When is it?
17th-19th May 2007.
Where is it?
Brighton city centre.
LastBroadcast's Top Ten Bands You Must See...
• CSS
• Willy Mason
• The Maccabees
• Angus & Julia Stone
• Robots In Disguise
• The Noisettes
• Paul Steel
• Foals
• Goose
• Vincent Vincent And The Villains
Who else is playing?
(We Are) Performance, 120 Days, 1990s, 586, Adele, Adjagas, Air Traffic, Alberta Cross, Ali Love, Andy Gower, Angus & Julia Stone, Annuals, Archie Bronson Outfit, Art Brut, Barbara Carlotti, Battle, Beardy Man, Belisha, Benni Hemm Hemm, Birdy Nam Nam, Black Ghosts, Blak Twang, Bonde Do Role, British Sea Power, Candie Payne, Captain, Cashier no 9, Channel One, Cherry Ghost, Children Collide, Circlesquare, Cocoon, CSS, Cut Off Your Hands, Damn Arms, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Dan Mangan, DANANANANAYKROYD, Dance With Voices, Daniel Benjamin, Die! Die! Die!, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Dominique A, Drookit Dogs, Dub Pistols, Edgar Prais, Elvis Perkins, Emily Loizeau, Enid Blitz, Eternal Erection, Fancy, Fear Of Flying, Findlay Brown, Floors And Walls, Foals, Found, Four Day Hombre, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Future Of The Left, Gallows, Get Well Soon, Ghosts, Good Shoes, Goose, Grimskunk, Hafdis-Huld, Hello Saferide, Help She Can't Swim, Hijera, Hilltop Hoods, Hocus Pocus, Hollywood Porn stars, Hot Club de Paris, I Say Marvin, I Was a Cub Scout, iLiKETRAiNS, Indigo Moss, Jack Penate, Jakobinarina, James Yorkston, Jamie Woon, Jason Pegg (Clearlake), Jersey Budd, Johnny Panic, Johnossi, kardomah, Karima Francis, Kate Nash, Kate Walsh, Kharma 45, Kid Harpoon, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Kubichek!, Kunte Kinte, Land Of Talk, Last Gang, Late Of The Pier, Laura Marling, Lay Low, Les Breastfeeders, Lethal Bizzle, Lights. Action!, Liz Green, Loney, dear, LOOK-SEE PROOF, Loose Salute, The, Lucky Jim, Luke Toms, Magenta Skycode, Make Good Your Escape, Maps, Maths Class, Mechanical Bride, Metro Riots, Micah P. Hinson, Minotaurs, Monkey Sons, Mr Hudson & The Library, Mumm-ra, My Device, my federation, Navel, Neils Children, Neon Plastix, Nouvelle Vague, Nude Girls, Oh No Ono, One Night Only, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man., Palladium, Panico, Passenger, Patrick Watson, Paul Steel, Peggy Sue and The Pirates, Peter Von Poehl, Phat Kev, Polarkreis 18, Polytechnic, Popup, Promise And The Monster, Radar, Ranetki, Rendle Will, Re-Tros, Ripchord, Rob da Bank, Robots In Disguise, Rockettothesky, Rosa Fears, Rubik, Sam Isaac, Scouting For Girls, Seabear, Sergeant, Sex Panther, Shoreline, Sister, smallwhitelight, Soho Dolls, South Central, Spencer McGarry Season, Spleen, Stephanie Dosen, Storsveit Nix Noltes, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Alones, The Answering Machine, The Besnard Lakes, The Crash, The Dash, The Disappointments, The Displacements, The Draytones, The Dykeenies, The Early Years, The Electric City, The Enemy, The Envy Corps, The Favours, The Hat, The Heights, The Holloways, The Hours, The Immediate, The Kissaway Trail, The Lawries, The Lionheart brothers, The Maccabees, The Magic Numbers, The Metros, The Midway State, The Moths, The Noisettes, The Orange Lights, The Pigeon Detectives, The Pistolas, The Prayers, The Race, The Rakes, The Reverend and The Makers, The Ripps, The Scare, The Sigma, The Sonic Hearts, The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, The Video Nasties, The Whip, The Wire, The Young Plan These New Puritans, Tiny Dancers, Trailing Laces, Undercut, Unkle Jam, Untitled Musical Project, Velojet, Vincent Vincent And The Villains, We are The Physics, We're Marching On, Willy Mason, XX Teens (Formerly Xerox Teens), Yes Boss, Young Soul Rebels, yourcodenameis:milo, Youth Movie oundtrack Strategies, ZZZ. View full line-up here.
Here's what people had to say about last year's fest...
