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