah, my first yes my first gig was March of point 22

[00:20:47] So it was just two years ago like a month or two years and two months ago

[00:20:52] But um so that first year I had the queer connection put on by you Oh pride

[00:20:56] The fundraiser and then that summer I organized a show with just me and out by Lucy who'd also played

[00:21:02] That quick action show after meeting them and we sold out live on again that summer

[00:21:07] And it was super fun

[00:21:08] And then someone else had asked me to play something

[00:21:11] That August and the noise of tell it asked me to open for them in September and played a couple of other

[00:21:16] Small things I had my first like headliner at avant-garde in December of 2022

[00:21:20] And then a couple I think played Irene's with the noise boys

[00:21:26] January of 2023 and then it and I've lost track of how many shows I played last year

[00:21:31] Yeah, some of the places I saw it was yeah, Irene's live on Elgin. Yeah

[00:21:34] I got a gallery touched on but what is what is the jukebox lunchtime at the end?

[00:21:39] Yeah, so that so someone reached out to me around this time last summer about playing a show

[00:21:44] It was this free concert series happening at the NAC just inside and not in like one of the concert halls

[00:21:50] But it was like a stage that they set up on the inside

[00:21:53] So people just walking like through can come listen and it was just just me and my guitar for 40 minutes

[00:21:59] And it was a lot of fun and very I think a very stellar thing for me to have on my resume now that I

[00:22:04] Have played the NAC

[00:22:06] Exciting hell of a venue to have definitely on your resume

[00:22:11] I saw I actually saw you at the Saw Gallery once I went to see the

[00:22:16] Stoby was on the bill with class

[00:22:19] Yeah, yeah, I came there I got there about halfway through your set because it started so early

[00:22:25] I know early stuff starts. Anyway, yeah, cuz Stoby's like one of my favorite bands and

[00:22:30] I'd already talked to you and set up the the podcast

[00:22:33] But I don't like just approaching people like hey, I was like on it's me in this thing

[00:22:37] So I figured I'd wait but they yeah, it was excellent. It was excellent. Thank you

[00:22:40] Yeah, that was my first show with the like the full band where I wasn't playing an instrument

[00:22:44] That was like one of the few

[00:22:45] Twice where I've had a band a whole band and not or not play guitar. I just sang cool

[00:22:50] That was that was actually my next question is the band. Did you want to give us like what is the band?

[00:22:54] Is it okay? Who are they?

[00:22:57] It started out of someone a band called Chile Oh this kind of

[00:23:02] punk band from I think BC or Edmonton maybe reached out to me last summer about playing a show in August

[00:23:09] But they asked if I could be would be able to have a band for it

[00:23:12] And I was like, huh

[00:23:14] But I had been trying to get a band together some friends and I were thinking about it for a while

[00:23:18] but it just it just never worked out and

[00:23:21] Then this gig came up and they wanted me to have been for I was like

[00:23:24] I'm sure I could figure something out so I had a friend who was gonna do bass

[00:23:26] But it fell through and that week I kind of knew that she had been wanting to bail about it

[00:23:32] But I knew like they don't want to leave me hanging without a bassist

[00:23:36] and it was that week that I met Matthew scarf at a live on Elgin open mic a

[00:23:40] Friend of mine Jamie Chamberlain introduced us and then that week I reached out and I was like hey

[00:23:45] I have a gig coming up would you want to do bass for me? And he's like, yeah, definitely and at the time I had

[00:23:51] Annika

[00:23:53] Annika Devlin from line

[00:23:54] She was doing drums because she was back in Ottawa for the summer and and played drums and so she that first gig

[00:23:59] It was Matt and I can I have on guard that was August

[00:24:02] I think 11th and it was so much fun and it's a very different energy playing with a band than just by myself

[00:24:08] But I really did enjoy it and I think I had two other shows that month alone that were with a band

[00:24:14] And then rotated through a couple couple drummers after Annika had to leave and then

[00:24:19] Nay, and I met and

[00:24:22] Found out that he played drums. I was like, do you want to do you want to do drums?

[00:24:25] And he's like, yeah sure and then yeah, and that's been that's been the case and it wasn't until

[00:24:32] So Eric Montpool of noise to tell is one of my closest friends and after I'd started playing with Ben

[00:24:37] He's like, oh if you ever need anyone to do lead guitar, I'd be I'd be happy to join and so around November

[00:24:42] I think was the first time that he joined us since it was a little a nice little four piece

[00:24:46] And then he's been doing lead whenever he can

[00:24:51] But I think we're back to our first three piece show since November

[00:24:55] It'll be on June 1st. That's saw gallery with schoolhouse cool June 1st saw gallery

[00:24:59] Um, is that how you're presenting now as a full band? Are you still doing so?

