It’s only two months now until this year’s Great Escape Festival kicks off in Brighton. Another one hundred acts have been added to the lineup, including the Mercury Prize-winning indie-rock quartet English Teacher.
English Teacher will be headling on the Billboard UK Live Stage, a new addition to the festival. It is a platform dedicated to spotlighting rising talent. They are promising to reveal more acts for this stage shortly.
The one hundred new acts span a wide range of genres. Some of the new artists include:
Indie & Alternative: Welly, The Bug Club, She’s In Parties, Tough Cookie, Home Counties, Greg Freeman, Adult DVD, Gardens
Electronic & Dance: Debby Friday, Mike Lindsay, Polite Bureaux, KABEAUSHÉ, Ava Rasti
Hip-Hop & R&B: Tay Jordan, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Joshua Idehen, CHAII
Pop: Miso Extra, Lucy Dreams, Nxdia, JON POPPII, Joya Marleen
Rock, Punk & Metal: BEX, Post Profit, Karen Dio, Mouth Culture, Lowen, Zetra
The festival also features two Spotlight Shows. On Wednesday the 14th May at TGE Beach – The Deep End, Peter Doherty and Warmduscher & Trampolene will take to the stage. On Friday the 16th May, Rizzle Kicks plus special guests will be rocking the Brighton Dome Concert Hall. Please note, these are separately ticketed events – head HERE for all the details.
THE GREAT ESCAPE 2025 NEW LINE UP ADDITIONS (A-Z)
88 Miles | Adult DVD | afromerm | Alice Costelloe | Artio | Ava Rasti | Baby Beserk | Bad Buddy | Benjamin Amaru | Benjamin Steer | BEX | big long sun | Bones Ate Arfa | CHAII | Chinese American Bear | Cifika | COMIC SANS | CURRLS | Dabo Lang | Daisy Dooks | Debby Friday | DoFlame | English Teacher | FEET | Fiona-Lee | Frances Mistry | Gardens | Good Health Good Wealth | Gordi | Graywave | Greg Freeman | Holiday Ghosts | Home Counties | Hypnosis Therapy | Ideal Living | J.Bernardt | Jacqui | Jagged Baptist Club | Jodie Langford | JON POPPII | Joshua Idehen | Joya Marleen | KABEAUSHÉ | KAREN DIO | KÄSSY | Koteri | Laicositna | Last Apollo | Last Train | Lee Brady | Lily Lyons | Lonnie Gunn | Louis Gardner | Lowen | Lucy Dreams | LUNA KILLS | Maleigh Zan | Maria Uzor | Mazy Day | Mike Lindsay | Miso Extra | MOUTH CULTURE | My First Time | Nadeem Din-Gabisi | Nighticket | Nxdia | Oh! Dirty Fingers | O’Phantom | Paige Kennedy | Polite Bureaux | Post Profit | Preoccupations | Priyaji | Radio Mars | Ray Silvers | Rich Aucoin | Rikuto Fujimoto | Robin Kester | Rubie | Sam Wilkinson | Say Sue Me | Scrounge | She’s In Parties | Son Mieux | Tay Jordan | The Bug Club | The fin. | The Rolling People | The Rosadocs | The Velvet Hands | Tomi Owó | Tough Cookie | TVOD | vgtbl.pl (Franek Warzywa & Mlody Budda) | VOWER | Vraell | Water Machine | WELLY | Woody | Zetra | zouz
Great Escape Ticketing Information
The festival runs for four days in Brighton from Wednesday 14th – Saturday 17th May 2025. They have now released single day and two-day (Friday & Saturday) tickets, if you can’t make the full event.
Organisers say that 75% of the four-day tickets have already sold out – so don’t delay and nab yours now.
Head to the official website for all the details.
Photo credit of English Teacher – Great Escape Website
