It’s Issue #3 of the Vile Richard Download Club. This month’s download is Away In a Manger, a track from this year’s Vile Christmas album. The track features Andrew Vanhorn and Emily Fennell on vocals. Vile Christmas 2009 can now be ordered for digital download or postal delivery at http://vilerichard.com Last year’s album sold out very quickly, so this year we’ve updated it with a couple of new tracks and actually made it available on the site for orders etc....
Way back before Andrew joined the band, I (Olaf) recorded an album I called “Lucky Me”. Andrew did pop by to record some vocals on the album and you’ll hear him if you listen carefully here and there. One of the standout tracks on this album is Lazy Eye. To give it some kind of context, let me just say that I was having dinner with a couple I knew from school....
It’s time for our inaugural Download Club posting. The rules are simple. On the 1st of each month, we will post something free for you to download. The item will be available for one week. After that point, it will go offline. To be notified of our monthly downloads, you can either: a) Join the mailing list b) Follow our Twitter feed c) Subscribe to this blog So, let’s go ahead and kick things off....
If you’re in Toronto on Oct 17th, please do stop by Fionn MacCool’s on the Esplanade. We’ll be there from 9:00 pm to 1:30 am playing our tunes plus lots of Country, Rock and Oktoberfest covers. The evening is sponsored by Paulaner Lager. There will be midway games, beer in Steins, girls in dirndls and, of course, Vile Richard. Admission is free. Come on by and say hello! We rarely play Toronto more than once per year, so this is a good chance to come by and hang out....
Over the time that the band has been together, we’ve recorded a lot of musicwhich we’ve never released. What we’d like to do is release some of this music (and other cool stuff) for free on a monthly basis. If you’d like to be a part of our “Download Club”, there will be 2 ways to get the files: Join our mailing list Follow us on Twitter The rules of the download club are simple....