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Since we started recording ‘Loosely Based On Fiction’ we’ve been discussing the various options and ideas open to us for actually releasing it. Now its decision time and we thought we’d share our experience of the process as we go along!

This scrawl is my initial ‘mind map’ designed to capture the essence of all our discussions, establishing all the bases we need to cover, decisions yet to be made, and the tasks to be delegated.

One of the first things to get moving is the cdbaby.com album registration. These guys very kindly handle the distribution of the album on the established digital channels, provide the barcode for the physical album, and retail it through their own site and other physical outlets. For a band in our position, they provide a great service and take care of the various practical but intractable tasks that could otherwise take the fun out of the project. They’ll also be a great shop window for us promoting the music in all manner of ways!

Other things that are on the list include:
- deciding on a target list for media, we can’t cover everyone
- deciding on a strategy for downloads and sales from our own sites
- making some more videos to complement the tunes
- asking our fans and friends to spread the word
- and many more!!

stay tuned for more developments!!

Rich

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Hey folks,

Plans are well advanced for the release of our 10-song album ‘Loosely Based on Fiction’. Alan has been busy putting the finishing touches to the artwork and we’re finalising production and distribution details for a release in early October! This will be followed by a series of gigs in Ireland, Scotland and England.

We’re also looking at some interesting ideas for promoting the record, including free downloads, remixes and whatnot, but if you’ve any weird or wonderful ideas, please let us know! We want to get our music heard by as many people as possible.

In the meantime we’re busy rehearsing some new songs and we’re really looking forward to our Dublin Underground show on September 18th at McGrudders, Thomas Street. More details on that shortly.

take care

Rich

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A nice review of God Says from ‘The Devil Has the Best Tuna‘

“…a blistering burst of Undertones punk guitar and Morrisseyesque vocal that’ll have you jumping round the room like a kangeroo on a pogo stick.”

read it in full at: http://besttuna.blogspot.com/2008/08/break-down-walls-its.html

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Losing Today review of God Says ‘A thumping pop rocket that demands the hitting of the replay button’ ‘ crystalline power chords and dashed with a fuzzing west coast glow’
an.. ‘irresistibly razor sharp anthem’ visit the site for the full review!

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Kinds words for God Says from the BoxSetGo blog:

‘”God Says” is a 2.5 minute powerhouse of a record … as infectious as an STD and as much fun as getting it…Top Class.’

read the full review, and check out some more great tunes at http://boxsetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/four-to-floor-boxsetgo-ep.html

cheers Garrett

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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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