Festival News: The Great Escape 2023 announces First Fifty
The Great Escape announces the line-up for the highly anticipated FIRST FIFTY live launch, showcasing a selection of up-and-coming first fifty artists set to play the Brighton festival in May 2023. Following The Great Escape’s phenomenal return to the festival calendar in 2022, the FIRST FIFTY live launch will host gigs across eight East London venues. Taking place on 15th November 2022, the FIRST FIFTY live launch will showcase some of the world’s most exciting emerging acts ahead of their festival appearances next year. Tickets for each FIRST FIFTY gig start from £7 and are available to purchase here.
Synonymous with new music discovery and acting as a springboard for rising artists, The Great Escape is the festival for new music. 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, the festival will kick off the 2023 festival season from 10 - 13th May 2023 in Brighton, England. Tickets for The Great Escape festival start from £70 and are on sale here.
Taking place across eight East London venues, the FIRST FIFTY live launch is partnering with LICKS Magazine, DIY, Ticketmaster New Music, Notion, BBC Introducing, Dork, and Upset to present performances from the freshest new talent on the scene on Tuesday 15th November.
LICKS Magazine is set to take up residency for the FIRST FIFTY live launch at Hackney Social with Scottish noisemakersRedolent, Perth-based nu-funk outfit LUCI, and the shimmering UK duo Girls Of The Internet.
DIY will host an exciting evening of new music at Moth Club with the ethereal sounds of six-piece The Dinner Party, dream-pop innovators She’s In Parties and the fast-rising Irish singer-songwriter Nell Mescal.
The doors of Hackney’s OSLO will open to new music fans in partnership with Ticketmaster New Music, showcasing hotly tipped Brighton rockers The Heavy Heavy, the fresh, funky alt-pop of Artemas and the blissful surf-pop of Wales natives Melin Melyn. The partnership continues with a second show at Folklore with TikTok sensation Áine Deane, bedroom-pop star Sarah Kinsley and the Italy-via-London genre-fluid San Soucis.
Notion will take over the Sebright Arms to showcase dancefloor multihyphenate Grove, Jessica Winter’s gothic-flecked pop, psych-influenced Liverpool upstarter Mickey Callisto and MEYY’s spectral R&B.
BBC Introducing will present an eclectic mix of up-and-coming artists at Paper Dress Vintage with Seraphina Simone’s confessional pop, spellbinding dark grit-pop from Bambie Thug and the tongue-in-cheek post punk of Shelf Lives.
Dork will be at The Shacklewell Arms to host performances from hip-hop’s rising stars Joey Valence & Brae, NY electro-punk embracers LIP CRITIC and London’s multi-instrumentalist Deyaz.
Upset will welcome some heavy riffs and licks from performances by the punk-laced doom rock of Witch Fever, Y2K influencer turned grunge heroine Lozeak and the fierce, energetic Alienblaze at The Victoria in Dalston.
