Adam "Fish" Shaw

Fish was lead guitarist, keyboard and synthesiser player for band Pseudonympho who achieved notoriety in 2009 when they headlined Danload Festival in Harrogate's Valley Gardens. The festival was attended by 10,000 people, with Pseudonympho being requested for 2 encores. Adam Shaw unfortunately died on the 13th September 2009 at the age of 19 from a suspected [...] overdose.

Early life

Adam Shaw was born on the 10th July 2009 to unknown parents, but was soon adopted by Stephen and Jane Shaw who have admitted seeing genius potential in him even as a baby.

His school career consisted of:
Wedderburn Infant School
Woodlands Junior School
Harrogate Grammar School
Leeds Metropolitan University

MusicAL career

Whilst at Harrogate Grammar School Adam became a member of the band Inflatable Lunatic as a group among friends. They played a number of gigs, but it wasn't until he joined Crazy 88 that his musical career began to take off. Despite going from strength to strength in their music, Fish soon felt he had outgrown the band and left for Tramps in the Attic, another Harrogate band who had stardom in their eyes. Playing with Tramps for a number of years, Fish felt he was stagnating, and due to a number of musical differences, decided to leave the band.

Having left Tramps in the Attic as lead guitarist, Adam attempted to find another band. He was unsuccessful in this pursuit and instead returned to Tramps in the role of bassist. This proved to be a success as the band went from strength to strength and played at bigger and better venues, such as Joseph's Well, Leeds. But the success would not last. After a disagreement with some of the band members, Fish left and joined an up and coming band, Moneyshot.

In his new role as lead guitarist of Moneyshot, Fish excelled, developing styles of playing not heard before. The band became synonymous with the term success, and his career snowballed. Playing bigger and better venus, with the charismatic Wolfgang C Bailey as the frontman, the band could do no wrong. At least for a year or so.

Moneyshot decided that their name was similar to too many other artists names and went for a rehaul. The band changed their name, image and signature songs. They became Pseudonympho and Fish became a multi-instrumentalist for the band. Seemingly able to play guitar, keyboard and synthesiser simultaneously, he was referred to as something of a prodigy.

Fish, in July 2009, became the youngest person to win the Kerrang Guitarist of the year award (Kerrang!)

Completing his first year of a music degree at Leeds metropolitan university, Fish kept the band driving on to improve their music.

His Death

Mystery still surrounds his death. It is believed (as reported by the bbc and sky news) that he overdosed on [...], but no reports have been released to confirm this. He died on the 13th September 2009 at his home in Harrogate. He had been out the night before with his fellow band members, who have been taken in by police for questioning.