This weekend hundreds of the world’s finest breaking and established bands descended on the seaside town of Brighton for The Great Escape. For three days each year the town is overrun with bands, industry insiders and music fans – in what has quickly become the first essential date in many festival goers’ diaries. As always this year saw a huge variety of acts attract feverish levels of attention from the crowds. Headline acts such as Groove Armada, Chase & Status and The Big Pink topped the line up on a bill that included hundreds of performers.
Their were also several notable names from the music industry on hand to offer advice and share their experiences in thorough question and answer sessions. These included former NME journalist Nick Kent, XFM’s John Kennedy and Drowned in Sound’s Sean Adams.
Although seeing every band would be impossible – over 300 acts play across the weekend - we headed down to cram in as many gigs as possible over three days. Here’s a few of our stand out acts over the weekend.
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Jon Davies News The Great Escape
Brighton festival The Great Escape has announced the first wave of bands to play this year’s event on May 13-15. Among the headline acts will be Manchester electro-pop trio Delphic, dubstep masters Chase & Status and Canadian indie behemoths Broken Social Scene. The three day event is seen as the opening weekend of the UK festival season and has consistently showcased some of the best rising talent within the industry. The Great Escape is comparable to SXSW in Texas as bands can be found playing a number of venues across the city and ticket holders are given a free reign to choose between them. Since its inception in 2006 the festival has played host to the likes of Kasabian, Gang Of Four, Mystery Jets and The Cribs to name a few. The lineup announced so far is:
Delphic
Chase And Status
Broken Social Scene
Marina And The Diamonds
Ellie Goulding
Crystal Fighters
Slow Club
Cold Cave
Esben And The Witch
Japandroids
Real Estate
Timber Timbre
Darwin Deez
Best Coast
The Cheek
Wild Palms
Ruby Suns
For full ticket information and line up updates, head to The Great Escape site.
Jon Davies Gigs/ Events Broken Social Scene, Chase And Status, Crystal Fighters, Delphic, Ellie Goulding, Japandroids, Marina And The Diamonds, Slow Club, The Great Escape
