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Great Escape 2014 confirms next 150 bands

Feb 25, 2014
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Posted by Stuart Huggett

The Great Escape has announced the second wave of acts for this year’s festival, with panoramic art-pop group Wild Beasts confirmed for Friday’s Dome headline slot. Support at the Dome show comes from These New Puritans and Adult Jazz, with £1 from each ticket sold going to TGE’s lead charity partners for this year, War Child.

Other big names added to the festival, taking place Thursday 8th – Saturday 10th May, include Mercury-nominated electronic composer Jon Hopkins, Strokes guitarist turned solo artist Albert Hammond Jr, BBC Sound Of 2014 nominee (and former BIMM Bristol student) George Ezra and Doves’ mainman Jimi Goodwin. Here’s the full list of new acts for this year, with the first wave below:

Line-Up Part Two:

A Plastic Rose / Adult Jazz / Afterpartees / Ages And Ages / Aisha Orazbayeva / Albert Hammond Jr. / Alec Benjamin / All We Are / Angel At My Table / Anna Meredith / Ásgeir / Augustines / Azekel / Barbarossa / Bat And Ball / Bear Hands / Beaty Heart / Best Friends / Big Sixes / Big Ups / Blessa / Bloody Knees / Bokka / Boy Jumps Ship / Brawlers / Bridie Jackson And The Arbour / Bryce Hackford / Casual Sex / Cats On Trees / Champs / Cheerleader / Coasts / Death At Sea / Deathcrush / Dry The River / East India Youth / Eaves / Electric Eye / Elli Ingram / Emilie Nicholas / Eva Stone / Eyedress / Famy / Fé / Fickle Friends / Frank Hamilton / French For Rabbits / Gallery Circus / Gambles / Generate / George Barnett / George Ezra / Girl Band / Glass Owls / Gnarwolves / Go Wolf / Gorgon City / Grand Analog / GΔrtmΔlen / Harleighblu / Hawk House / Hero Fisher / Hey Rosetta! / Hozier / Hudson Taylor / James Bay / Jamie Issac / Jaws / Jimi Goodwin / Joel Baker / Joel Compass / Jon Hopkins / Kan Wakan / Kiesza / Kit / Kyan / Lake Street Dive / Laura Welsh / Lazytalk / Le Vasco / Let The Machines Do The Work / Little Matador / Lizzo / Louis Aguilar And The Crocodile Tears / Love Zombies / Lyger / Lyla Foy / Mighty Oaks / Milky Chance / Mirel Wagner / Mirror Signal / MNEK / Moodoïd / Neøv / Nothing But Thieves / Oliver Coates / Only Rivals / Pablo Nouvelle / patten / Phantogram / Phoria / Port Isla / PS I Love You / Pup / Rae Morris / Rah Rah / Raleigh Ritchie / Ratking / Rebeka / RM Hubbert / Ryan Vail / Sam Fender / Say Lou Lou / Sea Change / Seán McGowan / Shiny Darkly / Sivu / Solids / Southern / Spring King / Stonefield / Sun Glitters / Suvi / Syd Arthur / Taymir / Telegram / Tennis / The Bohicas / The Clameens / The Districts / The Dumplings / The John Steel Singers / The Neighbourhood / The New Tigers / The People The Poet / The Trouble With Templeton / These New Puritans / Thomas Azier / Tigertown / Tristesse Contemporaine / Trust / Unknwn / Von Hertzen Brothers / We Were Evergreen / Weed / Wild Beasts / Wild Cub / Wonder Villains / Years And Years

Line-Up Part One:

Amber Run / Andy Shauf / Arc Iris / Arthur Beatrice / As Animals / Autobahn / Baby In Vain / Baby Strange / Beard Of Wolves / Beautiful Boy / Benjamin Clementine / Black City Lights / Blaenavon / Broken Twin / Charli XCX / Cherub / Chlöe Howl / Circa Waves / Cleo T / Courtney Barnett / D/C / Dark For Dark / Darlia / Denai Moore / Dive In / Dolomite Minor / Doom Squad / Douglas Dare / Dune Rats / Ella Eyre / Erotic Market / Fabienne / Fat White Family / Female Smell / Femme / Flux Pavilion / Flyte / Ftse / Future Islands / Fyfe / Gianna Lauren / Ginger And The Ghost / Glory Glory / Hannah Georgas / Hermitude / Holy Strays / Hsy / Human Pyramids / Jaakko Eino Kalevi / Jay Arner / Jeremiah Jae / Jeremy Neale / Jungle / Kelis / Labyrinth Ear / Leon T Pearl / Lonely The Brave / Lovepark / Major Leagues / Marika Hackman / Matthew And The Atlas / Max Marshall / Mickey Lightfoot / Money For Rope / New Desert Blues / Oliver Wilde / Orval Carlos Sibelius / Oy / Pawws / Phox / Powder Blue / Rejjie Snow / Rosie Lowe / Royal Blood / Russian Red / Saint Raymond / Samaris / Satellite Stories / September Girls / Shopping / Shy Nature / Sin Cos Tan / Slaves / Stubborn Heart / Sundara Karma / The Bony King Of Nowhere / The Creases / The Crooked Brothers / The Darlingtons / The Oscillation / The Scenes / Theo Verney / Tove Lo / Traams / Traumahelikopter / Travis Bretzer / Wet / White Lung / Wilsen / Womans Hour / Young Summer / Youth Man / Yumi And The Weather

The Great Escape
Feb 25, 2014
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Stuart Huggett
Stuart Huggett grew up in Hastings, writing fanzines and blogs about the town’s underground music scene. He has been a regular contributor to SOURCE, NME, The Quietus and Bowlegs. His huge archive of magazines, flyers and vinyl is either an invaluable research tool or a bloody pain. He occasionally runs tinpot record label Dizzy Tiger, DJs sporadically and plays live even less.
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