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The Wombats, Glasvegas, The Hold Steady, Black Lips, Iron & Wine, The Subways plus many more……. Bringing the best new music from across the world to Brighton on: 15^th, 16^th and 17^th May 2008.The Great Escape, the biggest and best city based festival in the UK is growing bigger by the day as the organisers confirm the latest bands in the 2008 line up. The policy to book the best new and rising artists from all over the world is really taking shape with most recent confirmations from The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones and The Black Angels.   Already booked were;  Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language. The Great Escape is all about  spotting new talent and bringing them to a bigger stage where they can perform to a packed out crowd and the world’s booking agents, festival bookers and record labels.  The festival will be backing the likes of  Ebony Bones and White Lies who are both currently unsigned and tipped by The Great Escape to follow in the footsteps of  Adele, Kate Nash and Jack Penate who have been incredibly successful since playing the festival.

Keep checking www.escapegreat.com for updates!

Late Of The Pier was created somewhere in the mists of 2003, born from the warped minds of Sam Eastgate and Ross Dawson somewhere in the mists of G.C.S.E's. No-one can remember exactly how it happened but lets just presume it went something like… 'Lets start a band' 'OK' …ignoring the fact that neither Ross or future guitarist Faley had only ever touched their instruments once at this point. (Ross had a knock-about on Sam's drums one evening, Faley skipped school to get stoned in Sam's attic and make a song 'Wasted Intellectuals'... probably LOTP's first song).

LOTP found a home in Way Out West and it's all-ages gigs, their feelings reciprocated by the new generation. Stuck mid-way between an older generation of somewhat static crowds and a younger generation of hyper-active kids, LOTP gained a dedicated following in the younger generations through myspace.com and for the energy of their live shows and in the older generations for the music itself. The Klaxons/NME had just coined the phrase 'Nu-Rave' and Late Of The Pier's ideas of live music began to become popular with the mainstream. With this came more interest from the music industry… NME and Radio1 quickly picked up on the band, noting them as one of the bands to watch out for in 2007 and music industry king-pins and affiliates soon became regular attendees to London gigs, often for pleasure instead of business.

Mad For It is Brighton's longest running Indie club night!! For nine years Mad For It has played host to hundreds of sweaty indie kids every week..! Drinks deals as follows!!

Pints of Carlsberg / Gaymers Cider / Snakebite £1.50 before midnight (£2 after)

Bottle of Carlsberg: £1 before midnight (£1.50 after)

Sourz: £1/ £1.50 Double

Sambucca/Jagermeister/Tuaca/Tequila: £1.50

Double house spirit and mixer £2.50

Double house Vodka and Shark £2.50

http://www.myspace.com/madforitbrighton