Mar
Posted on 23rd March 2024
Oh hey, it’s Dave again. I wanted to tell you that the new/fifth album by my hot rock band Valley Lodge will be out April 19 on Tee Pee Records. That is the cover right over there. I drew it and everything. Anyway, please pre-order/pre-save our new album here. I talked to my friend Greg and he said it’s our best album and he is right about most things.
Yours in hot rock,
Dave Hill
Mar
Posted on 21st March 2024
Oh hey, it’s Dave, mentioned earlier. I’m excited to tell you that my hot rock band Valley Lodge has a new single out TODAY called “Daylights.” You can watch the hastily-made lyric video for the song above and then go listen to the full song from our upcoming new album Shadows in Paradise (out April 19 on Tee Pee Records!) on the streaming sites, which are located here for your rock convenience. “Daylights” is a hot rock song featuring a guest guitar solo from my buddy Doug Gillard from Guided by Voices. I play the first solo and then hand it off to Doug to take things to the next level, give the finger to that level, and then keep on going to the next level after that. The song also features some hot guest backup vocals from Doug, Jennifer Valle, and Sean Cahill. In short, it’s the best and I hope you like it so much.
Your man,
Mar
Posted on 21st March 2024
Oh hey, it’s Dave. From before. If you’ve ever wanted to see me taking a bath in a tub full of blood, you’ve just hit a street called Easy cuz my buddies in stoner/doom rock legends the Obsessed asked me to do just that in the new video for their song “Stoned Back to the Bomb Age” from their excellent new album The Gilded Age. Watch the video above and then go listen to the album and just rock out more in life in general!
Your man,
Dave Hill
Feb
Posted on 26th February 2024
Hi,
It’s Dave. From Before. I just wanted to tell you that I was (and still am!) on the most recent episode of NPR’s LiveWire Radio program. You can and should totally go listen right here. I talk about my new book The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey and am just generally delightful for a reasonably long time. I hope you enjoy it so much!
Your man,
Jan
Posted on 16th January 2024
Hey, it’s Dave from Before, with an incredible announcement that I may have mentioned already but I will mention again because it’s so awesome. Next month, which is to say February, I am headed on an east coast invasion of the United States opening for my pals Jason Narducy (Split Single, Bob Mould Band, Superchunk, Sunny Day Real Estate) and Michael Shannon (George and Tammy, Boardwalk Empire, and seven million other things) on their Murmur tour on which they will play R.E.M.’s legendary first album in its entirety and probably some other stuff too. I will be opening with a comedy set that will also involve sweet guitar solos and a general flailing around. Stick around for the meet and greet. At your mom’s house. All dates are here. Some dates are already sold out but you gotta believe! Your man, Dave
Sep
Posted on 27th September 2023
Hi. It’s Dave. From before. I was just writing to remind you that my new book The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey will be out next month, October 24 in the US (via Triumph Books) and October 17 in the rest of the world (via Penguin Random House/Doubleday Canada- one week early to monitor possible side effects.) I encourage/beg you to pre-order it here (US) or here (rest of the world). Also, in the event that you are anywhere near New York City, there will be a book launch party November 1 at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, where I’ll be chatting about the book with my buddy Mike Sacks, signing books, drinking stuff, and generally having a lovely time. Please come!
In the event that you would also like to hear a song I wrote about the book while watching the accompanying video, you can do that above. Okay, that about covers it for now.
I love you so much,
Dave Hill
Jul
Posted on 7th July 2023
Hi, it’s Dave again. I am excited to the point of medical attention to tell you that I will be hitting the road with Tenacious D this September and opening for them on their Spicy Meatball tour in the United States. The D and me, together at last! I’m super pumped and I hope you can come out to a show or two or even all of them! It’s gonna be a lot of fun. Hope to see you at the merch booth or outside the restrooms after the show!
Your man,
Dave Hill
Jul
Posted on 5th July 2023
Hi, it’s Dave from before. I wanted to take a moment to let you know that my fourth book The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public this October, specifically October 24 in the United States and October 17 in the rest of the world, where I am considered a genius. Penguin Random House/Doubleday Canada is publishing the book outside of the United States and Triumph Books is publishing it in the United States. You can pre-order it now wherever incredible books are sold.
As you probably already guessed from the title, my new book is mostly about ice hockey. I realize this may initially seem alienating to those who don’t like hockey or sports in general. But rest assured- I don’t like sports either. I like sport, singular, and that sport is hockey, the greatest game of all-time. And I have tried to write this book for everyone, regardless of their interest in hockey, so it will be equally amazing for both hockey lovers and non-hockey lovers alike.
For example, as part of the book, I traveled to Kenya to play hockey with the only hockey team in the entire country, the Kenya Ice Lions, but while I was there, I witnessed a baboon steal an entire loaf of bread from a bunch of children and then run off with it, straight past his baboon friends, who no doubt assumed the bread-stealing baboon would be willing to share the bread with them but they couldn’t have been more wrong. It was perhaps the greatest thing I have ever seen. Similarly, when I traveled to Katowice, Poland to go see my sister-in-law’s cousin’s son play goalie for a pro team over there, I was harassed by Polish police for jaywalking within minutes of arriving in town- and they literally played “good cop/bad cop” with me. In Polish. And finally, when I was in Peterborough, Ontario to watch the Ontario Hockey League’s Peterborough Petes square off against the Kingston Frontenacs, my friend Nils’ friend Terry, who drove up from Toronto to join us, told us how he placed an ad on a questionable website that led to him making out with some guy’s wife right in front of him even though we didn’t ask.
In short, this book not only has something for everyone but it indeed has it all, including proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar, because I have a great editor, which is more than I can say for this Substack page, which is intentionally rife with errors so as to make me appear more human.
Anyway, it is at this point that I encourage you to pre-order my new book The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey. You would be helping me out greatly if you do this because all pre-orders get counted on the first on-sale day, which is how I might make a bestseller list of some sort, which in turn will make my day proud of me even though he says he already is. Still, it’s never enough. Also, and perhaps more importantly, I really think you will enjoy this book, especially if you have read and already enjoyed my first three books Tasteful Nudes, Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Parking the Moose, all timeless literary classics to be read again and again. And then again after that. But even if you haven’t read those books, you will love this book. I promise.
Oh yeah, sometimes people ask where they should buy my book. And I think you should buy it from wherever you like, so rather than point you in any specific direction, here is a Google link to the book and you can take it from there if you are so inclined.
Okay, I will pester you about my new book in the near future, I’m sure, but, as an added bonus to you for reading this far, I wanted to tell you that yesterday I watched my friend Tim’s dog, a chocolate lab named Hazel, take a dump in a river and then swim off like nothing weird just happened. It wasn’t quite as entertaining as that thing with the baboon but I still got a pretty big kick out of it.
Your man,
Dave Hill
May
Posted on 19th May 2023
Oh hey, it’s Dave, from before. I’m excited to let you know that I am making my triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. As those of you who have been following my career from the very beginning are well aware, this is my first time performing at the festival in ten years. I am doing fourteen shows in the last two weeks of the festival and I would love to see you and everyone you have ever met in the audience. You can get tickets right here!
Grazie,
Dave Hill
Apr
Posted on 24th April 2023
Hi. It’s Dave from before. Sorry- long time no post. In these futuristic times of feverish social media updates, I sometimes neglect my own website. But no more! For example, I want to tell you I now have a blog (Do they call them that anymore? Grandpa doesn’t know!) on Substack. You can go read (and even subscribe for free or for money while you’re at it!) here. Please go do it now so I may experience feelings of well-being.
Love,
Dave Hill
