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hoping for another Trippple Nippples moment to crop up.

I didn't bother with any of the 'proper' shows. The Alternative Escape's lineup is quality.

I live close to this and have been meaning to go for years but always hear such bad things about it that I never bother. Planning to change that this year and actually try it for myself.
So basically - how does one approach this? Is it worth even planning to see any particular bands? I have no idea what the system is of getting into most of the venues. I know Concorde is supposed to be a nightmare to get into so I won't bother - but is it the same across the festival? Say I want to see a band in Audio or Coalition would I have to allow ages to actually get in or can I turn up 5 minutes before most places?

It's always especially bad by the Corn Exchange or wherever the biggest wristband gig is. But you'll be able to get in somewhere for sure, and if you sign up for their text service, they'll let you know where the bad queues are.

I'd say remember that it's meant to be a new band festival, and approach everything with an open mind, and go and see a load of bands you've never heard of.

I'm not setting a schedule of all the bands I've heard of and following it slavishly. I'd like to be able to see a few bands I specifically want to see though - bands like Beach Fossils, Lord Huron, Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
I'd like to know how to make sure I get into these, and whether it's so hard to garantee entry to a particular venue that it isn't worth bothering.

But the clashes are just horrible.. I wanted to see about 4 people each day and they all seem to be on at the same time. Just gonna catch everyone separately in London I think

Friday night
https://www.facebook.com/events/537204729651614/?ref=ts&fref=ts

1.00 - Jurassic PoP
1.30 - Bermuda Ern
2.15 - Katie Malco
3.00 - Doctrines
3.45 - Axes
4.30 - Attika State
5.15 - Bear Cavalry
6.00 - Delta Sleep
6.45 - Gunning for Tamar
7.30 - Gnarwolves
8.15 - My First Tooth
9.00 - Freeze The Atlantic
9.45 - Stagecoach
10.30 - Crash of Rhinos
11.15 - Tellison
12.15 - Fight Like Apes
1.15 - Johnny Foreigner
2.15 - The Social Club
03.00 - Her Parents
03.45 - Oxygen Thief

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I do these as an important part of the GE is to try and see multiple bands in as few venues as possible to save disappointment (especially in the nights) and this helps. All bands are in order of apperance, though not all bands are covered due to it being Spotify, but most of them are! I will do 3 of these a day meaning every day for 10 days the will be 3 playlists for you to flick threw :)

HOPE THIS HELPS!

The Haunt: http://open.spotify.com/user/yesiamaduck/playlist/7mJyFUBelhWUxtoZlFFrFw

The Brighthelm Centre:
http://open.spotify.com/user/yesiamaduck/playlist/6AaVdBkSBCKGA35TCp9WFi

The Hope: http://open.spotify.com/user/yesiamaduck/playlist/7CtjAMk04B93WL08jSyht1

got my eyes on mac demarco (seen him before so won't cry if too busy) parquet courts, beach fossils, mazes, merchandise, UMO, cheatahs, eagulls...some bad clashes saturday night (chvrches/parquet/courts/mazes) but hoping Mazes will do another set. From personal experience last year i would recommend turning up at least 45 mins before band you really wanna see.

Who else should I see?

please pm me if you're looking to shift one! THANKING YOU

And the weather looks like it's going to be good for it!

I can't wait now. I'm putting together a list, and there's clashes EVERYWHERE! I'll either miss lots of stuff I want to see, or be completely knackered by sunday.

What are everyone's must see bands? I was blown away by Melody's Echo Chamber earlier this year, so they're top of my list. I'm also really looking forward to seeing IYES and Fear of Men - two of the best bands in Brighton right now.

I know I wont see most of these bands :(

http://open.spotify.com/user/yesiamaduck/playlist/6tr4MJ84NqJjGzGoKakZ6X

Your stage times for Saturday disagree with the TGE website/app, is there a reason for this? Cheers

can't wait to get to Brighton tomorrow. The best way to approach this really is with an open mind, checking out as much as you can. Stumbled across so many gems last year in particular a mid-afternoon gig seeing Born Gold.

Does anyone have any top recommendations of Alternative Escape stuff to check out?

(Apart from the Alcopop!/BSM and Fool's Paradise/Bad Math shows at the Pav Tav)

might blag into a few places - it's fun was soaking it all up really

You'd be foolish to miss the Faux Discx party on Saturday. Dead good lineup with Cold Pumas/Vision Fortune and the like.

Here's the details:

FRIDAY 17TH & SATURDAY 18TH

OIB & Rockfeedback present a free entry TGE secret RSVP party...no wristband, no problem!

RSVP IS OPEN NOW AT www.oneinchbadge.com // fast-link: http://ymlp.com/xgeqwujbgmgh
*** please note that Great Escape wristbands offer no priority to this show, it's RSVP ONLY #NOWRISTBANDNOPROBLEM

SECRET LOCATION
will be emailed to to all RSVP guests prior to the event

KILLER LINE-UP
FRIDAY:
1:30pm Wolf Alice
2:30pm Findlay
3:30pm Only Real
4:30pm Kins
5:30pm The Orwells
6:30pm Bo Ningen (RSVP PARTY EXCLUSIVE, NO OTHER TGE SHOW!)
7:30pm Three Trapped Tigers

SATURDAY:
12:30pm Soft Arrows
1:30pm Fear Of Men
2:30pm Young Kato
3:30pm The Physics House Band
4:30pm Teleman
5:30pm Popstrangers
6:30pm Marika Hackman
7:30pm Egyptian Hip Hop (RSVP PARTY EXCLUSIVE, NO OTHER TGE SHOW!)

