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Who Is Eric Shirey?
I was born in Mendota, IL on July 22nd of 1972. I now live in Grand Prairie, TX. It's very nice. I have a two car garage, two cars to put in it, and our house looks like a gingerbread house. I have a lovely wife named Elizabeth and two children, Everett who is 9 and Ephraim who is almost 2.
Scotoma Promotions started back in 1996 when I needed a name for my management company. I mean, you need a name, right? I didn’t want to be so vain as to call it Eric Shirey Promotions. Give me a break. Before that, I was managing and booking my own industrial band, Primary Censor, quite well. We were in negotiations with REX Records (Living Sacrifice, Circle Of Dust, Sixpence None The Richer, Believer, etc.) when I decided to quit the band. After taking some time off from the music world, I began managing an electronic rock band by the name of Situation Taboo, who had just been signed to Flying Tart Records, which was basically a front for a corporate distribution company who wanted to sign indie bands. I actually booked and managed the band for a year. That’s also when I had the idea for the first time to start a record label of sorts. I put out a remix tape (yes, tape) of remixes from their album on Scotoma Records. It sold pretty well.
I opened my own record store in 1997 called Pluto Records in Austin, TX. At the same time, I booked national hardcore / metal / indie acts into many of the different clubs in the Austin area. After moving the store to Dallas in 1998 (very much influenced by the naggings of Embodyment and Travail-who I had become wonderful friends with) and joining forces with my long-time friend Brian Cobbell, we sold half the business, closed the store, and started Pluto Records the label. I also booked national and local acts for Club 412 in Fort Worth, Tx. Besides the direct management of Embodyment, Society's Finest, GODS, The Kirby / widows&orphans, Hundred Year Storm, Everything You Hold Dear, MAHTEO, The Birth, and Situation Taboo I have managed the business affairs and done A&R for Travail, Luti-kriss, Thirty Called Arson, As I Lay Dying, Beauty To Ashes, Canterbury Effect, Evelynn, Dreaming Of The Fifth, Knockout Kings, My Son My Executioner, The Secret Handshake, The Birth, In The Face Of War, This Endearing, as well as others. I quit Pluto in 2002 to get away from the business again. But, as usual, I decided in 2003 that direct management and relations with established and up and coming bands is where my heart is. If you have interest in my management services, please contact me. I would rather be contacted via e-mail before anything is sent to me to listen to or go over. If you have mp3’s, please send me a link to them.
I also coordinate charity events under the name Scotoma Events that are tributes to great films I am emotionally attached to with vendors and celebrity guests. I also do ad sales for a company called Multiview. I have two awesome boys and a wonderful wife that keeps me in line.
Things I have accomplished or participated in:
SCOTOMA PROMOTIONS:
Co-Executive Producer on the following albums:
Metrovox/Metro One Records:
---TRAVAIL Beautiful Loneliness (CD) 09/20/06
Pluto Records:
014 BEAUTY TO ASHES Reproduce The Common Practice (CD) 09/17/02
013 PLUTOPIA VOL. 1 A Pluto Records Sampler (CD) 07/02/02
012 AS I LAY DYING / AMERICAN TRAGEDY [Split CD] 06/18/02
011 DREAMING OF THE FIFTH / EVELYNN [Split CD] 11/13/01
010 SHMUNKS FOR YOU I Can't Talk To The Walls... (CD) 01/15/02
009 THE UNDERDOG CONSPIRACY Victory (CD) 03/12/02
008 CANTERBURY EFFECT An Exercise in Humility (CD) 07/10/01
007 AS I LAY DYING Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (CD) 06/12/01
006 MINDRAGE & NAILED PROMISE [Split CD] 01/16/01
005 MY SPACECOASTER Heartstrings (CD) 10/17/00
004 LUTI-KRISS 5ep (CDEP) 07/25/00
003 LUTI-KRISS + TRAVAIL [Split CD] 08/31/99
002 LOVELORN All For The Price Of Rings (CD) 07/06/99
001 TRAVAIL Anchor Of My Soul (CD) 04/06/99
F2 SOCIETY'S FINEST Private Conflicts And Suicides (CDEP) 03/23/99
F1 KILL RATIO Kill Ratio (CD) 02/23/99
Co-producer on the following album:
DHR011 The Kirby / Blueprint Car Crash Split (CD) Release 06/21/05
Label Consultant / A&R on the following albums:
Champion Recordings:
CHR001 Fight Back - Volume One Champion Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 06/19/07
Scotoma Artist Co-op:
