Earlier this month, I worked on a duet with Catherine Taddo. It’s a cover of Frank Loesser’s Baby, It’s Cold Outside. The piano is played by our good friend David Lynch and the vocals are sung by Catherine and myself (Olaf). The song is available on this year’s Vile Christmas album. Catherine took the time to create a video for the song, which I’ve included below. We’ve never recorded anything in this genre before....
It’s probably a little bit early to be talking Christmas. I mean retail stores haven’t quite got the decorations up yet, but it feels like it might happen any day now. Having said that, we’ve been thinking about Christmas a lot as a band and we’re working on a new and improved Christmas album for 2009. The 2008 project was a lot of fun and we were very, very happy with it, so we figured it would be a great project to try and fill out a little bit more....
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....