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Great Escape line-up continues to expand

17 April 2008
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The line-up for The Great Escape festival in Brighton is continuing to swell with each passing day.

Laura Marling, Okkervill River (pictured) and These New Puritans are set to join The Ting Tings, The Futureheads, The Fratellis and The Automatic at the seaside city over 15 -17 May.

The Festival kicks off in less than a month, and will also feature some guest talks from Howard Marks and music journalist Miranda Sawyer.

The impressive list of bands so far includes:

The Ting Tings, The Futureheads, The Fratellis, Laura Marling, Friendly Fires, The Automatic, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Telepathe and Alphabeat.

Other acts set to play include: The Wombats, Vampire Weekend, Iron and Wine, Young Knives, These New Puritans, Lightspeed Champion, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Crystal Castles, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Mountain, Black Lips, Pete and the Pirates and many more.

3 day tickets are now available priced £45 and single day tickets start from £18.50. All tickets are available through www.escapegreat.com.

The full line-up is (deep breath):

4 or 5 Magicians

Gentle Friendly

One Night Only

The Fratellis

A Place To Bury Strangers

George Pringle

Operahouse

The Futureheads

AA Bondy

Glasvegas

Operator Please

The Golden Dogs

Aids Wolf

Gloria Cycles

Ox. Eagle. Lion. Man.

The Hold Steady

Ainsley Jones

Hatcham Social

Peggy Sue and the Pirates

The King Blues

Alessi

Hold Fire

Pete and the Pirates

The Lionheart Brothers

Allan Pownal

Hot Club De Paris

Peter von Poehl

The Mae Shi

Alphabeat

Ida Maria

Pivot

The Modelz

Artefacts For Space Travel

Ill Scarlet

Polly Scattergood

The Naitives

Astrid Swan

Inner City Dwellers

Post War Years

The New York Fund

Baddies

Innerpartysystem

Public Service Announcers

The Rascals

Beach House

Ipso Facto

Rachel Unthank & The Winter Set

The RGB's

Beardy Man

Iron and Wine

Restlesslist

The Rifles

Beat Union

Jay Jay Pistolet

Reuben

The Ruby Suns

Ben Ottewell (Gomez)

Jennifer Gentle

Robots in Disguise

The Rushes

Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya

Jeremy Warmsley

Rodney Fisher

The Rushes

Black Mountain

Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong

Rolo Tomassi

The Satin Peaches

Bloodgroup

Johnny Flynn

Royworld

The Shoes

Bobby Cook

Johnny Foreigner

Sam Amidon

The Slips

Bombay Bicycle Club

kelly Stoltz

Sam Issacs

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Bon Iver

Kid Harpoon

Sam Sparro

The Subways

Born Ruffians

krief

Sammy Decoster

The Teenagers

Boy Cried Wolf

Kris Demeanour

Sarabeth Tucek

The Ting Tings

Brandon Steep

Ladyhawke

Sarah McLeod

The Twilight Sad

Broken Records

Late Of The Pier

Saul Williams

The Video Nasties

Bryn Christopher

Laura Marling

School Of Language

The Whip

Buffalo 77

Ms Sills

Screaming Tea Party

The Wombats

Bunny Rabbit

Laura Marling

Semifinalists

The XX

Buttonhead

Lets Wrestle

Sergeant

The Young Knives

Cadence Weapon

Lightspeed Champion

Sigh and Explode

Tim and Sam’s, Tim and Sam Band featuring Tim and Sam

Cage The Elephant

Little Fish

Silje Nes

These New Puritans

Canterbury

Lovebox DJs

Slow Club

This City

Cassie & The Cassettes

Lovvers

Soko

Thomas Tantrum

Cheeky Cheeky and The Nosebleeds

Lucero

Sometime

Times New Viking

Chris T T

Lucy and the Caterpillar

Soweto Kinch

Tomb Crew

City Riots

Luke Leighfield

Sportsday Megaphone

Tom Baxter

Clocks

Make Model

Stricken City

Tom Brosseau

Cocknbull Kid

Man From Michael

Sunset Rubdown

Torngat

Collapsing Cities

Maps

Syd Matters

Tubelord

Crystal Castles

Mason Proper

Team Waterpolo

Tunng

Cut Off Your Hands

Matt & Kim

Telegraphs

Turncoat

Damn Shames

Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts

Telepathe

Twisted Wheel

Dash Delete

Micachu

Tellison

Ungdomskulen

David E Sugar

Monobright

The Automatic

Valgeir Sigurdsson

Dead Kids

Mother Mother

The Bad Robots

Vampire Weekend

Dead Wolf Club

Mumdance

The Black Angels

Vashti Bunyan

Devon Sproule

Mumford and Sons

The Black Lips

Vetiver

Dylan Mondegreen

Munch Munch

The Boat People

Viva Machine

Eamon Hamilton

My Federation

Volcanoless In Canada

Eastern Confrence Champions

Munch Munch

The Bookhouse Boys

We Are The Physics

Ebony Bones

My Federation

The Black Angels

We Are Wolves

Elle Milano

Natty

The Bookhouse Boys

We Haunt Wizards

Elle sâappelle

Nic Dawson Kelly

The Boxer Rebellion

We Smoke Fags

Emmy The Great

Nic Nell

The Clik Clik

Whiskey Vs Faith

Envelopes

Nina Nastasia

The Crash

White lies

Envy and Other Sins

No Age

The Dirty Disco

Wild Beasts

Esser

Noah and The Whale

The Displacements

Wildbirds & Peacedrums

Eugene McGuinness

Official Secrets Act

The Electric City

Wiley

Fanfarlo

OK Tokyo

Wintersleep

Flamboyant Bella

Okkervil River

XX Teens

Frank Hamilton

Yeasayer

Frightened Rabbit

Yelps

FrYars

Fujiya & Miyagi

Future Of The Left

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