SAC001 MAHTEO The NuWave Republic (CD) Release 08/14/07SAC001
The Canvas Waiting In Search Of Beginnings Special Edition (CD) Release 01/09/07
Doll House Recordings:
DHRDIG Tiebreaker Memory Vs. (Digital Only) Release 07/17/07
DHR015 widows&orphans Everything Is Gold (CD) Release 04/24/07
DHR014 Knockout Kings The Kid's Got Heart EP (CD) Release 05/30/06
DHR013 Houses, Volume 2 Doll House Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 03/07/06
DHR012 The Secret Handshake This Is Bigger Than You and I EP (CD) Release 09/13/05
DHR011 The Kirby / Blueprint Car Crash Split (CD) Release 06/21/05
DHR010 My Son My Executioner In Between Heaven And Hell (CD) Release 03/22/05
DHR009 Knockout Kings The Lion EP (CD) Release 03/08/05
DHR008 Houses Doll House Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 03/01/05
SCOTOMA EVENTS:
SW30DFW - Star Wars 30th Anniversary Celebration DFW - June 9th, 2007
The Monster Mash - Universal Monster Fest DFW - October 27th, 2007
Hammer Horror Holiday - A Celebration Of 50 Years Of Hammer Horror Films DFW - December 15th, 2007
Movies I Have Been In:
Serving Sara - I was the arrested Santa Claus in handcuffs that Matthew Perry runs into in the police station
Slap Her, She's French! / She Gets What She Wants - I'm in the crowd at the football game (haha)
Magazines I Have Written For:
HM Magazine / Heaven's Metal -
ChemLab Article For "What So and So Sez" (click to read):
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page6
P.O.D Article for the album "Brown"
NIV (No Innocent Victim) for the album "No Compromise"
Several Album Reviews (GlobalWaveSystem, X-Propagation, Deitiphobia, etc.)
Industrial Nation -
Local Scene Report
Mentallo and The Fixer feature
Musical Endeavours:
Primary Censor - lead singer, songwriter - no official releases
Coarse - lead singer, songwriter - song "Quiet" released on Full Frontal Lobotomy Compilation CD through Flaming Fish Music - you can listen to it at www.purevolume.com/coarse.
Inhabit - lead singer - no official releases
Scotoma Promotions started back in 1996 when I needed a name for my management company. I mean, you need a name, right? I didn’t want to be so vain as to call it Eric Shirey Promotions. Give me a break. Before that, I was managing and booking my own industrial band, Primary Censor, quite well. We were in negotiations with REX Records (Living Sacrifice, Circle Of Dust, Sixpence None The Richer, Believer, etc.) when I decided to quit the band. After taking some time off from the music world, I began managing an electronic rock band by the name of Situation Taboo, who had just been signed to Flying Tart Records, which was basically a front for a corporate distribution company who wanted to sign indie bands. I actually booked and managed the band for a year. That’s also when I had the idea for the first time to start a record label of sorts. I put out a remix tape (yes, tape) of remixes from their album on Scotoma Records. It sold pretty well.
I opened my own record store in 1997 called Pluto Records in Austin, TX. At the same time, I booked national hardcore / metal / indie acts into many of the different clubs in the Austin area. After moving the store to Dallas in 1998 (very much influenced by the naggings of Embodyment and Travail-who I had become wonderful friends with) and joining forces with my long-time friend Brian Cobbell, we sold half the business, closed the store, and started Pluto Records the label. I also booked national and local acts for Club 412 in Fort Worth, Tx. Besides the direct management of Embodyment, Society's Finest, GODS, The Kirby / widows&orphans, Hundred Year Storm, Everything You Hold Dear, MAHTEO, The Birth, and Situation Taboo I have managed the business affairs and done A&R for Travail, Luti-kriss, Thirty Called Arson, As I Lay Dying, Beauty To Ashes, Canterbury Effect, Evelynn, Dreaming Of The Fifth, Knockout Kings, My Son My Executioner, The Secret Handshake, The Birth, In The Face Of War, This Endearing, as well as others. I quit Pluto in 2002 to get away from the business again. But, as usual, I decided in 2003 that direct management and relations with established and up and coming bands is where my heart is. If you have interest in my management services, please contact me. I would rather be contacted via e-mail before anything is sent to me to listen to or go over. If you have mp3’s, please send me a link to them.