[00:25:04] I still do some self some solo stuff

[00:25:06] I have a solo a solo show actually on June 22nd as well opening for Sarah Elena and with Jim Ema

[00:25:12] For Sarah's album release party, but I I do like doing solo shows sometimes because it is it is very different

[00:25:19] It's I get to play some some more low-key things because with a band I find I do tailor it a little more

[00:25:23] Well, yeah, it's usually more higher energy songs

[00:25:26] Like it's where I'm kind of I think last week or the May 11th show was the first time I had

[00:25:31] We experimented playing with my one of my slower songs with the band and it worked very well

[00:25:35] So I think we'll be doing it more but I do kind of like having that

[00:25:38] That um, that kind of punchy energy. Yeah, there's lots to be said about like acoustic solo shows and stuff like that, but it's true

[00:25:46] There was do you know who Laura Jane Grace is? Yes

[00:25:48] I do I love Lauren Jane Grayson she had this interview and she said I think it's like genetically something in people's heads

[00:25:54] They can only listen to so much acoustic guitar and then they can't any yeah, so I get that I get that

[00:26:01] with the band or

[00:26:03] By yourself you do have some music on yeah line. I was looking at you had some singles from

[00:26:10] 2023 I believe clean break nostalgic retrograde. Yes, so and an EP called season

[00:26:19] Yeah, so I wrote so clean break I actually wrote in October of 2022 after a really

[00:26:25] Messy breakup that should not have been should not have been as messy as it was

[00:26:28] but I was just writing to to deal with it and I

[00:26:32] played a song and

[00:26:34] with

[00:26:36] It was at the Irene show and I wanted to play it and Eric said, okay

[00:26:40] If you play it we can do backing band for you

[00:26:41] So no I said tell had a little backing band for me moment that January which is really fun

[00:26:45] And there's like this song is good

[00:26:47] Like you I think you should you should put this out and my older brother lives in Arizona

[00:26:52] Where I'm from originally and he does a lot of

[00:26:55] He's a sound engineer for a lot of like death metal bands

[00:26:58] But he's like if you have time when you're back in town because we usually go back for Christmas

[00:27:03] He's like we could record something. So we recorded clean break in his studio

[00:27:07] And then put that out in February on Valentine's Day because I thought it'd be really funny ironic to release a breakup song on

[00:27:13] Valentine's Day and then

[00:27:15] Met Kieran Isley in March and around the time

[00:27:18] He had started recording no stels EP and I was like, hey, would you want to work together?

[00:27:23] Maybe and he's like, yeah for sure. And so then we started I didn't know at first that it was gonna be like a project

[00:27:29] I thought was gonna be the one single cuz I wrote nostalgic around March and

[00:27:33] But he loved he's like this is awesome. And I was like maybe an EP and sent him a couple other songs

[00:27:39] I wrote retrograde around the same time as clean break, but it was it's actually out as a SoundCloud demo

[00:27:44] That is just like an acoustic. It's

[00:27:47] There's a couple other demos out there all they're also not great not my not my best work

[00:27:52] But retrograde wrote that one and then I knew I wanted to record something that I'd previously put out on SoundCloud

[00:27:57] And that was the the best one

[00:28:00] And then I wrote season change. The title track is actually the last song that I wrote

[00:28:05] For that EP I wrote it like July

[00:28:08] I think right as we were as Kieran and I were finishing up recording and I was like I was it was

[00:28:12] A four-track EP with one single

[00:28:14] Which was gonna be nostalgic, but I was like what about what about two singles a fun little surprise single

[00:28:19] I'll drop the day before and five tracks cuz I wanted seasons change on it

[00:28:22] And then after writing it and after he agreed and said he wanted to also record that one

[00:28:27] I was like cool and then I was like, I think this one has to be has to be the title track

[00:28:32] Is there anything better than

[00:28:35] Like writing a song and then performing it but then going into the studio and hearing it back for the first time

[00:28:41] It's so it is so cool. Just moment, you know

[00:28:45] Sometimes I shuffle my Spotify and like my own music comes up and like this is actually unreal that I have

[00:28:49] You know things out there that people can listen to all these like vulnerable thoughts and feelings that are just out there in the universe

[00:28:56] Yeah, it's okay to listen yourself

[00:29:01] They say they don't they um at this point why don't we play a song? Oh for sure

[00:29:05] Okay, this is Hannah Vig with a song called seasons change ego and vice

[00:29:11] I

[00:29:19] Think I might go out tonight chase eyes without a drink inside

[00:29:26] feel the music washing over

[00:29:34] Speaker sound and a stranger turns their head no surprise that I'm doing this again

[00:29:41] I move just a little closer

[00:29:45] Oh

[00:30:06] Sunday morning

[00:31:06] Somewhere else, my home again

[00:31:09] Cutting ties in me with things and it says

[00:31:13] I know the meaning, for me

[00:32:05] And it's

[00:33:28] Funny how things work out

[00:33:31] I don't get what I want

[00:33:35] People come and go right, see sense

[00:33:39] Maybe some, some will stick around

[00:34:55] Cute and heartwarming and kind of cringy

[00:34:58] And it's a very hard line to walk

[00:35:00] And I don't always trust myself to walk it

[00:35:02] So I do have a lot more confidence in my songs about my bad experiences

[00:35:06] So I write about some of the girls who've kind of messed me up

[00:35:11] That I've dated or family issues, just kind of friends

[00:35:15] I had a really messy roommate situation last summer

[00:35:19] And that was what Season's Change was about

[00:35:21] Because I was just realizing how much of my life had been changing

[00:35:23] And I moved out of that place I was in

[00:35:25] I'd been kind of surrounding myself with people that were a lot kinder to me

[00:35:29] And I wrote the song, I think, like two weeks into living in my new place

[00:35:33] And I just felt so much lighter than I had the few months before

[00:35:36] And I wanted to put that to paper

[00:35:38] So Season's Change, I think, is one of the more uplifting songs that I have

[00:35:41] Even though the whole thing is just about the impermanence of people in your life

