Better than the average banana….

On entering the Indie Takeaway you will be presented with a menu which will represent the gig you are about to see. You will then be played each of the songs on the menu allowing you to select your musical meal. Finally as part of admission fee our waiters will present you with a CD platter of your chosen dishes in MP3 format. In other words you get to take your favourite songs home for free!

On the menu…

Garage rock hybrid Lafaro are one of the finest Irish Alt rock bands you are likely to hear in quite a while, with more kick than a Vindaloo.

Escape Act (that’s us) have tunes as crisp as a plate of poppadoms and release first single ‘God Says’ on June 23rd digital and limited edition vinyl, but you can have the tune included in admission tonight.

John Shelly and the Creatures formed in February 2007 after a chance meeting in Berlin with two homeless Irish twins named John and Shelly.

Finally recent ATL Rock School Champions The Good Fight bring a smoother but equally pleasurable taste to the table.

It all happens this Sunday 3rd August at The Black Box. Doors at 8pm! Part of Trans!

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Subba-Cultcha.com (http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php) had these kinds words to say about God Says - “Dreamy Indie pop, with moments of Guided By Voices catchiness and The LA’s classicalism…”

and of the flipside, Tom McShane’s Fighter: “Slow burning lament, touched with melancholy and exploding into falsetto when the emotion calls for it, a touching song from an artist with a pure soul…”

Click here to buy the 7″ vinyl (with 4 track download), or buy them all from iTunes!

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we’ve added some pics of the session we did on Phantom’s I:Con show to our facebook page. We’d like to thank Lynn and Cathal for having us! you may need to be a facebook ‘fan’ to view them…

we’ve also confirmed another Dublin gig, September 18th at McGrudders, Thomas Street, promoted by Dublin Underground.

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As part of an upcoming promotional event, highlighting UK music over in Japan, we’ve been included as ‘Undiscovered’ artists on the website-of-the-campaign. Users can see our profile and hear our tunes via myspace, and if they like us, they can vote to show their appreciation!

The voting page is at http://www.ukjapan2008.jp/campaign/enq/index.html so please surf along and give us your support!

If you happen to be from Japan, or just wanna help out, you could put this banner on your web page, myspace, facebook, bebo or whatever using the code below!

<a href='http://www.escapeact.com/index.php/2008/07/18/vote-for-escape-act-to-hit-japan-electronically/vote-for-escape-act-in-japan/' rel='attachment wp-att-115' title='Vote for Escape Act in Japan'><img src='http://www.escapeact.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/japan-vote.gif' alt='Vote for Escape Act in Japan' /></a>

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Unfortunately the Stendhal Festival 2008 has been canceled due to poor advance ticket sales. We’re really gutted that this has happened as playing the festival would have been the highlight of the summer for us. We wish the guys all the best in planning for next year.

What to expect next year….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQYulDwTeM

Check out bebo.com/StendhalF and stendhalfestival.com for details and further updates.

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Hot Press reviewed God Says in their 13th July 08 issue…
“‘God Says’ opens with a great meaty pounding guitar riff, before a measured pause for some Jesus & Mary Chain-lite vocals. After that, it’s a case of lather, rinse and repeat, no bad thing in this case, serving to reaffirm the listener’s faith in simple, sub-three-minute guitar pop. Top marks.” by Stephen Errity.

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check out these pics, probably taken by Tom McShane or Ross Neely

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