SAME PERFECT COST
Free to all (wristband or no wristband) - RSVP only

Needless to say this event will be the most talked about party of the TGE 2013 weekend so make sure you RSVP to be able to attend, capacity will be limited so arrive early to get in....

Is it me or does the festival seem less of a hassle then usual? I mean I remember even on the Thursday having to queue for pretty much anything after 8pm but this year you seem to be quite freely able to jump from venue to venue! (though I expect this to change tonight/tomorrow) seems better organised then ever so far with every band being on time and queues being non existent for pretty much every aspect of the festival thus far (wristbands, bars, gigs)

So the first day! Had lots of fun and enjoyed pretty much every band I saw. Particular highlights were all found at the lovely surrondings of the Brighthelm Centre with How To Dress Well pulling out a spine tingling set with fantastic visuals (one of which is sure to haunt for me for quite some time).

Special shout outs:
Blue Hawaii: Banging choons! this was a lot of fun and got the whole crowd dancing

Made In Japan: A lot better then I thought it would be, incredibly tight band.

Honeyblood: Punch rock duo with great hooks and lovely personality's

Phantom: Cool visuals and an awesome and interesting midi controller known as the 'UFO' along with some really cool mesmerising sounds and occasional pop flurishes.

AA Wallace: The place was totally empty by this time & we feared the worst. But what little crowd that was there had a great time as EVERYONE danced in a very loud and bizzare way. The was a couple of people having a phantom basket ball game at one point, proving you don't need a big crowd to have a good crowd, and it was certainly the most I danced all day.

Husky Rescue: Starting off pleasant electronic tinged indie pop and became a hypnotic electronic jam!

We Were Evergreen: They really got the crowd going in a BIG WAY, especially considering this was at the Hub Stage which is where people usually just have a quick sit and absorb the sounds of the bands around them. An incredible amount of energy for a 4pm show with lots of 'raving' at the front, I was really surprised.

Mehs Of The Day: Holy Esque & Eat More Cake

Holy Esque seemed kind of decent from what I had heard but the complete lack of dynamics in their song writing made this a slog to watch and I left kind of early. Disappointed as I remember enjoying the single quite a lot but even that kind of stank live.

Eat More Cake: I think I would've been more into this if it wasn't 3pm as it was all a bit Ibiza in places. The male vocalist also seemed completely lost and his voice was all a bit Karaoke.

Bands I saw & enjoyed but don't have much to talk about: Echo & The Empress & The Upskirts

All in all, a very good first day, with awesome weather to back it up!

We (the OBL) are doing a fun free entry show etc.

Parquet Courts / Mazes / DZ Deathrays / Traams @ The Loft tomorrow night.

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/434078263355050/?fref=ts

Went to see Wall (such a lovely setting for them, thought it sounded amazing) as I'm friends with them, but as me and my friend had decent pew position we decided to stay and watch Ed Harcourt (was meant to be scooting off to another friend's show), and I gotta say he blew me away. The song he did wandering up and down the aisle, incredible. I should imagine like a few others I was a fan around the release of his first album then he kind of went off the radar for me as the 00s went on, but I'll definitely be checking out what I've been missing.

Big shout out to Alcopop/BSM and Fools Paradise who put on two super fun musical marathons at the Pav Tav on Friday and Saturday. Playlounge absolutely smashed it at both shows, check these guys out if you like No Age and that sort of thing.

Fav shows - Beach Fossils/Mac DeMarco, overall best thing I'd seen had to be Parquet Courts, even had a cheeky crowd surf.

Nice surprises - Skip & Die, Monophona, Diana, Blue Hawaii, Birkwin Jersey, Mykki Blanco, Deap Valley

I wanted to punch whoever did the sound for Cheatahs, missed UMO and Merchandise due to long queues and that's about it for gripes.

even if I slept the majority of Friday nigh because of being exhausted.

Best Bands: Young Fathers, Blue Hawaii, Monophona, How To Dress Well, Cousins, Alarm Bells, The Beards (Funniest gig I've ever attended), Concrete Knives.

Real Good shit: Tres B, Made In Japan, Kamp!, Mary Epworth, Phantom, Honeyblood, Girls In Hawaii, AA Wallace, Husky Rescue, Whatever the band was after Young Fathers on Saturday

Personal highlight: Either everyone jumping up and dancing for 'You should really consider having sex with a bearded man' by the Beards after everyone was sat down the whole gig *seriously great fun the whole set* and when the crowd noticed AA Wallace was going to play to a near empty hall so everyon rallied and danced as much as humanly possible to make the room look full... it was a lot of fun.

And other good stuff! Lots of interesting stuff going on during the Brighton Festival kept my attention when I should've perhaps been running along to bands & I wish I stayed for Deep Valley & Parquet Courts but couldn't stand the crowd *full of people too impressed with their own voice* and it was quite uncomfortable to stand around.

The only bands that did nothing for me the whole weekend was Holy Esque *yawn* and Deep Sea Arcade *warning! 2nd coming of Kasabian*

The rest of the stuff I saw was enjoyable but I don't remember it :D *I Saw a lot* and spent 0 time in queues despite doing quite a lot of queuing

As much as I wanted to like Alarm Bells, the mix was fucking terrible where I was standing (weird because the two bands before them sounded fine) and then I realized I wasn't into their brand of disco/hardcore/synth pop whatever they were trying to pull off.

I had a really good time. Highlights of the weekend were probably non-Great Escape gigs - Bo Ningen, Crap Crab and Black Black Hills were all great. Mac Demarco and Melody's Echo Chamber were both superb, I'm a bit in love with Mac Demarco. The only real disappointment was Darkstar - I expected so much more but found myself getting bored about 15 minutes into their set.