On tHE FLOOr Get out clause!Brighton fires up The Great Escape again this May


GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL, BRIGHTON,UK


SET up in 2006 as a project dedicated to opening ears to the more progressive end of the indie spectrum, The Great Escape has since trebled in size, these days attracting over 15,000 eager-eared enthusiasts to the seaside, compared to the 4,500 it enticed in year one. Dubbed Britain’s answer to SXSW and now occupying over 30 venues and featuring 300 acts (as opposed to 20 spaces and 180 bands fi rst time around), the three-day festival has diversifi ed with each sitting, witnessing an inevitable onslaught of electronic acts along the way, as dance-y sounds continue to inseminate a realm previously almost exclusively reserved for guitars, amps and boys with fl oppy hair.


But The Great Escape has been about pushing genre boundaries since day one, so it’s no surprise to see the shape- shifting sounds of Jimmy Edgar, Koreless and Disclosure on the line-up, alongside more immediately dancefl oor-friendly acts such as Booka Shade and Maxxi Soundsystem when it lands again this May (10th -12th). Other acts worth checking out include one-girl dream-dance band Grimes, Drive movie soundtrack contributors College and Ghostly International’s cosmic crusader Com Truise, alongside the likes of New Look, Tanlines and Shabazz


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