News - 28/04/2017

The Great Escape festival 2017: full line-up and official app announced

The Great Escape festival 2017: full line-up and official app announced

The Great Escape festival 2017 will take place in Brighton on May 18-20, showcasing the hottest upcoming afrobeat, rap, grime, dancehall and bashment artists.

The line-up now sees the addition of one of the UK’s most lauded rappers, grime trailblazer Kano, who’ll be heading up the third spotlight show – presented by YouTube - and bringing with him a sizzling bunch of friends including Little Simz, Ghetts, Kojo Funds, DJ Maximum and DJ’s Elijah and Skilliam. This show will take place on Friday May 19th at The Old Market. 

Another addition to the line-up sees the New Gen crew coming together for a club night featuring some of the best underground artists from the UK’s grime and rap scenes, with extra special guests to be announced on the night set to make this one of the biggest parties of the weekend.

Also Rejjie Snow and Stefflon Don will perform. The full list of artists just announced is as follows:  

67 / ABRA CABRA / AMY BECKER / AVELINO / BELLY SQUAD / COCO / COSIMA / DGS SAMURAI CHAMPS / DJ MAXIMUM / ELIJAH / GHETTS / HARE SQUEAD / JEVON / KANO / KILLASON / KNUCKS / KOJEY RADICAL / KOJO FUNDS / LITTLE SIMZ / MC SNIPER / MUNGO / NEW GEN/ NOT3S / OSCAR JEROME / PAIGE CAKEY / RAG N BONE MAN / RAY BLK / RAYE / REJIIE SNOW / RENZ / RYAN DE LA CRUZ / SAMPA THE GREAT / SHOGUN / SKILLIAM / SLANG / STEFLON DON / STURLA ATLAS / TASH LC / TIZZY & BRANDZ / WALLWORK BSB TSVI / YOUNG T & BUGSEY / YXNG BANE

The Great Escape app is now available allowing festival goers to schedule their own personalised festival programme and get access to exclusive material from both the festival and convention. The Great Escape App can be downloaded for free from the App Store.

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