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Artist Registration for TGE 2016 is now open

Calling all artists, the day is finally here….. Artist Registration for The Great Escape 2016 is now officially open in partnership with Music Glue If you are interested in submitting your act for consideration, all you have to do is register for free via Music Glue. All submissions will be reviewed by our team and those artists chosen to perform will be contacted directly over the coming months. For more info on artist registration and to submit your artist for consideration to play on the TGE 2016 line up CLICK HERE.

FIRST 150 ARTISTS ANNOUNCED We are thrilled to announce the first 150 artists to join our 10th anniversary festival line-up including southern soul-rock quartet Alabama Shakes, the first Brighton Dome show artist to be announced. As one of the most anticipated artists in 2012, they played to just 400 people, the same year that they delivered their hit debut album ‘Boys & Girls‘. The band will triumphantly return in 2015 to bring their powerful live show to The Great Escape’s biggest stage.. CLICK HERE to find out who's on the line up for TGE15! Limited Saver Tickets are available to buy by CLICKING HERE

SAVER TICKETS ON SALE NOW There are only 17 weeks to go until the 10th edition of The Great Escape descends upon Brighton and we promise to bring you the best weekend of discovery yet. We are nearly ready to unleash our first line-up announcement on the world and can’t wait to share it with you. Watch this space! Alongside our usual TGE greatness we will be throwing some 10th birthday surprises into the mix with some special guests and returning alumni coming down to help us celebrate our landmark year. With anticipation building, tickets are selling faster than ever before CLICK HERE to get your Saver Festival tickets today.

We are delighted to announce the first of our TGE Presents nights on Thursday 13th November, Upstairs at The Garage. The line up features Nottingham grunge trio Kagoule, London 4 piece Lake Malawi plus more special guests still to be announced. The event is free entry. We look forward to seeing you all there…

Don't forget to buy your Early Bird tickets HERE The 10th edition of The Great Escape promises to go off with a bang!

Last Chance To Vote For Us!

Voting for this year's Festival Awards closes on Monday so if you haven't already, please lend us your support. We're nominated for Best Metropolitan Festival and you can have your say HERE. It only takes two minutes and by voting you'll be entered into a drawer to win tickets to every winning festival!

We are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for Best Metropolitan Festival at the Festival Awards this year. Please help us to win by voting for us HERE. By voting you enter yourself into a draw to win VIP tickets to every single winning festival. Wow! what a prize!!!!! Voting is quick and easy and can be done by CLICKING HERE

Buy Your Early Bird Tickets Now

Summer vibes are still in the air, and we can’t get enough of it. The sun will set on summer 2014 before we know it, so it’s time to start looking forward to summer 2015 and The Great Escape’s 10th birthday. Early Bird tickets are now on sale however there are only a limited number of these tickets available so act now to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be purchased by CLICKING HERE or by heading down to Resident.

Calling all artists, the day is finally here….. Artist Registration for The Great Escape 2015 is now officially open in partnership with Music Glue. If you are interested in submitting your act for consideration, all you have to do is register for free via Music Glue. All submissions will be reviewed by our team and those artists chosen to perform will be contacted directly over the coming months. For more info on artist registration and to submit your artist for consideration to play on the TGE 15 line up CLICK HERE.

#TGE15 is now officially on sale! Today we have released a limited number of Super Early Bird Festival Tickets for the 2015 event, which will take place in 30+ venues in Brighton & Hove from 14th -16th May 2015. The tenth edition of the festival will once again introduce a cutting edge line up of up and coming artists from all over the world as well as some special guests to help celebrate the landmark birthday event. All tickets for this years’ festival sold out for the second year consecutively so don’t miss the chance to attend in 2015 and buy now. 3 day tickets can be purchased at the hugely discounted rate of £39.50 by CLICKING HERE

