The Brighton event has added 100 names to its festival bill, including Ella Eyre, Jungle, Chlöe Howl and Charli XCX
• Kelis signs with UK indie label Ninja Tune - and it suits her
100 new names have been added to this year's Great Escape line-up, including Kelis, Jungle and The Fat White Family. The R&B singer, who recently signed to Ninja Tune for new album Food, will headline the Saturday night of the festival at the Brighton Dome. Other names to appear in the first wave of acts include Royal Blood, Charli XCX, Courtney Barnett and Ella Eyre.
This year's event will include over 400 artists performing across 35 venues from 8 - 10 May. Below is the full line-up, and if you want to get aquainted with some of the new names, why not have a read of the following pieces:
• Chlöe Howl: 'My songs are about being a bored teen, 'cos I am one'
• Jungle: the secretive duo feeling The Heat
• How Charli XCX grafted her way to the cusp of pop stardom
• Fat White Family: 'We want to make your skin crawl'
*A - C *
Amber Run
Andy Shauf
Arc Iris
Arthur Beatrice
As Animals
Autobahn
Baby In Vain
Baby Strange
Beard Of Wolves
Beautiful Boy
Benjamin Clementine
Black City Lights
Blaenavon
Broken Twin
Charli Xcx
Cherub
Chlöe Howl
Circa Waves
Cleo T
Courtney Barnett
*D - F *
D/C
Dark For Dark
Darlia
Denai Moore
Dive In
Dolomite Minor
Doom Squad
Douglas Dare
Dune Rats
Ella Eyre
Erotic Market
Fabienne
Fat White Family
Female Smell
Femme
Flux Pavilion
Flyte / Ftse
Future Islands
Fyfe
*G - J*
Gianna Lauren
Ginger And The Ghost
Glory Glory
Hannah Georgas
Hermitude
Holy Strays
Hsy
Human Pyramids
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Jay Arner
Jeremiah Jae
Jeremy Neale
Jungle
*K - O*
Kelis
Labyrinth Ear
Leon T Pearl
Lonely The Brave
Lovepark
Major Leagues
Marika Hackman
Matthew And The Atlas
Max Marshall
Mickey Lightfoot
Money For Rope
New Desert Blues
Oliver Wilde
Orval Carlos Sibelius
Oy
*P - S *
Pawws
Phox
Powder Blue
Rejjie Snow
Rosie Lowe
Royal Blood
Russian Red
Saint Raymond
Samaris
Satellite Stories
September Girls
Shopping
Shy Nature
Sin Cos Tan
Slaves
Stubborn Heart
Sundara Karma
*T - Y*
The Bony King Of Nowhere
The Creases
The Crooked Brothers
The Darlingtons
The Oscillation
The Scenes
Theo Verney
Tove Lo
Traams
Traumahelikopter
Travis Bretzer
Wet
White Lung
Wilsen
Womans Hour
Young Summer
Youth Man
Yumi And The Weather Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago.
• Kelis signs with UK indie label Ninja Tune - and it suits her
100 new names have been added to this year's Great Escape line-up, including Kelis, Jungle and The Fat White Family. The R&B singer, who recently signed to Ninja Tune for new album Food, will headline the Saturday night of the festival at the Brighton Dome. Other names to appear in the first wave of acts include Royal Blood, Charli XCX, Courtney Barnett and Ella Eyre.
This year's event will include over 400 artists performing across 35 venues from 8 - 10 May. Below is the full line-up, and if you want to get aquainted with some of the new names, why not have a read of the following pieces:
• Chlöe Howl: 'My songs are about being a bored teen, 'cos I am one'
• Jungle: the secretive duo feeling The Heat
• How Charli XCX grafted her way to the cusp of pop stardom
• Fat White Family: 'We want to make your skin crawl'
*A - C *
Amber Run
Andy Shauf
Arc Iris
Arthur Beatrice
As Animals
Autobahn
Baby In Vain
Baby Strange
Beard Of Wolves
Beautiful Boy
Benjamin Clementine
Black City Lights
Blaenavon
Broken Twin
Charli Xcx
Cherub
Chlöe Howl
Circa Waves
Cleo T
Courtney Barnett
*D - F *
D/C
Dark For Dark
Darlia
Denai Moore
Dive In
Dolomite Minor
Doom Squad
Douglas Dare
Dune Rats
Ella Eyre
Erotic Market
Fabienne
Fat White Family
Female Smell
Femme
Flux Pavilion
Flyte / Ftse
Future Islands
Fyfe
*G - J*
Gianna Lauren
Ginger And The Ghost
Glory Glory
Hannah Georgas
Hermitude
Holy Strays
Hsy
Human Pyramids
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Jay Arner
Jeremiah Jae
Jeremy Neale
Jungle
*K - O*
Kelis
Labyrinth Ear
Leon T Pearl
Lonely The Brave
Lovepark
Major Leagues
Marika Hackman
Matthew And The Atlas
Max Marshall
Mickey Lightfoot
Money For Rope
New Desert Blues
Oliver Wilde
Orval Carlos Sibelius
Oy
*P - S *
Pawws
Phox
Powder Blue
Rejjie Snow
Rosie Lowe
Royal Blood
Russian Red
Saint Raymond
Samaris
Satellite Stories
September Girls
Shopping
Shy Nature
Sin Cos Tan
Slaves
Stubborn Heart
Sundara Karma
*T - Y*
The Bony King Of Nowhere
The Creases
The Crooked Brothers
The Darlingtons
The Oscillation
The Scenes
Theo Verney
Tove Lo
Traams
Traumahelikopter
Travis Bretzer
Wet
White Lung
Wilsen
Womans Hour
Young Summer
Youth Man
Yumi And The Weather Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago.