Festival News: The Great Escape has announced 120 more artists
The Great Escape has announced 120 more artists to play this year’s Brighton festival, featuring some of the most exciting names in new music, including Alfie Templeman, Blackhaine, Chrissi, MUNA, spill tab, STONE, Bru-C, Casisdead, Kid Kapichi, Lido Pimienta, and many more.
Joining an epic line-up featuring hundreds of must-see acts, The Great Escape have also revealed the festival’s daily highlights, sharing their top picks to help festival goers navigate their way through three days packed full of live performances and the hottest new talent.
The Great Escape, the festival for new music, will be kicking off the 2022 festival season, playing host to more than 450 up-and-coming artists and hotly tipped talent across 35+ walkable venues, alongside the music industry led TGE conference, from 12-14 May 2022 in Brighton, England. Tickets for The Great Escape festival start from £75 and are on sale here.
2022’s daily highlights include some of the most exciting talent on the line-up, including Reading rockers The Amazons, Gen Z grunge pop singer Baby Queen, US queer hyperpop artistRebecca Black, post-punk Leeds success story Yard Act, Irish rapper Malaki, and post-punk poet Sinead O’Brien,
Lifted from their fifth and final studio album, Kodaline return with their new single ‘We Were Only Young’, via Concord Records.
Where restraint gets mistaken for emotional intelligence, LØLØ opts out entirely, feeling too much, too loudly, and saying it exactly as it lands. It’s chaotic, occasionally unhinged, but never careless. Against the odds, it sticks the landing.
The legend of the art rock scene herself Kim Gordon delivers a rage against artificial intelligence and a celebration of self-identity at 02 Shepherd’s Bush, with excellent support from rising Brighton outfit Lonnie Gunn.
DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE? draws a tear-stained line in the sand; and the result is, fittingly enough, true liberation, as the band settles into the best version of themselves.
Blood Wizard’s free flowing experimental approach takes them into a new chapter.
Superbloom reveals that Jessie Ware has mastered the art of the grown-up pop record without sacrificing an ounce of its hedonistic thrill.
Now, a quarter of the way through the year, with the new American Football album creeping up on us, one feeling seems ever-present. It’s about to be a fantastic year to be sad!
This week's Band of the Week is Leeds based Love Rarely - who continue their rise on the UK alternative scene with the release of their debut album 'Pain Travels' via Big Scary Monsters.
Alt-shoegaze style trailblazers Midrift announce a stellar debut record with equally impressive lead single ‘Over Anything’.
Holly Humberstone’s Cruel World is cemented in love, and all of the highs and lows that come with it.
Love Rarely fuses math rock and hardcore together in a brazenly fearless new debut that establishes them as an instant new favourite.
Basement are back to hotwire your brain yet again with another deeply natural and familiar track from their upcoming album ‘WIRED’ out May 8th.