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.