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Review: The Great Escape, Brighton (Friday 14th May)
Alex Tudor takes us through his highlights of The Great Escape Festival...»
Review: The Great Escape, Brighton (Saturday, 16th May)
Alex Tudor talks us through his highlights of The Great Escape festival...»
The Great Escape 2009: DiS' Festival highlights
Last weekend, DiS venture to the seaside to catch the best of 350+ bands playing in 35+ venues, spread across Brighton over 3 nights. The Great Escape was a whirlwind but we've reconvened and decided these were the best bits of that festival that we managed to see:»
The Great Escape: DiS meets Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is a rare commodity at this moment in time; a singer/songwriter that you actually don't want to punch in the face.»
The Great Escape: Jah Wobble & Jon Savage in conversation
Amidst a dozen seminars about making & promoting music in what may soon be called Web 3.0 (yer Twitters and Spotifys), Jah Wobble of Public Image Limited is in conversation with Jon Savage (author of England’s Dreaming), about the timeless value of actually having a new product rather than just a new platform to regurgitate and recirculate.»
Great Escape '09: DiS' Suggested Schedule
Oh Brighton, with your annual clusterf*ck of bands 'n' booze, you really are spoiling us.»
Great Escape '09: Freshly Inked: The Temper Trap
In this special edition of Freshly Inked, DiS caught up with Korda Marshall, former Warner Brothers MD and the man who started Infectious Records, whose career has involved everyone from Muse to Sea Sick Steve via Symposium (one of your humble scribe's favourite bands), Ash, Take That, Garbage and The Enemy; to find out about his new signing The Temper Trap and to learn more about his new "music company."»
Spotifriday: Drowned in... The Great Escape 55 Track Playlist
Ahhh The Great Escape, the annual fish 'n' chips 'n' bands funfest beside the seaside. DiS has compiled a fifty-five track companion playlist of acts performing at the event. »
The Great Escape 2008: the DiS review
From the archive... Amazing scenes on the south coast as DiS descends upon the annual beachside fest that is The Great Escape, catching the cream of its crop»
DiS Festival Guide '09: Part #3: City, Town and Island Takeovers
Our preview of this summer’s festivals continues apace, with a look today at those events that descend upon bewildered locals and immediately send alcoholism, crime and fun rates soaring – SXSW, The Camden Crawl, The Great Escape, Benicassim and Bestival. Just writing this got me ridiculously excited for the months ahead.»
Great Escape 2009 to include Kasabian, BSP, B.Kweller, JoFo
The first list of notable names for The Great Escape 2009 have been announced. DiS can also confirm that we will once again be hosting a stage.»
In Photos special: The Great Escape 2008
DiS didn’t just have a crack team of scribes on the loose in Brighton for this year’s The Great Escape, oh no. We had a happy snapper, too»
The Great Escape 2008: XX Teens' festival diary
DiS gets a band’s perspective on this weekend just gone's The Great Escape festival in Brighton. Our contributing artist: London-based art-punks XX Teens»
DiS at The Great Escape 2006
Who would have thought that DiS would descend upon Brighton's music industry showcase extravaganza in such fashion. Without a soul in sight waiting to 'network' with a single one of our merry shambles of a crew, we set to work on actually seeing bands. Despite the cruel, bitter wind that insisted on hurtling toward us with near-freezing drizzle as its freight, we actually saw some bands. My word, we saw some rather spectacular bands at that...»
In Photos: Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena, London
In Photos: The Flaming Lips @ The Academy, Manchester
In Photos: Moby @ The Palace Theatre, London
In Photos: Tegan & Sara @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London
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