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Shotgun Shiva

About Me

Shotgun Shiva is founded in early 2007 by four musicians and long time friends who played in diverse bands like Mindshift, Casual Victims and Rezult. Shotgun Shiva distinguishes itself musically by combining stoner rock with rock&roll, delivering a dynamic and energetic package. This formula appears to be successful as a lot of gigs are arranged and played. In a number of band contests they achieve high rankings, for example also reaching the Emergenza Benelux finals.
In the meantime the larger regional venues like 013, W2, and De Pul have already been played. Live the band manages to leave excellent impressions: "Their contagious QOTSA mammoth-sound cut through bone and marrow and soon won over the crowd" (review Emergenza finals). "A well-oiled machine with gobs of charisma, never boring for even a second" (Jury report Kleine Prijs contest).
The reviews of their first self-recorded and self-produced demo also say more than enough: "Memorable songs, a band with great potential" (live XS), "Catchy and stunning" (Grote prijs van Nederland). "This screams for a full-length. Outstanding!" (Popcall). Apparently Shotgun Shiva is rapidly making name in the dutch rock scene!

CONTACT:


Dolf Huybers
[email protected]
06-49335946

Dutch Bio

Shotgun Shiva wordt begin 2007 opgericht door vier bevriende muziekanten uit bands als Mindshift, Casual Victims en Rezult. De muziek van Shotgun Shiva kenmerkt zich door stonerrock te combineren met rock&roll waarbij de nadruk ligt op energie en dynamiek. De formule werkt blijkbaar aanstekelijk want binnen de kortste keren staan er een hoop optredens op de agenda. De band weet bij verschillende bandwedstrijden hoog in de prijzen te vallen. Zo halen ze de Benelux-finale van het Emergenza-festival.
Inmiddels zijn de grotere concertzalen in de regio al door de band aangedaan waaronder 013 (Tilburg), W2 (Den Bosch) en De Pul (Uden). Live weet de band uitstekende indrukken achter te laten: "Hun mammoet-sound sneed door merg en been en in een mum van tijd hadden ze heel de zaal op hun hand, met hun aanstekelijke QOTSA-sound" (review finale Emergenza), "Een geoliede machine, met een dijk van een uitstraling, en ze vervelen geen moment” (jury-rapport bandwedstrijd).
Tevens liegen de recencies van hun, in eigen beheer opgenomen, demo er ook niet om: "Memorabele songs, een band met potentie" (live Xs), "Pakkend en meeslepend" (Grote Prijs v. Nederland) "Dit schreeuwt om een full-lenght. Steengoed!" (Popcall). Kortom Shotgun Shiva is hard op weg naam te maken in de Nederlandse rockscene.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/01/2007
Band Members:



Leadvocals/Guitars
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Danny Keetels

Guitars
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Pieter van Oers

Bass Guitar
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Mark Eijmberts

Drums
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Dolf Huybers


Influences:

What's Going On?

We just finished our second promo and put the songs online!!! Listen to the songs and let us know what you think!
Rising Magma

We are proud to be part of "Rising Magma" . This tour was concieved by Tank 86 , and features numerous excellent bands. Each of these bands organizes a gig in their city of choice. Other bands are Viral and De Staat , to name but a few (see the site for more details). The list will keep growing, as more & more suitable "heavier" bands, making quality music, are found. Rising magma started of on the 25th of Januari 2008 @ Boulevard, Breda. Many succesful gigs have followed since and this vulcano is far from dying out!..


Live Recording of "Outrageous"
gig @ Little Devil, Tilburg, 14-6-08


Live Recording of "Tattoo'd Bones"
gig @ W2 Den Bosch, 22-6-07


Pica's



Previous Gigs 2008


19 Okt 013, kleine zaal Tilburg
19 Sep Popei Eindhoven
14 Jun Little Devil Tilburg
06 Jun Private Party Eindhoven
21 Feb Cul de Sac - Rising Magma Tour Tilburg
17 Feb Holy Cow - with Samavayo Schijndel
16 Feb Hall Of Fame - Psychedelic Party Tilburg
15 Feb Altstadt - with Samavayo Eindhoven
10 Feb Cafe Exit - Rising Magma Tour Rotterdam
25 Jan Cafe Boulevard - Rising Magma Tour Breda
19 Jan Stonerrock Party, OJC de Werf St. Oedenrode

My Blog

New Shotgun Shiva material online

The songs from our second promo, which was way past due, are online now. We hope you will enjoy them.
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:31:00 GMT

site (finally) updated

After Danny had to leave the country for quite some time, we had a little trouble getting stuff back on the road again. At this moment were rounding up our new promo which we hope to release by the en...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:20:00 GMT

mini tour with Samavayo

After seeing german band Samavayo @ Verrie Herrie Fest, last November we were quite impressed by their music. Hence we decided to arrange a few shows with them here in the Netherlands. We were able to...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:44:00 GMT

All material finally recorded for the new promo

After starting on our new promo with full abondon and enthusiasm in October of last year we encountered the usual and unavoidable delays. So last weekend we actually managed to cut the final remaining...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:47:00 GMT

Recensies Promo-CD / Reviews Promo-CD

Popcall Maart 2007...Er even voor gaan zitten... dat zit er bij shotgun shiva niet in! Voordat je het zelf door hebt vliegen je hoofd en ledematen in het wilde weg. Wat knalt dit lekker zeg! Dit lijke...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Shotgun Shiva plays @ the Rambler, Eindhoven

Saturday the 22th of December we be played @ The Rambler in Eindhoven, a very cool rock cafe with lots of live music. We did the gig together with "heavy psych blues" band "The Machine" , that we like...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:42:00 GMT

Live recordings @ hall of fame

Saturday the 27th we be recorded a live cd/dvd @ Hall of Fame, Tilburg. This is what came out of us winning the Kleine Prijs van Mierlo. The prize actually was the recording of a demo, but since we pr...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:18:00 GMT

Shotgun Shiva tracks now available for download

In anticipation of the release of our new promo, due in a month or so, the old Shotgun Shiva tracks are now available for download. Feel free to pass them around as much as you want.
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:47:00 GMT

Shotgun Shiva is www.promocers.nls band of the month

In September we recieved the most votes on www.promocer.nl for our song "Ostrich Syndrome". So we have become their band of the month september. We would like to thank everyone for voting. This was o...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:26:00 GMT

shotgun shiva makes it to the lust4live finals

Last night we won the lust4live semi-finals @ cafe jules, Arnhem! The exact date of the finals is not yet clear, but it will certainly be at the same location. We will keep you posted.
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:04:00 GMT