One final tid bit to cap off our epic coverage from last weekend’s The Great Escape Festival. The fine people over at Bands In Transit have given us this wonderful clip of Marques Toliver holed up in the back of a transit van reciting ‘Deep In My Heart’.
The Great Escape
The Great Escape 2011: 26½ things learned from Sufjan Stevens at the Brighton Dome
The reinvented chamber-pop wunderkind’s madly action-packed new show takes “throwing ideas at a problem” to barely charted strata, with many fans hailing it as their best gig ever. But what’s the news? Charlie Ivens investigates.
The Great Escape 2011 – Three of Saturday’s Best
In between meals, TLOBF saw some very good bands last night. Here are the highlights from Saturday at The Great Escape.
The Great Escape 2011 – Three of Friday’s Best
Friday at The Great Escape boasted some great bands, and a lot of queueing. Here are our highlights.
The Great Escape 2011 in photos: Day 3
Seams, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Braids and Sound of Arrows are amongst the highlights from the final day of Brighton’s Great Escape.
The Great Escape 2011 in photos: Day 1 and 2
Highlights from the first two days of the UK’s top showcase music festival include O Land, Florrie, Star Slinger and TLOBF favourites The Radio Dept.
The Great Escape 2011 – Three of Thursday’s Best
Brighton’s Great Escape is in full swing, with Shoreditch firmly relocated to the seaside. Here are our highlights from Thursday.
The Great Escape 2011 – Top 5 Onstage Gimmicks
A handy rundown of the best attention-grabbing tricks adopted by the more resourceful acts at this year’s Great Escape festival – from fighter pilot helmets to “pretending to be French”
[Stream] Canadian Artists at The Great Escape 2011
Canadian Blast presents a playlist of Canadian Showcasing artists at this years Great Escape festival
We’re in Brighton, back Monday. WYWH.
The entire TLOBF editorial have gone off on a jolly to Brighton for The Great Escape festival. We’ll be posting a daily blog live to the site, plus tweeting mindless nonsense from our @TLOBF twitter account.
The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
3 days of Sun, Sea and Songs as London descends on Brighton for another installment of The Great Escape featuring Ed Harcourt, Zeus, Ghost Bees, Broken Social Scene and more
The Great Escape Festival – 14-16 May, Brighton
Collapsing keyboards, hilarious publicity blunders, rain, haircuts, cues….oh and some excellent live music. Caution….this review contains the phrase “it is about as inappropriate in this setting as Slayer opening for Cliff Richard”.
Canadian Blast at The Great Escape
If you’re going to The Great Escape this week, why not treat yourself to a showcase of the finest Canadian acts around.
TLOBF Festival Guide 2009
Ah, the great British festival. We love them, you love them. Which is why we’ve compiled THE definitive list of all the outdoor events worth bothering with this Summer.
