Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Official UK Tour Press Release

NEW YORK RISING STARS BAMBOO SHOOTS TO TOUR UK WITH 3OH!3!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(NEW YORK, 28-10-2009) BAMBOO SHOOTS, American Epic Records artists are slated to begin their first-ever tour of the UK next week opening for hitmakers 3OH!3!. The tour will bring the foursome, whose music has been described as “Daft Punk meets Hall and Oates” to Wales, Great Britain, and Scotland over a week-long string of dates.

“We’re psyched to get out there and bring our music to a new audience,” says Avir Mitra, vocalist/guitarist. Coming off the American release of their debut, “Armour,” which was produced by the Talking Heads/Modern Lovers’ Jerry Harrison, and features the catchy single “Hey Girl,” this will mark the second international outing this year for Bamboo Shoots. The band traveled to India last April, where they played to sold out crowds around the country and were featured in media like Rolling Stone India and on channels like CNN-IBN. “India was a blast, and it seemed like the next logical international stop for Bamboo Shoots would be the UK,” adds Shiv Puri, drummer.

Bamboo Shoots’ shows, with their blend of “rhythmically propulsive alt-rock,” have been called “energetic and electrifying performances,” “a riot on stage,” and “a party, whether you’re ready to move or not.” Get ready—starting November 2nd, the party is finally coming to the UK.

Dates (with 3OH!3!):

11/2 - Cardiff - Millenium Music Hall

11/3 - London - Electric Ballroom

11/4 - Brighton - Komedia

11/6 - Glasgow - Classic Grand (Sold Out)

11/7 - Manchester - Academy 1

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Bamboo Shoots will have select media avails over the course of the tour. Please contact Jared Kaner at jared[at]brightlineartistsmanagement[dot]com or bambooshoots[at]gmail{dot]com with any requests.

www.bambooshoots.com

www.epicrecords.com

www.myspace.com/bambooshoots

Thursday, October 22, 2009

TOUR! and we're moving....to Tumblr

Hey everyone. So our posts have been pretty sporadic on here for a good reason--we've moved our blog to Tumblr - from now on, you can get all your Bamboo Shoots updates there (also on www.bambooshoots.com)! This blog will stay up for archival purposes for a while. PS- Don't forget to check out a show on our first national tour:

Dates:
Oct 23 Brooklyn NY Public Assembly
Oct 24 New York NY Fontana's (CMJ)
Oct 30 Clementon NJ The Cherrywood
Oct 31 Bennington VT Knapp's Underground
Nov 01 Boston MA Henesy Hooley House
Nov 02 Hamden CT The Space
Nov 04 Philadelphia PA The Khyber
Nov 06 Centerville VA Café Martini
Nov 07 Silver Spring MD Takoma Park Perf. Arts
Nov 08 Fayetteville NC The Rock Shop
Nov 09 Mt. Pleasant SC The Village Tavern
Nov 13 Mobile AL Alabama Music Box
Nov 15 New Orleans LA Dragon's Den
Nov 18 Austin TX Club Mixx
Nov 19 San Antonio TX Jiggers
Nov 24 Hollywood CA The Viper Room
Nov 26 Las Vegas NV Freakin' Frog
Nov 28 San Francisco CA El Rio
Nov 30 Seattle WA Studio Seven
Dec 07 Des Moines IA Vaudeville Mews
Dec 09 St. Louis MO Cicero's
Dec 10 Chicago IL Bottom Lounge
Dec 11 Indianapolis IN The Melody Inn
Dec 12 Rochester MI The Factory
Dec 13 Lakewood OH Hi-Fi Concert Club
Dec 18 New York NY Pianos

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Hey Girl - live at the Gramercy Theatre Tumblr Concert

Check out this new version of Hey Girl we played at Tumblr's Reblog This Concert earlier this week..

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Long time coming...on tour...and Armour out 9/29!


it's been a while folks... we're smack in the middle of a tour leading up to the release of Armour, our debut in September! A few days back we played Tumblr's Reblog This Concert in NYC - you can see our tumblr at bambooshoots.tumblr.com and thanks to Bianca at Tumblr for putting us on the bill...it was a blast

Here's some choice pics and vids from the last few weeks...


sign at the bar at Ground Zero in South Carolina

The one and only....in Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Pics from the Tumblr show...






