The Great Escape Festival is proud to celebrate International Women's Day. Championing upcoming female artists is at the forefront of what we do and we feeling immensely proud to continue this for TGE 2022 with around 60% of our line-up being made up female lead artists or acts featuring female memb ...

The Great Escape 2022 line up continues to grow! We're delighted to announced another 120 artists who will be joining us in Brighton this May. Featuring some of the hottest names in new music, with the likes of Alfie Templeman, Blackhaine, Chrissi, Cassyette, MUNA, spill tab, STONE, Bru-C, Casisdead ...

In addition to the big three CMU+TGE strands on education, data and video - plus the TGE Elevate programme for early-career talent - CMU and TGE will also present a series of keynote in-conversations with the people who are setting the agenda, leading the debate and shaping the future of the music i ...

We're delighted to announce that our Spotlight Show is back for 2022 and that the incredible Tems will headline this year's show at Brighton Dome Concert Hall on Friday 13th May 2022 in partnership with The Face.  She'll be joined in May by  supporting acts Enny and Gabriels. Tickets for this show a ...

Music business experts CMU will present a number of full-day conference strands at this year's TGE, including MUSIC+DATA and MUSIC+VIDEO, both supported by UK record labels association the BPI. MUSIC+DATA will explain the role data plays in getting artists recommended, played and paid; look at the l ...

The Great Escape Festival has today announced the launch of The Steve Strange Award, in honour of the late live agent and co-founder of X-Ray Touring Steve Strange, who sadly passed away in September 2021. The Award, which will happen annually, will recognise a music act that is breaking through cre ...

The Great Escape 2022 line up is getting bigger and better, with 100 artists added to the bill. Featuring some of the most exciting names in the world of new music, we'll be joined in Brighton this May by the likes of Yard Act, Lola Young, The Amazons, Crawlers, Rebecca Black and more! From the UK l ...