Who are you seeing at The Great Escape? (From The Argus)

Who are you seeing at The Great Escape?

9:01am Tuesday 11th May 2010 in Blogs By Laura Johnson - Girl about town

Last year come festival time, I went to a bit of everything, I saw music, comedy, plays and monologues. Some were good, some, not so. And so this year, I have been pickier in my choices.

This weekend marks my festival 2010 debut and what better place to start than The Great Escape? With over 350 new artists in 30 venues over 3 days, how do you decide who to see?

The festival is mainly about new/up and coming artists there are only a handful I heave heard of. Ellie Goulding has definitely been hyped up over this year, and there are some oldies like Cornershop and Groove Armada. I also recognise the likes of The Big Pink and Chew Lips which are up and coming bands that I am lucky to have already seen.

But the problem is that I feel I should be discovering new bands and so should pick none of these, but artists I haven’t seen/heard off before – but how do you choose?

It probably takes three tracks for me to decide if I would like a band. So if I looked into all 350 artists giving them 9 minutes each, it would take me 52 hours (if my maths is right) to listen to all the artists – and even then I would most likely forget who is who!

So feel free to let me know your hot picks, otherwise I think I may just choose the venue which serves the best array of drinks – go in and park myself down for the night and see who comes along to entertain me!