• ‘THE GREAT ESCAPE IS AN INVITATION TO THE BRITISH MUSIC INDUSTRY TO TAKE IT’S BUCKET AND SPADE TO THE SEASIDE IN THE ETERNAL SEARCH FOR THE NEXT BIG THING’ – The Times
• ‘AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT’ – Artrocker
• ‘SAME TIME NEXT YEAR!’– Mojo
• “THREE BRILLIANT DAYS, 20 VENUES, 180 BANDS AND ENOUGH MUSIC TO SHAKE A STICK OF ROCK TO” - NME
• ‘A PACEMAKER FOR THE SWEATY HORDE OF SUMMER FESTIVALS TO COME’ – The Observer
• ‘IF THEY CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THE SUCCESS OF THIS FIRST YEAR, BRIGHTON’S WEEKEND OF WORLD MUSIC WILL FAST GROW INTO ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR ’ – The Sun
• ‘WE REALLY ENJOYED THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT ESCAPE FOR HAVING PUT MUSIC BACK INTO THE INDUSTRY’ - Les Inrockuptibles (France)
• ‘BRIGHTON’S FIRST GREAT ESCAPE WAS SUCH A FLYER! I WENT ON TO DO MY HOUR OF “QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS” NERVOUSLY TO BEGIN WITH, BUT I SOON PICKED UP ON THE INCREDIBLE FEEDBACK FROM THE AUDIENCE AND FOUND MYSELF ENJOYING IT IMMENSELY. THANKS FOR INVITING ME” Michael Eavis
• ‘A BRILLIANT ADDITION TO THE UK MUSIC CALENDAR AND THE X-POSURE NIGHTS THERE WERE SOME OF THE BEST GIGS OF THE YEAR BRINGING TOGETHER THE MOST EXCITING NEW BANDS OF 2006… I CAN’T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN ' - John Kennedy, XFM
Where to buy your tickets...
There are a very limited number of tickets still for sale through The Great Escape website here. You can also purchase tickets from the box office (08700 400 076) and Rounder Records (19 Brighton Square, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1HD, Tel: 01273 325440) and from Resident (28, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4AL, Tel: 01273 606312).
Getting to the festival...
Thanks to a special new night train service which leaves Brighton at 23.19, you can soak up all the entertainment at this year’s Great Escape Festival with no worries about getting back to London. The train will stop at East Croydon and Clapham Junction and arrive at Victoria just after midnight in time for the last tubes home.
Where is it?
Brighton city centre.
LastBroadcast's Top Ten Bands You Must See...
• CSS
• Willy Mason
• The Maccabees
• Angus & Julia Stone
• Robots In Disguise
• The Noisettes
• Paul Steel
• Foals
• Goose
• Vincent Vincent And The Villains
Who else is playing?
(We Are) Performance, 120 Days, 1990s, 586, Adele, Adjagas, Air Traffic, Alberta Cross, Ali Love, Andy Gower, Angus & Julia Stone, Annuals, Archie Bronson Outfit, Art Brut, Barbara Carlotti, Battle, Beardy Man, Belisha, Benni Hemm Hemm, Birdy Nam Nam, Black Ghosts, Blak Twang, Bonde Do Role, British Sea Power, Candie Payne, Captain, Cashier no 9, Channel One, Cherry Ghost, Children Collide, Circlesquare, Cocoon, CSS, Cut Off Your Hands, Damn Arms, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Dan Mangan, DANANANANAYKROYD, Dance With Voices, Daniel Benjamin, Die! Die! Die!, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Dominique A, Drookit Dogs, Dub Pistols, Edgar Prais, Elvis Perkins, Emily Loizeau, Enid Blitz, Eternal Erection, Fancy, Fear Of Flying, Findlay Brown, Floors And Walls, Foals, Found, Four Day Hombre, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Future Of The Left, Gallows, Get Well Soon, Ghosts, Good Shoes, Goose, Grimskunk, Hafdis-Huld, Hello Saferide, Help She Can't Swim, Hijera, Hilltop Hoods, Hocus Pocus, Hollywood Porn stars, Hot Club de Paris, I Say Marvin, I Was a Cub Scout, iLiKETRAiNS, Indigo Moss, Jack Penate, Jakobinarina, James Yorkston, Jamie Woon, Jason Pegg (Clearlake), Jersey Budd, Johnny Panic, Johnossi, kardomah, Karima Francis, Kate Nash, Kate Walsh, Kharma 45, Kid Harpoon, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Kubichek!, Kunte Kinte, Land Of Talk, Last Gang, Late Of The Pier, Laura Marling, Lay Low, Les Breastfeeders, Lethal Bizzle, Lights. Action!, Liz Green, Loney, dear, LOOK-SEE PROOF, Loose Salute, The, Lucky Jim, Luke Toms, Magenta Skycode, Make Good Your Escape, Maps, Maths Class, Mechanical