Archive: September 19, 2005

Hello, and welcome to Fall. If you're not in Vancouver and don't realize that it's fall yet, I, along with my turtleneck sweaters, am here to tell you that it is. It's getting dark quite early now, and I'm already being forced to pull out extra blankets at night. Which, really, is lovely - I'm just still a little bit in shock about how quickly the summer went by.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize PROFUSELY for not having updated my site FOREVER. I have been dealing with some very serious computer issues, which ultimately resulted in my both losing a large portion of my files from the last 5 years, and spending a lot of money. It's still not working completely properly, and I'm still trying to load software back on and stuff, but at least it's working enough for me to be able to update again - yay! And remember, if you ever want your own personal update, just send me an e-mail at info@lesleyhoyles.com.

So, what, you may ask, have I been up to for the last two months? Well, here's the rundown:

1. First of all, the CD release at the end of July was AWESOME. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who came out to the show. I really had so much fun playing, and you were a wonderful audience. The band was fantastic, too, and did a good job of reining me in a bit - my speed tends to get a little out of hand when I'm really into a show! There will be pictures up by next week. Seriously, I wish you could have all been there, it was so fun.

2. My summer, as previously mentioned, flew by. We really only had one month of proper summer here in Vancouver, which added to the feeling that it went by far too fast. My summer consisted of...well, much the same as the rest of my year. Watching the beautiful days from behind the glass at the office and so forth. But despite that, I did get to go outside lots: highlights included a lovely picnic / guitar-playing night on the beach with a few friends, and a brief but lovely trip to Ottawa for a memorial for my uncle who passed away in the spring. Things have picked up again at the office after a short summer lull, and between that and trying to finish sorting out my computer issues, it's getting busy again.

3. As for now, I have a couple of exciting things coming up. First, for those in Vancouver, keep your eyes on the free Xtra West boxes scattered around town. I will be making an appearance in the pages of the September 28th issue. For those not around here, I'll post links to it on the site. I'm pretty excited about this, as it's really the first big bit of press I've had as a solo artist. I had the great experience of having my first professional photo shoot yesterday, which was great. I felt like a rockstar. And who doesn't want to feel like a rockstar??? Seriously. The other thing is that I FINALLY have another gig booked. I took a little bit of a break after the CD release, but I'm back and swinging - or singing? Eek. So, the show will be at Lugz Coffeehouse (on Main) again, because I like that venue and Jark, the manager, is really good to me by letting me come in and basically just request a show. It'll be on Friday, October 14th, at about 7pm. So, y'all should come if you can, and then we should all go out afterwards - it is a Friday, after all!

So that's pretty much it for now. There will be quite a few updates in the next week, in anticipation of the Xtra article, so check back for those. And seriously, write me letters at info@lesleyhoyles.com. I promise to write back.

ALSO, there is a giant spider (okay, not really giant, but pretty big) on my ceiling, that's been there since this morning, and I think we're having a staring contest. I want it to come down low enough so that I can catch it and put it outside. But it doesn't seem to be paying attention to my requests. And I just barely avoided a serious run-in with a skunk a few minutes ago. They're so cute, but so smelly!

And on that note, I will sign off. And it will NOT be another two months before I write again.

Love,

Lesley.