The Great Escape 2010 Preview

This weekend Artrocker is returning to the Great Escape with a stage at The Hope, presenting shows from 12 noon onwards, Thursday to Saturday.

For our full line up, CLICK HERE! - and make sure you follow our TWITTER page, where Rory Carroll will be serving up regular updates live from the bash.

In the meantime, we've asked a few of our Artrocker stage bands to list the five acts they're most excited about watching. Here are the results...

THE NEAT

1. THESE NEW PURITANS. Dug the first album. Even if Kafka makes more sense.
2. THE BIG PINK They're noise monsters!
3. DJANGO DJANGO Nick's in the van with us at the moment. He says these guys are cool.
4. CORNERSHOP Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, this is the truth. But I'm pretty sure Allen Ginsberg guested on a track of theirs.
5. WILD PALMS We missed each other at the Camden Crawl. It'd be good to catch up again!

ONO PALINDOMES

1. JAGUAR LOVE Ex Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Good pedigree.
2. PULLED APART BY HORSES They're incredible live... keep from 3 month old red wine. Leeds!
3. CASTROVALVA This really shouldn't work... but hey it does! Leeds!
4. CHICKENHAWK Metal - heavy, heavy metal! More from Leeds!
TURBOWOLF The lovechild of Gogol Bordello and Motley Crue... but better music! Bristol this time!

THESE MONSTERS

1. WILD BEASTS One of our favourite bands at the moment, Two Dancers is a stunning album.
2. PULLED APART BY HORSES We wanna see blood sweat and booze!
3. AVI BUFFALO This show will be packed with beautiful women.
4. JAPANESE VOYEURS Cos the drummer is a beef cake.
5. CASTROVALVA Most interesting sound at the moment? I think so !

JAGUAR LOVE

1. COLD CAVE Wes the singer is old bros with us from American Nightmare/Blood Brothers days.
2. WHITE RABBITS Also friends with us from back in the day, little known fact that the first White Rabbits tour was with Blood Brothers.
3. JAPANDROIDS We love the band - but also my wife's uncle is bringing his whole family from Cleveland Ohio to Brighton because he likes the band so much.
4. TWEAK BIRD SUPER-SLUDGE from California, played with them a few years ago and loved it.
5. THE WALKMEN I've loved this band for years but never seen them play-the singer has always reminded me of Rod Stewart and I mean that in the best way possible

BO NINGEN

1. TWEAK BIRD "They have great riffs."
2. SEUN KUTI "A real groove."
ALSO: THE SLITS, POLAR BEAR