This year sees the return of The Great Escape Festival in Brighton, which will run from the 17th - 19th May.
Last year's event was retrospectively hailed as a great success, with 5,000 people watching over 180 bands on stages at 20 venues across the seaside town.
This year, things are getting bigger and DiS is so sure it'll prove to be ace that we are proud to have taken up the mantle of official online media partner.
Bands that have already confirmed themselves for 2007's event include CSS, Willy Mason, Mumm-Ra, Mr Hudson & The Library, Foals, Orange Lights, Nouvelle Vague, Help She Can't Swim, Kubichek and Ripchord. Early weekend tickets are available here at a reduced price of £35.
Full line-ups will be announced in due course, but for now any bands wanting to appear at the weekend showcase can apply online - Windows Live Spaces has again teamed up with The Great Escape Festival as "the event’s unique registration process for unsolicited applications".
If that reference of solicitation has aroused your interest and you would like to apply to play at the weekend, you can do so by following the instructions online here. Alternatively, you can send in a CD via post.
For more information go to EscapeGreat.com.
CSS
This will be the first of about 859 festivals these guys play this year.
Anybody that went last year
are the age restrictions strictly 18+?
I was 15 last year
and got into most of it OK... As it's lots of separate venues it just depends on what door staff you meet really. From 20 or whatever you're bound to find somewhere that will let you in!
god knows how its getting bigger
as brightons two best venues -the hanbury and the freebutt have closed down because yuppies didnt like the noise........thanks brighton council....sound limit the music scene out of the town why dont you
They're
Using the Dome this year apparently!
oh dear.
that sounds tedious...the kooks will be playing againg then. The flyer for this year was hilarious....it claimed that last years festival 'discovered' richard hawley!.....hmmm....
More people watching The Kooks
= Less idiots elsewhere.
yeah,
lots of yuppies live around the freebutt !
this festival is one of me faves
shame about the SHIT SHIT and i mean SHITE weather last year!
hahaha
;-)
hmm
maybe not yuppies but the idiots at the council are responsible for building sheltered accomidation around an established live music venue. And the yuppie housing market has imposed noise limits to :the lift, the albert and sussex arts because people are living in spaces not designed for people to live originally.the limiter has meant that louder bands- josh pearson, blood red shoes etc cant play because they are too loud. drums set the alarms off.
In manchester they tried to put a limiter on a venue because new build flat owners complained- and they took it to court saying they had been established before they built the houses and as such could continue as before. and they won. Thats what should happen in brightonm, but doesnt seem to be happening. bah....
Boo!
It's the same weekend as ATP innit, shite planning! :-(
But at how many of CSS’s 859 festivals this year…
...will they be playing at a 300 capacity venue that backs onto the beach? I don’t think The Kooks are playing either. And last year the reason bands like The Gossip could play The Great Escape was because they could combine it with playing ATP, therefore it’s a good thing that it’s the same weekend again…
And the weather can’t be any worse than last year and I hear there’s more central venues like the Pavillion Theatre as well as a few bigger ones (Corn Exchange?) and not the ones further out (Engine Rooms and Hanbury). Although Hanbury is a lovely venue.
Foals too!