The Great Escape 2025: 175 new names join line-up with Skunk Anansie, Maruja, The Molotovs and more
The Great Escape has announced 175 new names for this year’s festival – including Skunk Anansie, Maruja and The Molotovs. Find all the details below.
The 2025 edition of the event – described as “the festival for new music” – is due to take place in Brighton between May 14-17. Find tickets here.
In February, organisers confirmed a spotlight show with Pete Doherty and Warmduscher among a wave of 120 additions to the line-up. More than 100 acts then joined the bill last month, with English Teacher leading the way.
Today (April 2), a further 175 artists have been added to TGE ’25. This latest batch features Skunk Anansie, who’ll take to the stage at the 500-capacity independent venue The Old Market.
Access to the show will be granted via a festival wristband, subject to the venue’s capacity.
This “exclusive, intimate” gig will serve as the only club date on Skin and co’s current UK headline tour, which kicked off last week. The band are set to release their seventh album, ‘The Painful Truth’, on May 23.
Other new names on the bill include NME 100 2025 alumni Maruja, Nia Smith and Ugly. They’ll be joined by Badger, Blue Lab Beats, Bruise Control, Carol Ades, CLT DRP, Courting, Divide And Dissolve, Girl Puppy, Goddess, Knats, Mandrake Handshake, Mechatok (live), RIP Magic, Sim0ne, Slag, The Molotovs, The None, and Zinadelphia.
Additionally, this year’s Great Escape daily highlights have been revealed – spotlighting the artists set to make a major impact across the new and extended four-day festival.
Today’s announcement takes the 2025 Great Escape line-up to over 450 acts in total. You can see it in full here.
Organisers wrote: “The latest wave of artists features some of the most exciting and hotly tipped emerging talent from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Japan, Ireland, the USA and beyond – further cementing the festival’s commitment to championing global grassroots music.”
Over 125 artists boycotted last year’s Great Escape due to its ties with Barclays Bank, which was accused of investing in several companies that supply arms to Israel. In October, it was announced that Barclays would no longer be a partner of the event in 2025.
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Tom Skinner
NME
