New to this year’s festival is the Hub, based at Jubilee Square right in the centre of Brighton. The Hub is an interactive space where you’ll be able to collect your prized wristbands, buy festival merchandise, as well as enjoy tons of live music, chill out with a drink, meet up with your friends and much more. Head to The Relentless Energy Drink truck stage, which will be programmed with live music all day, every day of TGE.

Wristband exchange will be open at the Hub from Wednesday 11th 5pm – 9pm, Thursday 12th 10am-9pm, Friday 13th 10am – 9pm and Saturday 14th 10am to 9pm.

The Great Escape and Brighton & Hove city council are proud to announce the second instalment of the Made In Brighton initiative which celebrates the many excellent creative types who reside in Brighton and Hove.  The initiative highlights the contribution local artists and speakers make to Europe’s largest festival for new music and why The Great Escape is proud to call Brighton it’s home.

The Great Escape has gotten even more artists added to the line-up. Joining an already incredible line up are: Rory Phillips, The Excerts, The Deer Tracks, The History of Apple Pie, I Am Oak, Rodney Fisher, Ben Caplan, We Were Evergreen, Woodenbox, Freeze The Atlantic, Flux, Sridhar / Thayil, The Victorian English Gentleman Club, My first Tooth, We Are The Physics, Jumping Ships, Stagecoach, Hoodlums, The Castells, Royal Republic, Megan Goodwing, Argonaut, The High Jinks, Jakil, The Long Insiders, Sons And Lovers, Tall Ships, The Beautiful Word, Common Tongues, Gentleman Starkey and Attack!Attack!