[00:35:45] And just, yeah, being on the cusp of your 20s and realizing that everything is always changing all the time

[00:35:52] And being an adult means that you just have to deal with it

[00:35:55] And as a writer, someone who writes music but also you said you did journals and stuff

[00:36:00] You must have tons of material

[00:36:02] Like you have endless amounts of words

[00:36:04] I told it up on my Google Drive a little while ago

[00:36:06] And I think I've written around maybe 60 or 70 complete songs

[00:36:10] I think since I started writing

[00:36:12] But I think there's maybe like 20 or 30 that I really, really love

[00:36:15] That have not been released or anything

[00:36:19] But I've been writing a lot

[00:36:21] It always works out where the newest songs are always my favorite

[00:36:24] Because I'm always improving my writing

[00:36:26] My musical abilities are always getting better

[00:36:28] And so my most recent songs are always my favorites

[00:36:31] Except I think I wrote a song back in September that I still really love

[00:36:34] And it was very rare for me to have written something and still adore it after playing it a couple of times

[00:36:39] Like I am so sick of Clean Break

[00:36:41] It's just my...

[00:36:43] It's fun but it is kind of juvenile

[00:36:45] My writing has improved a lot

[00:36:47] So therefore that's why we don't really play that one live anymore

[00:36:49] But then if you play it enough

[00:36:51] The people that are fans

[00:36:53] They want to hear it

[00:36:55] So you're kind of obligated

[00:36:57] It's like I wish I never wrote that song

[00:36:59] Having lyrics, or not even lyrics

[00:37:01] Just having down the written word

[00:37:03] Do you find it easy to put that to music?

[00:37:05] Usually yeah

[00:37:07] I do always start with lyrics

[00:37:09] I sometimes have melodies in mind

[00:37:11] My phone is so full of many gigabytes of voice memos

[00:37:15] Too many voice memos

[00:37:17] If I have a lyric or something in mind

[00:37:19] And I have a melody that goes along with it

[00:37:21] I'll take a little voice memo and then later

[00:37:23] Because normally it always happens when I'm at work or not home

[00:37:25] When I have a piano in front of me

[00:37:27] I'll figure out the notes that I'm singing

[00:37:29] And then figure out chords from there

[00:37:31] Because I do have a pretty good ear

[00:37:33] And my basic piano understanding does make that easier

[00:37:35] And I don't know the fretboard well enough to figure it out by ear on guitar

[00:37:39] So I just use piano and then switch over to guitar from there

[00:37:41] I start with lyrics always

[00:37:43] I have I think 4,000 notes on my phone

[00:37:45] And I think at least 2,500 of them are just lyrics in the last year and a half

[00:37:49] Yeah it's amazing like the voice recorder on your phone

[00:37:51] It's like the last three, I think four phones that I still have

[00:37:55] It's gonna be like one day it's gonna be like bookshelves

[00:37:57] They're just gonna be full of old phones

[00:37:59] Because they're full of notes

[00:38:01] And when you have time to transfer all that

[00:38:03] Especially if you're a songwriter or lyric writer

[00:38:05] That voice memo thing

[00:38:07] It's always like you're like

[00:38:09] You look back through the list and it's like two seconds long

[00:38:11] 12 seconds

[00:38:13] And if I make the mistake of forgetting to put the titles

[00:38:15] Because I'll be like oh I'll remember which one this is

[00:38:17] And then it's like near recording 637

[00:38:19] And I'm scrolling back and I'm like I have no idea what is on this

[00:38:21] And then it's like 30 seconds of me humming into my phone

[00:38:23] Like it's

[00:38:25] Where you label it

[00:38:27] It's like you just put M-I-K

[00:38:29] And it's like this file already exists try again

[00:38:31] It's like shit

[00:38:33] Always

[00:38:35] But I do write on paper sometimes

[00:38:37] I have a notebook

[00:38:39] I do kind of sometimes think better

[00:38:41] When I'm writing on paper like whenever I write an essay for a class

[00:38:43] I always have to write it out by hand

[00:38:45] Well

[00:38:47] That's just the way I do it

[00:38:49] It's just the way I've always done it because it's there

[00:38:51] And I find that if I write it I remember it too

[00:38:53] As opposed to typing

[00:38:55] Because typing has just become so like robotic and stuff

[00:38:57] So

[00:38:59] With the EP that's been out

[00:39:01] It's been out since 2023

[00:39:03] Obviously you're planning on recording

[00:39:05] Do you have anything in the works right now?

[00:39:07] Yes, I'll do a little sneak peek

[00:39:09] I'm out of curiosity when is this airing?

[00:39:11] Next Friday

[00:39:13] Ok perfect what day would that be?

