Showing posts with label Brother Shamus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brother Shamus. Show all posts

Friday, October 1, 2010

Noise Complaints At Westover Grocery Because of Loud Music From The New Beer Garden

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Someone complained about the music at the beer garden at Westover Grocery and the noise police came and shut the music down. No more music. Period. They have to apply for a special license which will cost plenty and may take a year.
  
 Following that inspectors found there are no handicapped accessible toilets in Westover Grocery. I often wondered if they had any toilets. They serve food and beer so they must have restrooms. Someone told me one of the local tv stations came and did a story on this. Apparently they do have restrooms down some stairs. This is a violation since it is not handicapped accessible. They will have to put in expensive restrooms.
Will they be fined? Will they get a one year exemption since they have agreed to put in the handicapped bathrooms? I don't know.

Right now the beer garden remains open with no music. They do have a flat screen tv they put outside to watch football games,etc. And then they take the tv inside and lock it up at night. Good idea.
  They still serve food and beer. No music allowed. The neighbors who live close by have won for the time being. I live two long blocks away on the other side of the street and I used to hear the musicians banging away late on Friday and Sat. nights. But not anymore.

   I guess I would have complained also if I lived next to the place. It was loud and much of the music also was not very good. However Brother Shamus was really good and I miss them.

 The video below is Brother Shamus(or at least two of the band)at the Westover Grocery back when music was allowed.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Brother Shamus at Westover Market Beer Garden on Sat. May 15th in Arlington, Virginia


Rachel made the above video. See more on Brother Shamus in my post below.Scroll down 2 posts to find out where they got their name. In the video above only 2 members of Brother Shamus are playing. The others had the night off.
Nice crowd yesterday. Good weather brought out many people to the Beer Garden. Mostly young couples and small children and babies.
Below is a link to their website.
http://www.brothershamusmusic.com/fr_intropage.cfm

Friday, May 14, 2010

Brother Shamus A Really Good Band From Arlington,Virginia


Now Brother Shamus has an interesting name. It took me some time to figure it out. Well I knew that a shamus is a private detective. But why brother? Well after watching The Big Lebowski several times it finally hit me. First off The Big Lebowski is a take off on the old Bogart movie The Big Sleep in which Bogart is called a shamus.
In the Big Lebowski at some point someone is following The Dude and he gets out to ask the person who he is.
Here is the actual quote:
Da Fino, Private Snoop: I'm a brother shamus!
The Dude: Brother Seamus? Like an Irish monk?
Da Fino, Private Snoop: What the fuck are you talking about?


Brother Shamus the band plays in and around Washington, D.C.