more acts complete the line-up for The Great Escape

including The View, Guillemots, Okkervil River, White Denim, Beardyman, & Anna Calvi

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 1st Apr 2011

The Great Escape 2011 - The View
Photo credit: Douglas Coulter

The Great Escape 2011

Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th May 2011
venues in Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9NA, England MAP
£49.50

The View, Guillemots, Okkervil River, White Denim, Black Devil Disco Club, Beardyman, and Anna Calvi are amongst the extensive list of over 100 acts completing the line-up for this year's The Great Escape.

The View
Further additions to the line-up include Black Lungs, Factory Floor, Foster the People, Grouplove, Art Brut, Fionn Regan, Liam Bailey, LCMDF, Flats, Cerebral Ballzy, Echo Lake, Beat Connection, Lone, and Christian Aids.

The list of acts confirmed today also has Creep, Dark Dark Dark, Fight Like Apes, Three Trapped Tigers, Dent May, Gallops, Laurel Halo, Lara Runars, Guards, Fear of Men, Gatekeeper, Let's Buy Happiness, Olof Arnalds, David's Lyre, Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, Daughter, Lanterns on the Lake, King Charles, Man Without Country, Kitten, Kyla La Grange, Florrie, Mondkopf, Brassica, Dels, Young The Giant, Still Corners, Various Cruelties, Young Buffalo, and Rachel Sermanni.

Also playing at the Brighton event will be Sound Of Rum, The Sounds, Bag Raiders, Melodica, Melody and Me, Delta Maid, Stateless, Stealing Sheep, Our Mountain, Marina Gasolina, Sparrow and the Workshop, Bear's Den, You Can't Win Charlie Brown, Chapelier Fou, Admiral Fallow, Bastille, Dave I.D., tres.b, Halves, Hot Horizons, Mz Bratt, Monument Valley, and Mechanical Bride.

With Alice Gold, Miami Horror, To The Bones, Out Like a Lion, Paris Suit Yourself, Polarsets, Munich, Aias, Brother & Bones, Luna Belle, Mammal Club, Oh So Quiet, Bueno Bros, Cap Pas Cap, Iiris, In-Flight Safety, Jazz Morley, Little Red, Patch William, and Milk Maid all also set to make appearances.

Also newly confirmed are Mishima, Moddi, The Trails, Moss, Prize Pets, Renu, Royal Republic, Smokin' Barrels, Starfucker, The Generals, The Touch, 22, Coda, All Mankind, and Sali.

Taking place in Brighton between Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th May, and features performances from hundreds of artists in numerous locations throughout the city.

The line up already includes Friendly Fires (Dome Show), DJ Shadow (Dome Show), Sufjan Stevens (Dome Show), Katy B, Example, The Vaccines, The Naked and Famous, The Joy Formidable, Warpaint, Gang Gang Dance, Villagers, Twin Shadow, Marnie Stern, Alela Diane, Max Richter, YUCK, Brother, The Radio Dept., Devlin, Cults, The Antlers, Ed Sheeran, Little Dragon, Hauschka, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Mona, PVT, Suuns, SBTRKT, 2:54, Ben Howard, Thus:Owls, Josh T. Pearson, The Phantom Band, Fixers, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Chad Valley, D/R/U/G/S, Braids, Big Deal, Matthew and The Atlas, Ghostpoet, Heathers, Housse de Racket, Luluc, MALPAS, Marcus Foster, Funeral Suits, GaBLé, and more.

The line-up will include over 300 acts from around the globe in around 30 venues within Brighton City Centre. The venues are all a close walk from each other with each venue equipped to an international showcase standard. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Three day early bird tickets available until 12th April are priced at £45. To buy tickets, click here.

This year, a small number of shows will take place at The Dome in Brighton with DJ Shadow, Friendly Fires, and Sufjan Stevens. Dome Show Single Gig Tickets start at £15 per show or top up a festival wristband at £6 per show.


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