ABOUT

Since being founded in 2006, The Great Escape has been firmly established internationally as the leading event for showcasing new music. Taking place in Brighton over 3 days in May, The Great Escape kicks starts the festival season, introducing 15,000 music lovers to the key artists and sounds of the year. With over 300 bands playing in 30 venues over 3 days, The Great Escape is the key date in the music calendar. In addition to pre-publicised performances, impromptu street gigs spring up all over town. The Alternative Escape, numerous club nights, label parties, industry showcases, unique collaborations and outdoor gigs all add to the festivities.

“Think of it as Glastonbury by the sea.” NME

“Unveiling the best music from across the globe, The Great Escape is essential for discovering the hottest new talent.” The Fly

“This three day music festival and industry conference is Britain’s answer to Texas’s SXSW.” TIME OUT

“TGE’s USP is new music, so for the real spirit of things, you are best off hunting the smaller venues.” XFM

The HUB

Launched in 2011 The Hub is based in the centre of Brighton at Jubilee Square and is the first TGE venue all 12,000 festival goers visit in order to collect their wristbands. From then on it becomes a great meeting place throughout the festival.

As well as the wristband exchange, we run a licensed bar at The Hub and an open air stage which is programmed with live music and DJs through out the day. We provide deck chairs for attendees to lounge on, while enjoying the shows and the atmosphere.

Previous artists include:


2006
Bat For Lashes, British Sea Power, The Cribs, The Fratellis, The Futureheads, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, The Gossip, Guillemots, Holy Fuck, Hot Club De Paris, Klaxons, The Kooks, The Maccabees, Midlake, Mystery Jets, Paulo Nutini, Richard Hawley and many more

2007
Adele, CSS, The Dykeenies, The Enemy, Foals, Friendly Fires, Gallows, Jack Penate, Kate Nash, Late Of The Pier, Laura Marling, Lethal Bizzle, The Magic Numbers, The Noisettes, Pigeon Detectives, Scouting For Girls, These New Puritans, The Whip and many more

2008
Beach House, Black Mountain, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, Cage The Elephant, Crystal Castles, Example, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Iron & Wire, Ladyhawke, Mumford & Sons, Santigold, The Ting Tings, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, The Wombats, The XX and many more

2009
Ben Kweller, Chew Lips, Dananananaykroyd, Holy Fuck, The Joy Formidable, Kasabian, Little Boots, Metronomy, Noah and The Whale, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Patrick Wolf, School of Seven Bells, Speech Debelle, Slow Club, The Temper Trap, We Were Promised Jet Packs and many more

2010
Angus & Julia Stone, The Big Pink, Blood Red Shoes, Broken Social Scene, Chapel Club, Chase & Status, The Cribs, Crystal Castles, Darwin Deez, Delphic, Ellie Goulding, Everything Everything, Grove Armada, Marina & The Diamonds, Tinie Tempah, Warpaint, Wild Beasts and many more

2011
Anna Calvi, The Antlers, DJ Shadow, Ed Sheeran, Example, Factory Floor, Foster The People, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Gang Gang Dance, Oh Land, James Vincent McMorrow, The Joy Formidable, Katy B, The Naked and Famous, Sufjan Stevens, The Vaccines, Twin Shadow, Villagers, Warpaint and many more




The Great Escape Convention





The Great Escape Convention takes place under one roof in The Brighton Dome. The programme runs daily between 10am and 5pm and consists of panels and debates for experienced music industry delegates, new music entrepreneur presentations, high end key note interviews, short Q&A sessions, case studies and educational workshops for new entrants to the industry. This runs alongside the festival and is attended by over 3000 delegates annually from across the globe.

Targeted networking sessions, parties and sponsored lunches are run every day giving delegates plenty of opportunities to form new business relationships and to catch up with established partners.


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Previous speakers include:

Anthony Volodkin – Hype Machine
Barney Wragg – Ex Head of EMI Digital
Clive Dickins – Absolute Radio
Colin Greenwood – Radiohead
Daniel Ek – Spotify Founder
DJ Shadow – Artist
Eric Garland – Big Champagne
Francis Keeling – VP Digital, Universal
Howard Marks aka Mr. Nice
Ian Rogers – Topsin
John Leckie – Legendry Producer
John Niven – Novelist ‘ Kill Your Friends’
Matt Everitt – BBC 6 Music
Michael Eavis – Glastonbury Festival
Nathan Lovejoy – Limewire
Nick Kent – Author / Music Journalist
Norman Cook – aka Fat Boy Slim
Patrick Walker – Google / You Tube
Paul Epworth – Producer
Seymour Stein – Sire Records
Simon Fox – CEO HMV
Terry McBride – Nettwerk Music Group
Tony Wadsworth – BPI / Brits Trust
Will Page – PRS for Music

(And many more)

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