The Great Escape | Pop review

Various venues, BrightonManchester's In the City may have the oldest reputation, and the Camden Crawl the NME seal of approval, but Brighton's Great Escape can claim to be the urban festival with the most improbable venues. Here you had the opportunity to watch a Kiwi powerpop band called the Ruby Suns playing beneath flashing disco lights in a gay club called Revenge, or Darwin Deez plying his hotly tipped, distressingly coiffed and vaguely Strokes-ish singer-songwriter trade in a karaoke bar o...

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