The Great Escape festival in Brighton, England has announced hundreds of new names for their lineup including The Libertines’ Peter Doherty, Jordan Adetunji, Lynks, The K’s and more. On May 14, The ...

The Great Escape annually signals the start of U.K. festival season, as Brighton turns into a mecca for new sounds each May. Recognized as Europe's biggest hub for new music discovery, the event ...

The Great Escape 2026 conference unveils new collaborators, daily themes, partners and a New Zealand focus for its 20th ...

The Independent is thrilled to announce its lineup for The Great Escape 2025’s First Fifty shows, taking place in London on 13 November. The First Fifty shows offer an early look at the Brighton ...

For nearly 20 years, the UK’s Great Escape festival has served as a kind of mini-SXSW. Once a year, a great many acts descend upon the seaside city of Brighton, playing venues all over town. But as ...

Rock band SpaceAcre will support Skunk Anansie when they headline The Independent’s stage at The Great Escape festival this month. Formed in Bedfordshire, the band are rapidly developing a devoted ...

The Independent can unveil the lineup for its First Fifty stage in November, as part of its continuing partnership with The Great Escape Festival. Taking place across eight venues in east London, ...

The first music of the day is a short set by Tamara & the Dreams (pictured left). In fact, it’s Melbourne bedroom indie popster Tamara Reichman and a pick-up band. With pink hair, clad in Adidas ...

This year, one way that many musicians have protested agains Israel's campaign of genocide has been to boycott events sponsored by the British bank Barclays, which has invested huge sums of money into ...

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Europe's biggest festival for new music, The Great Escape, took place in Brighton last weekend. With over 350 artists playing across 30 venues over three days, Digital Spy went down to seek out the ...