Happy Holidays to everyone.

This past week the Wild Colonials got an early Christmas gift in the form of a brand new record deal with Universal Music Group. The brand new album Life As We Know It will finally be released next year. The first of the new songs will be available in spring of 2006.

Angela, Shark and Paul were guests on the Danny Masterson/Brent Bolthouse show last Monday night on LA radio station indie 103.1. The band were invited on the air to make the announcement of signing the new deal. They were guests for the full two hour show and performed three songs.

 

As a Christmas gift to their fans, the Wild Colonials have made available for a short time their Christmas song "Christmas Is Quiet" available to download from the home page at www.wildcolonials.com.

Details are listed below...

This WildNotes includes...
1 ) New Deal with Universal!
2 ) Angela, Shark & Paul guest on indie 103.1FM
3 ) Colonials Christmas mp3

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1 ) New Deal with Universal!
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The Wild Colonials this past week have signed a new record deal with Universal Music Group!

The band feel that the new Wild Colonials album is their best. There are also plans to release the non-album tracks in the coming year as well.

Since early 2001 the Wild Colonials have had two record deals and unfortunately both labels went belly up before the new Wild Colonials album could come out. Luckily the band still owned the rights to the unreleased album. Every six months or so the band would record some more music at their own expense.

The first of the new songs will be coming out this spring 2006! We will keep you posted about any updates and appreciate your continued faith and interest in all things Wild Colonials.

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2) Angela, Shark & Paul guest on indie 103.1FM
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Wild Colonials' Angela, Shark and Paul were guests on the Danny Masterson/Brent Bolthouse show Feel My Heat last Monday night (Dec 12th) on LA radio station indie 103.1FM. The band were invited on the air to make the announcement of signing the new deal. They were guests for the full two hour show and performed three songs.

Songs performed were acoustic versions of the Blue Nile's Tinseltown in the Rain, Friend and Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat.

The show is not available as an archive, but we will let you know if it becomes available. For those of you outside LA, you can listen live online anytime to one of the best radio stations in the USA at...

www.indie1031.fm

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2 ) Colonials Christmas mp3
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Christmas Is Quiet mp3

The Wild Colonials song Christmas is Quiet is available as a FREE download on the home page of www.wildcolonials.com.

The lyrics are also available to view online.

Here is Colonials' guitarist Shark to talk about the song...

"Unlike almost every other Christmas song, this song deals with what is more common than all the shopping and commercial festivities around us would like to acknowledge. That Christmas is (unfortunately) for many people not the happiest time of year. The holidays are for some an unfortunate reminder of some tragic event that coincided with the end of the year. For others the holidays are just ill timed forced get togethers or for many they are secretly alone.
Hey, I'm not trying to bring anybody down here, but as Angela says, If you want UP, go to Disneyland.

I never think of the song as a downer 'cause it is about going forward and striving for an understanding. And every year we do get the chance to create a new memory and a new tradition."

Happy Holidays, God bless us everyone.
-Shark

To download the song, right-click the song's link, select Save Link As, or Save Target As, (include .mp3 in name) and click save.
Macintosh users, hold down the Option key and select download linked file.

Just visit the Home page at www.wildcolonials.com and click on the link.

Enjoy and Happy Holidays.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your continued support!

Until next time. Love,
Wild Colonials all...
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