[00:39:15] May, June

[00:39:17] May 31st

[00:39:19] Oh someone's

[00:39:21] Calender's in a

[00:39:23] Ok perfect timing

[00:39:25] The 31st next Friday

[00:39:27] So I actually have a song coming out June 7th

[00:39:29] Oh perfect

[00:39:31] Yes it's called Lose It

[00:39:33] I've played it live countless times

[00:39:35] It's very fun, I think it's probably one of

[00:39:37] My favorite songs that I've written

[00:39:39] The writing, there's just all these layers of

[00:39:41] Imagery and analogy

[00:39:43] I started writing it off of

[00:39:45] A couple lyrics that I jotted down

[00:39:47] And then ended up kind of Frankensteining into something about

[00:39:49] Just some bad

[00:39:51] Experience that I'd had

[00:39:53] It's been so therapeutic and cathartic

[00:39:55] To play all the time with the guys

[00:39:57] And I love it and I'm super happy with how it turned out

[00:39:59] We tracked it with

[00:40:01] Rob Valuso in his studio

[00:40:03] And then finished the recording

[00:40:05] And it was mostly produced by

[00:40:07] Kieran Isley who did my EP

[00:40:09] So there's some continuity, the sound

[00:40:11] It's different than the EP

[00:40:13] It's a lot more rock, a lot more

[00:40:15] I think if that one genre wise is a lot more

[00:40:17] Indie rock than indie pop which is what I

[00:40:19] Categorize the EP as

[00:40:21] But it is very fun, I think it

[00:40:23] Matches a lot more of what

[00:40:25] My sound live has been lately

[00:40:27] With the guys, the band and all

[00:40:29] So I'm very, very excited for it to be out

[00:40:31] Yeah that's cool, I'm very excited to hear it

[00:40:33] I think you have the range

[00:40:35] To do it though right? As a singer-songwriter

[00:40:37] Now that you have a band

[00:40:39] And sometimes you don't have a band

[00:40:41] You could do all kinds of different

[00:40:43] Not genres, well sure genres

[00:40:45] Styles, how you're feeling

[00:40:47] No I've been kind of writing a little

[00:40:49] I do have country roots as I explained

[00:40:51] But I do

[00:40:53] I'm very in denial about it

[00:40:55] Eric is always yelling at me about how

[00:40:57] The chord progressions I use are very

[00:40:59] Country jaunty and I just refuse

[00:41:01] But I've been leaning into it more

[00:41:03] So a couple of my newer songs

[00:41:05] I get kind of twangy

[00:41:07] A couple songs, something I wrote

[00:41:09] That Eric says sounds a lot like a song by the Cars

[00:41:11] And it will have my singer-songwriter

[00:41:13] Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers-esque

[00:41:15] I kind of jump around a lot with genres

[00:41:17] And I've been writing a bit more on piano lately too

[00:41:19] So I don't really

[00:41:21] I try not to put myself into too many little boxes

[00:41:23] No, the problem is that this late

[00:41:25] In the game it's all been done anyway

[00:41:27] So you have to find your own kind of corner of it

[00:41:29] So it sounds like you and that

[00:41:31] As long as you can write and you're

[00:41:33] Happy with what it's done

[00:41:35] They say you

[00:41:37] Shouldn't write for other people

[00:41:39] But it's really hard not to because you want people to hear it

[00:41:41] I was in kind of a rut

[00:41:43] Like a very big writing

[00:41:45] Dry spell

[00:41:47] All over December, November

[00:41:49] I just went with the EP and I was

[00:41:51] So burnt out from school

[00:41:53] I'm in school full time, not right now

[00:41:55] But in the fall-winter and I work

[00:41:57] 20 hours a week and plus music

[00:41:59] I was incredibly burnt out

[00:42:01] And I just felt like everything I was writing

[00:42:03] I was writing with the knowledge that other people were going to hear it

[00:42:05] And so it kind of lost a lot of that

[00:42:07] That catharsis, that processing

[00:42:09] That I rely on it for and I kind of

[00:42:11] It didn't really bring me joy for a couple weeks

[00:42:13] And I was so sick of it

[00:42:15] And it wasn't until I was back in Arizona

[00:42:17] And I was talking to Eric about it and he's like

[00:42:19] And I was just like, I feel like everything I'm writing doesn't make sense

[00:42:21] And he's like, Hannah, it's not an essay for a class

[00:42:23] It's a song, you can do what you want with it

[00:42:25] And then I wrote a song on my MIDI keyboard

[00:42:27] Because my older sister doesn't have

[00:42:29] Any guitar or anything in hers

[00:42:31] So I brought my MIDI keyboard with me to Arizona

[00:42:33] And I wrote this song

[00:42:35] On there that I am super happy with

[00:42:37] And it doesn't totally make

[00:42:39] As much sense as a lot of my other stuff

[00:42:41] But I absolutely adore it

[00:42:43] And from then on I've been kind of getting back into the

[00:42:45] Back into the mood of writing

[00:42:47] Without thinking that other people were going to hear

[00:42:49] Everything and I remember them like I don't have to show

[00:42:51] Everyone everything I write

[00:42:53] And everything I do if I don't want to

[00:42:55] Well that's like, well they say you are

[00:42:57] Your worst critic and if you let that get into your brain

[00:42:59] Like, oh people are going to hate this

[00:43:01] They've heard this from me or stuff like that

[00:43:03] It can fuck you up a little bit

[00:43:05] Worrying that everything I'm writing sounds the same

[00:43:07] Or it's all been done or I'm writing too many breakup songs

[00:43:09] Or too many sad songs

[00:43:11] Then you get the imposter, what's that?

[00:43:13] The imposter syndrome where you're like

[00:43:15] I'm a hack, they're gonna find out

[00:43:17] I have no idea what I'm doing

[00:43:19] Exactly, it's like I don't have any more songs

[00:43:21] I'm just writing them the same ones

[00:43:23] That's awesome though but you must be doing something right

[00:43:25] Because just recently

[00:43:27] You won the Capital Music Award

[00:43:29] For Newcomer of the Year

[00:43:31] Congratulations, that's amazing

[00:43:33] That was incredible

[00:43:35] I was not expecting it

[00:43:37] How did you even figure that out?

