Avir wants YOU to buy Armour!

Bamboo Shoots attend "Age of Stupid" premiere in NYC and Shiv chats with Heather Graham

(via http://shivhead.blogspot.com/)

Yesterday Bamboo Shoots and I were invited to attend the premier of the documentary, The Age of Stupid. It's about climate change, the war for resources, the ending of humanity if we continue to consume the way we do etc. It was pretty moving. Here's a link to a decent review in case you wanted to read more.

Upon arriving, we were escorted to walk the "green carpet" and posed for a couple pictures and did some interviews.

And then I met Heather Graham! I've always been a fan of her but when she appeared in my favorites series ever, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, it sealed the deal. I got a quick photo with her, and upon saying goodbye I said "I love Saddam!" (it's a line she spoke in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Season 1 Episode 14, "Shock and Aww")...she laughed and smiled. And the rest of the night I was glowing. And of course I totally thought she was into me.

Kofi Anan was also there, as well was the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson (whose business card I still have from meeting her at a development conference at Yale back in 2004), the president of the Maldives (Bamboo Shoots tour??), Gilian Anderson, Stephen Baldwin, and one of my new favorite actors, Larry Gilliard, Jr. who plays D'Angelo in HBO'S The Wire.

Coming soon...cooking with Frankie

Hey guys it's Shiv here, the drummer from Bamboo Shoots, and this is my first blog entry! Wanted to let you know that tomorrow, Wednesday September 9th, I'll be featured doing one of my favorite things - cooking! There's this blog site about music and cooking called The Young and The Hungry, and I've been invited to showcase some of my favorite recipes for a video shoot. This is a really interesting site by an eccentric guy called Frankie who has previously hosted bands to come in and cook for the show. And in between he does a bunch of weird stuff like this video which is all about cooking a fillet of sole fish -- all set to an original song and video written, directed and performed by Frankie himself. I must say I've never seen anything quite like it before -- there's a part in the middle of the video when the fish is slowly frying and reaching it's point of done-ness that Frankie splits the screen to a raging and building guitar solo which matches the climax of the cooking fish! So I'm pretty excited to be working with Frankie tomorrow and think it'll be a lot of fun to cook for his show.

I figured I'd make what I love to cook for the rest of Bamboo Shoots when we have super long rehearsals at Avir's house. My boys need a high protein, lowfat and tasty meal to keep on rockin! So tomorrow I will showcase my "Chicken Curry with Lentil Brown Rice and Cucumber-Mint Lowfat Yogurt." I don't know if you're into Indian food, let alone curries, but wait till you see how I'm going to make it -- this aint yo mamma's preparation for sure! I don't know when the video of me doing this is going to be online, but be sure to check back for updates! THIS IS GONNA BE FUN....AND TASTY!!

Shiv with his Mom, the best cook in the world!

Choose our next cover

That's right...YOU can choose our next cover - go to our MySpace to vote for what song you think we'd do best. We'll be recording it with a video too. The choices:

Sweet Dream- Beyonce
Party in the USA- Miley Cyrus
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Love Game - Lady GaGa

T-Pain iphone app

siiiick

Leakin...

On the Tappan Zee

IM BACK FROM THE JUNGLE. Avir updates us on his Costa Rica trip

IM BACK FROM THE JUNGLE.

although I miss the jungle and the unpaved roads and the wild lychees and someday I will go back and learn to live like an animal and to hell with all of you.  not really but, you know, sorta.  here's some pics from costa rica.  before that i was in turkey (less jungles, more ancient civilizations, more unibrows, still amazing).  

a toucan eating a bug.  

i eat often

tried to keep the boots, couldn't

miles of perfectly lined african nut oil trees, courtesy of united fruit co.

african nut oil seeds, millions of them

those leaves were big enough to hold a small child.  

More pics:

wow this video is cool... Hypnotic Brass

So a bunch of us have seen these guys Hypnotic Brass (from Chicago) playing around NYC subways over the past few years. They are great. We came across this video of theirs, it's just a great piece of cinematography and we wanted to share it with you all!

Mayor Jun H. Choi of Edison, NJ issues proclamation honoring Bamboo Shoots

Mayor Jun H. Choi of Edison, NJ issued this proclamation honoring Bamboo Shoots:

Proclamation: Office of the Mayor

WHEREAS, The Bamboo Shoots will be performing during the post-walk celebration in support of the 8th Annual Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk for Hope on June 7, 2009 at the Community Campus in Edison, New Jersey; and

WHEREAS, the Walk for Hope is a nation-wide fundraising effort in support of breast cancer research, treatment, and education programs at City of Hope; and

WHEREAS, The Bamboo Shoots won mtvU's 2007 Artist of the Year Award for Best Music on Campus--performing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and signing with Epic Records; and

WHEREAS, The Bamboo Shoots will be releasing their debut album, Armour, later this year,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jun H. Choi, MAYOR OF EDISON, NEW JERSEY, do hereby recognize

THE BAMBOO SHOOTS

And encourage all residents to honor them for their hard work, dedication, and talent.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of Edison to be affixed, this Seventh day of June, in the Year Two Thousand and Nine.

Don't Curse

Kickin' it old school.

RajStar (our buddy) wins John Legend Contest

Remember that John Legend Indaba mix contest we told you all about last month? Our good first Raj Makhija (aka RajStar) won!

Check it out!

Featured on John Legend's MySpace

On Indaba

Congrats to Raj!! And his crazy dog, Zealot, who is the only dog we have seen with the ability to play fetch with itself and sing into a microphone at the same time. Okay, maybe not at the same time. But still a really, really smart dog. Maybe Zealot did the remix?

Jamming and Searching Pockets

Watch as the band jams and Ahmed is inexplicably searched...okay, not so hard to explain, Shiv was looking for his lighter!

Text 'Shoots' to 41411 for Updates from Bamboo Shoots!

Hey guys!

You can now stay connected with us even when you're on the go, by texting 'Shoots' to 41411 - for mobile alerts about shows, news, downloads, and more!

Only Much Louder Blog posts about Bamboo Shoots

Only Much Louder, the great folks over in India who booked our entire tour in India posted about us this week here, with some kind words, saying we "are the best example of how international indie acts should strategise and work the Indian market."


You should check out their website, Only Much Louder

Our cover of "Paranoid" hits 7,000 views on YouTube!

Hey everyone,
Our cover of Kanye West's paranoid just passed 7,000 views. Wow!

Shiv quoted in DNA India...

Check out this weird, but interesting quote from Shiv in this article...

4,838 people in 117 countries download Music for Cotilions

This is pretty cool--we've just found out that almost 5,000 people have downloaded our Music for Cotillions mixtape. Incidentally, if you haven't gotten a chance to download it yet, you can by clicking here. 

Check out the screenshot!

Avir becomes a father...

India's technological boom has resulted in Avir conceiving and having a child in a record two weeks. This phenomenon is a rare but interesting side effect of international touring, no doubt.





Just kidding...the baby is just a friend!

The Schedule... dun dun dun

We just wanted to share some of the sleep-deprived craziness with you guys.