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Valentine’s Day is coming up, and you don’t have a date. Trust me on this. You don’t have a date.
Lucky for you, Criminal Shift has selflessly volunteered to be your date and distract you from the depressing reality that awaits on the other side of midnight. Your valentine’s day is going to ROCK.
“Why?” You might ask.
Criminal Shift has banded together (pun VERY intended) with Dallas-area bands Gaffney, Rin Tin Tin, and Due North to put on the most epic of benefit shows since Live Aid 1985. Best part? A $5 donation is your ticket. This donation will go directly to Catholic Relief (because they have a permenent base in Haiti and 90% of Haiti is Catholic…so it makes sense) and will help put Haiti back on it’s feet which it was so rudely rocked off of. In a way you could say we’re helping rock Haiti right back onto its feet. Oooooh the puns.
Haiti before the quake: After the quake: After the Hearts for Haiti benefit:
Show’s at 7pm (Criminal Shift’s on around 8pm) on February 14. That’s a Sunday. There’s some reason why there is no school the next day for most of us, yet I have forgotten it. Either way, we’ll be done early enough for you to go home and have sweet dreams, or for you to go away and party hard elsewhere.
The show is going to rock and we would REALLY appreciate seeing you there.
Hey everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve updated so I figure it’s about time I sent out an update. Next weekend is a super important show for us and we’d really appreciate it if you could make it out.
Feb 14, 2010: “Love & Haiti” Benefit Show w/ Gaffney and Rin Tin Tin Bishop Lynch High School 9750 Ferguson Road Dallas, TX 75228-3891 7pm, Minimum $5 donation. All proceeds go to Catholic Relief.
Yes yes yes, I realize it’s a Sunday. You probably don’t have school the next day and we’re gonna try and get done early so if you do you can go to bed, or if you don’t you have plenty of time to party afterwards.
We will also be appearing at The Door Plano on March 6 (Saturday) w/ Thrift City, Rin Tin Tin, and Gaffney. It’s gonna be very very awesome.
I currently sit in the land of ice and snow, Indiana. It’s cold. See you this weekend.
For those who haven’t received an update since, we did not win at the House of Blues on Friday but we did have a great time and want to thank everyone who came out!
Through some witchcraft which I will never understand, the forces at GoDaddy were able to restore CriminalShift.com to working order just in time for Christmas. Sorry if our downtime inconvenienced you.
Merry Christmas,
Douglas, Will, Ryan, Matt, Hannah, Hunter, and everyone else who has played with Criminal Shift ever…Steven, Jon.
First off, thanks to everyone who voted online for us all of last week. You were a great help and you rock for sitting at your computer clicking and refreshing for hours on end.
For those not in the know, we performed on Wednesday the 25th at Trees in Dallas and it was most definitely the greatest Criminal Shift show to date. Thanks to the hoard of people who showed their support by coming to the show and voting for us at the club! We had a great time playing with The Primary and Giggle Party. Both of ‘em put on great sets and we were really excited to get to meet everyone in each of those bands.
I think that by now you understand that we won and will pass on to round 2 of the competition for the opening slot at Edgefest 2010.
Sam Greer rocks and took a bunch of absolutely phenomenal pictures at the show. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Ryan Prim filled in on the drums and did a great job.
We’ll definitely update with more info when we have it.
P.S. Just confirmed a show for January 8th at Eisenberg’s!
Hey guys. As you all hopefully know by now, we’re playing at Trees this Wednesday. We want your support so come out and see us! Doors open at 7. This show determines whether we open Edgefest 2010. We need the most amount of votes to win. If you come to our show, that’s 100 votes! Also, you can vote online until Thursday here:
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You can vote as many times as you want, just keep refreshing the page and vote again. The voting is on the right side of the page, I know some people were saying that they didn’t see where to vote.
Please vote! We need your help in securing the most votes. So come out to the show on Wednesday, and vote daily (or hourly, or minutely) for your friendly neighborhood Spiderman band.
So we finally got a chance last weekend to truly christen our new rehearsal space over at Will’s house. Saturday night we loaded all of our equipment into the garage and ordered a pizza and recorded. We didn’t have a ton of time, but we finished tracking one song: Jack. If you’ve been able to see Criminal Shift live in the past 6 months or so you’ve probably heard us play Jack. So here it is, all edited to the point of being sorta presentable. Enjoy.
Tonight we were able to play at The Door Plano and we had a great time. Met some really cool people and played a pretty solid set in spite of the technical difficulties which seem to be plaguing our performances this month. I think this calls for more duct tape.
If you weren’t able to make it to The Door Plano you should definitely go to our show Wednesday, November 25 (right before Thanksgiving) at Trees on Elm St. in Dallas. It’s a free show put on by The Edge (102.1) and Giggle Party is playing so you know it’ll be really cool. We’re quite excited by this show because it gives us a chance to open Edgefest 2010! So, please have your pre-Turkey Day rock-out and come see us play a kickin’ set.
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