[00:43:39] I guess you found out you were nominated

[00:43:41] So nominations were in March

[00:43:43] You could nominate yourself for it

[00:43:45] I was nominated for Newcomer of the Year and Songwriter of the Year

[00:43:47] And I think

[00:43:49] The Newcomer of the Year was open to a public vote

[00:43:51] And I know a lot of my

[00:43:53] People who care about me voted for me for that one

[00:43:55] Which was so heartwarming

[00:43:57] But I was not expecting

[00:43:59] I was still not expecting to win it because it is still like a jury

[00:44:01] Like all the nominees were chosen

[00:44:03] By a jury after the

[00:44:05] Go through the whole list of nominees

[00:44:07] To explain the whole thing, it hurt my brain to think about

[00:44:09] But I

[00:44:11] Was not expecting it because they do kind of take into consideration

[00:44:13] Like streaming and how many numbers

[00:44:15] I don't have an insane amount of numbers

[00:44:17] So I was like, I wasn't really expecting it

[00:44:19] I'm new but

[00:44:21] I

[00:44:23] I did not expect it

[00:44:25] But they called my name and I went on the stage

[00:44:27] And my acceptance speech was so poorly thought out

[00:44:29] Because I was not expecting it

[00:44:31] I did not rehearse it enough

[00:44:33] Because Oh Mike is a bilingual organization

[00:44:35] And so I am bilingual

[00:44:37] And so I did half my spiel in English

[00:44:39] Half of it in French

[00:44:41] I was so nervous

[00:44:43] Too busy grinning ear to ear trying not to sob

[00:44:45] With joy

[00:44:47] Did it feel weird to actually hear your name

[00:44:49] Go up and hold the trophy

[00:44:51] We've all seen that on TV right?

[00:44:53] Yeah, on the stage at the Bronson Center

[00:44:55] It was kind of wild to look out

[00:44:57] And see faces of people

[00:44:59] All these people that I do care about

[00:45:01] Who came to support me and then a bunch of

[00:45:03] Much more faces that I don't know, don't recognize

[00:45:05] Or even just seeing other

[00:45:07] A lot of local musicians whose work I really admire

[00:45:09] Or people who I just think are so incredibly talented

[00:45:11] Who play music in Ottawa

[00:45:13] Well as an artist

[00:45:15] A local artist, I think that's a great way

[00:45:17] It's a great way to start

[00:45:19] Because after 2002 to now

[00:45:21] Or 2022 to now

[00:45:23] That's an amazing achievement

[00:45:25] So you should be proud of yourself

[00:45:27] Your work stands up for sure

[00:45:29] It's very good

[00:45:31] What is the future look like?

[00:45:33] I know you have June 1st

[00:45:35] What do you have for the rest of June 2024?

[00:45:37] Shows and releases and all

[00:45:39] So June 1st, Schoolhouse

[00:45:41] Saw Gallery

[00:45:43] That's a show with the guys

[00:45:45] June 22nd a solo show

[00:45:47] We have our first show in Toronto

[00:45:49] Actually

[00:45:51] We are playing on July 12th with The Empties

[00:45:53] Who are a Toronto based band

[00:45:55] That I opened for last summer

[00:45:57] And then opened for again in September

[00:45:59] With Schoolhouse as well

[00:46:01] That's how I first met the Schoolhouse guys

[00:46:03] And it's The Empties myself and Nocetel

[00:46:05] And then also playing in Toronto

[00:46:07] My first Toronto show which is super exciting

[00:46:09] And the week after we're back here

[00:46:11] Playing Café de Cuff for the first time

[00:46:13] With an out of town band called Whisper Gang

[00:46:15] And then

[00:46:17] I'm playing the Ottawa Bagel Shop

[00:46:19] Music Fest

[00:46:21] Just a little solo back

[00:46:23] At that

[00:46:25] Establishment in Westboro

[00:46:27] Their bagels are so good

[00:46:29] Playing that on July 7th

[00:46:31] End of August

[00:46:33] I think I have a few things still in the works

[00:46:35] We were hoping to play something in Montreal

[00:46:37] But it has not

[00:46:39] Has not been working out but we

[00:46:41] We'll see

[00:46:43] The beauty of Ottawa where it's situated

[00:46:45] You have Toronto and Montreal, Kingston, Peterborough

[00:46:47] You have all these nice little hubs where you can play music

[00:46:49] And you know

[00:46:51] It's great

[00:46:53] Are you going to bring the trophy with you?

[00:46:55] Are you going to put it on the stage?

[00:46:57] Oh goodness, oh god no

[00:46:59] It's going on display on my fireplace in my apartment

[00:47:01] Actually my sister pointed out to me

[00:47:03] Because she came with me and she noticed that

[00:47:05] Because it has three or four piano keys on it

[00:47:07] Three white keys, two black keys

[00:47:09] And my sister told me that all the trophies

[00:47:11] Most of them had different keys

[00:47:13] So I think they just kind of took apart an entire keyboard

[00:47:15] To put together the trophies

[00:47:17] And I thought it was really cool that everyone kind of brings home a different piece of it

[00:47:19] That's cool

[00:47:21] Yeah that's super fun

[00:47:23] Congratulations on all the success

[00:47:25] Thank you

[00:47:27] Congratulations on the music you've already released

[00:47:29] And the recognition you got from Capital Music

[00:47:31] And all the best for the future

[00:47:33] I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens

[00:47:35] Thank you very much

[00:47:37] Is there anything else you wanted to touch about

[00:47:39] About the music career?

