"The Heart of the Beard"

Not a new song for me, but DEFINITELY a current hit under construction for my daughter Hannah...
I found this out at 745am the other morning, in our taxi en route to school. Sam on my lap,me clinging for life, Hannah floating around somewhere to left of me all the while working hard on her new song...I don't know WHERE it came from...But it was something like "...at the heart of the beard, is a really lovely mustache, a really lovely place to be"(sung to a version of "Let it Go"-from the movie Frozen incase you don't have kids.) I mean WHERE does this come from?
It managed to amuse all three of us for the remainder of the ride, which always is a good start to any day!
I am intrigued and amazed by the little people in my life as of late...Very grateful for all of them.

Okay, enough of all of that.
At this particular moment, I am in a bakery next door to our apartment while a lovely young lady by the name of Ingred, looks after Hannah and Sam. It is Saturday night, its almost 9pm and the families are just starting to come out for dinner.I don't know if I will EVER get used to this, but its quite nice right now.I wanted to have a chance to update my website, which seems to take way more concentration than my kids are willing to let me put in any other direction, than them.The way it's supposed to be, I know!

I have a small tour in The UK coming up and am finally getting excited, now that it's looking REAL and the dates are getting closer. I get to rock with my UK version of 'The Guilty Birds Band'- This lineup has

Bob Wilson/Drums (Louis Eliot and The Embers)








Kevin Jefferies/Bass (RogerTaylor)















Benjamin Morgan/Guitar ( All The Fires, Loose Salute)








Here is a current list of venues:( more dates to be announced)

December 9th- The New Inn, Tywardreath UK (w/Guilty Birds Band)

December 10th- 1 hour Radio Show on AIR 107.2  www.aironair.co.uk
December 11th- Mama Stones, Exeter (w/Guilty Birds Band)

December 12th- Portland Arms, Weymouth(solo show)

December 13th- House Concert, Dorset(Solo Show)

December 15th- The 12BAR London(w/Guilty Birds Band)

December 18th- The Windmill Brighton (w/Guilty Birds Band)

I think this will be it as far as dates go for now...



I had a great show a couple of weeks ago here in Sao Paulo with another version of my 'Guilty Birds Band' lineup. With only one rehearsal, and armed with Marisha Devoin's WICKED charts, we rocked The Na Mata Cafe in Itaim Bibi.
A MASSIVE thank you to Cliff who runs and books bands at Na Mata, as well as to Maria Petit (Cutie on the left)from SP Night Market, who busted her butt getting people out on a Wednesday night....xxxx

Caetano Malta on Guitar, Beto Gibbs on drums, Klaus Sena on bass and Joao Leao on Keys..
These guys give such a cool feel to the songs...I don't know exactly what it is, could be a combo of their jazz influences/and their fanTASTIC beards...I think the two together give these guys a certain awesomeness...I was proud to be in their circle for a show...





Thanks to Beer 961 for being the amazing sponser of the night....mmmmm Beer.












My husband even got to come out, although he had to fly off somewhere at 4am- Also got to hang with friends!!!! Hi Jaime Chamberlain !

Got to wear some WICKED cowboy Boots and use my Danelectro Chorus Pedal

Ate Logo Cafe Na Mata!!!!

Summertime fun with my Canadian Guilty Birds!

Hello peeps and peepers,
I am coming home to Vancouver Island the 1st of June, and have a lots of shows up my sleeve.
The 1st show is at a venue I am very excited to play at.
Thursday, June 26th @ 8pm, I will be performing  set or two of originals and some covers with Murray Atkinson on guitar. I was thrilled to play last summer when it was The Duncan Garage Showroom, but since the closedown of that Longevity John Falkner has gone ahead and opened another venue.
Here is a link to The NEW Duncan Showroom


The 2nd show will be Friday, June 27th @ 8pm - The Queens Hotel in Nanaimo. Rick Salt, will be on Guitar. For those of you who know me, and the many years of music making I have done with Rick, you would know this is a thrill, to get to give him a chance to play ALL of the guitar licks, he spent so much time creating....lol!
For this show, I am thrilled to get to have the Canadian version of my 'GUILTY BIRDS BAND'.
 Murray Atkinson, who sometimes plays guitar, and sometimes plays keyboards (JUST CAUSE HE CAN!) has been kind enough to do one night on guitar in Duncan, and the rest of them on keys. I am hoping to have a few other players who I have had a longtime working relationship with, join us on stage for the Queens gig, as well as the gig the following night in Crofton...I will have a more detailed post with the rest of the 'Guilty Birds' as soon as I can find them/wake them up/sober them up or figure out who they are! haaahaaaa


The 3rd show will be Saturday, June 28th @ The Crofton Hotel @ 8pm-  Crofton. I had a
fantastic time playing there last summer, and I am not just saying this because it's close to my house and ALL of my neighbours came out...(PLEASE COME OUT AGAIN GUYS!)
Again this show will be a 'Camille Miller and her Guilty Birds' show featuring Rick Salt on guitar, and Murray Atkinson on Keys...

All three shows are early shows, I am still not sure if this is because I am TRUELY lucky, or if it's a subtle sign saying 'You may not draw enough people, so lets put you on early so you don't blow the whole weekend'...Either way, I am happy, my band will be happy and the babysitter will be happy! haaahaaa

This is my third year working with Tina Coldwell from TLC Entertainment...She works damn hard to get people out to shows, and I know we can really 'give'r' this summer...Thank you Tina. xxx

The 4th show will be Thursday, July 10th @ Logan's Pub in Victoria BC.
Again, this will be a 'Camille Miller and her Guilty Birds' gig, and I cannot express how excited I am to perform at Chris Logan's venue, ONCE again. It has been a while, but the lovely East Coast'er  answered all of me e-mails, and welcomed me back to perform.....The last show I did there was shortly after the release of the  'Somewhere Near The Truth' album...We had a fantastic show, maybe not tonnes of people, but I remember it well. Thank you to Chris Logan and to Mihkel Kaup for getting back to me and booking us.
As mentioned before, I will list my Guilty Birds Band info, as the date gets closer...There are a lot of Guilty Birds in this business, and I am just finding them as I go!!!

I plan to add a couple of more shows before getting the honour to perform at the wedding of my cousin Jeremy Spruston and his fiancé Ashley Jane the beginning of August....MASSIVE family reunion if you ask me!

Thanks guys for reading this, and hopefully I will see some of you out this summer.
Love you all,
Love me back,
Camille Miller xxxx