Veronica Start

6. Hard Song

“We really shouldn’t talk about her now, cuz she went wrong.”

Hard Song is a tale about a teenage girl from my hometown that developed a very public mental illness. I’ll have to change…

5. Save Me

Save Me is a very personal song, the first true confession I ever made in the studio. There were many attempts to capture a performance where my voice didn’t crack or I wasn’t triggered into…

4. Mr. Ulterior

Since I was about 13 years old, I was a true product of my environment. The ‘party culture’ was a  rite of passage, growing up in Grande Prairie’s oil boom times.  Smoking skills, drinking skills…

3. Supersonic Wave

At first, I felt a little shy about writing about this song since it’s rather explicit. At least that’s what iTunes parental advisory label indicated. Well, sex in music isn’t really new, now, is it…

2. Why the Sky

Trusting oneself is exactly what we fail to do when we are addicted. We keep letting our promises to ourselves become changeable, unrecognizable, morphing into other ideas that best soothe our discomfort, and especially…

1. Chosen Ones

When I was living my teenage dream, I was driven by the ferocious spirit of my desires. My intensive heart had so many demands - demands only the object of my desire could fulfill. 

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Releasing my first and only album twenty years after its recording is the result of a twisted return to Vancouver in 2016. My mind still carefully navigates the corners of the past that turned me to now.

John Shepp was…