Bride, Metro Riots, Micah P. Hinson, Minotaurs, Monkey Sons, Mr Hudson & The Library, Mumm-ra, My Device, my federation, Navel, Neils Children, Neon Plastix, Nouvelle Vague, Nude Girls, Oh No Ono, One Night Only, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man., Palladium, Panico, Passenger, Patrick Watson, Paul Steel, Peggy Sue and The Pirates, Peter Von Poehl, Phat Kev, Polarkreis 18, Polytechnic, Popup, Promise And The Monster, Radar, Ranetki, Rendle Will, Re-Tros, Ripchord, Rob da Bank, Robots In Disguise, Rockettothesky, Rosa Fears, Rubik, Sam Isaac, Scouting For Girls, Seabear, Sergeant, Sex Panther, Shoreline, Sister, smallwhitelight, Soho Dolls, South Central, Spencer McGarry Season, Spleen, Stephanie Dosen, Storsveit Nix Noltes, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Alones, The Answering Machine, The Besnard Lakes, The Crash, The Dash, The Disappointments, The Displacements, The Draytones, The Dykeenies, The Early Years, The Electric City, The Enemy, The Envy Corps, The Favours, The Hat, The Heights, The Holloways, The Hours, The Immediate, The Kissaway Trail, The Lawries, The Lionheart brothers, The Maccabees, The Magic Numbers, The Metros, The Midway State, The Moths, The Noisettes, The Orange Lights, The Pigeon Detectives, The Pistolas, The Prayers, The Race, The Rakes, The Reverend and The Makers, The Ripps, The Scare, The Sigma, The Sonic Hearts, The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, The Video Nasties, The Whip, The Wire, The Young Plan These New Puritans, Tiny Dancers, Trailing Laces, Undercut, Unkle Jam, Untitled Musical Project, Velojet, Vincent Vincent And The Villains, We are The Physics, We're Marching On, Willy Mason, XX Teens (Formerly Xerox Teens), Yes Boss, Young Soul Rebels, yourcodenameis:milo, Youth Movie oundtrack Strategies, ZZZ. View full line-up here.
Here's what people had to say about last year's fest...
• ‘THE GREAT ESCAPE IS AN INVITATION TO THE BRITISH MUSIC INDUSTRY TO TAKE IT’S BUCKET AND SPADE TO THE SEASIDE IN THE ETERNAL SEARCH FOR THE NEXT BIG THING’ – The Times
• ‘AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT’ – Artrocker
• ‘SAME TIME NEXT YEAR!’– Mojo
• “THREE BRILLIANT DAYS, 20 VENUES, 180 BANDS AND ENOUGH MUSIC TO SHAKE A STICK OF ROCK TO” - NME
• ‘A PACEMAKER FOR THE SWEATY HORDE OF SUMMER FESTIVALS TO COME’ – The Observer
• ‘IF THEY CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THE SUCCESS OF THIS FIRST YEAR, BRIGHTON’S WEEKEND OF WORLD MUSIC WILL FAST GROW INTO ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR ’ – The Sun
• ‘WE REALLY ENJOYED THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT ESCAPE FOR HAVING PUT MUSIC BACK INTO THE INDUSTRY’ - Les Inrockuptibles (France)
• ‘BRIGHTON’S FIRST GREAT ESCAPE WAS SUCH A FLYER! I WENT ON TO DO MY HOUR OF “QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS” NERVOUSLY TO BEGIN WITH, BUT I SOON PICKED UP ON THE INCREDIBLE FEEDBACK FROM THE AUDIENCE AND FOUND MYSELF ENJOYING IT IMMENSELY. THANKS FOR INVITING ME” Michael Eavis
• ‘A BRILLIANT ADDITION TO THE UK MUSIC CALENDAR AND THE X-POSURE NIGHTS THERE WERE SOME OF THE BEST GIGS OF THE YEAR BRINGING TOGETHER THE MOST EXCITING NEW BANDS OF 2006… I CAN’T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN ' - John Kennedy, XFM
Where to buy your tickets...
There are a very limited number of tickets still for sale through The Great Escape website here. You can also purchase tickets from the box office (08700 400 076) and Rounder Records (19 Brighton Square, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1HD, Tel: 01273 325440) and from Resident (28, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4AL, Tel: 01273 606312).
Getting to the festival...
Thanks to a special new night train service which leaves Brighton at 23.19, you can soak up all the entertainment at this year’s Great Escape Festival with no worries about getting back to London. The train will stop at East Croydon and Clapham Junction and arrive at Victoria just after midnight in time for the last tubes home.
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