Festivals
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Anna Calvi & Lady Bird among new additions for The Great Escape
Little Simz, Confidence Man and loads more have also joined the line-up for this year’s Brighton weekender.
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Anna Calvi, Lady Bird and Little Simz are some of the newest additions to the line-up of this year’s Great Escape festival.
Both Frank Carter and Anna Calvi will be headlining this year’s Fender stage, which will also boast sets from Black Peaks, Our Girl and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.
Mini Mansions, Du Blonde and Confidence Man have also been added to the bill, which already includes the likes of Sports Team, Easy Life, Girl In Red and Fontaines DC.
The festival will take place across venues in Brighton between 9th and 11th May.
You can also catch up with Sports Team’s last visit to the festival in 2018, when the band played on the DIY stage down at Horatio’s, below.
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