Thursday, July 9, 2009

EXCLUSIVE Audio from our show in Hamden, CT last night

last night we played The Space in Hamden, CT, with a special lineup of Avir, Karl and Shiv (aka Bojangles). It was the first time we've played like that in years.



Dance contest.

Check out some of the cuts from the soundboard

Speeding Star


Speeding Star - Bamboo Shoots

The World Is Beautiful


The World is Beautiful - Bamboo Shoots

Wrong All Along


Wrong All Along - Bamboo Shoots

Into the Sea (with Karl Singing!)


Into the Sea - Bamboo Shoots

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

interesting..plus show in Hamden, CT tonight (7/8)!

so we're doing a bit of a stripped down set tonight at The Space in Hamden, CT (doors 7pm) so be sure to listen for some cool switch ups... here's some shots from practice













Friday, June 5, 2009

Two shows this weekend! Plus Interview Video

Hey there!

        We're playing two shows this weekend, in Philly and in Edison, NJ. Are you coming? In the meantime, check out this clip of the interview we did with Y-Rock last weekend in Philly. The final radio version will air on June 27.



Sunday, May 24, 2009

Press Release from Edison Mayor's Office about Walk for Hope

Read the original article here.

Breakout Band and Mayor Choi Call on Others to join Nation's Largest Suburban Walk for Hope
(May 21, 2009)

EDISON, N.J.: In an effort to increase the ever-growing fund-raising event, Mayor Jun Choi once again announced his support of the 8th Annual Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk for Hope, which will take place on the morning of Sunday, June 7.

Mayor Choi made the announcement at the Jewish Community Center on Oak Tree Road alongside Janna Zuckerman, the 19-year-old Edison resident and college junior who has organizes the walk each year and the Bamboo Shoots, Epic Record recording artists who will headline the post-walk festivities.

“There is no other event quite like this in our community. I encourage Edison residents and residents from around the region to join us in our efforts to raise awareness and raise money to find a cure for breast cancer,” Mayor Choi said. “It is the people who are willing to selflessly serve that make a community great. I commend Janna Zuckerman and her family for all their efforts.”

The Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer started in 2002 with 260 participants. The event grew to nearly 2,000 walkers last year and is expected to have more participants this year. To date, the local walks have raised more than $650,000 for the City of Hope Cancer Center. Zuckerman’s goal is to raise $1 million by the time she graduates from college in 2011.

“I hope everyone comes out to make a difference and support this cause. Hopefully, one day, we won’t have to be walking because we would have found a cure,” Zuckerman said.

Registration for this year’s walk begins at 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 7. At 10 a.m., a 4-mile run will begin. The 2-mile and 4-mile walks will begin at 10:15 a.m. Post-walk celebrations involving awards and a festival atmosphere will commence at 11 a.m.

The Bamboo Shoots and their electro-rock sound won the mtvU Best Music on Campus contest in 2007. They signed with Epic Records in the summer of 2007 and are slated to release their album, “Armour,” later this summer.

The Community Campus at 1775 Oak Tree Road is where the walk will begin and where the post walk festivities will take place.

To pre-register or for more information on the 8th Annual Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk for Hope log onto this page.

Blog on Blog love

Sepia Mutiny covered Bamboo Shoot's tour in India, and did a really good job of pointing out some of the "highlight" posts on this blog. It's a great overview of what went on in India. So if you missed our updates during the tour, check out the article here...


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Bamboo Shoots to Perform at the Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer

Bamboo Shoots appeared at a Press Conference in Edison, New Jersey alongside Mayor Jun Choi to announce their upcoming performance at the Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer. The Walk is on June 7th. Link to register for walk: http://tinyurl.com/qbhfyz


Check out the photos and video below!















Northside Festival June 14th

Hey everyone!

We're playing the Northside Festival June 14th at Public Assembly. Other bands include Murder Mystery, Wakey! Wakey!, Bamboo Shoots, The Bloodsugars, Porter Block


Thursday, May 7, 2009

Funny Pics from India

Hey everyone!

