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The Christmas Show was a blast! Fun had by all. Thanks to Left of Here and Wiggler for sharing the stage and their talents with us. There were snacks to snack on, where bygones could be bygones. Looking forward to next years show, it just possibly might have been the biggest toronto draw ever! There are still only a couple of Christmas Discs floating around. We’d like to congratulate Patricia Tucci as the proud winner of the Silent Auction item, the signed, and framed Mistress CD wall hanging....

The Vile Christmas CD is almost finished. It will be getting the final touches this evening. We’ve got 9 tracks of holiday goodness for you to enjoy, courtesy of the band + our good friend Chris St. Pierre, who contributed a couple of Christmas songs which he has written. The CD will be available at the show tomorrow. We’ll only have about 30 copies with us and some people will be picking up multiple copies, so if you need one, be sure to get it earlier in the evening....

The entire band is really looking forward to the Christmas show this weekend at Holy Joe’s. This year we wanted to do something different, so we’re putting together a Vile Christmas CD for the occasion. The CD will contain some of our versions of Christmas songs (sacred and secular!) as well as some bonus material that we’ve never made available and that will most likely never make it to retail shelves....

A few weeks ago, I had a friend message me. She said she had been watching a movie on TV and she heard “Lazy Eye” (off the “Lucky Me” album) playing in the background. Now, I had remembered signing paperwork to license that song out to some sort of low budget production, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of it. I had to do a fair amount of digging around....

Mark your calendars for 2009. Vile Richard will be playing at Paddy Flaherty’s in Sarnia, ON. We’ll be playing all night. Here are the pertinent details: Vile Richard @ Paddy Flaherty’s 10:00 pm - 1:00 AM Saturday, Feb 28, 2009 No cover to get in We’ve never played in this neck of the woods before, so we’re really looking forward to meeting some new friends out there. It’s a full band show – everybody loves a road trip!...

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....