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THURSDAY AUGUST 12th
UPPER MANHATTAN LOUNGE
MANHATTAN BEACH, CA
9PM/$10
21+

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SATURDAY AUGUST 14th
QUEEN BEE
SAN DIEGO, CA
10PM
ALL AGES

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TUESDAY AUGUST 24th
HOTEL UTAH
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
10PM/$8
21+

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THURSDAY AUGUST 26th
VINO VIXENS
PORTLAND, OR
8PM
21+

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FRIDAY AUGUST 27th
HIGH DIVE
SEATTLE, WA
9PM/$7
21+

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SUNDAY AUGUST 29th
THE BLUE SPARK
SPOKANE, WA
9PM
21+

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TUESDAY AUGUST 31st
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY – NORTHERN
HAVRE, MT
7PM
ALL AGES

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd
CARROLL COLLEGE
HELENA, MT
7PM
ALL AGES

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd
THE VENUE
BOISE, ID
8PM/$10
ALL AGES

On Saturday July 31st, Shaimus returns to the world-famous Whisky A Go Go.  Show starts at 8PM and we are again debuting a brand new song!  They’ve given us a slightly longer set than last time, and the tickets you buy from us are only $10. Tickets at the door are $15… so you may as well get them from us if you plan to come

Oh, in other news: THIS SHOW IS ALL AGES!

You will receive your ticket at the will call window on the day of the show.  OR you can hang out with us and buy the tickets in person.

Finally, we’ll be throwing a birthday bash for Phil after this show. Stay tuned for updates on that.

Whiskey A Go Go
8901 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
90069
(310) 652-4202
Click for Map

We’re traveling up to Seattle next week to play a show on June 24th at Nectar Lounge. We’re very excited to return to Seattle and also excited to announce that we’re giving away free tickets! Here’s how to enter:

Sign up for our mailing list here: http://www.shaimus.com/interact

We will be giving away 3 pairs of tickets (6 total) to 3 lucky people who sign up between now and June 22nd. Winners will be chosen at random, but you (obviously) must live in the Seattle area or at least plan on attending this show.

Already on the mailing list? Have a friend sign up! After all, we’re giving away PAIRS of tickets, so enter now!

We will announce the winners on June 23rd.

Sign up now for your chance to win!

Cheers!

We talked about shooting videos, recording music, enjoying hot dogs, the origins of the band and other fun stuff. He also played several tracks off Sad Thing.  It was fun!  Press play below to hear the interview:

The Michael Nayt Show

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
Click for Map

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)

You can also watch this on YouTube

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.

We’re super proud and excited to announce our brand new music video for Like A Fool. We shot this back in August, and it’s been amazing watching it all come together.

You can also view the video here… (Tell your friends!)

…on Myspace

…on YouTube

…on Vimeo

Enjoy and have the happiest of new years!