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May 2010

After a while of constant touring and gigging we have finally decided to give ourselves some time to work on our debut album. We are currently hard at work in the studio working on new material for the album and re-working existing songs. We will be constantly updating our progress on the album and its release.

As well as working hard in the studio we are also working on some big things, more news on this to follow as we get it. But it will be worth waiting for. In terms of live shows we are lining shows all across the UK and further beyond as we speak. Stay tuned for more updates.

April 2010

Despite being hard at work in the studio EXIT will be playing two shows this month. The first show will be on Tues 6th April in Auntie Annies, Belfast. A special show over the easter holidays doors open at 8:30pm and its 4 pounds at the door. Also playing on the night are Goodbye Pluto and R51. Usual drinks promotions etc apply on the night, the show is an over 18's show.

Also this month the band are pleased to announce that they will be supporting ex Mama's Boys Pat McManus in the Island Arts Cenre, Lisburn. This is an advanced ticket event and tickets can be purchased here alternatively tickets can be purchased at the venue on the night. On the night doors open at 8pm and EXIT will be on at 8:15pm.

Jan/Feb 2010 Cont...

We are pleased to announce that we will be playing a special show as part of the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival on Saturday 27th Feb. The festival itself is a world-renouned festival showcasing a whole host of songwriters in all genres as well as the best of country and roots music. Our event is called "worlds-Collide" its a mix of contemporary songwriting ranging from pop rock, hard rock/metal to Alt-Country. Its a double headliner show featuring ourselves and our good friends, Irish rock heros Sweet Savage (whos song "Killing Time" was covered by supergroup Metallica), also in the bill are the brand new alt-country band 68zeros and a special acoustic performance by Oracle featuring David McClean (formally of the band Lovechild). Doors open at 7:30pm and first band hits the stage at 8pm.

To attend the show you can pay in at the door (5.00 Pounds) or by ordering advanced tickets via the button below:

As a special treat anyone who buys an advanced ticket will receive a free copy of our current EP when they produce the ticket at the door of the show.

Tickets can also be purchased via the festival website www.belfastnashville.com priced 8pounds. Alternatively you can call in to the Belfast Welcome Centre (47 Donegal Place, Belfast) in person to purchase tickets. Click here to view the festival brochure.

Click Here to view the poster for the event. Hope to see you all at the show.

Jan 2010

Sorry we haven't been around to update this page. things have been full on busy at the minute. First off we would like to wish everybody here all the best for the new year. We finsihed of 2009 in style with a great gig a Belfast's Aunite Annies with good friends and Irish rock legends Sweet Savage. The gig was a double headliner and it was a great success so we would like to thank everyone who braved the winter weather to come down.

However its a new year and we are pleased to annouce we have some very big news coming up. First off we will be playing a special show in legendary London venue "The Dublin Castle" on 8th Feb. The show is also a headline show and we have some very special guests at the show. Right in the heart of Camden town we are all very excited to return to London. Admission to the show is 6 pounds but you can get in for the special price of 4.50. You can do this by downloading this flyer. Also playing on the night are 3 local London based bands, you find out more information by CLICKING HERE and scrolling down to the 8th Feb listing. The listing describes us as "Anthemic widescreen, stadium bound melodic rock", which sounds good enough to us, ha ha. So if your in the London area we would love to see you all there.

Finally, incase your wondering why we havent been updating the page as much as we should have. Well, we have been locked up in the studio since september working on our debut album. Expect more news on this over the coming weeks.

Sept/Oct 2009

Exciting news this month. We will be supporting Scottish band Twin Atlantic on their Irish Tour. This will be at Auntie Annie's on Oct 4th. Twin Atlantic have just released their debut album on Red Bull Records so EXIT are looking forward to supporting the band. Tickets for the gig are a steal at 7.50 from all ticketmaster outlets or directly from the promoter CDC Promotions, for more information check out Twin Atlantic's Website. Heres's a poster for the event CLICK HERE.

In other news we will also be doing a special acoustic set for our good friend, photographer and collaborator Mark Hylands. The acoustic set will be part of the opening night of his photography exhibition entitled "Seen A Million Faces.." on Friday 9th Oct at Belfast's Safehouse Gallery. Things kick off around 7pm and we will be performing with some other exciting acts (acts TBC). It promises to be a great night featuring photographs that will blow you away, live music, big name guests and who knows what else. So get yourself down to this. Mark is a gifted photographer, currently working all over the world working with some of the biggest names in the music industry including Def Leppard, Metallica, Bryan Adams, etc... the list is endless. To check out his work drop by his website www.markhylands.com. Mark has worked closely with us taking many key images of the band, directing our music video and generally making us look good. Hope to see you all there...