Band of the Day #567 - Orval Carlos Sibelius So it seems summer has arrived in the UK and who better to soundtrack this glorious weather than Paris' hottest export, Orval Carlos Sibelius. His glistening psychedelic tracks are bursting with warmth, optimism and such joyful vibes that they'll even wash away the despair of The Great Escape having passed already. And talking of The Great Escape, last Thursday Orval stepped up to play two shows on day one of the festival and despite the harsh weather hammering down on Brighton, his sunblushed set, jammed with soaring choruses transported the atmosphere to one of trippy, exotic euphoria. We promise if you need a lift, check out 'Asteroids' and that'll do the trick. If you're a fan of Real Estate, we recommend you give this a spin. Once you're hooked, don't fret, you haven't got too long to wait until new album 'Super Forma' drops on 2nd June. Give the new video a watch below.

Band of the Day #566 - Lola Colt Taking their name from a 60s spaghetti western, Lola Colt are a powerful and imposing six-piece making some mind-bending psychedelia. These guys are already making a name for themselves as a much sought-after and anticipated new band through their sublime live performances which twist through their slow grooving, moody and spiraling sounds. A sound that turns the smallest of venues into a intensely-hypnotic psyche experience. A trait that they proved with ferocity on Thursday night in Bermuda Triangle at TGE14. The band have already been noticed by influential names like Artrocker, Q Magazine, NME and Drowned in Sound so the future is certainly looking bright. New video 'Diamonds' premiered last week and is the second part to their new single 'Vacant Hearts', which is released next month. If you weren't able to catch them at TGE, make sure you get their Oslo show in your diaries. We know where we'll be on 4th June...

Band of the Day #565 - New Desert Blues From the South Coast of England, away from the glare of the capital, New Desert Blues have been carefully concocting Noire-infused, harmony-laden soundscapes since 2012, now possessing an arsenal of songs the next year looks to be a special one for the band. Live, the band are really starting to cut their teeth. They've grabbed attention with their amazing performances supporting Peace and Wolf Alice and really stood out at this year's Great Escape. Whilst doing so, the band have also recorded their new song 'Milk&Honey' in only 24h. The result is a gloomy soundscape throbbing with dense instrumentation and heavy vocals. With a name quite fitting for their music, we can't wait to hear their full-lenght album, which they are currently working on. If you missed them this weekend, catch them live at The Lexington on June 2nd.

Band of The Day #564 - Paul Thomas Saunders Beautifully atmospheric Leeds born singer-songwriter, Paul Thomas Saunders takes influences such as Joe Meek and Leonard Cohen and encapsulates both the psychedelic soundscape and intellectual sentimentality that the sixties graced us with, then wraps it up in a spiraling contemporary shell. With ethereal guitars, haunting harmonies, wide reverb and tingling folk sounds he marks a new development for Leeds music that we are looking forward to him bringing along to Brighton.

Band of The Day #563 - Nico Vega Los Angeles-based rock trio Nico Vega are making music that showcases the band’s trademark blues-laden guitar rock, with soaring synths thrown in for good measure. Frontwoman, Aja’s fearless and passionate vocals round out their tracks, with simultaneously inspiring and action-inciting lyrics. Their music draws from intensely personal experiences and the band’s passion for art and politics to deliver some of the most poignant tunes in recent memory. The band will be heading down to Brighton's sunny shores with us this week, make sure you catch their set on Friday at Brighthelm.

Band of The Day #562 - Tomas Azier Hailing from Berlin with an uncompromising, dark and broody electronic pop sound, Thomas Azier is set on making his own impression on the music world. Since releasing his first two EP's on his own label in 2012, Thomas has gone on to tour with Woodkid and Stromae, and land a worldwide record deal with Universal Music France. His sound bridges gaps between cultures, combining factory sounds derived from the Dutch gabber and hardcore scene, the German electronic scene and the epic and profound emotions you would find in French artists. With his outstanding debut album 'Hylas' which is out now, we are lucky enough to have this talented man play twice at the year's Great Escape.