NME | 06.03.06

The Great Escape Festival
Three days, 16 venues, 150 bands
and enough new music to shake a stick of rock to


Just as Centerparcs bills itself as “the holiday the weather can’t spoil”, so Brighton’s Great Escape is the three-day pavement-pounding gig crawl that the weather, queues and heavy-handed bouncers can’t spoil. Yes, like South By Southwest with chips, hurricanes and Neanderthal security, the first ever Great Escape Festival offers 150 bands playing at 16 different venues spread across Brighton…

DAY ONE recommendations: Shy Child / You Say Party! We Say Die! /
Holy Fuck / Action Plan / British Sea Power / The Spinto Band

…Then it’s return to the Ocean Rooms for more Canadians – the wonderfully-names Holy Fuck. In the ‘90s there was a thing called techno, a music made by computers that people on drugs declared “banging”. Skip forward a decade and HF are making ‘techno’ with an ironing board, drums, a bass guitar and 12m of discarded wire. Don’t miss an opportunity to see this band.

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