We aren’t gigging in April but that’s just fine, because on Saturday May 1st, Shaimus will be performing at the world-famous Whiskey A Go Go.  The show starts at 8PM and we are debuting a brand new song!

We haven’t played the Sunset Strip since December, and we can’t wait to see you there!

Whiskey A Go Go
8901 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 652-4202
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Some moons ago we hinted that All Of This and Tie You Down would be released in a DLC for Rock Band 2.  Well, the wait is over!  They were released this week, along with songs by The Futureheads, The James Gang, Neil Peart’s Hockey Theme, and The White Stripes.

The picture below was taken right after we found out the news:

Here are some relevant links:

- Read the DLC’s write-up on rockband.com

- Check out Shaimus’ page on rockband.com

PS:  A post we made on our facebook page sparked a gamespot discussion about quality vs cost of music, Shaimus and whether or not we suck, and the regular helping of burns and jokes.  You can read the whole thread here:

- GameSpot Forums – Rock Band 2 – More Shaimus?

Hope you enjoy them!  I always love playing Cam’s drum parts because I secretly wish I was a drummer.  Maybe that’ll be a side project some day… But first we need to about 3 million more downloads on iTunes.

(Photo by Mike Tabolsky)

Here is the official music video for our song “Let Go”. It features footage from the band’s 2009 West Coast Fall Tour and more. It started out as just a tour compilation video but quickly turned into a historical retrospective on all things Shaimus. We hope you enjoy it!

You can also watch this on YouTube

Hello World!

As a byproduct of our involvement in hit video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band 2, we’ve been given a larger mouthpiece than we ever expected.  To be involved in such a pop culture phenomenon is something most artists can only dream of.  Needless to say, we feel fortunate to have a piece, however small it may be, of that pie.

We’re constantly looking for new ways to connect and interact with our fans.  If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@shaimus),  you’re well aware of our frequent updates and ruminations.  The ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings to an audience is why we got into music in the first place.  Well, now we’re going to turn the tables.  We want you, the fans, to communicate with us! (and in return, we’ll give you a free song)

Watch this video.  Listen closely.

(can’t see it? Try it on YouTube)

This is the deal:

1.  Take a picture or short video of yourself or with fellow friends/fans, showing us who you are and where you’re from.  (Idea:  Write your name, hometown, and whatever else you’d like to say about Shaimus on a large piece of paper and hold that up to the camera, along with your pretty face.)

2.  Be creative! Your contribution doesn’t just have to be you sitting in front of your computer – snap a photo outside of your school, house, favorite restaurant, venue or anywhere! Take a second to explain how you first heard about us, what you like about the music, what your favorite song is, or why you are fan.  Or be mean, and tell us that we suck!  Just know you gotta be able to take it if you start dishing it out

(And if you’re shooting a video, keep it of reasonable length and smaller than 100MB.)

3.  Send it to us!

PICTURES:  Simply send to submissions@shaimus.com

VIDEO:  Fire up YouSendIt.com in your favorite browser. Attach your video and send it off to submissions@shaimus.com. It’s fairly self-explanatory, but please take a look, there’s one important step:

4. Let us know how to contact you!

If you didn’t include your email address in the Enter Message field from yousendit we have no idea who you are, and we can’t get you a free song   No worries though – you can also forward the confirmation email from yousendit to submissions@shaimus.com directly, below is an example:

5.  Get a free song! To all of you who participate in this project, you will be the first ever to receive this previously unreleased Shaimus song… For free.  No.  Big.  Deal.  It will be some weeks before it’s ready (March-ish), but we promise you’ll be the exclusive first listeners.

If we get enough awesome submissions, we plan to make a sweet video out of the ones we find the most interesting. So send us something really cool! And tell your friends, too.

Note: The deadline is 3/3/2010 for submissions.  So get on it!  Also, apologies for it being a little complicated, but we are doing all this ourselves so we have to use whatever resources we have available to us at any given time

Well, that’s your chance to be involved in a global Shaimus project, the likes of which we’ve never attempted before.  We look forward to your creative and hilarious photos/videos and thank you for believing in our band.  We owe this all to you guys.

Cheers,

Shaimus

I like helpful people.  In fact, I might go so far as saying that helpful people are just about my favorite kind of people out there.  I don’t think that’s too wild a statement.  Flora Edwards once said,

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.”

Let me stop you before you ask me who Flora Edwards is.  I have no idea.  I just found that line when browsing the Internet for quotes about helping.  Although a quick Googling of her name reveals a page that claims she is a “South-African born industrialist.”  How enlightening.

But I digress.

My original point, meandering though it may have been, had to do with the many virtues of helping. Just look at this picture of some dude helping some other dude and tell me it doesn’t make you somewhat vaguely warm and fuzzy inside:

And with that we bring you a new page here on the official Shaimus website: How You Can Help Shaimus.

Why the bloody hell would you want to help Shaimus, you ask?  You might not want to at all, to be honest.  That’s OK.  But in case you’re curious, we’ve laid out in reasonable detail on that page many little things that you could do that might help get our little band’s name in the minds and hearts of a precious few more people out there in the world.  Luckily, none of our suggestions involve your dropping spare change into a mug and mailing it to us.  Though that’s not the worst idea I’ve ever come up with (you don’t want to know the worst).

The thing is, going back to Ms. Edwards’ words of wisdom, that the more the fans help us pry our way into the collective consciousness, the more likely it will be for us to continue playing, recording, touring to a town near you, and so on in that fashion.  See?  Completing the circle, indeed.

Of course, it’s good to keep in mind the wise words of Andrew Carnegie:

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves.  You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”

So let me be the first to assure you: we are, in fact, going to great lengths to climb the ladder.  The greatest lengths in our power, to be precise.  So you don’t have to feel at all dirty inside if you so choose to throw a bit of help our way.