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

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

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!

“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

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 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

We took this picture to make it official…

Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=72493138206

Rich