180 acts added to The Great Escape: Tolü Makay, The Scratch, Object Blue, Or:la, Goat Girl, Piri & Tommy & more
Brighton’s new music showcase festival has announced 180 more bands to play the festival from May 11th – 14th to add to acts like Enny, Gabriels, Arlo Parks, Pa Salieu, Berwyn, Che Lingo, Holly Humberstone and Emma-Jean Thackery.
Irish acts already announced for The Great Escape include Denise Chaila, Luz, Aby Coulibaly, CMAT, Bicurious, Ailbhe Reddy, Kynsy, EFÉ, Lucy McWilliams, Sprints, Sinead O’Brien, Thumper, The Mary Wallopers and The Clockworks, while Northern Ireland is represented by Conchúr White, Dea Matrona and Enola Gay.
Today, Tolü Makay, The Scratch, Object Blue and Or:la were added.
Here’s the latest additions.
- A.A Williams
- Art D’ecco
- Beach Riot
- Been Stellar
- Belmondo
- Bilk
- Crows
- Dirtsharks
- False Heads
- Fat Dog
- Folly Group
- Gurf
- Hawxx
- Heartworms
- Howard Kaye
- Island of Love
- Kid Brunswick
- Naked Lungs
- Noahfinnce
- Party Dozen
- Pretty Sick
- Shady Nasty
- Signature Gold
- Slow Down, Molasses
- The Hara
- The K’s
- The Rills
- [Leak]
- A.o Gerber
- Alex the Astronaut
- Aodhan
- Audiobooks
- Banji
- Bc Camplight
- Bears in Trees
- Bloom De Wilde
- Brimheim
- China Bears
- Cvc
- District Five
- Dutch Criminal Record
- Eades
- Etta Marcus
- Felin
- Finnian James
- Flowvers
- Fräulein
- Future Humans
- Fuzzy Sun
- Gathering of Strangers
- George O’Hanlon
- Goat Girl
- Greer
- Harvey Jay Dodgson
- Human Interest
- Hypothetics
- Izzy Adams
- John Moods
- Kush K
- Laura Groves
- Leo Lore
- Lynks
- M Field
- Michael Baker
- Molly Payton
- Momma
- Oliver Keane
- Peaness
- Penelope Isles
- Pleasure Centre
- Police Car Collective
- Pozi
- Rachel Chinouriri
- Rasha Nahas
- Regressive Left
- Roller Derby
- Silvertwin
- Slot Machine
- Sofie
- Sophia Alexa
- Tallies
- Tash
- Telenova
- The Backseat Lovers
- The Crab Apples
- The Elephant Trees
- The Famous People
- The Lazy Eyes
- The Parrots
- Alewya
- Angelo Flow
- Bemz
- Bru-C
- Dj Priya
- Girl’s Don’t Sync
- Go for It Tribe
- Gracie T
- Guala
- Jelani Blackman
- Jessb
- Ntantu
- Object Blue
- Oneda
- Or:la
- Piri & Tommy
- Shanii22
- St Phillip
- Yung Singh
- Allysha Joy
- Amaria Bb
- Arii Lopez
- Bambi Bains
- Carla Prata
- Cktrl
- Dwn
- Ernesto Diaz
- Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn
- George Riley
- Kay Young
- Magi Merlin
- Meyy
- Pomona Dream
- Rene Alvarez and His Afro-Cuban Funk Project
- Sam Wills
- Shakka
- Sumerr
- Super Duty Tough Work
- Toby Corton
- Tolü Makay
- Tora-I
- Zitah
- Adée
- Bailey Tomkinson
- Bluephox
- Chinchilla
- Clara Hurtado
- Claudia Valentina
- Cody Frost
- Cowboy
- Emie Nathan
- Fløre
- Gabigar
- Greta Isaac
- Ilira
- Jazmine Flowers
- Karin Ann
- Keeper E.
- Kid Rain
- Krapka;Koma
- Lily Knott
- Mauvey
- Max Pope
- Mia Wray
- Michael Aldag
- Natalie Shay
- Navy
- November Ultra
- Thomas Headon
- Tycho Jones
- Zand
- Broadside Hacks
- Chloe Leigh
- Elles Bailey
- Her Skin
- Jack Francis
- Jeremie Albino
- Jonny Morgan
- Kóboykex
- Le Ren
- Maarja Nuut
- Marius Ziska
- The Scratch
- Woom
- Yama Warashi
- Beatfoot
- Bruch
- Roze
- the Royston Club
- Tiberius B
- Tom a. Smith
- Treeboy and Arc
- Voodoos
- Youth Sector
- Zimbru Alcemist
Meanwhile, The Road to the Great Escape is taking place in Dublin the week before and features performers from the festival like Baby Queen, Kynsy, Priya Ragu, Aby Coulibaly and more.
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