HELIX mainman Brian Vollmer has issued the following update:

"When Vagabond Bones first came out Brent (Doerner) put together a video for the title track, which to date has gotten over 5,000 hits on YouTube. YouTube is the way to go nowadays for a variety of reasons. First off, it’s near to impossible for bands like Helix to have new videos added to MuchMusic because it’s doesn’t fit their format. It’s also very costly to make a 'made-for-TV' video. This requires money we don’t have for something that might never see the light of day on Much. So why go there?

Launching videos on YouTube allows us an excuse to touch bases with fans and friends by sending them the link to the new video. In the case of Helix I always laugh at the thought that a lot of people will be checking out the videos to see how we’ve all aged (or not). Kinda like going back to your high school reunion without leaving home. We look/sound fine, thankyou. When I sent out the links to the Christmas videos I got a lot of emails from people who had watched them. We also saw increased sales of the Christmas CD as a direct result.

In the case of the newest videos the obvious objective is to spread the word about our new CD Vagabond Bones. The biggest help you can give the band as a fan is simply to pass the video link on to as many contacts as you have to help spread the word. We believe Vagabond Bones is a great Helix CD which deserves as much exposure as we can possibly give it. This is only one of the ways we are trying to get it 'out there'.

We’re now shooting for the last week of January to release either 'Monday Morning Meltdown' or 'Make ‘Em Dance' to Canadian radio by DMDS. Yesterday we filmed most of 'Make ‘Em Dance' at an undisclosed location in Woodstock, Ontario. We also filmed segments of Monday Morning Metdown - the “storyline” portions. In a couple of hours I’ll be back there with the rest of the gang to film the remainder of 'Monday Morning Meltdown'. 'Make ‘Em Dance' will then be edited by the audio/visual people from Conestoga College and Brent will edit 'Monday Morning Meltdown'. Brent is also putting together a clip called 'The making of Make ‘em Dance & M.M. Meltdown'. For this Randy and several other people were filming as the day wore on. It’s a behind the scenes look at a low budget video production. Could be interesting..."