A Dirty Dozen with HEYBOBBY! – February 2026

According to a recent press release: “HeyBobby! is a theatrical rock duo featuring Gina Del Vecchio and Bobby Peek whose debut album, The Unclouding of Otilla Vanilla, introduces a bold new voice in rock ’n’ roll storytelling. Blending cinematic rock, richly layered songwriting, and immersive world-building, HeyBobby! creates music that feels as expansive as it is intimate, a place where character, emotion, and narrative collide. Their creative ethos is rooted in human expression: real instruments, real voices, real emotion. While the project fully embraces cutting-edge tools and future-facing ideas including artistic artificial intelligence, while leaving an opening to also incorporates traditional, human-crafted visual and creative contributions wherever they serve the story best. The result is a hybrid art form where technology and human imagination coexist to bring characters and worlds to life.” We get the duo to discuss new music, influences, and more…

1. Tell us a little about your latest release.  What might a fan or listener not grab the first or second time they listen through? Are there any hidden nuggets you put in the material or that only diehard fans might find?

Bobby: On our debut album, The Unclouding of Otilla Vanilla (March 2026), Otilla, in spite of the terrible conditions of her childhood / adolescence, is a complete spiritual bad-ass. She is tougher and smarter than anything this world can throw at her. Her spiritual totem is her deceased grandfather and the words he left her on his deathbed when she was a small child. The one bright light of her hard beginning and the one thought that has always gotten her through any situation.

2. What got you into music, and can you tell us about the moment you realized you wanted to be a musician?

Bobby: The Beatles cranked my music engine. I wanted to have as much fun as they had creating great music.

Gina: David Bowie is what inspired me and still does today – the range of styles, musicality, and theatre is pure bliss! I sang many an hour in front of my mirror in my bedroom into a hairbrush … I was born knowing.

3. Building on that, is there a specific song, album, performer, or live show that guided your musical taste?

Bobby: Paul McCartney, no doubt. For the reason that he created in all musical genres, and in many of his songs, he used varying tempos / themes in the same song. He could write traditionally as well as anyone but he also let his mind go where it wanted, as in “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey.”

Gina: David Bowie, Live at the Philadelphia Tower (double-album); I was in awe.

4. If you could call in any one collaborator to do a song with, who would it be, and why?

Bobby: Lady Gaga. She can pull off any genre with brilliant creativity.

Gina: Ditto for me! I’d also love to work with Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. I absolutely love the funk!

5. What is your favorite activity when out of the studio and/or not on tour? What do you like to do to unwind?

Bobby: Playing music with my best friend / wife / business partner, Lisa. Watch great sci-fi movies.

Gina: I am an ADLL (adult lover of Lego) and am usually doing a classic jigsaw puzzle (or two). I have 27 animals (at the moment) ranging from cows to reptiles, so they keep me very busy!

6. How would you describe your music to someone who’d never listened to you before?

Bobby: Hopeful and multi-genre.

Gina: Bobby and I have done so much range and style-wise: classic country, rock-a-billy, gospel, hard rock … This particular album is where Tommy meets Rocky Horror Picture Show – I think it’s the best work we’ve done together.

7. When your band is hanging out together, who cooks, who gets the drinks in, and who is first to crack out the acoustic guitars for a singalong?

Bobby: Oh, we’re pretty equal as far as those things go.

Gina: Oh, now, Bobby is the party meister! I go to bed early!

8. When was the last time you were starstruck and who was it?

Bobby: I don’t get starstruck – they’re just people, after all. Creative, magnetic people, but still just people.

Gina: Bobby and I share this sentiment; we love people, we are creatives and not much phases us. I know we’d be cool as cucumbers and hold our own in any room around the globe.

9. What is the best part of being a musician? If you could no longer be a musician for whatever reason, what would be your dream job?

Bobby: That you get to create. That you get to spend a lot of your time thinking original thoughts and also the interaction with fellow musicians. Movie critic.

Gina: Always something to create. Internalized non-stop entertainment which can be annoying if you have a song emerging in the back right quadrant of your brain at all time. Actor.

10. What is one question you have always wanted an interviewer to ask – and what is the answer? Conversely, what question are you tired of answering? Where does your inspiration come from?

Bobby: How did Gina and Bobby meet? Gina was doing singing some demo sessions and was hired to do one of my songs. I heard about a sentence and a half and said, “I just gotta work with this person!”

Gina: Not really a question but I do tire of people saying “I wish I could play an instrument or sing” – welp… YOU CAN! No time like the present to get started.

11. Looking back over your career, is there a single moment or situation you feel was a misstep or you would like to have a “do over,” even if it didn’t change your current situation?

Bobby: I was in a very good copy group with a great friend of mine but I had started to write and wanted to go off on my own to do my original songs. That friend ended up having a wonderful career and we’re still great friends, but I probably left that group a little early.

Gina: I listened to a record company when they told me that my touring band was not “good enough” to go into the studio with me. I accepted session players – they were freaking great – but the groove and vibe was not quite there and, as you might guess, the band broke up over it …. stupidity!

12. If you could magically go back in time and be a part of the recording sessions for any one record in history, which would you choose – and what does that record mean to you?

Bobby: To be at Sun Records with Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black when they did “That’s Alright, Mama.”

Gina: Please port me back in time to two sessions – “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Gladys Knight and the Pips) and “Free” (Deniece Williams).

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