PREVIEW: The Great Escape Festival 2019

PREVIEW: The Great Escape Festival 2019

Brighton’s annual music showcase fast approaches. Along with this year’s showcase spots from Foals and Lewis Capaldi, and the inevitable great parties from the likes of Little Simz, Fat White Family and Confidence Man, there’s, of course, the expansive list of musicians from across the world hoping to make an impression beyond their weird band name. See you at the front for Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.

Ones to watch–

Alffa

The record-breaking duo are the first act to hit a million Spotify streams on a Welsh-language song with their rollicking bluesy punk hit, Gwenwyn. Come see what the fuss is about.

LATEST MUSIC BAR:1:30pm Friday

BEA1991

Experimental artist and musical polymath makes lush, emotive pop over woozy dutch dance beats.

SHOOSHH: 7:15pm Friday

The Beths

Exquisite, jangly guitar-pop from Auckland with more hooks than a curtain-rail.

HORATIOS 3:30pm Friday HORATIOS9:15pm Saturday


Cocaine Piss

Frenetic, screaming punks from Liège, Belgium.

THE HAUNT: 7:30pm Thursday

EUT

Amsterdam indie band with bags of charisma and 90s nostalgia.

KOMEDIA:2:15pm Friday
HORATIOS 8:15pm Saturday

Haze

Bristol band making witty, high-octane post-punk with a wry smile.

HORATIOS: 7:15pm Thursday

I See Rivers

Norway-via-Pembrokeshire trio Eline, Gøril and Lill make stunning, harmony-rich, self-described “float-pop”.

LATEST MUSIC BAR UPSTAIRS 3:00pm Friday

Los Bitchos

They’ve already been described as “The Shadows on a Tequila- fuelled field trip to South America” and I definitely can’t top that.

JUBILEE SQUARE: 7:30pm Friday
GREEN DOOR STORE: 7:15pm Saturday

Lucia

Bubblegum-grunge from fast-rising Glasgow outfit.

ONE CHURCH:1:45pm Friday
COALITION: 7:15pm Friday
THE OLD MARKET: 8:15pm Saturday

Lucidvox

Trippy and mythical psychedelic rock from Moscow.

HORATIOS: 2:30pm Thursday
LATEST MUSIC BAR: 12:00am Saturday

Malihini

Intimate and opulent, sophisticated pop songs from disarmingly effortless Italian duo.

PATTERNS UPSTAIRS:1:45pm Thursday
LATEST MUSIC BAR: 8:15pm Thursday

Mellt

Aberystwyth trio evoke early Cribs energy with their irresistible and melodic punk earworms.

LATEST MUSIC BAR: 3:30pm Friday

Piroshka

Shoegaze supergroup made up of Lush’s Miki Berenyi, Elastica’s Justin Welsh, Moose’s KJ McKillpop, and Modern English’s Mick Conroy.

SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE: 9:15pm Saturday

Pom Poko

Norwegian art-pop four-piece making deliciously undefinable math-disco with a punk edge.

JUBILEE SQUARE:2:15pm Friday
SALLIS BENNEY THEATRE: 7:15pm Saturday

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