The Shoos

Happy New Year!
5th Jan 2012

Hi All,



The Shoos had a big year in 2011 & we’d like to thank all of you for your great support throughout it.

We’d also like to thank all of you who helped us, supported us, played us, listened to us, booked us, photographed us, made videos with us, for us, genuinely too many people to mention, but Thanks.

Some Highlights of 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YiN9Mwhz4

- We released our Debut Album with Universal Records Ireland with a headline show in Whelans & subsequently got to No.1 in the itunes Alternative Charts with our Rescue Room EP & going to No.10 on the Album Charts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YsbyOQSq78&feature=fvsr

- We supported Maroon 5 in The Grand Canal Theatre / Lifehouse in The Olympia / Bressie in Whelans and some choice festivals.

We embarked on a National Press & Radio Tour, hitting nearly every radio station in the country over 3 days and finished with The Hotpress Freezer sessions in Dublin and Cork before heading to Belfast for Arthur's Day.

- Got lots of great TV including The Saturday Night Show with Brendan O’Connor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSRWI3UpAg

- November saw Tex invited to L.A to meet some Producers, write with some cool big name people such as Michael Beinhorn (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden) & David Baerwald (Sheryl Crowe) and get a chance to sing for his supper.



Live Dates:

INEC 20/21st January 2012

Whelans 28th January 2012



Check our Website/Facebook for further news on upcoming gigs.

http://www.theshoos.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shoos/69040542277



New Offers: Our Album ‘Rescue Room’ is Available in HMV for the reduced price of €4.99 for the Christmas Period & New Year sales.



It is also on Itunes to download: http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/rescue-room/id426530713



It is Available outside of Ireland on http://www.cdworld.ie

We look forward to announcing some new releases in 2012, in the meantime we hope you had a great

Christmas and have a very happy new year.

If you would like to contact us by email theshoos@gmail.com

November
28th Nov 2011

November saw the band proud to take part in "Movember" and grew some scary facial hair to support the cause. Texas flew to L.A and did some vocal work with Michael Beinhorn (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden .....) and David Baerwald (Sheryl Crow....) while the rest of the band laid down the backtracks to what will become a 2012 release mixed by the now almost 5th member Joe Zook (One Republic, Katy Perry etc). This time recording was almost pleasurable very little technical hitches and very loud D minor's. 

Hope you can make it down to some gigs in the gig section over the coming weeks cos we have lots of new merch for you to buy !

End Of Summer?
24th Aug 2011

So Since last time we updated we've been back in the Studio recording our new songs/Ep which we're Very with a giant V excited about & hope to be finishing them off in the next 3 weeks (ish) - as we've a very busy September/October & then run up to Christmas! Argggh come back summer!? What Summer?!

Coming up next for The Shoos is the release of the second single from our mini Album 'Rescue Room' out on 1st Sept' with a new Video too which is cool & looking forward to doing all the promo & radio stuff again which is Great.

We also can't wait for Arthurs Day which will be fantastic to play again, We don't know where we're playing....or do we!? But regardless we're not allowed say, but if it half as good as last year then we're in for a great night, So we'll be updating the gigs soon too, so stay tuned!

Update
14th Jul 2011

Since we updated last we’ve been gigging extensively over the country & doing a national radio tour which was great, we were in pretty much every radio station in the country which was cool, Doing loads of live shows including some highlights such as: Jaegermeister Freezer sessions around the country, supporting our mate Bressie on his Solo career launch, Playing the Coors Light festivals, so at the moment we’re working on writing & recording our next mini album, we’ve loads more gigs & festivals coming up in the summer & we’ll let you know about them on our gig listings & through facebook & twitter, and we’re trying to get back to the states to do some recording soon also! Peace & Love – The Shoos

The Shoos & O2's Think Big Event
15th Apr 2011

We're playing O2's Think Big Event tomorrow night 16th April and our performance is going to be LIVE STREAMED exclusively from O2 Blueroom TV! Think Big is being run in aid of the charity Headstrong which supports young people with mental illness between the ages of 14-24. The live stream will begin at 7pm!

And we're in demand! After Think Big we'll be rushing off to the RDS to perform for half time at Leinster V Ulster rugby game!

Video & HMV Instore News!
14th Apr 2011

The brand new video to Long Way Down is out!! Taken from Rescue Room our new mini-album.

We'll be in HMV Grafton St tonight at 6pm for an instore performance and to sign copies of our album! Why not drop by for a chance to see us live!

Rescue Room #1 in iTunes Alternative Chart!
10th Apr 2011

Rescue Room was released on Friday April 8th and went straight to #1 on the iTunes Alternative Chart and #10 on the main iTunes chart!

Thanks to everyone who downloaded and everyone who come down to the launch show in Whelan's, it was a great night!

Rescue Room Out Now!
8th Apr 2011

Our new album Rescue Room is out today!

We'll be performing in Tower Records this evening 8th April and signing copies of the album. We’re also play Whelan’s in Dublin tonight! The album can be bought in HMV, Tower Records, Golden Disc and you can download it now from iTunes and 7 Digital!!

Album delivered to Radio
6th Apr 2011

Our album “Rescue Room” which is out this Friday has been shipped off to radio today, check out the photo of our shooboxes!



Rescue Room is available on iTunes and 7 Digital to pre-order now, click here to order it now.

We’ve booked in lots of radio appearance dates too so listen out for us on 98FM, Spin 103.8, FM104...check back for more updates on these. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter also for up to the minute updates on where we are and what we’re doing!

