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The Great Escape is where you discover your next obsession before everyone else does. For four days every May, Brighton becomes ground zero for new music, with 450+ emerging artists taking over 30+ venues across the city. It's part industry showcase, part treasure hunt, you might stumble into the next Florence + The Machine playing a tiny pub, or catch a future Mercury Prize winner in a basement. Since 2006, TGE has been the UK's answer to SXSW, minus the corporate bloat. Forget headliners, here, everyone's on the come-up, and that's exactly the point.
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