Great Escape '09: DiS' Suggested Schedule

Oh Brighton, with your annual clusterf*ck of bands 'n' booze, you really are spoiling us.

This year's Great Escape festival boasts 350+ acts playing in a mere 34 venues over a period of 3 days. There's an awful lot to see and do, how on earth do you schedule it? Fear not, for DiS has spent many (MANY) hours blasting through MySpace pages (not to mention years of checking out new bands on a daily basis) to try to find the golden-topped cream of the crop. Obviously we did our best to book the bestest three nights of the festival at The Honeyclub and you could just hang around there until you get DVT or you, like us, could explore the 33 other bills and hopefully find yourself witnessing something you've never heard before and hassling the band as soon as they finish to buy their CD.

Our research is ongoing and we're sure there's plenty we've missed, forgotten about or not aware of yet but here's roughly what DiS plans to see... we suggest you stalk us.

Thursday

11:00am - DiS' Editor Sean Adams interviews Blur's manager Chris Morrison @ Thistle Hotel (Tennyson) info

1:20pm - Deastro @ Fortune of War

2:30pm - DiS' Editor Sean Adams interviews Infectious Records' Korda Marshall @ Thistle Hotel (Tennyson) info

3:20pm - DiS' Editor facilitates the keynote discussion between Korda Marshall and Chris Morrison @ Thistle Hotel (Tennyson) info

5:01pm - Levi's BBQ with Frankmusik (DJ set) @ Above Audio

6:30pm - Friendship @ Sallis Benney Theatre

7:15pm - My Latest Novel @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR DM Stith @ Pavillion Theatre OR The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Po Na Na OR Pulled Apart by Horses @ Sallis Benney Theatre

8:00pm - Fanfarlo @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR Hjaltalin @ Komedia Theatre

8:15pm - Emmy The Great @ Digital OR Wintersleep @ Hector's House

8:45pm - Maps @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com

9:00pm - Cursive @ Ocean Rooms Basement OR Danananaykroyd @ Audio OR Chew Lips @ The Hope

9:15pm - Evan Dando @ Digital

9:30pm - Gentle Friendly @ The Freebutt OR Micachu & The Shapes @ Po Na Na OR Soap & Skin @ Unitarian Church

9:45pm - Grammatics @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com

10:00pm - Baddies @ Ocean Rooms (Ground)

Midnight - Fandeath @ Brighton Coalition OR The Maccabees @ The Corn Exchange

12:45am - Cocoon @ Les Inrocks presents at Duke of York's

Friday

2:30pm - Hanne Hukkleberg @ Prince Albert

3:00pm - Casiokids @ Above Audio

5:01pm - Levi's BBQ with Mystery Jets (DJ set) @ Above Audio

6pm - 7pm - DiS & Music Export Norway present: Casiokids & drinks info

6:30pm - The Veils @ Sallis Benney Theatre

7:15pm - We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com

7:30pm - To The Bones @ Audio

8:00pm - The Temper Trap @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. @ Digital

8:15pm - Chew Lips @ Audio OR Jesca Hoop @ Komedia Studio Bar OR Smoke Fairies @ Old Market OR A Grave With No Name @ Revenge (1st Floor)

8:45pm - Marnie Stern @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR Chairlift @ Concorde 2 OR The Phantom Band @ Pavillion Theatre OR Casiokids @ Po Na Na

9:30pm - The Charlatans @ Brighton Coalition OR Liam Finn @ Volks

9:45pm - Metric @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR Twilight Sad @ Audio

10:00pm - Dark Horses Feat Emiliana Torrini @ St George's Church

10:15pm - Times New Viking @ Providence OR Holy Fuck @ Komedia Theatre

11:00pm - Let's Wrestle @ The Hope

11:15pm - Hjaltalin @ Duke of York's

Midnight - Metronomy @ Corn Exchange (Club NME)

12:10am - Polly Scattergood @ Basement

Saturday

1pm - Fear & Records party with You Animals (1:15pm), Decimals (2:00pm) and Johnny Foreigner (2:45pm) @ The Freebutt (info)

3:00pm - Die! Die! Die! @ Horatios (New Zealand party)

3:15pm - Duchess Says @ Arc for M from Montreal party... it starts at none (more info)

3:40pm - The Veils @ Horatios (New Zealand party)

6:30pm - Mechanical Bride @ Sallis Benney Theatre

7:15pm - You Animals @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR Banjo or Freakout @ Pavillion Theatre

8:00pm - Catherine A.D. @ Unitarian Church OR Sky Larkin @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com

8:30pm - The Temper Trap @ Komedia Theatre

8:45pm - Johnny Foreigner @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR GIRLS @ Jam OR Ben Kweller @ Digital

9:15pm - School of Seven Bells @ Pavillion Theatre

9:45pm - Idlewild @ Honeyclub, hosted by DrownedinSound.com OR British Sea Power @ Digital

10:15pm - Gang of Four @ Old Market OR Ipso Facto @ Horatios OR Skint & Demoralized @ Komedia Studio Bar

Midnight - Betty & The Werewolves @ Fortune of War

2am - Mr Hudson @ Brighton Coalition