The Great Escape festival – review

Various venues, BrightonThe Great Escape, Brighton's bold attempt to come up with something roughly equivalent to South By Southwest, needs established names to pull in the crowds. But while there is nothing wrong with Katy B or Sufjan Stevens packing out the Dome – the former confirming her ascendancy from dubstep to pop star, the latter causing a frisson of controversy with his swerve into electronic textures and costumes – The Great Escape's USP is new music. So for the real spirit of th...

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