Simon Armitage (Poet, Playwright and Novelist)
Sat Bisla (A&R Worldwide and Musexpo)
Kevin Bradshaw (LimeWire)
Paul Brindley (Music Ally)
Neil Cartwright (Media Junction Digital)
Lisa Chadwick (Digital Development Director)
Niall Doherty (Editor, The Fly)
Daniel Ek (Spotify)
Snowy Everitt (Espionage)
Eric Garland (BigChampagne)
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
Graham Hodge (Espionage)
Seth Jackson (Indie Mobile)
Chris Jenkins (Wittdo)
Peter Jenner (Sincere Management)
Pierre Lalonde (Canadian Heritage)
John Leckie (Producer)
Nathan Lovejoy (LimeWire)
Paul Morley (Journalist)
Chris Morrison (CMO)
Joseph Mount (Artist - Metronomy)
Erik Nielsen (Wingnut Music)
Will Page (PRS)
Juan Paz (Music Ally - UK)
Alexis Petridis (Journalist)
Previous Speakers
Seymour Stein (Sire Records)
David Quantick (Word/Uncut)
Michael Eavis (Glastonbury Festival)
Terry McBride (Nettwerk Music Group)
Tony Wadsworth (BPI/Brits Trust)
Barney Wragg (Head of EMI Digital)
Anthony Volodkin (Hype Machine)
Michael Robertson (Anywhere CD/MP3 Tunes)
Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim)
Howard Marks (Mr. Nice)
Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays)
Babyshambles rock out beside the seaside
The Great Escape 2009 review - efestivals.co.uk
Weekend Review - Gigwise.com
Sounds Like
Previous Line-ups.
2009!
A Grave With No Name
Abe Vigoda
The Acorn
Alan Powell
An Experiment On The Bird In The Air Pump
Apples
Arkells
Artefacts For Space Travel
Arthur Delany
Baby Venom
Baddies
The Balky Mule
Bang Bang Eche!
Banjo or Freakout
Battletorn
Beast
Bell X1
Ben Kweller
Beth Jeans Houghton
Betty and The Werewolves
The Bewitched Hands On The Top Of Our Heads
The Big Pink
The Black Box Revelation
The Black Lips
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
Brian Borcherdt
British India
British Sea Power
Broken Records
The Brute Chorus
Casiokids
Cassie and The Cassettes
Catherine A.D.
Chairlift
The Chapman Family
Charlie Ash
Charlie Calleja
Chew Lips
Citizen Cope
Colourmusic
Come On Gang!
The Computers
Connan Mockasin
Crystal Antlers
Dan Auerbach
Dan Black
Dan Mangan
Dan Smith
Danananaykroyd
Datarock
De De Mouse
The Deer Tracks
Die Die Die!
Django Django
DM Stith
Duchess Says
The Electric City
Emily Baker
Esser
Everything Everything
Ex Lovers
Fan Death
Fight Like Apes
Future Of The Left
Futurecop
Ga Blé
Gentle Friendly
The Ghost Of A Thousand
Giantess
Girls
Gold Teeth
The Golden Silvers
Gran Ronde
Gurrumul
The Handsome Family
Harry's Gym
Hatcham Social
Heartbeak
Heartless Bastards
Hey Rosetta!
