{"id":3715,"date":"2010-10-28T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:33:44","slug":"gimme-five-matt-park-and-ginger-wagg-of-veelee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2010\/10\/gimme-five-matt-park-and-ginger-wagg-of-veelee\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Matt Park and Ginger Wagg of Veelee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3716\" title=\"Veelee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12-360x234.png 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12-120x78.png 120w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-12.png 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/veeleemusic.com\/\">Veelee<\/a> by the numbers is a thing of beauty and stunning brevity.\u00c2\u00a0 Twenty-nine minutes is all it takes to listen to Veelee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debut full length, 2010\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>The Future Sight<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Seven minutes is all it took for them introduce themselves on their EP, 2009\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Three Sides<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Two is the totality of their band membership.<\/p>\n<p>Playing together since 2008, Carrboro couple Matt Park and Ginger Wagg have quickly aligned to create catchy and capricious pop.\u00c2\u00a0 The two charm their way through all manner of arrangements with punchy guitars, coed harmonies, playful hooks, and sidelining melodies.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any lack of ambition or intricacy here.\u00c2\u00a0 Their music hits its stride when it finds the interplay between jubilation and complexity, whether that means with a seven-minute build (as on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Animal Dreams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) or in energetic bursts (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When You Gonna Come Home?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the tune, these kids are one the move and you can catch them at <a href=\"http:\/\/thepinhook.com\/events-2\">The Pinhook<\/a> next Thursday, November 4th where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be playing as a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/troikamusicfestival.org\/\">Troika 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now check out how they tackle the furious five:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your band were a dance move, what would it be?<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3718\" title=\"Veelee &quot;The Future Site&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-13-294x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-13-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-13-78x80.png 78w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-13.png 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt would be our own invented dance move called the Ginger Snap. The Ginger Snap can also be a wrestling move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. When was the moment you realized there was something to this musical partnership that needed to be shared?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We never thought about <em>not <\/em>sharing the music we were creating. As performers, sharing what we do comes naturally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe the last time you felt totally at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt &#8211;  To me home is an abstraction. That feeling comes and goes. I could feel  totally uncomfortable inside my own house or completely at ease in some  strange city. It all depends on what&#8217;s going on in the environment  around me. We just played in Athens and everyone was so nice to us that,  even though we had never been there before, it felt kinda like home.<br \/>\nGinger &#8211; I agree, somehow it can sometimes be easier to feel a deep  sense of belonging in a place that you&#8217;ve never been before. I know I  feel at home when I don&#8217;t want to leave. In September we went swimming  in Wilmington, NC with Maria and Reid of Schooner. The water was the  most perfect temperature and I could have just stayed in that ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3719\" title=\"Veelee, conquerers of nowhere\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-2-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-2-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-2-59x80.png 59w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Picture-2.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>4. Who\/what might be a few inspirations or influences that would really surprise people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt  &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure anyone would be surprised by any inspirations we may  have had. Tons of Artists&#8211;musicians, filmmakers, writers, and visual  artists&#8211;from so many eras and places have made their way into what we  do. Things like nature, humanity, and technology have also been a major  inspiration. Influences keep growing; they are endless.<br \/>\nGinger &#8211; Crochet artist Agata Olek, Brahms, <em>The BodyCartography Project<\/em>, letting my vision be blocked so that my perspective is skewed\/framing, repetition. The generosity of others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (How \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ginger &#8211; I think I was just dreaming about the next day. I always  enjoyed what I was into at the time. Now I&#8217;m the same way, dreaming of  all the things that I&#8217;d like to do tomorrow &#8211; eat delicious food, play  music, laugh a lot, dance a little, see new places.<br \/>\nMatt &#8211; I remember wanting to work at an ice cream place. I think it was  specifically the notion of working at a Friendly&#8217;s. Also, according to  my sister I used to want to be a barber but I would pronounce it Barbra.  Turned out that I still love ice cream, and I&#8217;ve been cutting my own  hair for years now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Ginger snap your way over to <a href=\"http:\/\/thepinhook.com\/events-2\">The Pinhook<\/a> next Thursday, November 4th to hear Veelee in action. And, by all means, give Matt and Ginger a high  five when you see them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veelee  by the numbers is a thing of beauty and stunning brevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-gimme-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}