Great Escape (Tara Blaise album)
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Great Escape is the second solo album by Irish
Ireland
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 singer Tara Blaise
Tara Blaise
Tara Blaise is an Irish female pop, folk, rock singer. The eldest of six children, Blaise was born in London, but at the age of three moved with her parents to Ireland and grew up in the rambling hills of Aughrim County Wicklow....

. It was released on 2 May 2008 (See 2008 in music
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) by Spokes Records.

Track listing

  1. "Make You" - 4:02
  2. "Breathe" - 4:12
  3. "Great Escape" - 3:44
  4. "Taller on the Phone" - 2:34
  5. "Let's Talk" - 3:05
  6. "Secret Garden Party" - 4:21
  7. "Fall at the Start" - 3:30
  8. "Rage About It" - 3:38
  9. "Rosalie" - 4:10
  10. "New Red Shoes" - 4:19

"Fall at the Start"

"Fall at the Start", released on 25 July 2007, was the first single from the album. It was released less than a year after "Twenty One Years
Twenty One Years
"21 Years" is a single by Irish singer Tara Blaise from her Dancing on Tables Barefoot album, released in 2006 ....

", which was the final single from her 2005 debut album Dancing on Tables Barefoot
Dancing on Tables Barefoot
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, and nearly one year before the rest of the Great Escape album.

"Breathe"

On 21 March 2008 the second single, "Breathe", was released. The UK CD single was released on 8 December 2008.

A studio video by Stylorouge
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 for "Breathe" appeared on Tara Blaise's website in October 2008. Also on 7 October Terry Wogan
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 played the song on his morning show, Wake Up to Wogan
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, and has since aired it a number of times.

"Make You"

The third single was the album's opening track, entitled "Make You", and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.

The song entered RTÉ
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's Radio 1
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Playlist on 5 May. A studio video for "Make You" appeared on Tara Blaise's website in October 2008.
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