December '08 Newsletter - MOMENTUM RELEASE - 2 Chances To Win Momentum!
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December Newsletter - 2 Chances To Win The New Double Album "Momentum"!
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Happy holidays to everyone around the world! Big news in this delayed version of the December Fox Elipsus newsletter! Two chances to win Momentum! And free shows for Canada and parts of NE USA!
THE RELEASE OF MOMENTUM 01-02-09
The second Fox Elipsus double-album "Momentum" is finally complete! Final mastering and manufacturing are being done as we speak, and the official release date is now set at January 2nd, 2009.
Read about Momentum here: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=10102302541
Until the release date, one song per day will be released online on MYSPACE. To begin with, two songs on Xmas Eve and three on Xmas Day were just released for you (some of them have yet to be mastered).
To hear six new songs from "Momentum", go to:http://www.myspace.com/foxelipsus
HORIZON COMPETITION
If you are the first person to correctly guess what the new song "Head For The Horizon" is about specifically, then you will receive a free signed copy of "Momentum"! Winner will be announced in January's newsletter - if there is a winner! Please e-mail all competition submissions to ELIPSUS@GMAIL.COM with the e-mail title "HORIZON COMPETITION"
For more details on this competition, click here:http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=51865403622
MYSPACE MUSIC COMPETITION
Choose which songs stay on Fox's myspace:http://www.myspace.com/foxelipsus - between 6pm each day and 6pm the next day, e-mail ELIPSUS@GMAIL.COM and rank your 3 fave songs currently on the music player on that page. If you successfully e-mail Fox your top 3 each day for 7 days, you will be entered into a draw to win a special signed copy of Momentum!
For more details on this competition, click here:http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=51865403622
HEAR MOMENTUM IN FULL BEFORE ANYONE ELSE DOES
Pre-sale Momentums will be mailed out several days before the release date. If you buy Momentum now, you will get it before anyone else does. It is only $10. "Momentum" and last year's debut "Changing History" are $10 each using card/paypal. If you prefer, e-mail ELIPSUS@GMAIL.COM to make an order, and you can pay by cash/check/money order through the mail after you receive the albums.
NEED YOUR HELP
As well as purchasing "Momentum" and "Changing History" above, if you can afford it, please consider a small donation to Fox's music. Fox still sleeps in cars or on fans' couches more often than not when on tour, in order to keep the music alive. Fan donations paid for 50% of the production of the new album (which is amazing, because it is very expensive to produce a new album!), if Fox receives even a small portion of that generosity for the upcoming tour, then it won't be nearly as rough as the first tour! Fox is truly, deeply grateful for all of the support.
Fox also needs a very warm winter coat (for the Jan/Feb shows!), some awesome (possibly home-made?) visual banners and advertising to display at the free shows on the Momentum tour, and a decent video camcorder to make a tour documentary while on the road, as well as some 80s-style impromptu music videos for tracks from "Momentum".
E-mail Fox directly to make donations: ELIPSUS@GMAIL.COM
If you have no pennies to spare, but a little time on your hands, here is another way you can help! With the release of a new album and a 9-month continental tour, comes a huge amount of work. If you would like to help Fox, as little or as much as you like, with some tour promo work (anything from 5 minutes a week and up!) please e-mail ELIPSUS@GMAIL.COM
UPCOMING SHOWS - ALL SHOWS ARE FREE
Here is a list of my free shows for the first half of January. Check the January newsletter for a list of my late January and February shows. Every show is free, and Fox will be signing both albums at shows.
Weekend of Fri Jan 2nd - Ontario, WNY
Fri 2nd, 7pm - BUFFALO, NY (Caz Coffee Cafe)
Sat 3rd, Noon - KITCHENER-GUELPH, ON (Chapters Guelph)
Sat 3rd, 6pm - TORONTO (West), ON (Chapters Mississauga Square One)
Sun 4th, 1pm - TORONTO (East), ON (Chapters Ajax)
Sun 4th, 5pm - TORONTO (Centre), ON (Chapters Runnymede @ Bloor St W)
Week of Mon Jan 5th - Ontario, Upstate NY, Vermont, Quebec
Mon 5th, Noon - HAMILTON-TORONTO, ON (Chapters Oakville Town Centre)
Mon 5th, 6pm - TORONTO, ON (secret show)
Tue 6th, 6.30pm - KINGSTON, ON (Chapters Kingston)
Wed 7th, 6.30pm - ALBANY, NY (Barnes & Noble Saratoga Springs)
Thu 8th, 6.30pm - BURLINGTON, VT (Barnes & Noble South Burlington)
Fri 9th, 7pm - OTTAWA, ON (Chapters Rideau)
Sat 10th, Noon - OTTAWA, ON (Chapters Pinecrest)
Sat 10th, 7pm - MONTREAL, QC (Indigo Place Montreal Trust)
Sun 11th, Noon - MONTREAL, QC (Chapters Pointe-Claire)
Sun 11th - evening - TBA
Week of Mon Jan 12th - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, NH, ME, MA, RI
Mon 12th, 7pm - FREDERICTON, NB (Chapters)
Tue 13th, Noon - HALIFAX, NS (Chapters Halifax)
Tue 13th, 6pm - HALIFAX, NS (Chapters Mic-Mac - Dartmouth)
Wed 14th, Noon - MONCTON, NB (Chapters)
Wed 14th, 6pm - SAINT JOHN, NB (Indigo East Point)
Thu 15th - Wed 21st - New England shows TBA
Week of Mon Jan 19th - NH, MA, VT, CT, NY-NJ
Thu 22nd, 4pm - NEW HAVEN, CT (Barnes & Noble)
Fri 23rd, Noon - WESTCHESTER CTY, NY (Barnes & Noble Moghegan Lake)
Fri 23rd, 7pm - KINGSTON, NY (Barnes & Noble)
Sat 24th - Mon 26th - NYC area shows TBA
There are 200 FREE shows in every corner and nook and cranny of North America, from January until September 2009. The full tour schedule is here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=50258371054
I look forward to seeing all of you on tour very soon!
If you are in Europe or elsewhere in the world, show your support by purchasing CDs and e-mailing Fox to request that he performs in your nation, and there is a chance Fox will perform in your neck of the woods in late 2009 or early 2010!
ONE MORE THING:
We are quickly heading for 2,000 fans on facebook. Please go to this page (you are already a fan if you are reading this, so thank you!), and then share it with all of your facebook friends by clicking "share" and sending it to them as a message. If 20 of you do that, Fox will get 100 new fans, and some of your friends will thank you for it and will want to come to shows with you! Imagine what will happen if 200 of you do that...
Well it's finally time for MOMENTUM so enjoy your holidays with the ones you love, and relax knowing that in just a couple of weeks, you will be able to hear the new double album that we have all been waiting so long for.
Take good care.