British Sea Power join Great Escape

The Great Escape Festival is delighted to announce that it has a new headline partner for 2007. T-Mobile Street Gigs are joining forces with The Great Escape as the event moves into its second year.

T-Mobile Street Gigs are famed for their surprising and unique take on music and gigs. Intimate and extremely credible, Street Gigs have changed many people's perception about what is the perfect gig. Head of Sponsorship for T-Mobile, Toby Hester has identified why The Great Escape is the perfect partner. "Although there may be over 5000 people attending across the 3 days, the gigs will take place predominately in small venues, this is similar to Street Gigs, but what we really want to do is surprise people. We will be introducing guest appearances, secret performances and exclusive sets all set in unusual locations across Brighton. We really want everyone to go away having had the best experience ever and I'm sure they will".

Previously T-Mobile have performed Street Gigs in the Natural History Museum with The Strokes, The Streets in a Lighthouse, Mika in a Circus Tent and The Rakes in a kebab shop. We can't wait to see what they're planning for The Great Escape – more details to come soon!

The Great Escape Festival, which, as you all know by now returns on the 17th-19th May and looks set to bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton is proud to announce 586 (UK), (We Are) Performance (UK), The Airborne Toxic Event (US), The Alones (UK), British Sea Power (UK), Damn Arms (Austrailia), Dananananaykroyd (UK), The Dykeenies (UK), The Early Years (UK), Findlay Brown (UK), From The Wreckage (UK), Future of The Left (UK), The Holloways (UK), James Yorkston (UK), Karima Francis (UK), Last Gang (UK), The Lawries (UK), The Loose Salute (UK), Luke Toms (UK), Make Good Your Escape (UK), Maps (UK), Maths Class (UK), Micah P Hinson (US), One Night Only (UK), Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man (UK), Polytechnic (UK), Reverend And The Makers (UK), Robots In Disguise (UK), Rosa Fears (UK), Sam Isaacs (UK), Scouting for Girls (UK), Sergeant (UK), Small White Light (UK), Soho Dolls (UK), The Sonic Hearts (UK) and South Central (UK) have all been added to this year's ever growing line up of hot talent.

Previously we announced that the The Magic Numbers will be accompanying the finest up and coming UK artists to be added to this year's bill including The Rakes, Mumm-Ra and many more. They will join the cream of new talent from around the World including Sex Panther (Australia), Goose (Belgium), CSS (Brazil) Patrick Wilson (Canada) On No Ono (Denmark) Magenta Skycode (Finland), Nouvelle Vague (France), Polarkreis 18 (Germany), The Immediate (Ireland), zZz (The Netherlands), Die Die Die (New Zealand), 12 Days (Norway), 1990's (Scotland), Nude Girls (South Africa), Hello Saferide (Sweden), Navel (Switzerland), and Willy Mason (United States).

Also included in this exciting selection of the most hotly tipped artists from around the globe for 2007 are:

that Tiny Dancers (UK), Captain (UK), Candie Payne (UK), Consequences (SWE), Cut Off Your Hands (NZ), Foals (UK), Gallows (UK), Jason Pegg (Clearlake) (UK), Land of Talk (CAN), Look See Proof (UK), The Midway State (CAN), Minotaurs (UK), The Moths (UK), Palladium (UK), The Race (UK), These New Puritans (UK), The Young Plan (UK), Children Collide (AUS), Dance With Voices (AUS), Hilltop Hoods (AUS), Bonde do role (BRA), Circlesquare (CAN), Dan Mangan (CAN), Land of Talk (CAN), Les Breastfeeders (CAN), Patrick Watson (CAN), The Besnard Lakes (CAN), We're Marching On (CAN), On No Ono (DEN), Adele (UK), Air Traffic (UK), Ali Love (UK), Archie Bronson Outfit (UK), Art Brut (UK), Black Ghosts (UK), Cherry Ghost (UK), Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK), Does It Offend You Yeah (DJ Set) (UK), Fear of Flying (UK), Foals (UK), Frank Turner(UK), Friendly Fires (UK), Gallows (UK), Ghosts (UK), Good Shoes (UK), Hadouken (UK), Help She Can't Swim (UK), Hot Club De Paris (UK), I LiKE TRAiNS (UK), I Say Marvin (UK), I Was a Cub Scout (UK), Indigo Moss (UK), Jack Penate (UK), Johnny Panic (UK), Kate Nash (UK), Kid Harpoon (UK), Kubichek (UK), Laura Marling (UK), Mechanical Bride (UK), Metro Riots (UK), Mr Hudson (UK), Mumm-Ra (UK), Neil's Children (UK), Neon Plastix (UK), Orange Lights (UK), Passenger (UK), Peggy Sue and the Pirates (UK) The Pigeon Detectives (UK), Ripchord (UK), The Dash (UK), The Draytones (UK), The Enemy (UK), The Heights (UK), The Hours (UK), The Kissaway Trail (UK), The Metros (UK), The Moths (UK), The Noisettes (UK), The Rakes (UK), The Sigma (UK), The Strange Death Of Liberal England (UK), The Whip (UK), Trailing Laces (UK), Vincent Vincent and the Villains (UK), Xerox Teens (UK),Yes Boss (UK), Yourcodenameis:milo (UK), Youth Movies (UK), Damn Seagulls (FIN) Rubik (FIN), Peter Von Poehl (FRA), Spleen (FRA), Daniel Benjamin (GER), Jakobinarina (IRE), Channel One (IRE), Textures (HL), Adjagas (NOR), The Lionheart Brothers (NOR), We Are The Physics (SCO), Johnossi (SWE), Elvis Perkins (USA), The Envy Corps (USA) and The Prayers (USA).document.write(unescape("