‘Great’ was the word For The Great Escape 2026
Twenty years in, and The Great Escape still feels like a window into the future of live music. Words and…
4 min read June 7, 2026Some of the hot-to-watch bands at The Great Escape 2026
If you're gearing up for The Great Escape 2026 here are some of the bands who the previews and tastemakers…
2 min read April 26, 2026The Great Escape 2026 – early artist listings
The Great Escape Festival 2026 is already shaping up a weekend where your favourite playlist gets mugged in a back…
11 min read February 2, 2026Cassandra Jenkins at The Great Escape 20204
This is the musical equivalent of elegant dining, and Cassandra Jenkins serves up a proper taster menu of complimentary flavours.…
1 min read May 26, 2024Eaves Wilder at The Great Escape 2024
Eaves Wilder has a target audience – her 14-year-old self. She writes catchy but gentle takes on riot-G motifs and…
1 min read May 26, 2024Venus Grrrls at The Great Escape 2024
Life's a riot for these five Leeds girrrls, and their music is firmly rooted in that impassioned proto-punk phenomenon, but…
1 min read May 26, 2024Barking Poets at The Great Escape 2024
You can't avoid listening the Barking Poets and imagining how they must have spent many a long sweaty night pogoing…
1 min read May 26, 2024Chubby Cat at The Great Escape 2024
Ireland isn't all about new snarly, rappy, or massively electro bands these days… the country continues to produce delightful voices…
1 min read May 26, 2024Eighty Eight Miles at The Great Escape 2024
Eighty Eight Miles are a relatively new Midlands outfit who's influences hark back to the classic rock/pop scene of the…
1 min read May 26, 2024Emilio at The Great Escape 2024
Hailing from East Berlin but via Southern Spain, Morocco, and Ireland's BIMM Institute in Dublin, Emileo delivers celtic-inspired songs that…
1 min read May 26, 2024Holy Wars at The Great Escape 2024
Los Angeles has spawned a monster… Holy Wars. Kat Leon and co-creator Nicolas Perez slice and dice epic rock with…
1 min read May 25, 2024Hot Garbage at The Great Escape 2024
A modern take on psych-kraut-rock from this Toronto-based four-piece, in whose raw garage production ethic you can almost hear the…
1 min read May 25, 2024Immy at The Great Escape 2024
Soulful jazz-funk pours effortlessly out of the talented Immy, a young woman with a big voice. With deep Bristol roots…
1 min read May 25, 2024Kathlen Morrison at The Great Escape 2024
Two voices wrapped so tightly around each other that you can hardly spot the join. This is a proper she/they…
1 min read May 25, 2024Kneecap at The Great Escape 2024
Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí create uncompromising Irish hip-hop that rises from the gutters of Belfast and wraps…
1 min read May 25, 2024Lost Romantic at The Great Escape 2024
Armed with just a drumkit, a powerful vocal, and a host of dexterously produced backing tracks featuring all your favourite…
1 min read May 25, 2024The Meat Sweaters at The Great Escape 2024
We've come all over with fond memories of DEVO at their quintessential best listening the The Meat Sweaters. Those sharp…
1 min read May 25, 2024Mister Strange at The Great Escape 2024
Unreconstructed heavy rockers, Mister Strange, hark from Manchester and offer up simple, no-holds-barred old-time heavy guitars and a sip of…
1 min read May 25, 2024Monakis at The Great Escape 2024
Monakis have been ripping the throat out of the South East music scene alongside acts such as Kid Kapichi and…
1 min read May 25, 2024Neckbreakers at The Great Escape 2024
Pop almost goes nu-country as Neckbreakers showcase something that also has echoes of Fleetwood Mac… and those echoes are really…
1 min read May 25, 2024System Exclusive at The Great escape 2024
'On a mission to make strangers misty in the disco' is the proclamation in System Exclusive's press pack. They have…
1 min read May 25, 2024Tom Saint at The Great Escape 2024
'Music for the clinically spooky and horny' reads Tom Saint's super-brief Spotify bio. His songs definitely do have a scary-movie…
1 min read May 25, 2024Unpeople at The Great Escape 2024
With a busy festival season ahead of them, Londoners Unpeople will be rocking and rolling their way to a field…
1 min read May 25, 2024Wild Mother at The Great Escape 2024
Wild Mother play the Alternative Escape 2024 PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
1 min read May 25, 2024Alien Chicks at The Great Escape 2024
All the way from Brixton, Alien Chicks haven't traveled as far as many of the globe-trotting acts at The Great…
1 min read May 25, 2024Asha Jefferies at The Great Escape 2024
'Australian frog enthusiast' aren't three words often found in the opening sentence of an artist's official Spotify biography. But Asha…
1 min read May 25, 2024Baby Said at The Great Escape 2024
Two UK-based Italian/Punjabi teenage sisters have taken their name (Baby Said) from one of the songs of their favourite artists…
1 min read May 25, 2024BEX at The Great Escape 2024
BEX is a proper punk frontwoman. Confident and BS-free lyrics challenge stereotypes and leave no prisoners. And with a real…
1 min read May 25, 2024Cat and Calmell at The Great Escape 2024
These two Australian pop-princesses have all the Gen Z bases covered. As well as a powerfully-produced alternative take on strong,…
1 min read May 25, 2024Deary at The Great Escape 2024
When you see a band who mentions Slowdive and St Etienne under supports and collaborations you know the direction of…
1 min read May 24, 2024Gut Health at The Great Escape 2024
Aussie pop-punk with a really dance-able fizz about their music (there's some DEVO echoes lurking in the mix we think),…
1 min read May 24, 2024Lemondaze at The Great Escape 2024
Lemondaze to rhyme with Shoegaze – and five ears since their initial musical releases this erstwhile Cambridge crew have garnered…
1 min read May 24, 2024Malice K at The Great Escape 2024
If two and a half million streams counts as a hit then Malice K has at least one with his…
1 min read May 24, 2024Mary in the Junkyard at The Great Escape 2024
Dreamily moody and stripped down rock of the kind much loved by festivals such as End of the Road who…
1 min read May 24, 2024Really Good Time at The Great Escape 2024
Here's another Irish band who have caught our ear recently. They are only a few years past their first sweaty…
1 min read May 24, 2024YARD at The Great Escape 2024
YARD: More evidence if an were needed that Ireland is churning out some great electro-rock crossover acts right now…
1 min read May 23, 2024SNAYX at The Great Escape 2024
You know why we love SNAYZ so much… they are simply one of the best things on the live circuit…
1 min read May 23, 2024TASH at The Great Escape 2024
TASH isn't afraid of putting twenty-seven tempo changes into her songs… meaning the pace of the pit shifts and darts…
1 min read May 23, 2024The Buoys at The Great Escape 2024
Australian garage-poppers who have been bobbing around since 2016 and deliver a cheerfully layered style of chart-rock.
1 min read May 23, 2024The Great Escape 2020 – First 50
The Great Escape 2020 – First 50 PHOTOS BY WWW.SARABOWREYPHOTOS.COM So November 2019 isn't even half-way through and already we…
6 min read November 18, 2019
