The Great Escape Announce The Latest Bands To Play The Festival
Published 12th Feb 2008 by Jack Thunder

The Great Escape announce the latest bands to play the Festival, The Wombats, Glasvegas, The Hold Steady, Black Lips, Iron & Wine, The Subways plus many more. Bringing the best new music from across the world to Brighton on the15th, 16th and 17th May 2008 The Great Escape, the biggest and best city based festival in the UK is growing bigger by the day as the organisers confirm the latest bands in the 2008 line up.

The policy to book the best new and rising artists from all over the world is really taking shape with most recent confirmations from The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones and The Black Angels.

Already booked were; Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language.

The Great Escape is all about spotting new talent and bringing them to a bigger stage where they can perform to a packed out crowd and the world’s booking agents, festival bookers and record labels. The festival will be backing the likes of Ebony Bones and White Lies who are both currently unsigned and tipped by The Great Escape to follow in the footsteps of Adele, Kate Nash and Jack Penate who have been incredibly successful since playing the festival.

It’s not all about the UK, however. In previous years The Great Escape has also played a major roll in breaking acts from Canada, and last year both Besnard Lakes and Patrick Watson stepped into the limelight following their acclaimed performances at the festival. This year some amazing talent will hit our shores from the country that spawned Arcade Fire and Neil Young, including Volcanoless In Canada, Wintersleep, Plants And Animals, Torngat and Kreif’s Broken Mirrors.

Early Bird Festival Tickets are £35 (plus booking fee) through www.escapegreat.com and the ticket line 0870 907 0999 plus cash box offices Rounder, Resident and The Dome Box office in Brighton  and Stargreen (Oxford Circus).

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