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]]> 1450 Great Escape 2014 – Day 3 https://www.downatthefront.co.uk/archives/1390 Sun, 11 May 2014 12:53:57 +0000 http://gigs.pahudson.net/?p=1390 Sometimes you have one of these days where you appear to be destined to see dross or changeovers. It’s one of the risks go taking the approach of bouncing around. I wanted to try some of the other venues which meant they were a little bit more dispersed and unfortunately I just seemed to catch changeovers for most of the afternoon. The bands I did catch simply didn’t register or where actually rubbish.

Thankfully my mood was lightened late afternoon when I stumbled upon a line-up change at the Tube, Kill Moon who played an excellent set helped by the fantastic venue. (It really is a tiny tube in the Brighton sea wall)

After that things improved with an ‘off festival’ show featuring The Physics House Band, Slow Club and the Amazing Snakeheads, a band I failed to catch due to the long queues outside of the tiny Hope the night before.

The evening was closed off with some ‘knowns’, White Lung, a disappointing Mazes, an interesting performance from Arc Iris, a band who clearly listened to too much Frank Zappa and watching too many Yes performances. Finally my festival closed with Trans.

I managed to catch:

The Great Escape - Day 3: Josh Flowers and the Wild
Josh Flowers and the Wild – great performance in the challenging Hub Tent

The Great Escape - Day 3: Hollie Cook
Hollie Cook – great voice

Gallery Circus – Energetic performance but the music didn’t work for me

Audience Killers – didn’t like the lead singer’s voice

The Great Escape - Day 3: Boy Jumps Ship
Boy Jumps Ship – skater rock of the Biffy Clyro book of music. Exactly!

The Great Escape - Day 3: Kill Moon
Kill Moon – great performance

The Physics House Band – sound like a complex equation imagined in music.

Slow Club – good performance, though fairly bland

The Great Escape - Day 3: Amazing Snakeheads
Amazing Snakeheads – great live

The Great Escape - Day 3: Kieran Leonard
Kieran Leonard – hard to judge. Singing unaided in a museum

The Great Escape - Day 3: Charlie Cunningham
Charlie Cunningham – as above

The Great Escape - Day 3: HSY
HSY – lots of energy and shouting. Great if you like that sort of thing. Personally not my cup of tea.

The Great Escape - Day 3: White Lung
White Lung – not as pissed of as the first time I saw them, but still good.

The Great Escape - Day 3: Mazes
Mazes – disappointed. Too much new material that doesn’t sound as interesting as their earlier material

The Great Escape - Day 3: Arc Iris
Arc Iris – lots of really talents musicians living out the 1970s prog scene through the filter of Frank Zappa. Definitely a marmite band. I quiet enjoyed it. But I won’t rush out to see them again

The Great Escape - Day 3: TRANS
Trans – sound issues aside, another great performance.

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