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3 days, 34 venues and 300 of the world's best new bands! Please Note: The 3-day TGE / Kasabian joint ticket & Kasabian only tickets have now sold out. See www.escapegreat.com/ for further information.

Metronomy

The brain-child of disillusioned drummer Joseph Mount, Metronomy are an alternative electronica group producing funk-infused beats, android-esque vocals and highly addictive bass-lines.
Metronomy tour dates

Kissy Sell Out

Hints of Human League synths, Cure-esque vocals with a twist of cheeky pop and Kissy's inimitable electronic mash-up.
Kissy Sell Out tour dates

Future Of The Left

Mclusky former main man, Andrew Falkous is back with a damn fantastic new band! 'A collection of tracks that are what rock'n'roll should sound like: an adventure; a reinvention of what is possible with vocals, guitars and drums" - NME 8/10. 'Miles ahead of the post-hardcore pack' - Uncut 4/5
Future Of The Left tour dates

Ben Kweller

Powerful combination of pop and modern folk music that is immediate and irresistible; that captures the ever-exciting sound of a prodigiously talented singer/songwriter live and direct at the peak of his powers.
Ben Kweller tour dates

Johnny Foreigner

Boy-girl yelpy vocals, busted up charity shop kids keyboards and Sonic Youth steam-train guitars' - The Fly. 'Wielding Pavement-esque spec-rock as artfully as they siphon Pixies' eyeball-splitting roar. They're simply sticking up two fists at the bore-rock masses' - NME.
Johnny Foreigner tour dates

Esser

Replacing regular guitar with samples, Esser's live show is a collection of very slick sampling and huge drum beats with plenty of extra percussion on top. Similar to early Beck in many ways, except replace that American Scientologist drawl with very English punctuation and dry humour and you can see why Esser is causing a stir.
Esser tour dates

Dananananaykroyd

This Glasgow six-piece formed in January 2006. Drawing on influences from Rocket from the Crypt and Sonic Youth to Jim O'Rourke and Stereolab, they have dubbed their raw brand of music 'Fight Pop'.
Dananananaykroyd tour dates

The Big Pink

London duo The Big Pink whose drone-led soundscapes and dreamy vocals put them somewhere in the same category as MGMT and has led to support slots with the likes of TV On The Radio.
The Big Pink tour dates

The Soft Pack

This San Diego- raised, LA-based quartet play a refreshingly stripped-down, revved-up, no-frills brand of raucous rock and roll.
The Soft Pack tour dates

The Chapman Family

The Chapman Family play Disco Noir with stonking songs made for the dancefloor!
The Chapman Family tour dates

Micachu & The Shapes

"Bjork is said to be a fan of Micachu and can probably indentify with another artist brave enough to take pop music into entirely uncharted territory. Micachu is largely inspired by Harry Partch who famously used an array of customised and home made instruments. These included a xylophone made of light bulbs, a ‘Cloud Chamber’ made out of pyrex dishes that could not only be played musically but detect particles of ionizing radiation and a series of highly complicated 44 stringed instruments. Similarly Micachu uses a modified guitar played with a hammer action called a ‘chu’ and a bowed instrument fashioned from a CD rack. She also uses improvised instruments, such as glass bottles or a vacuum cleaner." - Rough Trade
Micachu & The Shapes tour dates

Let's Wrestle

North London three-piece Let's Wrestle, comprise of WPG on guitar and vocals, Mike Hankin on bass and Louis Scase on drums. Influenced by the mischievous, surreal humour of David Shrigley and the homespun stylings of anti-folk raconteur Jeffrey Lewis, they sound like a furious amalgam of Swell Maps and ELO.
Let's Wrestle tour dates

Bell X1

Dublin-based quartet Bell X1 take their name from the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. They make 'skinny white boy' music, infused by Talking Heads, Blondie and The Byrds. The public don't seem to mind as Bell X1 are rapidly becoming hot property in their native Ireland. High profile support slots for the likes of Tom McRae, Elliot Smith and Bon Jovi have helped.
Bell X1 tour dates

VV Brown

Vanessa Brown, aka VV Brown is a singer, a songwriter, a performer, multi-instrumentalist and a producer. She describes her music as 'doo-wop indie whilst traveling on a rocket to outer space'. Passionate, music-obsessed and real.
VV Brown tour dates

Vivian Girls

New York indie girl trio.
Vivian Girls tour dates

Golden Silvers

New incarnation of the once XL-signed Dolly Daggers. Guitar-less blend of organ, bass and drums. Elements of funk, barbershop soul, electro, blues. Compared to Ian Drury & The Blockeads.
Golden Silvers tour dates

Official Secrets Act

Old school 4-piece indie band somewhere between The Housemartins, Blur and The Young Knives. The singer has a strangely quavery voice like Feargal Sharkey meets David Byrne. Also think The View, Weezer and early XTC.
Official Secrets Act tour dates

The Handsome Family

The Handsome Family are Brett and Rennie Sparks, a husband and wife collaboration from Chicago, that has been described as a unique, darkly comic country-gothic duo 'teetering between The Honeymooners and Macbeth'. Photo credit Val Hollingsworth.
The Handsome Family tour dates