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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Over 90 more bands added to Great Escape bill
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 28 February 2012
The second festival announcement for this year’s Great Escape was made this morning, with Maximo Park added to the Dome show line up, and Mystery Jets, Rolo Tomassi and Foxes among the stack of talent added to the core festival line-up. It’s also been announced that selected Great Escape shows will this year be opened up to the fourteen to eighteen age group, responding to popular demand.
The Great Escape, of course, is Europe’s leading festival for new music, taking place in Brighton each May, with hundreds of new bands playing across the city, plus the UK’s premiere music business convention, which is programmed by CMU. On the convention side, a series of panels on the role of music radio in 2012, including an in conversation with Xfm’s new music champion John Kennedy, have already been confirmed, and a second convention announcement is also due later this week.
On the festival side, Maximo Park join the Africa Express Sound System in the Dome show programme, taking place in the Brighton Dome (a £7 top up ticket guarantees access to these shows), while among the 90 bands added to the rest of the bill are Mystery Jets, Booka Shade, Alabama Shakes, Natty, Lianne La Havas, Ema, Forest Swords, Madeon, Errors, Willy Mason, Foy Vance, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny, Micachu & The Shapes, Maxxi Soundsystem, We Have Band, Loney Dear, Tanlines, New Look, Koreless, Jordan Cook Aka Reignwolf, Jackson Firebird, Massmatiks and Martha Paton.
Early bird tickets are now on sale for both the festival and the convention. The £120 early bird delegates pass gets you access to whole convention and priority access to festival venues, subject to capacity. Buy them now! Click here.