We just came across these pics and thought you'd enjoy them. Just some fun pics from the overnight sleeper train from Delhi to Mumbai.

Monday, May 4, 2009

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!

Friday, May 1, 2009

Review of our show at Kyra, Bangalore

BAMBOO SHOOTS

April 11th and 12th : MTV USA's hottest and perhaps the best alternate dance-rock band around‚ Bamboo Shoots : performed LIVE to the swaying of a nubile young crowd that tripped on the bands original line up and their amazing music. The show was opened by Allegro Fudge, another great band with great potential. Bamboo Shoots was a riot on stage,a gig that made the crowds shake their heads and legs. The drummer Ankur got on to percussion, keyboards, drum machine and even a dholak (which he turneds to one side and used like a bongo with sticks!) almost simultaneously. And when you least expected ‚ him to do anything more stunning than that, he broke into some incredible break dance moves!

Kyra on the web: Website | Twitter

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Black and White in Mumbai

Check out these gorgeous pictures from Pune and Mumbai, taken by Neville Sukhia.

Monday, April 27, 2009

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

Friday, April 24, 2009

update from karl.... yea, i stayed back

Karl writes in an update from India:

while most of my bandmates have returned stateside, i was unable to tear myself away from this place just yet. its funny, i never thought i would feel so strongly about staying back, im still wrestling with the guilt of not returning to the grind and the work that has to be done back in the us, but at the same time i simply couldn't leave right after the tour was over. India has become of those things in my life that lives somewhere shoved deep into the cupboard, or hidden under my bed. Mostly because in the last few years India has become a painful reminder of how little physical contact I have with those i deeply love, whether its family or friends, and also a reminder of those who keep leaving my life as time pushes on.

when i was a kid growing up here, my grandparents and my parents were indistinguishable to me, i knew one was much older than the other, but they were all part of the village that raised me. my dad was at sea quite often (most of the year in fact) and so my grandfathers became just as influential to me as my father during those years. a few years back, i got the word that my moms dad passed away, and then my dads mom, and then my aunt, and the news registers only as much as you allow it to when you are thousands of miles away. there was always something else to place in between me and the news of their deaths; work, songs, shows, bandmates etc. then i get here and that distance is gone.

im wading through it all now, it overwhelms me at times. its like standing at the 6 foot marker in the pool and having just your nose above water, one tiny wave from a passerby and water rushes into your nasal passages, breath gone. im also trying to spend as much time with those that i likely wont see again, my grandmother, and my great aunt who never married, who nursed all her brothers and sisters as they left her. She remained the last one who could walk, who could travel to them as they were ailing. Now she is 93, still walks through the gardens around her home every day, but her once sharp mind is dulling as alzheimers sets in. She asks me in mid conversation who I am again. At the same time im watching the next generation of my family blossom. My cousin who is autistic and has great difficulty speaking is turning into an accomplished painter, another cousin a great photographer, and they are all becoming good men and women as far as i can tell.

I remain quiet most of the time around them, im not exactly here enough to tell them how to live their lives or to give sagely advice because im still figuring this shit out myself. But i enjoy their company immensely, and im just trying to soak everybody in as much as i can in these next few days that im still here. years will likely pass before i see them again, but they never act distant. we pick up where we left off last, and hopefully we all grow old together, in our own little corners of the earth.

- Karl

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Bamboo Shoots on CNN-IBN India

Hey everyone! We were on CNN-IBN India a few weeks back, and we just got the tape in. Check it out!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Exclusive video from Bangalore pre and post-show- We cover "Rock Your Body!" -kinda ;)

First we drove: 5 people. 2 cars. Guitars on top, luggage in the back. Driving to the gig in style. Bangalore, India.- Avir



And then we even after the show, we still played! This clip is after our show at Kyra in Bangalore. Who knew Justin Timberlake was so popular in India. Actually, probably everybody. These girls rocked! - Avir

Even more videos from Mumbai, India! (Tom Cruise)

Tom Cruise Part I



Tom Cruise Part II