[00:47:41] Any shoutouts you wanted to give?

[00:47:43] We are going to play 13 questions

[00:47:45] Okay yes

[00:47:47] I'll do a quick little

[00:47:49] I do just have a couple people in the music scene

[00:47:51] Who are just

[00:47:53] Keep me as passionate as I am

[00:47:55] And that's the thing

[00:47:57] Keep me as passionate as I am

[00:47:59] And that's Eric Montpool of Noisdeau I mentioned

[00:48:01] Matthew Scar of my bassist as well

[00:48:03] Zara Lada

[00:48:05] AKA ZL Music

[00:48:07] Also incredible

[00:48:09] Just good friends of mine who

[00:48:11] Keep pushing me to

[00:48:13] Work hard

[00:48:15] And write and care about it

[00:48:17] Good friends to have

[00:48:19] Awesome

[00:48:21] Okay

[00:48:23] I have a game that I play on every podcast

[00:48:25] It's called 13 questions with the band

[00:48:27] Or artists

[00:48:29] Would you like to play?

[00:48:31] Yes, I'll just have some water

[00:48:33] Time for 13 questions with the band

[00:48:35] Yes this segment's back again

[00:48:37] It's called 13 questions

[00:48:39] But I only asked 6

[00:48:41] Maybe 5

[00:48:43] Okay we're back

[00:48:45] We're going to play 13 questions with Hannah Vig

[00:48:47] No I think I said this off mic

[00:48:49] I have always used the same 13 questions

[00:48:51] But I was getting kind of tired of them

[00:48:53] We're back with 13 new questions

[00:48:55] This is the first show, first podcast

[00:48:57] With the new questions

[00:48:59] And you are the guinea pig

[00:49:01] How quick are these answers going to be?

[00:49:03] You can answer them

[00:49:05] You base it off the question

[00:49:07] Explain the relativity

[00:49:09] No it's not

[00:49:11] It's very easy

[00:49:13] 13 questions

[00:49:15] With Hannah Vig

[00:49:17] I hope I don't repeat some of the stuff I said earlier

[00:49:19] Anyway I'll edit that out

[00:49:21] What was the first music that moved you?

[00:49:25] This is

[00:49:27] Oh geez

[00:49:29] I've got to think kind of hard

[00:49:31] I think probably

[00:49:33] One of the first concerts I went to live

[00:49:35] I went to a music festival

[00:49:37] In Burlington called the Sun Music Festival

[00:49:39] Which is actually one of my bucket list things to play

[00:49:41] And I

[00:49:43] Was in grade 8 and I went with friends to see

[00:49:45] The Offspring, Smash Mouth

[00:49:47] Live

[00:49:49] And Marianas Trench

[00:49:51] Very 90s

[00:49:53] Spin Doctors as well

[00:49:55] But Marianas Trench was my favorite band

[00:49:57] And I think that was my first

[00:49:59] Big experience with live music

[00:50:01] And it was absolutely incredible

[00:50:03] The whole Marianas Trench set and the energy they had

[00:50:05] Just was incredible

[00:50:07] And I remember thinking this is so fun

[00:50:09] And it was my first experience like that

[00:50:11] And I was

[00:50:13] Kind of moved by

[00:50:15] How much I enjoyed it

[00:50:17] Well that kind of answers my second question too

[00:50:19] What was your first concert as a fan?

[00:50:21] Like real concert

[00:50:23] That one maybe

[00:50:25] But if

[00:50:27] I think

[00:50:29] Would more so count

[00:50:31] April of 2022

[00:50:33] I went to see Lorde in Montreal

[00:50:35] I think that would probably be my biggest one

[00:50:37] I loved all the bands that played the music festival

[00:50:39] But it was

[00:50:41] It was like an easy access

[00:50:43] Like it was in my city like 15 minutes away from where I lived

[00:50:45] So it was very easy to get to but I think the first like actual concert

