Five Fun Facts with Prison Escapee

We recently caught up with Erik David Hidde aka Prison Escapee and we asked him to send us Five Fun Facts about him so you, our readers and listeners, can get to know him better in his own words. We are truly honored to have him be our first artist featured for this segment. Thank you, Erik!

Find what he had to share with us below:

Here are my Five Fun Facts!

  1. I started and ran the record label Housewarming Records for 2 years from May 2011 - May 2013. There were a total of 39 releases from all over the world. Some artists went on to bigger and better things and I have since become very close friends with one of the artists I met through the label.

  2. I released an album in 2010 under the moniker Not a Thing to Believe In and have since resurrected a song from it that I will remake as Prison Escapee and release on Bandcamp for free for the 10 year anniversary in August.

  3. I was brought up in Upstate New York in the hamlet of Fort Hunter, which is surrounded by 3 sides of water and was once known as the Lower Mohawk Castle and was where the Native Americans resided.

  4. My favorite director is Paul Thomas Anderson and when I was moving to LA I looked up where he lived (Tarzana) and moved there cause I had never been to LA before. I ran into him at a local breakfast cafe and told him I moved there because of him and he thought it was hilarious. The next time he was in the cafe, the manager made a comment about how he is famous but never gets recognized , and Paul mentioned how he was just told a young man moved there because of him.

  5. My brother and I used to build forts in our childhood home and we would call them “Da Bomb.” We would make signs leading to the pillow and blanket fort and our mom wouldn’t let us sleep in it because she didn’t want our roof which was made of sheet to fall and suffocate us in the night. My song “The Bomb” taken from ‘Forever Hold Your Peace’ was written about this.

    -Prison Escapee

Written by: Piera Lolandes

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Prison Escapee

Shares Five Fun Facts with us in his own words!

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