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PLANS ARE COMING TOGETHER for this year's Great Escape festival's live music programme, with organisers already promising a 25% hike in attendees and top-line acts such as Kasabian and British Sea Power confirmed among the strongest line-up in the event's four-year history.

The May 14-16 conference and trade show will once again be based at Brighton's Thistle Hotel, while venues around the city will host showcase gigs.

"Last year we had about 2,500 delegates and members of the press and, at this moment in time, we're about 25% ahead of where we were last year in terms of registrations, which is very encouraging given the economic situation," says The Great Escape organiser Martin Elbourne.

Elbourne and his team have already confirmed Kasabian, Little Boots, British Sea Power, Cage The Elephant, Mongrel and The Pipettes for the event, where around 300 acts will vie for the attention of some of the music industry's top decision makers.

In a conscious effort to include talent in the conference part of The Great Escape, an ...

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