Barfly\u00a0are proud to announce the return of The Great Escape Festival which will bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton on the 17th 19th May 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Artist Submissions Now Open for 2007<\/strong> The Windows Live Spaces mechanism is free for artists and enables them to register their details and maintain their Spaces profile for viewing by the public as well as The Great Escape Bookings Team.<\/p>\n For more details visit www.escapegreat.com<\/a> or http:\/\/livesessions.spaces.live.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n What happened last year?<\/strong> THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 2006 IN NUMBERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n The first Great Escape Festival was a rip roaring success, but how do you measure it?\u00a0 One way is by taking a look at what just a few of the relatively unknown bands that were put on the bill by Martin Elbourne and the Barfly Team are doing now:<\/p>\n International acts like Metric (CAN), You Say Party We Say Die! (CAN), Holy Fuck (CAN), Disco Ensemble (FIN), Scissors for Lefty (USA) Tapes N Tapes (USA), Spleen United (DNK) and Howling Bells (AUS) all saw their UK profiles significantly enhanced following their Great Escape shows in 2006.<\/p>\n After a hard night of gigs and parties the world’s music industry took to the streets of Brighton, espresso in hand to attend talks and speed dating networking sessions.\u00a0 Speakers included Michael Eavis (Glastonbury Festival), Laurence Bell (Domino), Tony Wadsworth (EMI), Peter Hook (New Order) and Rob da Bank (Radio1 \/ Sunday Best).\u00a0<\/p>\n The Great Escape Festival is unique in its International appeal.\u00a0 Year one saw it become the key event for an export ready international act to showcase at, in order to grab the attention of the UK music industry and media.\u00a0 It has also earned itself the reputation of being the best place to come and catch the UK’s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnext big things’ just before they hit the big time.<\/p>\n 2007’s Great Escape Festival plans to be bigger and better.<\/strong>\u00a0 Barfly\u00a0are proud to announce the return of The Great Escape Festival which will bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton on the 17th 19th May 2007.\u00a0 Artist Submissions Now Open for 2007 For the second year running, The Great Escape has teamed up with Windows Live Spaces and this year are to\u00a0 offering a<\/p>\n
\nFor the second year running, The Great Escape has teamed up with Windows Live Spaces and this year are to\u00a0 offering a unique registration process for bands wishing to submit unsolicited applications to perform at the Great Escape Festival 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nIn 2006, its debut year, the Great Escape Festival immediately became Europe’s best global export ready showcase festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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\nWith Brighton’s larger capacity venues on board for year two it will be possible to book even bigger bands than last year, enabling even more music fans to share in the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"