Hjaltalin
Hockey
Holy Fuck
Hoodlums
Hot Silk Pockets
Hunting The Minotaur
I Blame Coco
I Heart Hiroshima
iLiKETRAiNS
Indigo Children
The Invisible
Ipso Facto
It Hugs Back
Jaakko & Jay
James Yuill
Joe Gideon & The Shark
The John Steel Singers
The Joy Formidable
Juliette and The New Romantiques
Kaputt
Kasabian
Kasms
Kate Rogers Band
Kids Love Lies
Kissy Sell Out
Lawrence Arabia
Lay Low
Let's Wrestle
Liam Finn
Lightspeed Champion
Lion Club
Little Boots
Little Lost David
Lonely Ghosts
Luke Doucet
The Maccabees
The Mae Shi
Magic Magic
The Males
Marina & The Diamonds
Marnie Stern
Me My Head
Medusa
Melissa McClelland
Meme Love
Metric
Metronomy
Micachu and the Shapes
Mika Miko
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Miranda Lee Richards
Mirrors
The Miserable Rich
Mongrel
Moriarty
Mr Hudson
My Sad Captains
My Tiger My Timing
Naïve New Beaters
The New Wine
Noah And The Whale
Nulifier
Official Secrets Act
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Panama Kings
Passion Pit
Patrick Wolf
Peggy Sue
The Phantom Band
The Pipettes
Planet Earth
Pocket Lips
Pulled Apart By Horses
Punch & The Apostles
Pure Reason Revolution
Racoon
Rainbow Arabia
Rebekah Higgs
The RGBs
Riddim Saunter
Riot Lights
Rodney Fisher
Rogues
Roses Kings Castles
Rosie & The Goldbug
S.C.U.M
Sad Day For Puppets
School Of Seven Bells
Screaming Tea Party
Sharks
Skint & Demoralized
Sky Larkin
Slow Club
Soap & Skin
The Soft Pack
Soft Toy Emergency
Solid Gold
Swanton Bombs
Swarathma
The Tallest Man On Earth
Televised Crimewave
The Temper Trap
Thomas Dybdahl
Three Trapped Tigers
Throats
Times New Viking
Tin Can Telephone
To The Bones
Tom Allone & The 78s
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy
Trailer Trash Tracy's
Triggerfinger
Tucker
Turbowolf
TV Off
Ulterior
Ultimate Power Duo
V V Brown
The Veils
Video Nasties
Vivian Girls
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
We Have Band
We Were Promised Jet Packs
The Week That Was
White Denim
Wintersleep
Woodpigeon
The XX
Your Twenties
Youves
Yves Klein Blue
2008
A Place To Bury Strangers
AIDS Wolf
Alamo Race Track
Alphabeat
Ape Drape Escape
The Automatic
Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya
Black Lips
Black Mountain
Bombay Bicycle Club
Bon Iver
Born Ruffians
Broken Records
Bunny Rabbit
Cage The Elephant
City Riots
Clocks
Cockbull Kid
Crytal Castles
Curry & Coco
Dawn Kinnard
Dead Kids
Dead Wolf Club
The Displacements
Ebony Bones
Emmy The Great
Esser
Eugene McGuinness
Fallout DJs
Fanfarlo
Fat Cat DJs
FrYars
Fujiya&Miyagi
Future Of The Left
George Pringle
Glasvegas
The Go! Team
Hold Fire
The Hold Steady
Ida Maria
I Haunt Wizards
Ipso Facto
Iron And Wine
Joe Hot Chip + Dels
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
Johnny Foreigner
Ladyhawke
Laura Marling
Lightspeed Champion
The Mae Shi
Micachu
Munch Munch
The Natives
Natty
Nina Nastasia
No Age
Noah And The Whale
Okkervil River
Operator Please
Pete And The Pirates
Peter Lyons
PNAU
Polly Scattergood
Primary 1
The Rascals
Reuben
The RGB’s
Santogold
Sam Sparro
Sarabeth Tucek
Screaming Tea Party
The Shoes
The Shortwave Set
Sky Larkin
Soko
The Subways
Syd Matters
The Teenagers
Thomas Tantrum
Times New Viking
The Ting Tings
Tom Baxter
Tubelord
Tunng
The Twilight Sad
Vampire Weekend
Vashti Bunyan
Vetiver
We Smoke Fags
White Lies
Wiley
The Wombats
Yeasayer
2007
1990s
Adele
Art Brut
The Besnard Lakes
Birdy Nam Nam
Bonde Do Role
Barbara Carlotti
Cashier No.9
Cocoon
CSS
Cut Off Your Hands
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Dananananaykroyd
Does It Offend You Yeah?
