From Girl Band to Years & Years, Le1f to Wild Beasts, Kelis to Little Dragon - the TGE's best bits
The Great Escape is the biggest and best new music event on the UK's festival calendar, with hundreds of brilliant new bands packing Brighton's venues for a May weekend of music, mayhem and perhaps a stroll along the pier. It's all very wonderful indeed.
This year, the line-up is a truely impressive one, and that is both reflective of the festival's curators and the music scene itself. 2014 is a great year for music fans, with all corners of the music world being well represented with brilliant new bands and artists of all genres. It's tough to pick the best names from TGE's line-up, but here are the XX artists you can't afford to miss if you are going to the festival next month...