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Groove Armada To Play The Great Escape

• 24th Mar 2010

With more than 350 bands playing 30+ venues across the city, The Great Escape are pleased to unveil one of dance music’s truly great bands and even more of the most cutting edge acts around that will be descending on the south coast from Thursday May 13th to Saturday 15th keeping Brighton rocking all weekend long.

Iconic dancefloor fillers, Groove Armada, will be making waves by the seaside showcasing a career-spanning set that will take in their latest lauded opus, ‘Black Light’, – released last week – which has been hailed as their finest album to date. Never ones to be easily pigeonholed, Groove Armada's electrifying new sound has turned heads with its raw indie dance energy and exciting artist collaborations, making their triumphant 'Black Light' live set a sure fire bet to be one of The Great Escape's most hedonistic highlights this year. Don't miss it!

Alongside Groove Armada, The Great Escape have also confirmed a whole raft of the most exciting new acts currently blowing audiences away, with raw rocking Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes, all-girl punk legends The Slits, curveball riff-monsters The Fiery Furnaces and cliché swerving indie-popsters Everything Everything. Other acts making TGE appearances include, I Blame Coco, Egyptian Hip Hop, Detroit Social Club, Daisy Dares You, Surfer Blood, General Fiasco, Theophilus London, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Alessi's Ark, Ganglians, The Pack A.D, Warpaint, Art Vs Science, The Agitator, Citadels, Gold Panda, Goldhawks, Trembling Bells, Here We Go Magic, Dan Smith, Vuk, Frontier Ruckus, and Rural Alberta Advantage. Plus there will be sets from The Crookes, Othello Woolf, Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle, Ramona, Rich Aucoin, Rubber Kiss Goodbye, Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees, Sophie Madeline, The Charkas, Wax Fang, Artisan Guns, Lights Go Blue, Manna, MAY68, An Emerald City and Ingrid Olava.

With a wealth of amazing talent already announced and some incredible bands still to come, this year’s TGE is shaping up to be a corker.