Dominique A
The Dykeenies
The Early Years
The Enemy
Foals
Friendly Fires
Future Of The Left
Gallows
Get Well Soon
Ghosts
Hafdis-Huld
The Hat
The Heights
Help She Can’t Swim
Micah P Hinson
Hocus Pocus
The Holloways
Hollywood Porn Stars
The Hours
iLIKETRAINS
Sam Isaac
Johnny Panic
Johnossi
Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Late Of The Pier
Lethal Bizzle
Emily Loizeau
Loney Dear
The Magic Numbers
Maps
Laura Marling
Maths Class
Willy Mason
Metro Riots
The Midway State
Kate Nash
The Noisettes
Nouvelle Vague
One Night Only
The Orange Lights
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
Palladium
Peggy Sue & The Pirates
Jack Penate
Elvis Perkins
Polarkreis 18
The Rakes
Reverend & The Makers
Robots In Disguise
Scouting For Girls
Spleen
These New Puritans
Tiny Dancers
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
Video Nasties
Peter Von Poehl
Patrick Watson
We Are The Physics
The Whip
The Wire
Yourcodenameis:milo
2006
Bat For Lashes
Battle
The Bees
Belarus
Brakes
British Sea Power
Buck 65
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Cribs
Electric Soft Parade
The Feeling
Fell City Girl
The Fratellis
The Futureheads
Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly
Good Shoes
The Gossip
Guillemots
Richard Hawley
Holy Fuck
Hot Club De Paris
HushPuppies
Jeniferver
The Kooks
Kid Carpet
Kid Harpoon
Klaxons
Ladyfuzz
The Maccabees
Metric
Metronomy
Midlake
Misty’s Big Adventure
Mohair
Mr Hudson & The Library
Mumm-Ra
My Latest Novel
Mystery Jets
Paolo Nutini
The Pigeon Detectives
The Pipettes
Rumble Strips
Shitdisco
Shy Child
The Spinto Band
The Sunshine Underground
Tahiti 80
Tapes N Tapes
Anna Ternheim
Vincent Vincent and the Villains
Martha Wainwright
Jeremy Warmsley
You Say Party!We Say Die!
The Young Knives
The Great Escape organizes Europe’s largest music industry convention with 3,000 delegates descending on Brighton annually. TGE presents varied seminar and talk programme for industry professionals, paired with targeted networking sessions, speed-dating & parties. With over 300 of the world’s best new bands showcased alongside and a total attendance of 10,000, this should be the only event on your festival and convention calendar. This year’s dates are 14th, 15th and 16th May 2009.
TGE runs topical panels, educational workshops and hard-hitting keynote talks each day of Convention. Whether you would like to bring new ideas to the table or sponsor an established one, please get in touch
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"The Great Escape, signalled the start of the summer festival season. Over three days, the city played host to a mammoth collection of emerging musical talent along with a smattering of bigger acts." Independent
"The emphasis is on new music, with a roster that accompanies everything from the entirely obscure to the acts whose next stop will be the top 10." Guardian
"With a staggering amount of diversity and a carnival atmosphere, The Great Escape proves to be a great success. On offer here is a sense of exhilarating freedom, as fans are able to roam between more venues than you can
shake a stick of rock at." Virtual Festivals
“All those artist names that have been so ubiquitous in the last six months are present and correct at the British seaside’s far, far superior answer to South by Southwest.” – NME
“A shed load of spanking new bands, seasoned veterans and seminars for a rock bottom ticket price. What more do you want?” – XFM
"Anyone doubting the vitality of the UK's live scene should have spent the weekend in Brighton at The Great Escape" - The Guardian
"No campsites, burger vans or portaloos. As festivals go, they don't get much more appealing than The Great Escape. 4/5 "- The Independent
“The event, which over the course of three days saw Brighton come alive with industry sessions and live music showcasing the brightest new talent from across the globe” – Music Week
"Genuinely committed to unearthing and showcasing as much new talent as is possible“ - Clash Magazine
“TGE quickly established itself as the leading European event for discovering new talents” – Les Inrocks
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