Finally...just incase your wondering about the lack of updates, we are currently working away in the studio, working hard on creating more new music.

March 2009

March has mainly been focused around promoting, organising tours and recording new tracks. Over the course of this month we have done several radio interviews and profiles. First Chris took part in BBC Radio 1 NI's series "learn How To Rock with" series. This was basically an interview where Chris explained the role the guitar plays in EXIT, what influenced him as a guitarist and finally Chris had to teach the shows presenter a few things on the guitar live on air. Certainly a unique and novel way to do interviews. The next big feature was a profile of band for BBC Radio Ulster's legendary Across The Line show. This was a slickly produced profile of the band featuring interviews from Andy and Chris. You can hear this profile in the audio section of this website under the heading "ATL Profile".

EXIT have also hit the studio with a vengence this month. The band are currently busy recording two brand new tracks.

The bands music video still continues to be a hit on the band's YouTube channel reaching well over 30 thousand hits. Not band for one month.

EXIT have also announced several new gigs over april and a festival date in May. We are currently busy lining up tour dates, festval dates all across the UK, Scotland etc, so stay tuned for updates. Finally, the band are one of the featured bands at the first "Lark In The Park" festival in Moira on the 2nd may. Basically this is a brand new music festival and we encourage everyone to get tickets for the day. If you want more information about the festival, tickets etc visit the festival's myspace page.

Feb/March 2009

Its update time...this time we would like to tell you about our exciting new music video for the track "Label Girl". The video is already receiving great feedback. Most natably on the bands YouTube Channel where the video has managed to get over "30 thousand" views since in 10 days. We are very excited about the viewing figures of the video as it shows our growing fanbase. You can view the music video on this very website by going to the video section. Alternatively, if your a Youtube user you can subscribe to our channel, click here www.youtube.com/user/ExitOnline.

The Video was Directed by the bands Photographer and collaborator Mark Hylands and Produced by HM Productions. We would like to thank Mark and Christopher for working so hard on the video and their lightning fast delivery of the video. You guys are legends, great work. To check out more of Mark's work goto www.markhylands.com.

In other news this month we have more gigs in the pipieline (see gigs page). We are also working on loads of stuff at the minute including a tour of the UK/Scotland so stay tuned for updates. We are also recording some new tracks at the minute, but we have run into problems due to computers going down, losing valuable data of the recordings so it's going to take a bit longer to complete the recording as its back to the drawing board.

Jan/Feb 2009

Good news...EXIT have just got a great review in a recent issue of KERRANG! Magazine, you can read the review on our press page. This is a great boost for the band and we would like to thank Sam @ Kerrang for writing such a positive review.

Other news this month includes the fact that we have been making a music video and updates on that should be up soon. we are also due to start recording two brand new tracks at the start of feb. We also have some more gig dates up.

We will have more updates in a few days so keep checking back for the latest news...

Jan 2009

Happy New year to everyone reading this page, 2008 was great but 2009 is gonna be a great year. We have some really exciting news coming up...but we're not allowed to tell you all about it yet. But watch this space, there's an exciting announcement coming in the next few weeks. Besides this news, this year we plan to do extensive touring all over the UK, Scotland and Ireland, announcements about dates etc coming soon.

Just before the Christmas break EXIT managed to win yet another Battle Of The Bands competiton judged by Alternative Ulster and Oh Yeah.

Overall, exciting times are ahead, including a new recording in works...so stay tuned, we have more news in a two weeks.

June/July 2008

Once again alots been happening for the band, so much so that we never had time to update this news page. First of, we officially launched our new "Self-Titled" EP to the world in Belfast's Spring And Airbrake in front of a great crowd and well recieved set. In follow up we also played a live in store show in Zavvi Records in Belfast Victoria Square. This means you can now buy our new EP instore in Zavvi, Victoria Square Belfast. You can of course also purchase a copy online through this very site (Store section)and our myspace. So its full steam ahead with our new EP

Next up we would like to say a few thank yous to a few great people who have been helping us out over the last period. First of a big thanks goes to the bands new friend and honorary fifth member, Mark Hylands. Mark is a talented photographer, you can check out his website and get in touch with him here www.markhylands.com. Mark has been working quite alot with the band recently taking lots of photos of the band, including, live shots, full studio shoot and designing the fancy concept photo/image at the top of this very website. We will of course be updating our photograph section of the website to feature quite alot of Mark's recent photographs of the band. So Mark is your reading this, thanks for all your hard work and for being a great friend to the band..we owe you big time. We look forward to hanging out and working with you again in the future.

We would also like to thank the other photographers who covered our EP launch in the spring and airbrake el porter - mccullough (elvinamccullough@yahoo.co.uk) and Emma Walker, we will also be featuring their work in the new image gallery.

