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ShoeMania

Cavorting with Filipino dictator widows since 2004

About Me

NEWS!
There is some unfortunate news to report to all of our fans and friends. Due to irreconcilable differences between the band members ShoeMania will not be continuing on. Our thanks go out to everyone who has helped us out along the way, be it fellow musicians, our friends out here and anyone who ever came out to a show. This page will remain up for the time being, but all other ShoeMania web presence is going to cease in the near future.
BIO
ShoeMania is the phoenix that rose from the ashes of A Brief Interrution and The Jeff Gaynor Band. The band was originally conceived as a recording project by ABI members Dan McCarthy and Kevin Bernardo. They in turn recruited ABI alum's Jeff Gaynor and Anthony Capricuso as well as former Jeff Gaynor band and Programmed Response bassist Nick LaBate to assist with the production. Also lending a hand to the record was our good friend Daniela. Somewhere along the way the thing became a proper band, like.
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Member Since: 1/30/2005
Band Website: home.earthlink.net/~shoemania/
Band Members: Dan McCarthy - vocals, guitar
Kevin Bernardo - drums, percussion
Nick LaBate - bass guitar

Influences: Tom Waits, 70's prog, The Beatles (The White Album), Jason Falkner, John Southworth, Kurt Weill, Badfinger, Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd ("Meddle"), Wilco, The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds), ELO, The Cardigans, Jon Brion, Supergrass, 1930's jazz, and Frank Zappa.
Sounds Like: Fuck if we know. It's not like we've held focus groups on the subject like major labels do. That's why they're such a bunch of fucking rotters if you were wondering.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Material

Hola to all of the ShoeManiacs checking in and to all the ships at sea!Blogs can be a great thing for a band.  It offers us the opportunity to communicate with the people that dig what we do almo...
Posted by ShoeMania on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:22:00 PST

ShoeMania is offering a bounty!!!

Long time no blog!  It's been quiet around the ShoeMania neighborhood.  Things are in a state of flux as we retool the band lineup.  But it doesn't mean that we aren't doing things.Dan ...
Posted by ShoeMania on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:18:00 PST

Changes

Yeah, I know we have a song called "Changes".  But this particular blog isn't about that.  If you were at The Underpass last night you were treated to the news that there are more lineu...
Posted by ShoeMania on Sun, 21 May 2006 10:15:00 PST

NYC Tonight!

I can't believe that this is the day of ShoeMania's first gig in NYC.  We've been playing for a while and it seems like we should've done this by now.  But we're only just getting to play th...
Posted by ShoeMania on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:46:00 PST

Thanks to The Giant Show!

We'd like to once again thank Giant Brian and The Giant Show for having us on last week.  The show that your friendly neighborhood ShoeManiacs appeared on was downloaded over 10,000 times!  ...
Posted by ShoeMania on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:54:00 PST

Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday night!

I just wanted to write very quickly about the gig this past Friday at the Underpass.  To those of you who were able to make it out, thank you!  Thank you so very much for being a part of our...
Posted by ShoeMania on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:56:00 PST

Things a band has to do (other than being rock stars)

People think that being in a band is all fun, boozing it up, partying, playing shows and having women throw their underwear at you.  Oh how little they truly know.  So let's take a look...
Posted by ShoeMania on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:52:00 PST

We're getting ready. Are you?

So you saw the bulletin, right?  A ShoeMania show is finally happening!  Truth be told, we're all really excited!  But there's a helluva lot to do before we jump onstage on February 17t...
Posted by ShoeMania on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:27:00 PST

New material on the way?

ShoeMania may be heading back into the recording studio soon.  The band has been writing furiously lately and is set to start demoing out some of the material.  And you never know, some of i...
Posted by ShoeMania on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:48:00 PST

A shout out to friends down south

Hurricane Katrina has devastated the gulf coast.  As a result a good friend of ShoeMania had to evacuate their home in Louisiana and head west to Texas.  This is just one story of many. ...
Posted by ShoeMania on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:48:00 PST