April 2011
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BAND OF THE DAY # 43 - YOU CAN'T WIN CHARLIE BROWN
Alt pop at it’s darn finest today from the coast of Lisbon with You Can’t Win Charlie Brown. New on the scene but producing happy-go-lucky melodies combined with dreamy soundscapes in the same vein as genre masters Bon Iver and Grizzly Bear. Have a butcher’s at the band’s new video for ‘Over the Sun/Under the Water’. It’s a beaut and perfect for the...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 42 - SACRED ANIMALS
Todays featured artist is Sacred Animals. Songwiter Darragh Nolan presents his interpretation of electronic, ambient folk that is truly stunning. Sacred Animals are another special addition to our festival, haunting us with their melancholic but pretty an intimate creations in the same vein as Thom York .This is another act that is part of MusicFromIreland (MFI) who The Great Escape is...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 41 - FUNERAL SUITS
This year we are welcoming Irish three peice Funeral Suits to the TGE stage. Funeral Suits bring blistering pop fused with distorted guitars, electronica and moody soundscapes. The act have recently finished recording their debut album where they have worked with the producer Steven Street (The Smiths). Funeral Suits are feautured as part of our Music From Ireland partnership and will be...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 40 - SUUNS
This Montreal act have already received much acclaim especially for their live shows described as ‘really loud and really fucking good’. Suuns have no doubt ingested a lot of art rock, often wrapped in a noisy squall of droning guitars and pulsing synths. We can traces of influence from Joy Division in this post – punk creation and the vocal delivery of frontman Ben Shemie is eerie yet...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 39 - ALELA DIANE
The American singer songwriter taught herself guitar, and began writing songs which blend tense, trance-like arpeggios with warm vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature. Alela releases her third studio album ‘Alela Diane & Wild Divine’ this year and enjoys positive reviews from NME, The Fly and The Guardian, we are greatly anticipating her performance at TGE 2011!
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BAND OF THE DAY # 38 - VILLAGERS
Hailing from Dublin, Villagers is Conar J O’Brien’s creative output for his effortlessly warm acoustic/folk creations. Villagers produce both empowering folk ballads and more melancholic numbers evoking acts such as Radiohead. Last year Villagers debut album ‘Becoming a Jackal’ was nominated for the Mercury music prize and shot to the top of the Irish and UK indie charts. The act has supported...
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BAND OF THE DAY #37 - GANG GANG DANCE
Our band of the day is New York five piece Gang Gang Dance. This act is well known within the New York experimental/art scene for its distinctive sound that draws equally from African rhythms, Middle eastern dance music, industrial, noise, grime and other genres. Gang Gang Dance were conceived in 1999 and their inability to be coined as any genre is a product of ‘confusion of eclectic musical...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 36 - WARPAINT
Our featured artist today is the stunning Warpaint. This act is made up of four LA girls and after a blow away performance at last years TGE (being reigned TGE band of 2010) we want them back for more. This female four piece are likely to leave you in a state of euphoria after their gentle and soulful guitar textures and angelic vocal harmonies take you to another realm. So get to the Corn...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 35 - AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM...
Today’s band of the day is Northern Ireland four piece And So I Watch You From Afar. The act specialise in complex Instrumental Rock that is dramatic and adventurous, combining hardcore influences with the more contemporary style of math rock. Last year the act got a spot at the SXSW festival and were nominated for the XFM New Music Album of the Year and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize!...
BAND OF THE DAY # 34 - GROUPLOVE
Our featured artist today is the wonderful GroupLove! GroupLove must have the most impressive band formation story ever. They five piece met on the Greek Island of Crete, two of them (Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi) meeting in New York shortly before the trip and joining the other three strangers after a period of jamming together on their get away. A year later and we have the now LA based...
Anonymous asked: Have there been acts added to the line-up since the above was posted?
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BAND OF THE DAY # 33 - CULTS
Todays band of the day is CULTS. CULTS are a male female indie pop duo from New York who specialise in gutsy yet euphoric dream-pop . After a host of thrilling live performances across London (where the duo transform in to a 6 piece) we were left wanting more so we got them on at The Great Escape! Watch out for CULTS limited “Abducted” 7” vinyl out on Record Store Day on...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 32 - BRAIDS
PLATH HEART FROM NATIVE SPEAKER
Canadian four piece BRAIDS were high school companions that skipped university and moved from Alberta to Montreal at the age of 18 to be in a band. BRAIDS offer classic pop melodies within tender and delicate layers of sound creating something truly enchanting.
Their live performances have been described as haunting and entrancing, an atmosphere that the...
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BAND OF THE DAY # 31 - LCMDF
Todays band of the day are finish female duo LCMDF.
Helsinki sisters Mia and Emma Kemppainen create exhuberant bouncy indie pop that is fresh and fun. LCMDF are rich in killer pop hooks and cool grooves, occasionally entering the psychadelic. They create music that is as colourful as they dress which is challenging and we cant wait to see them at this years TGE!
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BAND OF THE DAY # 30 - DARK DARK DARK
This 6 peice from Minneapolis, seemingly dubbed chamber-folk, touch upon treachorous sounds and movements throught the variety of instruments - cello, piano, banjo, clarinet, accordian, and trumpet amongst others - and the delicate dramatics of Nona Marie Invie on vocals. Akin to their percieved peers of say, Beirut or Laura Veirs, the band all seem to be multi-instrumentalists with influences...
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LOADSA BANDS - HOW DO I CHOOSE?
So, you’ve seen our continuous band announcements, thanked us for the never ending slew of fantastic music booked and now you’re drowning in a world of spreadsheets, options, clashes and general confusion over who the hell to see and how the hell to do it all.
So we are doing a few things to help with this process this year.
1) we will be publishing the venue capacities so you can...
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