[00:50:47] Where like I had to kind of maneuver

[00:50:49] To be able to go to it was

[00:50:51] Was the Montreal Lorde for her

[00:50:53] Solar Power Tour and it was absolutely incredible

[00:50:55] I cried so much

[00:50:57] It was so good

[00:50:59] I cried at a Foo Fighters show once

[00:51:01] You know what fair

[00:51:03] What is your favorite song

[00:51:05] Today

[00:51:07] Oh okay wait

[00:51:09] Let me pull my Spotify

[00:51:11] What have I been listening to

[00:51:13] I jump around

[00:51:15] I make a monthly playlist and I listen to

[00:51:17] However many songs

[00:51:19] I've

[00:51:21] On repeat lately I've had

[00:51:23] The Black Dog

[00:51:25] Off of Taylor Swift's Tortured Post department

[00:51:27] And

[00:51:29] Also

[00:51:32] Block Your Number by Maud Latour

[00:51:34] Has been I think one of my favorite songs for

[00:51:36] Maybe three years now

[00:51:38] And I've been listening to it a lot

[00:51:40] Lately because I with my monthly playlist

[00:51:42] I always put on songs that mention the month

[00:51:44] And the song mentions the month of May and so it's

[00:51:46] On the playlist and so I've been listening to a lot lately

[00:51:48] Very good. My girlfriend is a massive

[00:51:50] Taylor Swift fan

[00:51:52] She got her Spotify

[00:51:54] Stats

[00:51:56] And it was like she had like 8 bazillion

[00:51:58] Hours of whatever

[00:52:00] Okay next question

[00:52:02] What is your desert island record if you got stuck

[00:52:04] On a desert island for like five years and you only had

[00:52:06] One album to listen to

[00:52:08] One album

[00:52:12] I do have a list of my favorite albums of all time

[00:52:16] I think

[00:52:28] I want to say one of the Taylor Swift

[00:52:30] But I feel like I also

[00:52:32] Oh no what am I saying it's How Will You Know

[00:52:34] If You Never Tried by COIN

[00:52:36] COIN is one of my favorite bands they're like this indie pop

[00:52:38] But I

[00:52:40] My second tattoo that I ever got is actually

[00:52:42] A reference to this album

[00:52:44] How Will You Know If You Never Try

[00:52:46] Because there's a song on it called Hannah and that's how I stumbled across them

[00:52:48] Because I was trying to find songs with my name on it

[00:52:50] On Spotify and this one song comes up

[00:52:52] And I absolutely loved it

[00:52:54] And there's the lyric How Will You Know If You Never Try is in

[00:52:56] That song and I just was

[00:52:58] So drawn to it

[00:53:00] And I would listen to that entire album

[00:53:02] On the desert island

[00:53:04] Okay

[00:53:06] What is your favorite rainy day music

[00:53:08] Or what when you're feeling kind of down

[00:53:10] I think

[00:53:12] I don't really listen

[00:53:14] I don't really listen to a lot of down beat music

[00:53:16] At all

[00:53:18] If you're feeling kind of down

[00:53:20] I don't really

[00:53:22] There's not really

[00:53:24] It takes a lot for me to listen to

[00:53:26] Actual like sad kind of

[00:53:28] Like the misery loves company type of idea

[00:53:30] I'm a big fan of sad depressing lyrics with super upbeat backing

[00:53:34] Let's just jump to the next question then

[00:53:36] What is your favorite music to pick you back up

[00:53:38] Oh

[00:53:40] A lot of throwbacks or songs that I loved

[00:53:42] Like circa 2019, 2020

[00:53:44] That'd be a lot of like All American Rejects

[00:53:46] Or like kind of nostalgic to me

[00:53:50] Definitely a lot of old Taylor Swift

[00:53:52] Like Anything Can Speak Now, Fearless

[00:53:54] 1989

[00:53:58] I'm trying to think

[00:54:01] Anything like any indie pop

[00:54:03] Girl like Upbeat

[00:54:05] Like Ella Jane, Maisie Peters

[00:54:07] Yeah that kind of

[00:54:09] Cool

[00:54:11] Okay if you had a time machine

[00:54:13] You could go back to any famous

[00:54:15] Musical event in history

[00:54:17] Where do you think you'd go?

[00:54:19] Something you always wish you were there

[00:54:21] Type of thing

[00:54:25] It's not so far back but I would have wanted to go

[00:54:27] To the Speak Now tour

[00:54:29] In I think it was 2011

[00:54:31] Because I was not

[00:54:33] Not a big enough fan of Taylor Swift

[00:54:35] The time to go and tickets were

[00:54:37] Dirt cheap because she wasn't like

[00:54:39] Massive yet

[00:54:41] And now it's like several thousand dollars

[00:54:43] For nosebleeds and you can't even

[00:54:45] And even that's if you even get a

[00:54:47] Code to get them which I did not

[00:54:49] Yeah, it's too bad it's so expensive

[00:54:51] I know

[00:54:53] Well here's a good one

[00:54:55] Who would you love to open for?

[00:54:59] Maggie Rogers would be a big one

[00:55:01] Taylor Swift that's like

[00:55:03] A pipe dream but I'm still speaking

[00:55:05] Into the universe one day

[00:55:07] Luna I think would be really fun

[00:55:09] Phoebe Ridgers would also be incredible

[00:55:15] I'm trying to think of there's a lot of like

[00:55:19] Bands and queer artists that I admire

[00:55:21] So much, Luna is one of them, Phoebe Ridgers as well

[00:55:23] Ella Jane is another one

[00:55:25] There's a smaller artist

[00:55:27] Who indeed

[00:55:29] Artists from Los Angeles

[00:55:31] Juliana Joy and I've been absolutely obsessed

[00:55:33] With her music for several years

[00:55:35] And she just opened for this artist

[00:55:37] Name Zana on her tour but I would love to

[00:55:39] Open for her if she ever tours

[00:55:41] Cool, cool

[00:55:43] If you could have a drink or a meal

[00:55:45] With someone that you looked up to growing

[00:55:47] Up who would it be?

[00:55:49] Or actually anybody

[00:55:51] Anybody?

