The Great Escape Announce First Wave of Artists for 2026 Line-Up

The U.K’s Girl Group, Swedish instrumentalist Isak Benjamin, and Nigeria-born singer-songwriter Tommy WÁ are among the showcasing artists confirmed for The Great Escape 2026.

The caller euphony extravaganza returns to Brighton, England adjacent summertime (May 13-16), spotlighting a wealthiness of emerging endowment from crossed the globe.

The archetypal 50 artists who volition grace its stages were announced connected Wednesday greeting (Sept. 17), including French multi-instrumentalist Max Baby, Irish indie-pop instrumentalist Annie-Dog, Australia’s Teenage Joans, physics duo SISTRA and Toronto songwriter Clothesline from Hell. The afloat database volition diagnostic 450 acts, according to a statement.

Ahead of adjacent year’s festival, The Great Escape volition big its First Fifty showcase astatine venues crossed eastbound London successful November. The unrecorded motorboat volition spot a fig of those acts announced contiguous deed stages astatine 8 antithetic venues successful the capital, including Moth Club, Oslo, and The George Tavern.

Tickets for each First Fifty amusement commencement astatine £8 ($10.91) and are disposable present via an exclusive presale accessible via The Great Escape’s mailing list. General merchantability for each shows volition unfastened astatine 10 a.m. (BST) this Friday (Sept. 19) done the festival’s authoritative website.

Additionally, termination prevention foundation Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is announced arsenic the pb foundation spouse for The Great Escape 2026. Attendees volition person the enactment to donate to the foundation erstwhile they acquisition their tickets. 

In a property statement, Simon Gunning, CEO of CALM said: “Music is portion of the DNA of CALM – close from the clip Tony Wilson helped america launch. We usage it to scope much radical who request us. To marque immoderate sound astir termination and assistance prevention lives. That’s wherefore it’s truthful superb to beryllium The Great Escape’s pb foundation partner.”

The 2025 variation of The Great Escape welcomed sets from the likes of English Teacher, Daffo, RabbitFoot, Courting, My First Time, Westside Cowboy and RIP Magic, each of whom performed arsenic part of the Billboard U.K. Live experience. The takeover marked the inaugural Billboard U.K. Live event.

For tickets and much accusation for The Great Escape 2026, sojourn the festival’s authoritative website.