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Artist News Gigs & Festivals The Great Escape 2015
First round of Great Escape bands announced
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 27 January 2015
Oh my Lord, get yourself one of the finest spreadsheets on the market and start planning, because the first line-up announcement has been made by the greatest of all the Escapes, by which we mean The Great Escape, Europe’s leading festival for new music.
Yeah, OK, we programme the core strands of the convention side of all this (check this link for details of this year’s themes) which makes us biased. But shut your face, this is a flipping exciting line-up announcement even when you mix it with some anti-bias fluid.
The first 150 bands to play the tenth anniversary edition of TGE have been unveiled this morning, with Alabama Shakes the first of the Dome Shows to be announced, the band returning to the festival to play its biggest stage (top-up tickets guarantee wristband holders access to this show).
And speaking all happy go lucky as one, the Shakes said: “We are very happy to return to Brighton for The Great Escape. We had a blast last time. We’ve just finished our new record and are very excited to share it with the TGE audience”.
As for the rest of the top new talent on offer, well, we’re not going to get into the messy business of picking out just a few, so here’s the full list. Delegate passes that get you access to both the festival and convention are still available for £145 if you buy them NOW.
First round of TGE bands: 1987, 36?, Acollective, Adam French, Admiral Fallow, Ak/Dk, Alabama Shakes, All Tvvins, Alo Wala, Andrea Balency, Andy Shauf, Apes, April Towers, Aquilo, Aurora, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Bad Breeding, Bad//Dreems, Banoffee, Bella Figura, Black Honey, Black Peaks, Boothroyd, Bully, CAR, Cairobi, Charles Howl, Charlie Straw, Chelou, Choir Of Young Believers, Clarence Clarity, Close Talker, Cosmo Sheldrake, Creeper, Creepoid, Dan Bodan, Dark Moon, Demob Happy, Django Django, Dutch Uncles, Elder Island, Ewert And The Two Dragons, Fantasma, Fismoll, Flo Morrissey, Flyying Colours, Forever Pavot, Formation, Fraser A Gorman, Freddie Dickson & The Guard, From Indian Lakes, Gabrielle Papillon, Gengahr, Girl Band, Groenland, H.Hawkline, Hælos, Happyness, Honne, Human Hair, Ibeyi, Ivy & Gold, Jack Garratt, Jagaara, Jasmine Thompson, Jordan Klassen, Jp Cooper, Kagoule, Kevin Devine, Kiko Bun, Klaus Johann Grobe, Lake Malawai, Lapsley, Laura Doggett, Lazytalk, Le Galaxie, Lee Bains Iii & The Glory Fires, Les Big Byrd, Life, Little Mary, Little Simz, Louis Berry, Louis Mttrs, Low Roar, Loyle Carner, Lubomyr Melnyk, Mapei, Meat Wave, Menace Beach, Monica Heldal, Moumoon, Mt Wolf, My Baby, Nick Brewer, Oceaán, Orla Gartland, Osca, Oscar & The Wolf, Passepied, Pierce Brothers, Pins, Popstrangers, Pretty Vicious, Prom, Rag N Bone Man, Rat Boy, Real Lies, Remi, Rolls Bayce, Saint Motel, Saskwatch, Seinabo Sey, Shelter Point, Silences, Single Mothers, Slaves, Soak, Songhoy Blues, Sunset Sons, Sway Clarke Ii, Tei Shi, Thabo & The Real Deal, The Bohicas, The Garden, The Hearts, The Lytics, The Magic Gang, The Merrylees, The Picturebooks, The Riptide Movement, The St Pierre Snake Invasion, The Young Benjamins, This Be The Verse, Thomston, The Thurston Moore Band, Tobias Jesso Jr, Tops, Tor Miller, Turbowolf, Twerps, Twin Wild, Usa Nails, Vérité, Vilde Tuv, Vodun, Vogue Dots, Walking On Cars, Ward Thomas, Yak, Yosi Horikawa and Zun Zun Egui.
