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Jump on our wave…

I’ve been playing about with Google Wave over the last few weeks, and i thought it would be a good place to discuss some of our plans for next year. Many definitions exist of what Wave is, and what its for, but broadly speaking, its whatever you want it to be.

Screen shot of the Escape Act Google Wave

I’ve introduced some topics covering ideas about Video, Release Formats, Gigging, Collaborations, and the discussion has wound its way round all of them with some very interesting thoughts on packaging, compositions, iPhone apps and story-telling.

With most of the hard work on album number two coming to an end, we’ve been pondering our approach for next year. First on the list is definitely engagement. As we’ve grown and evolved as a band we’ve realised that we have achieved most when working together, initially just as a band, and latterly with inspiring and creative folks to generate results that are greater than the sum of their parts. Equally, we’re not afraid to test out some new disruptive ideas for delivering our music into the ears of music lovers. The Wave is a good spot for putting those ideas out there and getting perspectives from a range of people.

If you have a Google Wave account and you’d like to join in, just search Wave for ‘with:public escapeact’ – otherwise send me an email with your account name and i’ll add you.

Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow Gigs in October

Come along and check out the new line-up at these gigs:

Firstly, we’re proud to be playing the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival in Dublin. We’re playing the ‘4 Dame Lane’ venue (map) at 8pm on Saturday 17th. Check www.hwch.net for full details and ticketing. Over 100 bands play throughout the weekend, so its worth every penny!
HWCH 2009 Gig Poster - Dame Lane Dublin

Next up is an excellent line-up for Radar at Queen’s Speakeasy on Thursday October 22nd. Headlining are our favourite melody merchants Cutaways, with Dublin’s Robotnik bringing some electro-tunefulness to the mix.
Radar_5_Cutaways_221009_poster

Lastly and by no means least is an exciting 17 Seconds Records line-up at Glasgow’s 13th Note venue, on Friday 30th October. We’re be playing alongside Aberfeldy’s Chris Bradley, X Lion Tamer and The Dirty Cuts.
17Second Label Party

Hope y’all can make it to some of these shows!

Rich

music biz workshops this week

hey folks, a little Belfast music industry related news that’s quite close to my heart….

after organising Unconvention Belfast, the folks at the Trans festival asked me to help deliver a mini-conference event, and the result of that is happening this Thursday 9th, 3pm at the Waterfront Hall. It’ll take a ’speed-workshop’ format, following on from the highly successful speed-networking at Unconvention. It means that folks will have the chance to speed time speaking with mentors in various areas including Touring, Recording, Marketing & Promotion, Labels, Music Management, and Publishing & Synch. [Trans Website]

The July Music Meetup happens directly afterwards at the Waterfront, so there’ll be plenty of time to have follow-up chats with mentors and other attendees. [Facebook Meetup Event page]

In Escape Act news, stay tuned for details of another release on 17 Seconds, pictures and notes from the recent session at Chem19, and also some video stuff too. :-)

Rich

In Stores Now: Brand New Song!

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!

17 Seconds to release God Says

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

New Year Menagerie Gig

Hello folks, and Happy Christmas!

Its been an exciting year for us with first the single release and tour, and then the release of our album, Loosely Based On Fiction. We can’t wait for next year either with plans afoot for further releases, new recording sessions and very importantly, gigs!

We’ll have news on Dundalk and Dublin shows soon, but for now we’re really pleased to announce a gig next Friday 2nd January 2009 at the newly reopened Menagerie on Belfast’s University Street. We’ll be supporting the awesome Panda Kopanda, and after the splendid live music, Mr Barry Cullen (BEW) will be playing some dancing tunes. If you are in Belfast, this is the place to be!

Menagerie Gig Poster

Thanks for your support and encouragement, and here’s to 2009!

Rich, Chris, Alan

17 Seconds releases Broken Chin

Lots of things are happening at the moment as we near the point of releasing the CDs. You’ll notice that the escapeact.com site has had a minor facelift for a start!

Earlier this week Ed over at 17 Seconds kindly released the last of our tracks – Broken Chin, head on over to read his thoughts on the album…

“Rather like the Strokes, here is a band who have realised that less is definitely more. Pure punky joy.”

Laid Open Laid Bare

We’re at the half-way point of the Loosely Based On Fiction release, today we’re really please to announce the release of Laid Open – kindly curated by Steven over at Key Notes on Cluas.ie.

Check it out here: www.cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/Key_Notes/

Also, if you’re in Belfast this Wednesday 29th, head over to Charlies Coffee Shop at Bradbury Place – we’ll be doing a wee acoustic show at 7pm with Cutaways and Patio Sounds.

Jupiter Storms blasts off!

Hey folks, another track is out there! This time its Jupiter Storms and it has been released by AU Magazine! Head on over to http://iheartau.com/blog/free-escape-act-track to check it out :-)

In other news, yours truly took part in the Digital Circle Podcast on Friday and I chatted with Davy, Ruairi and Michelle about the album release, the music industry and digital content. It and previous episodes are well worth checking out.

Don’t forget, you can help us out by pointing your friends here, or joining up to and inviting friends to the Facebook group, and if you haven’t already, please join our mailing list!

All tracks released so far can also be found on our bandcamp page.

Finally, we’ve confirmed two Belfast shows, an All Ages show at the Bunker on November 22nd, followed by Club NING on Saturday December 13th at Lavery’s Attic – add ‘em to your diary!

Get Green from Amuze.me

Next up on the Loosely Based on Fiction release rollercoaster is Green, kindly released by David over at Amuze.me. Head on over to get yer hands on it :-)

Also, while we have your attention, there are a few things we’d like to bring to your… attention!

Facebook: We’ve created a Facebook Group for the release, please sign-up and share with some music-lovin’ friends

Bandcamp: This is a cool new service for bands that we’re using to release the album tracks in conjunction with the blogs. We’ve added the bandcamp player to our site (top right), which links through to the download options. All tracks can be found at escapeact.bandcamp.mu as they are released.

ShareThis. Finally, we’ve added a wee ShareThis widget on our escapeact.com posts which allows you to link up with the greatest of ease.

We really hope you like Green!




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