The release of God Says through Edinburgh’s 17 Seconds Records is now available from iTunes, Emusic and other online stores. Here’s the iTunes link: 
For a mere £2.37 you can get God Says, plus two exclusive and rather excellent remixes by Exmagician and Uber Glitterati (check the 17 Seconds blog for a preview of the Uber Glitterati mix).
Let us know what you think on twitter, we’re @escapeact
As previously advised, we spent some time with Will McConnell down at Belfast’s smallest bar The Spaniard, recording an acoustic version of a brand new song called Salt In Your Eye….
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l86kQVK8_LI
Will plans to record a series of songs under the ‘In Stores Now’ banner, so keep an eye on bandwidthfilms.com/instoresnow for more.
Enjoy!
We’re pretty pleased that our tune Cabin Fever has been included on Seattle’s KEXP Music That Matters podcast… in reasonably good company too…
“John Richards searches for the perfect summer song as he plays a
number of his recent favorites from the Morning Show.”
1. Miike Snow - Animal
2. Arch Cupcake - Rubix Dude
3. Iran - Buddy
4. Wussy - Muscle Cars
5. Phoenix - Listamania
6. Escape Act - Cabin Fever
7. Threatmantics - Big Man
8. Bell X1 - The Ribs of a Broken Umbrealla
9. Erik Blood - To Leave America
10. Akron/Family - The River
11. O + S - We Do What We Want To
12. Bill Callahan - All thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast
13. Faunts - Alarmed/Lights
14. Fever Ray - If I had a Heart
15. Alaska in Winter - The Homeless and the Hummingbirds
16. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink
Each podcast usually reaches about 40,000 listeners, so we’re pretty pleased about this - thanks to John for his support!
Download it using iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=76069540
or grab the feed and more info from
http://www.kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp
I’m just back from Unconvention Salford, which took place over the weekend. Once again it was an inspirational, thought-provoking and ‘exhausting’ experience 
Things have been pretty hectic for me recently. I haven’t had the time i would have liked to be spending on band matters, plus we’re generally in an altered state of activity at the moment, with the monthly recording sessions ongoing over in Scotland. These factors left me wanting for an actual objective to be in Salford, but that problem was soon dispelled by the ‘Outside the Box’ panel moderated by Andrew Dubber on Friday morning. This saw several artists (including the insightful and very funny Steve Lawson) from outside the ‘mainstream/indie’ sectors describe how they make a living from their love of music and associated talents.
I’m not sure if it was actually important that these people were musically ‘different’, but moreso that the individuals themselves just relished finding fresh, interesting and different ways of developing their careers. As a band, this attitude is something that we’ve shared from day one. We may be a band, and we’ll try to make the best music we can, but we won’t let that stop us being creative and having fun in everything we do. We’ve also been pretty realistic of our definition of success, reviewing and updating our plans and goals every few months, always taking a few upwards steps, and always doing what we feel is best, not too worried about what anyone else is doing or thinking.
So the main panel ‘take-aways’ about taking risks, but being realistic, having an identity, but knowing how to find your place in the big picture, having fun, and not delusions of grandeur, generally chimed with me and the band, and left me ready to get stuck in again. We’ve been working hard on the new recordings for the last six months, Chris in particular, and there is still a good way to go, but we’re enjoying every minute and are getting excited thinking about how we’ll get it all our there!
We realise that we want to connect more with the people that like our music. So far we’ve made many new friends, and they’ve helped us reach further than we could have imagined. We’re always looking for help, and interesting ideas, so please get in touch, and don’t forget the twitter feed: @escapeact.
Rich
PS. I also took part in a panel called ‘Artist as Enterprise’ - we didn’t really talk about that to be honest, but i sat next to Martin Atkins, (former drummer of Killing Joke, and much more) - a very wise man, believer of the ‘one fan at a time’ philosophy and author of Tour:Smart - a book i shall be absorbing over the coming weeks. You can grab an ebook copy from his site: http://tstouring.com/.
PPS. Although it’ll be a while before we’re ready to release new material, we did a session for bandwidthfilms.com yesterday. We performed new song ‘Salt In Your Eye’ and it’ll be online in a few days, but in the meantime, here are some shaky phone pics…
We’re just back from Scotland and the fourth album recording session. This weekend saw acoustic and electric guitars going down on Gas and bass and guitars on As They Scam. Alan and Ross flew in on Sunday afternoon to listen to the work so far, and we all went home on a boat loaded with football and rugby fans.
our last gig as a three-piece happens next Friday 15th May, at our northwest home-from-home - Masons in Derry. we’ll be ably supported by The Q and the indie disco DJs will keep things lit into the smaller hours…
Hey folks,
We’re rather excited and more than a little chuffed that our friends at 17 Seconds in Edinburgh have offered to re-release God Says on their new label! We’ve been friends with Ed and 17 Seconds since he first reviewed God Says last summer and subsequently released Broken Chin during the Loosely Based On Fiction release period, so we’re really pleased that we can work together again.
Stay tuned for more details!
Rich
…and as if our 17 Seconds news wasn’t enough, we’re also pleased to announce that Escape Act is now a four-piece! We’ve asked Ross Neely to join us on guitar, but also expect some vocal and keyboard action along the way. Ross played his first gig on Friday at the Purty Loft, and the new sonic addition went down a treat. He’ll also be performing tomorrow (Wednesday) at our Sky Larkin support show.
We took this picture to make it official…
We’re pretty chuffed to be supporting Sky Larkin on May 6th at Auntie Annies, Belfast. They are one of my favourite new bands at the moment and they rock the big one live. This will be an excellent show in the newly upgraded Auntie Annies’ live room, can’t wait!
Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=72493138206
Rich
“Day 3 of Session 3… In the morning further energy was put into capturing the emotion of the different sections of ‘Burning Sand’. After a couple of hours with some re-amped guitar work and omnichord we all felt the character of the song was really coming into focus. As we worked through the next track ‘Pressure’ we also took time to reflect on work done over the previous two days, everything we’ve down sounds really together, simple and uncomplicated. For ‘Pressure’ we got some interesting guitar interplay in the chorus and a real highlight was the dulcimer part that Chris recorded - a steep learning curve with an amazing result. We also managed to track basslines for ‘Gas’ and ‘Salt in your Eye’ with Rich nailing ‘Salt’ in just one or two very impressive passes. Now to recharge the batteries before the May session, creativity is exhausting!
