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The Great Escape provides a 4-day showcase for the best of the music scene up and comers featuring spellbinding performances from the likes of Madra Salach, Jamie Lenman and Gurriers
Words by Miles Milton Jeffries It becomes immediately clear when you get to The Great Escape that plans don’t survive contact with the sprawling multi-venue industry festival that makes use of pretty much everywhere big enough to fit at least two people and a guitar; there are hot-ticket acts and they will go fast. Gurriers photo by Foxtrotter Due to their nature of being early in the day and on the way to the beach where the buzziest of buzzy acts; Angine de Poitrine are pl
Miles Milton-Jefferies
May 2218 min read


Top 15 Acts to See at The Great Escape 2026
Words by Miles Milton-Jefferies The Great Escape festival has always been a way to discover the best new talent in the music scene. Featuring Sam Fender, Lorde and Wolf Alice playing in small pub bars before they got big, its reputation as the king of tastemaker festivals is well-earned. A multi-venue spectacle will see some of the best acts of tomorrow descend on Brighton – and you’d be wrong to be anywhere else in the scene. Here our Hideous Magazines top 15 picks for this
Miles Milton-Jefferies
Mar 206 min read
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