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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Great Escape announces first bands
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 25 January 2011
Obviously most people will be coming to The Great Escape this year for the expertly-programmed music business convention, but did you know they have bands playing there too? Yes, they do. Good ones, as well. More than 300 of them will fill Brighton’s gig venues over three days in May, and the first batch of em were announced this morning.
Kicking off the line-up are the rather fine Warpaint, Katy B, Brother and Friendly Fires, the latter of whom will perform a special show at The Dome venue at the heart of the festival. As well as those four, amongst the other acts just announced are Twin Shadow, D/R/U/G/S, Becoming Real, PVT, Dutch Uncles, Tribes, worriedaboutsatan, Teeth, Visions Of Tree, and Seams.
To see all the line-up announcements, and to buy super early bird festival passes for just £35, head over to www.escapegreat.com. Though obviously what you really want is one of those bargain early bird delegate passes – a snip at £80 – that not only gets you into all these bands, but gives you access to the wonderful convention side too. That sounds like a fabulous deal to me, especially considering the amazing team they’ve got programming the convention this year. Who was that again?