[00:55:53] Honestly probably my older siblings

[00:55:55] Both of them like my sister Haley

[00:55:57] And my brother Zach would probably be the

[00:55:59] Biggest ones I don't think as much as I could

[00:56:01] Because we you know they live in Arizona and I do not

[00:56:03] And they also

[00:56:05] My brother tours with a lot of bands

[00:56:07] And so they're not ever

[00:56:09] Home that much anyways

[00:56:11] But I do like

[00:56:13] Just getting to hang out with them when we are back in town

[00:56:15] And now that I'm older

[00:56:17] They're I think

[00:56:19] They're both like 10-12 years older than me

[00:56:21] And so now that I'm older we have more in common

[00:56:23] With music especially there's more for us to talk about

[00:56:25] And we've gotten a lot closer since then

[00:56:27] And yeah if I had an opportunity to sit down and have a drink

[00:56:29] With them again that would be fun

[00:56:31] My question was on the old 13 questions

[00:56:33] And I always like when people answer

[00:56:35] I'd have a drink with my bass player

[00:56:37] Instead of like

[00:56:39] You know

[00:56:41] Like a celebrity or something

[00:56:43] Because you know it's the only guy hanging out with anyway

[00:56:45] And it's like okay that's cool

[00:56:47] What advice would you give to yourself as a kid?

[00:56:49] Knowing what you know now

[00:56:51] Oh hindsight is everything isn't it

[00:56:57] I was a very insecure kid

[00:56:59] In terms of just my musical abilities

[00:57:01] It wasn't really until I played my first show

[00:57:03] My first couple shows actually

[00:57:05] That I stopped kind of having that imposter syndrome

[00:57:07] Of thinking everyone is lying to me

[00:57:09] I was like people are lying to me

[00:57:11] Like my writing is not good, I do not have a good singing voice

[00:57:13] And it took a while for that to kind of

[00:57:15] You know, lessen

[00:57:17] But yeah I would

[00:57:19] I think I'm the only person that younger me

[00:57:21] Would listen to on that front of

[00:57:23] You just need to trust that

[00:57:25] You are doing what you love

[00:57:27] And other people want to hear it

[00:57:29] And if other people didn't want to hear it

[00:57:31] They wouldn't go through the trouble

[00:57:33] That's right

[00:57:35] Do what you love, love what you do

[00:57:37] Don't be afraid

[00:57:39] Very last question of 13 questions with Hannah Vig

[00:57:41] Who is Hannah Vig?

[00:57:43] That's so vague

[00:57:47] I am a

[00:57:49] English major

[00:57:51] Queer person

[00:57:53] Singer-songwriter

[00:57:55] Perspective librarian

[00:57:59] Library page currently

[00:58:03] Yeah, I think that about sums it up

[00:58:07] Awesome

[00:58:09] Thank you so much for your time

[00:58:11] It was great talking to you, it was great getting to know you

[00:58:13] Again, congratulations on all your success

[00:58:15] Congratulations on everything

[00:58:17] The award

[00:58:19] And good luck, I wish you nothing but the best for the future

[00:58:21] And sky's the limit

[00:58:23] Any final words?

[00:58:25] No, I think that covers it

[00:58:27] Christmas in Arizona

[00:58:29] Things are tough, eh?

[00:58:31] Have a good day

[00:59:02] We're going to go to

[00:59:04] But it's alright

[00:59:06] Oh, oh

[00:59:08] Yeah, it's alright

[00:59:12] With butterflies in my eyes

[00:59:16] And stars in my chest

[00:59:20] I reach for her hand

[00:59:22] And that's when she said

[00:59:24] Don't read it

[00:59:26] Into it

[00:59:28] Touching her hands

[00:59:30] Only at midnight

[00:59:32] I'll be somebody

[00:59:34] If again she said

[00:59:36] It never would have gotten

[00:59:38] Better even

[00:59:40] When I said

[00:59:42] I know

[00:59:44] Oh, I'm Julia

[00:59:48] Oh, I'm Julia

[00:59:52] She had a nose pierced

[00:59:57] By her friend

[00:59:59] In the bathroom at 15

[01:00:01] She said it all like hell

[01:00:03] She's back, cause pain is only temporary

[01:00:05] And she didn't say

[01:00:07] In all the words

[01:00:09] But somebody did

[01:00:11] And unburnt, left her face down in the dirt

[01:00:13] Now she'll never love another

[01:00:19] No, she'll never love another

[01:00:28] Butterflies cloud my eyes

[01:00:30] And stars light up my chest

[01:00:32] I, I ask her to dance

[01:00:34] And that's when she said

[01:00:36] Don't read it

[01:00:38] Into it

[01:00:40] Touching her hands

[01:00:42] Only at midnight

[01:00:44] I'll be somebody

[01:00:46] If again she said

[01:00:48] It never would have gotten

[01:00:50] Better even

[01:00:52] When I said

[01:00:54] I know

[01:00:56] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:01:04] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:01:06] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:01:08] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:01:13] Don't read it

[01:01:21] Into it

[01:01:23] Touching my hands

[01:01:25] Only at midnight

[01:01:27] I'll be somebody

[01:01:29] If again

[01:01:31] I know it never would have gotten

[01:01:33] Better even

[01:01:35] When I said

[01:01:37] I know

[01:01:39] Don't read it

[01:01:41] Into it

[01:01:43] Touching her hands

[01:01:45] Only at midnight

[01:01:47] I'll be somebody

[01:01:49] If again she said

[01:01:51] It never would have gotten

[01:01:53] Better even

[01:01:55] When I said

[01:01:57] I know

[01:01:59] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:02:10] Oh, I'm Julia

[01:02:39] Able to sit down and have a chat

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