Nick Hill

It's not the same old song and dance for this full-time musician. See what one of LHS’s most creative artists has been up to since 2002.

Questions

Favorite High School Memory: How could one pick. Let's go with one of the Talent Shows where Jon McCammon, Trent Darnell (one year older than us) and I pretended to be blues musicians in our poorly fitted black suits. That was always a blast!

Favorite High School Class: Mr. Neal's poetry class senior year. He was one of the greatest teacher's there and it was ridiculously fun to hear 17 year old's wax poetic. Close second has to be Mrs. Tinucci's AP Lit. Both because of the quality of the kids I was with and because I wished Mrs. Tinucci was my mom. (Side note, I didn't do my summer reading that year and convinced the school I never got the assignment. They bought it and I got student of the month for doing extra work to catch up. Swish!)

Favorite High School Activity: I hate to say this, but I wasn't really involved in any school activities!! Oh the regret. That's where all the girls were!

In high school, I'd spend my weekends: Depends on whether it was a year I had friends or not! I could've been at home painting-- embarrassing (yet awesome), miniature gaming figurines, could have been underage drinking somewhere, hopefully playing music in there somewhere. Sadly, never riding bikes.

In 2010, I spend my weekends: Playing music, loving my girlfriend, doing lots of yoga and riding bikes everywhere for everything.

Any final thoughts on the class of 2002?
It seems like everyone is rocking. It is interesting eight years out to see how everyone is on totally different paths. Some people just travel or screw around, some are workaholic professional suits, some moved back to the suburbs and have cute little kids!! People we know could even perform surgery on us now. It is really crazy to me that people are on such varied paths.

What He's Up to Now:

Nick lives with his beautiful girlfriend Nevette in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. They do a lot of yoga and tear up the town around there. In July they went to France for a month to sit on the Mediterranean and eat baguettes while trying to pronounce French words with too many extra letters.

Nick is a full-time musician who gets to play his own music. His band Boutros is an electro-pop face melter (think Hall and Oates meets the year 2085). They tour constantly, so they come back to St. Louis a lot. His other band is an experimental chamber rock outfit called Conductive Alliance. Nick said that after working in a soul sucking job as a financial analyst for a few years, it is nice to be back doing what he loves full time-though he adds the music business sadly involves a lot of business.