‘Pressure’ Live at McHughs, Belfast
Posted on August 24th, 2010 by rich
Check out ‘Pressure’ from our album launch show at McHugh’s Basement:
Listen and download more songs at http://music.escapeact.com
Check out ‘Pressure’ from our album launch show at McHugh’s Basement:
Listen and download more songs at http://music.escapeact.com
Help us celebrate the release of our new album!
Belfast – Out Of Place – daytime Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July
Out Of Place, Castle Lane, Opposite Starbucks, Belfast City Centre.
Saturday – Workshop – 12 – 2pm!
Join in our workshop and be part of the performance. We’re recruiting volunteers to join our band and help us make sound in the city. Bring something to beat, rattle or blow a tune on, and we’ll teach you to play a version of our song ‘Single Thought‘. We’ll make our way around the City Centre, and return to Out Of Place where we’ll perform a full set. RSVP here or call 028 9023 2524.
If you don’t want to perform, come along and follow the procession. We also need folks to bring a video camera, to capture footage for our album documentary.
Sunday – Performances
Meanwhile, on Sunday 18th July at 2pm, Escape Act & friends play an exclusive and intimate free gig at out of PLACE! Do come along.
Belfast – McHughs – Sunday 18th July [facebook event]
Part of the awesome Trans festival, our Belfast launch show features three mini-sets from ourselves, showcasing different aspects of our new album ‘Balance’ as well as special performances by You Kiss By The Book and Tom McShane. Come along early to catch the first ‘Act act and be part of the final performance.
Doors are at 9 and tickets will be strictly limited at £4. Albums and other goodies will also be available.
Watching us performing Tired Of Being Pushed Around in the window of Out of Place:
‘Balance’ is released on July 5th, and you can listen to it in full, and order it now! Click to listen or buy.
‘Balance’ is an incredible piece of work, and our proudest moment so far. Recorded during 2009 over 15 sessions at Chem19 and Gargleblast Studios in Hamiton, Scotland, it features 11 tracks recorded and produced by Andy Miller.
Limited Edition – Art Print Package
We’ve created an interesting and extremely limited edition package to celebrate the launch. We’re almost as proud of this album packaging, as we are of the record itself. Lovingly designed by ex-drummer Alan, its a double gate-fold CD digipack, with 28 page booklet. It feels amazing! Click here for more info and to pre-order your copy.
The package also includes a beautiful hand screen-printed 9″ art print matching the ‘Balance’ theme.
Full Package Contents:
- Beautiful ‘Balance’ double gate-fold cardboard digipak
- 28 page booklet
- Numbered, limited edition hand screen-printed 9″ art print.
- Stickers
- Instant album download
Watch Rich reveal all about the CDs and art print…
The album is also available as:
- high quality digital download
- CD+Tshirt+Download package
- CD+Download
Please visit http://music.escapeact.com/album/balance for full details, pictures and prices.
We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the new album, and hope to see you at some of the gigs. Please tell your friends about our new songs, and help us spread the Escape Act word!
Don’t forget our album launch gigs!
take care
Rich
Hey folks, we’re just days away from the official release of our new album entitled ‘Balance’. If you haven’t already checked them out, we’ve a selection of new tunes on our music page for your ears.
We’ve 3 interesting activities planned to celebrate the launch.
Dublin – Whelan’s Upstairs – Saturday 10th July [facebook event]
Come and help us celebrate the release of our new album ‘Balance’. We’ll be ably supported by You Kiss By The Book. Doors at 8pm and its only 5 euro, tho we’ll have some nice new albums for you to purchase too! We’ll also be doing some busking on Grafton Street to earn our dinner money during the afternoon, so feel free to come find us. If you fancy joining in, bring something to shake or rattle!
Belfast – Out Of Place – daytime Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July
Castle Lane, Opposite Starbucks, Belfast City Centre.
We’re delighted to be part of the Out of Place initiative which sees a disused City Centre shop unit being transformed into an epicentre of activity. Its designed to bring a bit of life back into the space, instead of another charity shop or pound store.
The shop will be our base for two days of workshops, outdoor performances and loads of interaction with the public. If you’d like to take part, please get in touch, or stay tuned for a more detailed announcement shortly.
Belfast – McHughs – Sunday 18th July [facebook event]
Part of the awesome Trans festival, our Belfast launch show features three mini-sets from ourselves, showcasing different aspects of our new album ‘Balance’ as well as special performances by You Kiss By The Book and Tom McShane. Come along early to catch the first ‘Act act!
Doors are at 9 and tickets will be strictly limited at £4. Albums and other goodies will also be available.
Look out for postcards appearing around Belfast with a ‘yer mate gets in for half price’ offer.
Pre-order your album now – available as
- digital download
- CD Digipak
- Limited CD and Art Print package
check out our latest video news blog thingy in which we perform an acoustic version of ‘pressure’ and Ross and Michael talk about joining us on our interesting musical journey.
also, our good friend and supporter, Kevin at mp3hugger.com has blogged about ‘Single Thought’ – the opening track from Balance, declaring it to be ‘big audio dynamite’ – listen in here: http://mp3hugger.com/2010/06/escape-act-single-thought.html
don’t forget – we play Whelan’s in Dublin on July 10th, and on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July, we’ll be doing loads of cool stuff in Belfast.
rich
Alan was home for a rare visit recently so we caught up with him for a chat about his new role as band Art Director and the evolution of the Balance artwork concept…
Fancy a brand new Escape Act song? Well….
Our good friend Kevin of mp3hugger and Indiecater Records fame recently asked us to contribute a track for a World Cup compilation and the results are now online for all to hear!
Fast Forward is our most ambitious project to date and it has taken over a year to come to fruition. The premise was simple; we asked some of our favourite bands to write about one of the 32 countries participating in South Africa 2010, the only stipulation being that the song be themed on their chosen country and if possible be football related. As you can imagine this definition was interpreted in about 32 different ways but the results are as colourful, imaginative and exciting as the event they will be used to showcase.
We had the distinct honour of joining World Cup Group F as sonic representatives of footballing stalwarts Slovakia. We’re pretty pleased with the result, recorded and produced by our very own Michael.
To listen to all 32 tracks, or buy ‘em all for only €5 please visit Indiecater Records.
Fresh off the balcony, an acoustic version of ‘Salt In Your Eye’ the first single from our new album entitled Balance.
Don’t forget, you can download three songs from the new album on our music page in return for your email address. We’ll be announcing special pre-order packages soon, so its worth the effort!
our first and last full live Belfast show for a while happens this saturday evening at Lavery’s Bunker
we’re on around 9.30 supporting the awesome Uber Glitterati.
RSVP on facebook!
Hello, hello,
Just a quick note to highlight a couple of acoustic shows coming up in the next week.
Menagerie – Saturday 20th March – Afternoon Show
First up we’re playing the annual Black Box Bacchanal festival this saturday, on stage around 3pm. The full afternoon line-up includes Amy McGarrigle, Dirty Blues Band, Tom Portman, and Isobel Anderson with Semaphore, The Yeuts and Cat Malojian in the evening.
John Hewitt – Wednesday 24th March
Another acoustic show at the Liblab fundraising raffle extravaganza featuring Acoustic Dan, Scorpion Jack, Augustus Allen, The Wee Weirdies, Sarah Lynn and an amazing opportunity to win some interesting raffle prizes!
Sunday April 18th – Dublin
We’ll be in Dublin for a BalconyTV session so we’ll be playing an acoustic set or two in some interesting places. More details soon 
Don’t forget to check out some new songs here, or on the player to your right! —>
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