Article: A Cool, Cool Band

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – “They’re like The Cure meets Sarah McLaughlan,” said the wide-eyed fan in the front row of the Avalon’s standing-room-only section, when asked how she would describe Uh Huh Her.

A faux-hawked girl beside her groaned. “Oh my god, they’re like, so much cooler than Sarah McLaughlan.” Then she informed me that “Uh Huh Her is just so like, kind of, really cool, you know?”

Yes, Miss Faux Hawk, I did know that Uh Huh Her was cool. Before hearing their music, before going to their show, I knew that Uh Huh Her was a cool, cool band. Style-Profile-in-The-LA-Times cool. Two-girls-with-great-haircuts-playing-double-bass-guitar cool. Cult fan-base cool. What I didn’t know, however, was that Uh Huh Her was legitimately cool, as in, like, kind of, really actually good, you know?
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Article: A Perfect ‘Valley’ Girl Date

Restaurants

I have a couple in mind, and I don’t want to have to choose. I love going to this place Katsu-Ya (16542 Ventura Blvd.,?Encino). You’ve probably heard of it, but I go to the one in Encino because it’s less crowded than the others.

And also a really romantic, fun place to go for a nice dinner or dessert is this bar called Firefly (11720 Ventura Blvd., Studio City). It has a really cool atmosphere. It’s got a swanky little dark bar/lounge thing happening. Yeah, it’s really cute.

Movies

For movies, I definitely like the ArcLight Sherman Oaks (15301 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks). It’s a gorgeous theater – accept no substitutes.
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Article: Alice Clarke gets to know one half of the dynamic duo

Uh Huh Her is the latest band to join the current trend of female duos, but in their own little rebellion, they’re not identical twins.

Most of Uh Huh Her’s attention is undeniably brought to them by the fame of the duo’s synth player (L Word star, Leisha Hailey). But don’t overlook Camilla Grey, their adorable singer/guitarist/bass player/everything else.

When I got to talk to her she didn’t seem too concerned with being pigeonholed as ‘the band with that chick from The L Word’.

“Aren’t we already?” Grey laughs. “With The L Word, it’s not so huge that people would only see us like that, and I think the music will supersede that and her as a character.

“That’s what we want. We don’t want people to come see us because they want to see Alice. We’re just so aware of it at this point that we really hope the music will speak for itself. If they become a fan of her, then hopefully they’ll like us as a band, at the very least.”
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Article: Dishing with Uh Huh Her

It was a typical night in Los Angeles, other than the fact that Leisha Hailey and Camila Grey of the band Uh Huh Her were walking down a busy Downtown street with a unicorn.

“People were almost crashing their cars when they saw us,” chuckles Hailey when recalling the video shoot for “Not a Love Song,” the first single from Uh Huh Her’s debut album, Common Reaction. “The concept of that video was all about eye candy. The fact that we were walking the streets of Los Angeles with a unicorn pretty much says it all.”

It’s an apt metaphor for Uh Huh Her, who combine melancholy, minor-key melodies with solid songwriting abilities to create something akin to Sarah McLachlan making an album with the Cure in the mid-’80s. Buzzy electro bass lines and danceable beats abound.

The band comes with a built-in audience, thanks to Hailey’s role as Alice Pieszecki on the popular Showtime series The L Word, based around a group of chic L.A. lesbians. With the show about to enter its sixth and final season, Hailey’s character looks to live on as the centerpiece of a planned spinoff series.

Band mate Grey is a Berklee College of Music grad who moved to L.A. and became an in-demand session bass player, working with such diverse artists as Kelly Osbourne and Dr. Dre.
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Interview: My North West

Trying to stay healthy on tour can be difficult, but Camila Grey and Leisha Haley of Uh Huh Her have developed creative strategies to stay fit. “There’s this thing that we do, called bus surfing, because the bus is constantly just moving around it’s really difficult to walk down the corridor…It’s really funny…If you don’t fall over, then you win. We do bus acrobatics like on the bunks, there’s a lot of bus gymnastics that go on,” says Grey.

Further, in the effort to stay healthy, Grey says they fight the normal rocker tendency to load the fridge with beer and instead opt for plain soy. “That’s the hardest thing to do, is really take care of yourself and eat proper meals like at proper times during the day…Your schedule’s really off, your sleeping schedules off, your eating schedules off. So, we try our best to stock the bus full of soy milk and good food, but it’s kind of difficult.”
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