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The Great Escape Brighton Festival
May 14-16
Fringe
May 2-25
This three-day music festival and industry
Third in the world
conference is Britain’s answer to Texas’s
only to Edinburgh
SXSW – the biggest event of its kind in
and Adelaide,
Europe and the only one able to offer that
this fringe festival
party-starting seaside atmosphere. Its
has over 700
raison d’être is to link up ‘export ready’
performances
bands with industry professionals eager to
in some 200
make them stars. This year White Denim,
venues, from
DM Stith, Dan Black and School Of Seven
Over 700
churches and
Bells are among the 300+ acts playing
cafés to the
performances
across the city in venues as disparate as
Royal Alexandra
in 200 venues,
The Old Market
Hospital. This year
from cafés to
and the Theatre
one show, ‘Frying
Royal. Plan
hospitals
Nemo’, will even
carefully with the
take place above the shark tank at the Sea
aim of seeing new
Life Centre. The Parlure Spiegeltent
bands rather than
returns, bringing cabaret and circus acts to
old favourites
the Old Steine, and new venues include
and, with gigs
stand-up at The Quadrant pub and a
kicking off around
Victorian-tinged line-up at Grade I listed
At Britain’s
6pm, you can see
St Andrew’s Church. Jubilee Square will
answer to SXSW
MIKE BURNELL
four headline-
host carnival displays and theatre, and
you can see four quality bands a
artist Sir Peter Blake will be exhibiting and
FESTIVALS
headline-quality night.
www.
selling prints in a double-decker bus.
bands a night
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