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Great Escape sells out: Paul Weller secret gig, Ghetts and Mike Skinner films, CMU Insights programme and microsite

By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 11 May 2015

Both festival and delegate tickets for this year’s Great Escape – the tenth anniversary edition – have now sold out, as the music industry prepares to amass in Brighton later this week for three days of gigs, parties, networking, talks and debates.

And as tickets for the event sold out on Friday, organisers confirmed that there would be a record number of secret shows taking place this year, including Amazon Music presenting Paul Weller, which isn’t a secret (we just told you), but the venue is. Festival-goers and delegates can find out more about the secret gigs via the TGE text service and app.

Also added to the bill this year are two short film premieres complete with Q&A sessions involving the people they feature: Mike Skinner and Ghetts. The latter film is ‘War Of The Minds’, created as part of the Jack Rocks music programme led by Jack Daniel’s, and chronicles the life and career of Ghetts by “looking at the inner creative tensions that Ghetts faces as an artist – represented by three characters, Ghetts, Ghetto and Justin”.

On the convention side, as much previously reported, we are pleased to present CMU Insights @ The Great Escape, four full-day mini-conferences putting the spotlight on licensing, brands, music marketing and the artist/label relationship. Taking place at Dukes @ Komedia on Thursday and Friday, you can check the full CMU programme here online, or in this PDF guide.

And for those not in the room, we’ll be providing coverage of the CMU sessions this year via a special CMU@TGE microsite, which will feature reports, guides and key facts and figures during the event itself and then a series of CMU@TGE podcasts in the weeks that follow. Follow this coverage at tge2015.cmuinsights.com/