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Music video by The Shoos performing Long Way Down. (C) 2011 The Shoos Records, Under Exclusive Licence to Universal Music Ireland. 

Some bands are carefully conceived while others like Dublin four-piece The Shoos are the result of a happy accident.
“I had a solo thing going on but my guitar-playing was terrible so I asked Barry to come and do a gig with me,” explains Texas, The Shoos’ lead singer who’s blessed with a full-bodied blues growl redolent of both Joe Cocker and John Fogarty in his Creedence Clearwater Revival prime. “Then another friend of ours, Steve, joined in on bass, which made his brother Scott feel left out so in order to be in the band he learned the drums! People assume there was a masterplan, but it was just pure luck that we got together and realised, ‘hey, something special’s going on here!’”
 Collective identity settled on – “Scott has a bit of a stiletto fetish and we also liked the fact that ‘shoo’ is another way of saying ‘clear off’”, adds Texas whose own name derives from him being the spit of Chuck Norris in Walker, Texas Ranger – the band started jamming out the songs that make up their debut mini-album, Rescue Room. 

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