Vampire Weekend Escape

The countdown to the 2008 Great Escape Festival has started. With just 11 weeks to go, the cream of new music from the UK and around the world, is being added to an already mouth-watering line-up.

The latest batch of confirmed bands are: Vampire Weekend, Pete And The Pirates, Saul Williams, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cage The Elephant, Jay Jay Pistolet, The Black Angels, Kelly Stoltz, Thomas Tantrum, Satin Peaches, Yelps, The Whip, Lovvers, Jeremy Warmsley, Hatcham Social, The Pack A.D. We Are Wolves, Soko, 4 or 5 Magicians, Royworld, The Boat People, The Boxer Rebellion, The Bad Robots, The Dykeenies, XX Teens, Operator Please, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Johnny Flynn, LadyHawk, Cut Off Your Hands, Elle S'appelle, We Smoke Fags and Lucero.

Already confirmed are: Young Knives, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Yeasayer, Black Mountain, No Age, Tunng, Lightspeed Champion, Wild Beasts, Fujiya & Miyagi, Peter Von Poehl and School Of Language. The Wombats, The Hold Steady, The Subways, Black Lips, White Lies, Monobright, Iron and Wine, Public Service Announcers, Born Ruffians, Broken Mirrors, Ipso Facto, Beat Union, Mother Mother, This City, One Night Only, Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Canterbury, Johnny Foreigner, Ida Maria, Team Waterpolo, Ebony Bones, The Black Angels, Volcanoless In Canada, Wintersleep, Plants And Animals, Torngat and Kreif's Broken Mirrors.

The Great Escape is a rapidly growing festival with an increased capacity of 6,500 tickets for sale. An increase of 1,500 on last years sold out event. Industry and media professionals travel from all over the world to attend The Great Escape boosting the numbers by a further 2,000 people. Many more bands are still to be announced and an extra 5 venues have now been added bringing the total number up to 30.

The Great Escape has a unique texting service providing the latest announcements to all festival goers, including festival updates, impromptu street shows, outdoor events and last minute line up changes. This service was a great success last year and plans for the 2008 service are even bigger and better.