Feb/March 2011
22nd Feb 2011

Haven't updated in a while, Going to really concentrate on updating more regularly, We just opened for Lifehouse in the Olympia on Sunday 20th which was great, Really nice guys, had a good chat to them before the gig, & what a gig, packed house & great audience. We support Maroon 5 in the brand spanking new Grand Canal theatre in Dublin this Thursday the 24th February, We can't wait for it, Saw Maroon last October in San Diego & they really know how to put on a show. Stay tuned for more upcoming news, not least the release of our new EP with Universal Ireland 'Rescue Room' on April 8th.

Home from L.A.
17th Nov 2010

We arrived home from L.A having worked with some Amazing Producers & really cool people in some legendary places, We also headlined a gig at the legendary Viper Room. L.A filled us with lot of ideas in our heads and heap load of work to do - recording to look forward to & songs to finish writing, We managed take a breath in between recording & writing sessions to meet with Universal Music Ireland and we signed a deal with them!! Our signing with Universal which will culminate in a Release in Early 2011!

Whilst we are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches to the tracks to be included on our upcoming Universal Ireland release we will be playing a number of Exclusive shows across Ireland so we'll keep you updated!

Cheers,

Tex

L.A Here we come!!
29th Sep 2010

Since we were last onto you we’ve had a busy summer doing gigs & festivals in sunshine & rain, indoors & outdoors. We spent a lot of our time in the summer in the recording studio writing new songs & getting demo’s of the new material cut, I think I speak for the band when I say that We’re really excited & pleased with our new material.
L.A: So we’re off to L.A on the 10th October for 3 Weeks to meet up with our U.S Management company; ‘Fakework Management’ Interscope’s associated management company. James Mormile (A & R, Interscope Records) & DJ Mormile (Senior VP of A & R Interscope Records) and then down to work with a number of producers including Warren Huart (producer The Fray ‘How to Save a Life’ & ‘You Found Me’) & Dave Hodges (Evanescence.)
I can’t wait to play all our new stuff for these guys, see what they think & hopefully get some recording done, We’re hoping there’s also the chance to play a few gigs over there too, Someone also keeps whispering the word ‘Vegas!’ too which is weird. In the last few weeks we’ve been playing gigs at nearly every college in the country welcoming Freshers into College life with a bang, not to mention playing The Brazen Head on Arthur’s Day which was great, We’ve still a few more college gigs to play before we head off, We’ll be having a party before we go too in Whelan’s on the 9th October, We’ll be trying to take as much footage & photos & keeping you all updated on what’s going on when we’re out there,
Hope to see you all soon,
Cheers,
Tex

July Update
14th Jul 2010

In Shoos News; Since our last post we've had the very successful self-released single "Distance" was unleashed in May 2010 and received a lot of attention including being championed by Ray D’arcy on Today FM and achieving widespread airplay on all top regional and national stations. The single reached number 1 in the national physical sales chart and 21 in the combined physical and download charts.

The success of ‘Distance’ attracted major label interest and The Shoos have recently signed a deal with Universal Music Ireland with an impending release targeted for September 2010. The success of Distance also resulted in attention being fielded from DJ Mormile (Senior VP of A & R Interscope Records) at Interscope’s associated management company. As a result the band will be heading to LA in October 2010 to work with a number of producers including Warren Huart (producer The Fray ‘How to Save a Life’ & ‘You Found Me’). The Shoos are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on tracks to be included on their upcoming Universal release.

Which is all very exciting for us, We're also still working hard doing as many gigs as we can couple with writing new material to bring to L.A with us.

We'll update you again as soon as possible with photos, videos & anything else we can think of from the gigs around the country,

Cheers,

Tex

The Shoos

New Single "Distance"
30th Apr 2010

Our new single Distance is out on Friday 7th May. It's been getting great rotation Nationwide on radio and we have been busy doing lots of promo - Check out video ->>. It's available in HMV nationwide, iTunes and downloadmusic.ie from Friday - A big thanks to everyone who came to see us on The One Republic Tour and we hope you can make one of the upcoming shows. Keep an eye on the gigs page.

January Update
17th Feb 2010

January Update:

How’s it going everyone?

It’s been a crazy new year so far for The Shoos,

We began the New Year by recording some demos in down in Newtown Mt Kennedy around the time of the snow, I miss the snow now that it’s gone, although bring on some warm weather now, The demos turned out really good, we’re really pleased with them & we’ve included them in our set list from now on.

We were invited to play some showcase gigs in New York & we spent a great week there in late January, so we had a few warm up gigs in Dublin before we jetted off. We played some really cool venues out there, met some interesting people like Barry Manilow in a bookshop, Steve got a haircut, Barry walked in front of a bus, Scott lost his passport & managed to get on an internal flight from L.A to New York using our single as his I.D! – General fun & giddiness with a bout of gastro enteritis thrown in for good measure! And the gigs, well the gigs were great…Acoustic in the Scratcher sessions, mid week in Fat Baby & big one to end the week in Arlene’s Grocery – Thanks Again to all who came down, can’t wait to get back & see you all again.

We’ve made a kind of video blog ‘January with the shoos’ which should be going up on youtube & our website asap & will update with the links, vids & photos.



We’re looking forward to seeing you all in the Academy2 this Friday5th Feb’for our first headline show of the year. Doors @ 7.30pm, with support from Jupe & The Rooftop Anthem Tickets available on ticketmaster & at the door.

Looking forward: We’ve got loads going on, we’re booking up pretty fast for the next few months & into the summer, so we’re extremely busy which is great, with some great dates & venues TBA because some of them are TBC!

Links:

Official Shoos ‘YEAH’ Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?..v=9_JXn3Ovbx4

Steve Duke’s pic montage/footage of ‘YEAH’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?..v=wYeYcMQNszA

Check us out on www.myspace.com/theshoos

Theshoos.com

Also become our friend or fan on facebook!

Cheers,

Tex

The Shoos