Magic Numbers confirmed for Great Escape

The Great Escape Festival, which 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 that The UK's very own Magic Numbers have been added to this years' ever growing line up of hot talent.

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

SPOTLIGHT ON NORWAY
This year The Great Escape will be focusing on 3 of the brightest young stars sailing across the North Sea from Norway - 120 Days, The Lionheart Brothers and Adjagas. Allow us to introduce you...
120 Days – This electro rock outfit are signed to the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound and have been making quite a stir in Norway. Their debut album was released in the USA last Autumn through Vice Records (Bloc Party, The Streets, Death From Above 1979).
The Lionheart Brothers – This psychedelic rock band released their second album earlier this year called 'Dizzy Kiss' which was praised by the Norwegian press and shot to number 14 in the national top 40 charts.
Adjagas is a yoik group based in Sapmi, located in the desolate areas of Northern Norway. A yoiker is a singer or a chanter with a Saami origin, and it represents a very historically important part of the musical history of Northern Europe.

Also included in this exciting selection of the most hotly tipped artists from around the globe for 2007 are:
Children Collide (AUS), Dance With Voices (AUS), Hilltop Hoods (AUS), Blonde do role (BRA), Circlesquare (CAN), Dan Mangan (CAN), Land of Talk (CAN), Les Breastfeeders (CAN), Patrick Watson (CAN), Priestess (CAN), The Besnard Lakes (CAN), We're marching on (CAN), Wintersleep (CAN), On No Ono (DEN), Adele (UK), Air Traffic (UK), Ali Love (UK), Archie Bronson Outfit (UK), Art Brut (UK), Black Ghosts (UK), Blood Red Shoes (UK), Cherry Ghost (UK), Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (UK), Does It Offend You Yeah (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), 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), Rubik (FRA), Fancy (FRA), Peter von poehl (FRA), Spleen (FRA), Daniel Benjamin (GER), Jakobinarina (IRE), Channel One (IRE), Texturs (HL), We Are The Physics (SCO), Johnossi (SWE), Elvis Perkins (USA), The Envy Corps (USA) and The Prayers (USA).

CONFERENCES
The Music Ally Music in Media Day. This is a one day conference looking at the business of music in advertising, film, TV and games. These represent some of the key growth areas for music, alongside digital, as the recorded music business continues to suffer. The event features an international line up of key senior executives and case studies from across the various sectors. It will provide high quality debate and provide excellent networking opportunities, bringing executives from music, advertising, television and film together to discuss the cutting edge issues of the day. Key topics include how music, brands and agencies should work together in a fragmented advertising environment; the growing opportunities for music licensing and distribution in games; how the digital broadcast era will impact rights owners and the importance of the BBC to music; and analysis of the process by which film music supervisors choose music for films. The event is being supported by AIM, BPI and MPA.

The Music Ally Digital Day. This is a one-day conference focussing on the latest and forthcoming developments in the digital music and media worlds. The event takes place on Friday 18 May from 9am to 5pm and will feature a series of insightful interviews with leading figures from the music industry including: Tim Westergren (Founder, Pandora), Barney Wragg (Global Head of Digital, EMI Music), Charles Caldas (CEO, Merlin), Jim Griffin (MD, One House LLC and Founder, Pho List (Digital Media Guru)), Patrick Parodi (CEO, Amobee), Atakan Cetinsoy (VP, Business Products, Musicstrands), Richard Wheeler (Head of Music Partnerships, Orange UK), Matt Cockett (Head of Music, O2), Jeremy Silver (CEO, Sibelius) and many more big names to come…

We will be making regular announcements over the coming weeks as more and more bands and speakers are confirmed for this highly anticipated event.

The Great Escape Festival will continue every night into the wee hours with parties hosted by some of the most respected labels, DJs and club promoters – more details to come soon!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Tickets are now on sale and are expected to sell fast, so get your Early Bird tickets from http://www.escapegreat.com/tickets/ or call the ticket hotline on 08700 600 100 and join us for round 2 of this fabulous festival by the sea. 1 wristband will get you access to over 15 venues showcasing more than 150 of the world's best new artists over 3 days. There are a limited number of these £35, 3 day wristbands available – don't miss out!

Artist Submissions for 2007 – it's not too late to apply!
For the second year running, The Great Escape has teamed up with Windows Live Spaces and this year are offering a unique registration process for bands wishing to submit unsolicited applications to perform at the Great Escape Festival 2007.

The Windows Live Spaces mechanism is free for artists and enables them to register their details and maintain their Spaces profile for viewing by the public as well as The Great Escape Bookings Team.

So if you think you've got what it takes go to www.escapegreat.com or http://livesessions.spaces.live.com/ to register!

What happened last year?
In 2006, its debut year, the Great Escape Festival immediately became Europe's best global export ready showcase festival.

THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 2006 IN NUMBERS:
 20 venues
 180+ of the hottest new artists
 3 days and nights
 200 key media attended from the UK and around the world
 650 international music industry professionals in attendance.
 4500 music lovers
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