The Great Escape festival review – Stormzy caps off Brighton's feast of discovery

Various venues, Brighton New-music weekender delivers delight after delight, from South Korean sea shanties with virtuoso violins to grime’s own human bullwhipThree days and nights. So many bands. So many beards. So many bobs. So many bands with bobs and with beards. Brighton’s The Great Escape is what you make it: a feast of variety and discovery, or a long weekend of by-the-numbers banality. Pinballing around town semi-randomly turns up delight after unheralded delight. The thick...

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