Festivals Black Honey, Eagulls, Milk Teeth & more to take over DIY x The Great Escape

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Doting, hopeless romantics penning rough-edged songs about love. Trudy are one of a kind.

Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent winner from last year is fast making good on his early promise. ‘Brazil’ remains a marker for his intelligent, adolescent headrush pop.

We’re on the beach, baby. So why not bring Beach Baby along for the ride? The London group’s skittering pop skids a tightrope between ‘80s hallmarks and the wooziness of Mac DeMarco.

California’s Bleached specialise in fuzz-drenched rock ’n’ roll - latest album ‘Welcome the Worms’ is a huge statement of intent.

The former Smith Westerns frontman (pictured, top) released his solo debut ‘New Misery’ via Sub Pop this year. The Chicago star is making a big case to see his name in lights.

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A Helsinki-duo specialising in bonkers electro pop, sisters Emma & Mia Kemppainen open day two.

No bullshit, no prisoners. GIRLI’s opinion-splitting pop is insane on record, even more magnifying live.

They gatecrash fashion shows and they look more like an army than a band, on stage. Drones Club’s KLF-nodding madness is going places.

One of the best new bands in the country, hands down. Black Honey are fast becoming the big-thinking, cinematic giants they always dreamt of being.

These guys don’t require a big introduction. Day two’s headliners (pictured, above) have one of the year’s best records, ‘Ullages’, waiting down the wings. They also happen to be an incredible live act, without fail.

Photo: Milk Teeth.

This London talent makes emotion-flipping, cowbell-backed pop, equally suited for house parties and break-ups.

We’re never going to shut up about Partybaby, an all-thrills new band making life-affirming punk to rival FIDLAR.

Slick-as-it-gets, Jodie Abacus pens gorgeous, genre-splitting songs that’ve recently won Tobias Jesso Jr.’s approval.

Jackson Phillips won’t feel far from home on Brighton beach. His wave-surfing, California-stamped music is destined for the coast.

Hot on the tail of their brilliant ‘Vile Child’ debut, Milk Teeth are bringing the most frenzied closing set imaginable to our Great Escape showcase.

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