In other news, we are also starting to get serious interest from labels, so we will be working hard to reach the masses this year. We will also be recording some new music over the summer months and lining up some overseas gigs, so keep checking the website and our myspace for gigs and recents news on the band...and also stay tuned for our new image gallery which will going live soon.

March 2008

We're sorry about the lack of updates here. Things have been manic here. First off in a followup to the last news where we had won our place into the All-Ireland finals of the Bodog Battle Of The Bands. Well, since then we won the All-Ireland Finals, we then went on to represent Ireland in the European finals to win a place in the overall finals in the US. The Euro finals took place at The Manchester Academy, Manchester UK. So the band headed off to Manchester and had a monumental time, sadly we just lost lost out our place in the overal finals. But considering the record deal we were asked to sign with the company before we progressed the competition turned sour and we refused to sign, so I suppose this didn't help. However, we got alot of press and publicity from the competition. So we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the radio presenters, reporters who helped us out - we owe you all. We would also like to thank Black Confetti in Lisburn for providing the band with a deal on band T-shirts, which are now available to buy in the online store of this site. On the subject on the NEW online store we are pleased to announce that you can buy a copy of our new EP direct from this site, priced Ã?Æ'ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?£5 plus p+p. Goto the online store to check it out.

During this time we also headed back down to Dublin to play a great gig in the Village. But whats coming next...we'll we will have a few dates lined up aroubd Belfast soon, more Irish dates and some UK dates for the summer months. We will also be heading off to Italy to play at a major outdoor music festival. So all in all its moving fast for the band. Keep checking the gigs page for live dates and of course the news page for further updates.

Dec 2007

We are pleased to announce that we won through ther semi-finals round of the Bodog Music competition, we are now into the All-Ireland Finals. The big dinal will be in the huge Tripod venue in Dublin on Sunday 20th Jan @ 4pm. We would like to thank all that came down to support us in the semi-finals. However, we need to do it all over again for the final so we are running a bus down to the gig in Dublin from Belfast and back again. The bus will leave from Belfast City Hall and leave people off at the Tripod in Dublin. Just to add a little incentive into the trip the bus will be leaving Belfast early, so you will get a full day trip in Dublin with a gig that night. Tickets for the gig/bus package are available from the band for the cheaper rate of Ã?Æ'ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?£10 (tickets for the gig alone cost Ã?Æ'ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?£10 on ticketmaster). To get a ticket from the band people can get more information by sending an email to the following: CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A TICKET and we get a ticket sent out. You can also buy tickets from Matchetts Rock Shop and the Coffee Kiosk both in Belfast city Centre.

The band will also be appearing on the George Jones show on U105 (105fm) to talk about the competition and to play a live track on wednesday 19th Dec @ 3:15pm, so tune in. We will also be giving away free tickets live on the show. We will also have various writeups in the Ulster Star (fri 21st Dec) and various other press and media appearances leading up to the competition. So keep checking back for the latest appearances and writeups announcements on this site. We would also like to wish everyone out there a very happy Christmas and New Year.

Oct 2007

EXIT recently took part a trip down to Dublin to take part in a worldwide showcase to find the best unsigned band. The event is being organised by record label BodogMusic and EXIT are pleased to announced that we are through to the next round after winning over the judges in the live showcase. So the next round will take place in Dublin's Pod venue and we'll announce the dates etc as we get them, but in the meantime you can help the band out by voting for us on the Bodog music website CLICK HERE TO VOTE. We need all the votes we can get to help keep us in the competition, so get voting....

Also, "STILL" in the process of releasing our new EP we have been getting get review, radio and press reaction to the new EP, including a great review from Classic Rock Magazine, check out the press page to read the reviews. Alot is happening at the minute, keep checking back for the latest going on...

Aug 2007

We are excited to annouce that we will be celebrating the release of our new 'self-titled' EP with two special shows at Belfast's Spring And Airbrake on the 9th Aug and The Limelight on the 15th Aug. At both gigs we will be giving a limited number of copies away free and copies can also be purchased at a special price at the gig. The EP features four new tracks recorded at Manor Park Studios and we are very excited about sharing them with you and hope that you enjoy the CD. We are also working on our offical EP launch which will be an in-store performance in HMV Belfast. After this launch the CD will be available to buy in HMV. In the meantime you can pick up a copy of the CD directly from the band at gigs, Matchetts Music (rock shop, Belfast) and The Coffee Kiosk (Belfast, the red house opposite McDonalds).

Besides the EP launch we are also working on methods of purchasing the CD online and numerous other exciting features over the coming month, such as broadcasting gigs online, music videos etc...

Stay tuned to this site for updates over the comming days.

While speaking of new things, welcome to our shiny new website. More gigs have been added to the gigs page.