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About Me

VANESSA BOYD has been playing original music now for over 5 years : where you ask? well, i'll tell you : in TX, LA & Appalachia mostly, but also in the various places she's visited ::

recently she had a band called the yes men : this band made wonderful music : this music may have continued, but life is choices and choices were made and the music ended : this is probably a good thing for some people ::

now VANESSA lives in NYC : looking for some new avenues : she'd like to do some back-up vocals : get involved in the DJ-electronica scene, use her vocals more as an instrument rather than a lyrics-carrier : she'll hit up the open mics, scope out the live music joints, and see where that leads ::

ps. i list actual start times for shows, as they've been given to me at any rate. v.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/29/2005
Band Website: vanessaboyd.com/
Band Members: yesss.... dave rich on percussion and kyle marshall on bass. hell yeah. see them in my friends section across the way.
Influences: drone, droning, the drone. trance. sufi chanting, gnaoua. french swing rock and electric violins. bagpipes and celtic vocalizing. 3/3 time. multiples of 3 and 4 meeting and holding hands at pre-specified times. mariachi bass guitar. cumbia. dancing. the socio-politics of interacting with other humans. bass vibrations rattling your insides. dissonance. minor chords and keys. operatic breath control. energy and expunging experiences. sexuality. people who's brains think of things i haven't thought of. passing the baton, coordination, cooperation. hip hop layering, syncopation. spanish trills. jazz improvisation. bluegrass single mic performances and arrangements. zydeco accordian and good times rolling. straightforward country western beats and lyrics. physicality of punk. et cetera, amen.
Sounds Like: i've been told: 4 non-blondes, joni mitchell, joan baez, janis joplin, etc
Record Label: V2K
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Burning Man 07

Well my, my. How did I wait this long to go to BM? What a spectacular, exhausting, beautiful and wild experience. With no commerce but gift-giving, it was a good feeling to play shows, announce tha...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:16:00 PST

falcon ridge folk festival

so the amazing su polo from the nightingale hooked me up with her guest pass to the festival this past weekend up in hillsdale, ny - an absolutely gorgeous drive from here on the pkwy...what a great t...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

New EP Hunger & New Website Launch

So some of you have seen the new album cover and pic up on this site - but I hadn't done an official notice - the new EP Hunger is recorded with my TN band members John Pruitt, Dale Thompson and Andy ...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:54:00 PST

one year later: ireson's

so the brief but turbulent two.5 week tour is over and i'm back in nyc - the "big" show at ireson's came off beautifully, somehow - the original yes men line up (john pruett on bass, dale thompson on ...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Mon, 21 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

children on the subway

how children survive any number of years at all is a complete mystery to me, especially as i watch this little girl, all bundled up in her pink winter coat, going on maybe 8 years old, walking hand in...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:56:00 PST

neighborhood haircut

so i've been meaning to get a haircut for about a year and half now, and on the corner of my block there's this very unobtrusive haircut joint with a hand-written sign on the window that says "open su...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:34:00 PST

trains and books...

so this woman gets on the G train, which is the queens/brooklyn connect, and i think man, that woman is hard, she looks native and although pretty, just made me immediately think that no one in their ...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:48:00 PST

sightings...

21st & 7th Av in chelsea; a graying man standing on the corner licking out the rim of his plastic coffee cup... on the 1 line, at 110th street in front of the token booth; a tall spanish look...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:08:00 PST

yorked

so i've decided there's term for when new york screws you in the ass, and it's yorked. today's yorking: i got sprayed by a cabbie going by in the rain. i mean totally drenched, and i wasn'...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:49:00 PST

album on WFDU new rotation rack...

hello everyone - i just got an email from the americana music director at WFDU that unkept woman is now on the new rotation rack and available to the MusicAmerica jocks for airplay: www.w...
Posted by vanessa boyd on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:27:00 PST