Happy New Year!
We will be playing two additional dates at THE BRICKHOUSE BREWERY in Patchogue this month, as the featured band for the weekly original indie music showcase:
Wednesday, 1/7 @ 11:00pm; FREE
Wednesday, 1/14 @ 11:00pm; FREE
The current status of the Camera-Head Shark tour bus!
Go here to download our new original Christmas song, “It’s Cold Out (It’s Christmas).” We hope the holidays treat you well.
CAMERAHEADSHARK.COM is now back in action!
The last few months have been busy and eventful for us: George became a bartender, Ryan Foster cut his arm open on a tin bean can, I got a few poems published, and Charlie’s been building inside the tour bus.
We’ve done some traveling, gone on a few hikes, and played a couple of shows here and there.
The band has also recorded demo versions of over twenty-five new songs. An unknown number of these will be re-recorded in the coming months, to be released on the yet-to-be-named 2nd Camera-Head Shark album. There will be songs about flying mammals, acid trips, Miley Cyrus, telekinesis, rockets, and Timbuktu.
There’s a new open mic night at The Brickhouse Brewery hosted by Chris Cauley of the band Goliath. The show takes place every Wednesday night after 8pm, and we’ll be playing there on a pretty frequent basis. This is a great weekly event for live, original music. Check back for updates on which nights we’ll be performing!
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to download your own digital copy of our debut album Oh, You directly from the website. FOR FREE! The only thing we ask for in return is that you let others know about this sweet, sweet deal.
Also, don’t forget to keep the Camera-Head Shark Flickr feed updated and fresh! You can upload your own photos straight to our Photostream by emailing them to club80hour@photos.flickr.com.
Check back soon for more new stuff.
<3, RYSMITH
Fall is way better.
The following text is from a feature/interview conducted this summer by Perpetual Toxins, a Long Island-based entertainment webzine.
With the self-release of their 2007 album Oh, You, Patchogue’s Camera-Head Shark turned heads with their refreshing brand of quirky, indie pop, which invokes the Beatles’ more playful moments. Pop in their CD and you’ll be humming their tunes for days.
That album put them on the Long Island music scene’s map, earning them the number two spot in Newsday’s top ten list of local albums for 2007. Not bad, considering Oh, You was recorded in the basement of guitarist/vocalist George Kalivas, where it was also mixed by the group’s good friend Udbhav Gupta, between April and June of 2007. (”We just gave [Gupta] cigarettes and forties and he was taken care of,” said Ry Smith, piano/vocals.) (more…)
This here’s a video-recording of ‘Since The Stone Age,’ at its moment of conception. It was written in Narragansett, Rhode Island at a friend’s condo overlooking the ocean. We had just eaten pancakes. Enjoy!
Attention, Brooklyn and Manhattan:
we will be all up in your shit this month.
August 5th-The Delancey with our friends Trashed on Fiction for a rooftop BBQ! Only $7buckdollars!
August 9th-Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), as part of the Jezebel Music ‘Consignment’ indie rock party .
August 16th-Fat Baby
August 21st-507 Bar and Grill (Brooklyn) with Hello Tokyo.
COMING SOON: CAMERA-HEAD SHARK PLAYS SHOWS IN PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE.
Check us out on Fearless Music this upcoming Saturday, July 12th! The show airs at 12:30 am on the FOX network. This is available throughout the New York metropolitan area (on channel 5), as well as a slew of other locations. For a full list of regional air times, stations, and locations, click here.
We’ll be performing “Punched.”
Update: Here’s the video
You can request CAMERA-HEAD SHARK songs on PROGRESSIVE RADIO LONG ISLAND-WEHM 92.9! This is one of the Island’s best radio stations for local music, unsigned artists, underground music, indie, etc.
If your “Kurbana” itch needs scratching, call the station’s toll-free listener line at 866-955-9290.
“This all looks different.”
That’s what you just said to yourself.
Charlie is doing some website makeover-thing; when it’s up is up to him. In the meantime, CAMERA-HEAD SHARK has some monthly news to relay.
-shows: we got ‘em.
July 2nd @ Fontana’s in NYC(MAP)
July 11th @ The Brickhouse Brewery in Patchogue, NY (MAP)
July 15th @ The Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY(MAP)
-other performances: we got ‘em.
Right down the street from where we live-We’ll also be appearing (appearing!) at the 2008 Great South Bay Music Festival on Sunday, July 13th. The event is held at Shorefront Park in Patchogue. It starts at 1:00 PM. Tickets are $15. (MAP)
Apple Store-Also, to end the month, we’ll be performing LIVE at the Apple Store in the Smith Haven Mall on Monday, July 28th. This is a FREE concert in a computer store! The first chord strum is at 7 PM. (MAP)
There are more changes coming out soon, so put your shoes on. Go start a band in the sand.
New songs to be posted soon! George is designing and printing t-shirts in the garage! More to come!