24.04.2024, Words by DMY Staff

The Great Escape Announces Full 2024 Festival Schedule

Stage hosts include BBC Asian Network, Moshi Moshi, Bella Union and more

The Great Escape, taking place from 15-18 May 2024 in Brighton, today unveils its full festival schedule for 2024, which can be accessed via the official The Great Escape mobile app.

The Great Escape mobile app helps fans navigate the mammoth line-up of 450+ artists and allows festival and conference-goers to build their own personal schedule. It also offers live updates on site and is available to download for free here.

Additionally, TGE has announced its 2024 stage hosts including independent record labels Fat Cat, Moshi Moshi, Nice Swan, PIAS, Bella Union and many more.

Synonymous with new music discovery and acting as a springboard for rising artists, The Great Escape is the festival for new music. Playing host to over 450 up-and-coming artists and hotly tipped talent across 35+ walkable venues, alongside the music industry led The Great Escape conference, the festival will kick off the 2024 season from 15-18 May 2024 in Brighton, England. Full weekend tickets for The Great Escape festival start from £99.59 and are on sale here.

The festival is also hosting showcases from some of the country’s leading independent record labels across the weekend. PIAS will be bringing powerful Manchester MC Oneda, alt-folk balladeer Loverman, dreamy noise-pop band Highschool, infectious and irrepressible duo O., melodic electronica duo Tibasko and producer and DJ Louis Culture to Charles St Tap on Friday 17 May, and Bella Union are thrilled to host rocky Brighton four-piece Plantoid, blissful and dreamlike Conchur White, Brighton-via-London trio Our Girl and Korean post-rock band Jambinai on Thursday 16 May at The Old Market.

Nice Swan Records will be hosting their showcase at Revenge on Saturday 18 May with fairytale folk artist Avice Caro, Portsmouth indie-rockers Hallan, alt-rock major-players Splint, post-punk nostalgia duo Human Interest, candid songwriter Blossom Caldarone and indie-rockers The Rills, and Moshi Moshi will be hitting The Arch on Saturday 18 April with emotive singer-songwriter Al Costelloe, multi-disciplinary visual artist Nadeem Din Gabisi and Cologne three-piece Sparkling.

PRAH Recordings will also be taking over Revenge on Thursday 16 May, with sets from lush electronic act Hiro Ama, electronic producer and songwriter Tony Njoku and punk rapper TaliaBle.

Brighton’s own Fat Cat and QM Records will also be hosting stages during the festival. The former will be hitting Horatios on Saturday 18 April, alongside leftfield dub and reggae artist Elijah Minnelli, Dutch indie-rockers with an arty edge Lawns, psychedelic alt-pop sextet Midnight Rodeo, wonky art-punk band Water Machine and dark hypnotic rockers The Psychotic Monks, with the latter hosting young music polymath Safenath, independent soul-pop artist Sinead Campbell, Brighton-based songwriter Avije, young singer-songwriter Musumba and soul musician Steven Bamidele at Brighthelm on Saturday 18 May.

Alongside the festival, The Great Escape also hosts the UK’s leading music business conference, which is undergoing a transformation this year as a brand-new network of music industry collaborators coming on board to shape its programming with the very best in cutting-edge knowledge and expert speakers.

This year’s conference will host a wide range of speakers including Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) and Warner Music UK EVP Darcus Beese OBE, with the full conference schedule now live on the TGE website.

Buy tickets and check out the full line-up and conference schedule on the TGE website here.