The band were surprised when an MTVu camera crew ambushed them at their friend’s apartment in Crown Heights Brooklyn and informed them that they had indeed won the contest.
[8] In October 2007 Bamboo Shoots left New York for Sausalito, CA where they began working with producer Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads on their Epic Records debut.
The album was mixed from May–June at Chalice Studios in Los Angeles by Mark "Spike" Stent[9] and mastered by Brian Gardner.
[8][10][11] On March 24, 2009, Bamboo Shoots announced their first tour of India with stops in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, and Bangalore.
[14] They have since toured with Plain White T’s, All Time Low, 3OH!3, Secondhand Serenade, and Tyga through MTVu’s summer concert series.
An image of him playing guitar on a Virgin plane surrounded by flight attendants appeared in billboards, magazines and posters in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC and San Francisco.
[26] In January 2007 a demo version of "Hey Girl" produced by Britt Myers[27] was used in a promo for the MTV’s The Real World: Denver.
Shiv Puri received a finance degree from NYU Stern School of Business and quit a job on Wall Street to be in the band full-time.
[32][33] Following his recording career, Avir attended medical school and now works as an emergency medicine physician in New York City.
For drummer Shiv Puri, who was the "band chef" and cooked for everyone while touring and rehearsing, he founded Bombay Sandwich Co[usurped].
in 2012 at the Brooklyn Flea's food festival, Smorgasburg,[34] and in 2014 opened his first brick and mortar cafe of the same name,[35] at 48 W. 27th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District.