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The Great Escape’s tenth anniversary goes out with a bang (and then lots of confetti)
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 18 May 2015
The Great Escape’s tenth anniversary year reached its climax on Saturday night as confetti exploded across a packed house enjoying a special midnight show from The Maccabees, alumni of the festival’s very first year back to celebrate its birthday.
The biggest edition of TGE to date, Paul Weller, The Vaccines, Drenge and The Maccabees were all amongst the acts revealed at the very last minute to help celebrate the festival’s ten years. Meanwhile across 35 venues over 450 great new artists from all corners of the world played to excitable punters and over 3500 industry delegates.
Those delegates also took part in the TGE Convention and the CMU Insights programme of conference sessions, which saw record numbers of industry players learn and debate about key current trends in the business of music, with the spotlight being put on marketing, licensing, brand partnerships and the artist/label relationship. A great mix of keynotes, presentations, interviews and panels meant CMU Insights @ TGE met its key objective: to explain and educate before we debate.
You can read CMU’s coverage so far of our conference strands on the special CMU@TGE microsite, with some of those reports also included in this edition of the CMU Daily. Plus look out for additional reports and podcasts, going live on that site and here in the Daily each day over the coming weeks, as we share all the insights, opinions, tips and views shared during this year’s event.
