The Great Escape taking place in Brighton from 14th-16th May, has today announced the complete line-up for its 10^th birthday festival. In just over six weeks, Europe’s biggest festival for new music will take over 30+ venues across the city, bringing 18,000 music lovers with it. With over 400 of the best up and coming artists now on the line-up and with a number of special guests still to be announced, The Great Escape will once again give festival-goers an unrivalled opportunity to explore an international circuit of future sounds.

Skepta will take to the Brighton Dome – Concert Hall, the festival’s biggest stage, on Saturday 16^th May, alongside his brother JME, the founding pillar of the notorious Boy Better Know Collective. Skepta and JME.

Also confirmed today are The Cribs, Gaz Coombes, Tkay Maidza, MC Afrikan Boy, Hyena, Tropics, Hollysiz and Lion Babe.

Bringing an eclectic mix of emerging talent to Brighton this May The Great Escape also welcomes Chicago rapper and Joey Bada$$ collaborator Mick James, Queen Kwong, Lonely The Brave, Blanck Mass, Dan Owen, Rhodes, The One Hundred & Jane Weaver.

The Arts Council England supported Great Day Out, a new multi-venue underage mini festival programmed especially for a 14+ audience, today welcomes Get Inuit, K.Flay (already announced), New City Kings, Klara Ketela and Optical to the line-up. Looking to embrace younger music fans, it will take place on Saturday 16^th May at Komedia and Komedia Studio Bar.

The full list of artists announced today:

A.O.S.O.O.N, Acid Arab, Ady Suleiman, Afrikan Boy, Akcadamy, Al Bairre, Allusondrugs, Andreas Moe, Arborist, Astronomyy, Baby Queens, Bad Weed, Baxter Dury, Beach Baby, Bill Ryder Jones, Blanck Mass, Blaue Blume, Bonkaz, Brika, Bristol, C. Duncan, Cape Cub, Casi, Cc Smugglers, Chilli And The Whalekillers, Ciaran Lavery, Daisy Victoria, Dan Owen, Daudi Matsiko, Dj Nature, Duke Garwood, Elias, Empress Of, English Heretic, Fekky, Feverist, Fickle Friends, Float Fall, Francisco The Man, Furs, Gabi, Gaz Coombes, Georgia, Get Inuit, Gramotones, Hannah Lou Clark, Hein Cooper, Ho99o9, Cecile Cassel aka HollySIZ, Hooton Tennis Club, Hyena, Indigo Face, Jack Robert Hardman, Jamie Lawson, Jane Weaver, Jeanne Added, Jeremy?, Jerry Williams, Jesse Sheehan, JME, Joe Dolman, Jpnsgrls, Julia Marcell, Junius Meyvant, K.I.D, Kelvin Jones, Klara Ketelaars, Klo, Kuenta I Tambu, Landshapes, Liberto Wolf, Lily Rendle-Moore, Lion Babe, Lloyd Yates, Lonely The Brave, Loris, Miamigo, Mick Jenkins, Mile Me Deaf, Model Aeroplanes, Mugwump, Nah, Neon Saturdays, New City Kings, Ngod, Ocean Wisdom, Okmalumkoolkat, Ólah Bliss, Oliver Daldry, Olivier Heim, Optical, P.H. Fat, Palace, Plastic Mermaids, Queen Kwong, Raye, Rebecca Clements, Rhodes, Ria Mae, Rob Finlay, Robyn Sherwell, Rory Indiana, Sabella, Sasha Siem, Say Yes Dog, Saycet, Scarlet Rascal, Sg Lewis, Shopping, Skepta, Slug, Sonar Soul, Spring King, Stal, Sunflower Bean, Sykes, Tama Sumo, The Academic, The Accidentals, The Big Bluff, The Cribs, The Mispers, The Moon, The One Hundred, The Strypes, The Vryll Society, Thor Rixon, Tkay Maidza, Tor Miller, Tora, Triana Park, Tropics, Tusks, Versus You, Warm Graves, Whilk And Misky, White, Wyles & Simpson, Yorke, Young Kato, Young Romance, Yung, Zak Abel, Zibra, Ωracles