I also coordinate charity events under the name Scotoma Events that are tributes to great films I am emotionally attached to with vendors and celebrity guests. I also do ad sales for a company called Multiview. I have two awesome boys and a wonderful wife that keeps me in line.
Things I have accomplished or participated in:
SCOTOMA PROMOTIONS:
Co-Executive Producer on the following albums:
Metrovox/Metro One Records:
---TRAVAIL Beautiful Loneliness (CD) 09/20/06
Pluto Records:
014 BEAUTY TO ASHES Reproduce The Common Practice (CD) 09/17/02
013 PLUTOPIA VOL. 1 A Pluto Records Sampler (CD) 07/02/02
012 AS I LAY DYING / AMERICAN TRAGEDY [Split CD] 06/18/02
011 DREAMING OF THE FIFTH / EVELYNN [Split CD] 11/13/01
010 SHMUNKS FOR YOU I Can't Talk To The Walls... (CD) 01/15/02
009 THE UNDERDOG CONSPIRACY Victory (CD) 03/12/02
008 CANTERBURY EFFECT An Exercise in Humility (CD) 07/10/01
007 AS I LAY DYING Beneath the Encasing of Ashes (CD) 06/12/01
006 MINDRAGE & NAILED PROMISE [Split CD] 01/16/01
005 MY SPACECOASTER Heartstrings (CD) 10/17/00
004 LUTI-KRISS 5ep (CDEP) 07/25/00
003 LUTI-KRISS + TRAVAIL [Split CD] 08/31/99
002 LOVELORN All For The Price Of Rings (CD) 07/06/99
001 TRAVAIL Anchor Of My Soul (CD) 04/06/99
F2 SOCIETY'S FINEST Private Conflicts And Suicides (CDEP) 03/23/99
F1 KILL RATIO Kill Ratio (CD) 02/23/99
Co-producer on the following album:
DHR011 The Kirby / Blueprint Car Crash Split (CD) Release 06/21/05
Label Consultant / A&R on the following albums:
Champion Recordings:
CHR001 Fight Back - Volume One Champion Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 06/19/07
Scotoma Artist Co-op:
SAC001 MAHTEO The NuWave Republic (CD) Release 08/14/07SAC001
The Canvas Waiting In Search Of Beginnings Special Edition (CD) Release 01/09/07
Doll House Recordings:
DHRDIG Tiebreaker Memory Vs. (Digital Only) Release 07/17/07
DHR015 widows&orphans Everything Is Gold (CD) Release 04/24/07
DHR014 Knockout Kings The Kid's Got Heart EP (CD) Release 05/30/06
DHR013 Houses, Volume 2 Doll House Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 03/07/06
DHR012 The Secret Handshake This Is Bigger Than You and I EP (CD) Release 09/13/05
DHR011 The Kirby / Blueprint Car Crash Split (CD) Release 06/21/05
DHR010 My Son My Executioner In Between Heaven And Hell (CD) Release 03/22/05
DHR009 Knockout Kings The Lion EP (CD) Release 03/08/05
DHR008 Houses Doll House Recordings Compilation (CD) Release 03/01/05
SCOTOMA EVENTS:
SW30DFW - Star Wars 30th Anniversary Celebration DFW - June 9th, 2007
The Monster Mash - Universal Monster Fest DFW - October 27th, 2007
Hammer Horror Holiday - A Celebration Of 50 Years Of Hammer Horror Films DFW - December 15th, 2007
Movies I Have Been In:
Serving Sara - I was the arrested Santa Claus in handcuffs that Matthew Perry runs into in the police station
Slap Her, She's French! / She Gets What She Wants - I'm in the crowd at the football game (haha)
Magazines I Have Written For:
HM Magazine / Heaven's Metal -
ChemLab Article For "What So and So Sez" (click to read):
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page6
P.O.D Article for the album "Brown"
NIV (No Innocent Victim) for the album "No Compromise"
Several Album Reviews (GlobalWaveSystem, X-Propagation, Deitiphobia, etc.)
Industrial Nation -
Local Scene Report
Mentallo and The Fixer feature
Musical Endeavours:
Primary Censor - lead singer, songwriter - no official releases
Coarse - lead singer, songwriter - song "Quiet" released on Full Frontal Lobotomy Compilation CD through Flaming Fish Music - you can listen to it at www.purevolume.com/coarse.
Inhabit - lead singer - no official releases
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