Vile Christmas continues to come together. Our latest addition to the line-up is Wiggler. If you haven’t had the opportunity to join the Wiggler Nation, then this is your chance. We played a show together back in ‘06. It was such great fun that we decided to have him out again. Mr! Erik (the Wiggler himself) has agreed to abide by the code of Vile Christmas. There’s really only one rule and that is that you have to play a Christmas song....

I’m not going to post an article every time one of our tunes gets played (or maybe I will!) but I wanted to give a special thanks to Hamilton, Ontario’s Bruce “Mole” Mowat, who played “Glass Eye” on his CFMU-FM radio show last night. Bruce has just recently changed the format of his show to classic country tunes, which fills a void in radio here in Southern Ontario. He’s playing some great stuff and I highly recommend it....

Playing in Toronto has never provided the satisfaction musically (appreciative bars, new fans) or promotionally (radio, interesting/meaningful reviews) and certainly not financially (money in the pocket); which attributes to why we don’t play there. In contrast has been great experiences like the east coast, NFLD, Kingston’s “Wild Stallion”, Peterborough’s “Red Dog” and certainly Sudbury’s “Peddlers Pub”. In fact just recently a new fan noticed himself and friends in a video of the hockey song, filmed on location during last years St....

With the Halloween decorations still up, it’s probably a bit too early to string up the Christmas lights, but it’s not too early to spread the word about this year’s Vile Christmas. We always look forward to this show and this year is no different. One of the things that makes Vile Christmas a lot of fun is that’s it’s one of the only occasions that we play in Toronto. In fact, I believe that VR hasn’t played in Toronto since last year’s Christmas show in 2007....