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10 Artists You Need To Catch at Alternative Escape 2026

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4 months ago

May 7, 2026

One of The Great Escape Festival week’s most talked-about unofficial hotspots is officially back. Planetary Group and Impressive PR return to Brighton this May for the third edition of Alternative Escape 2026, taking over the Secret Comedy Club for a full day of cutting-edge global new music discovery.

Running across two sessions — 12pm–4pm and 6pm–10pm on Thursday 14 May — the event has quickly built a reputation as one of the essential destinations for tastemakers, media and industry insiders looking to catch future breakout acts before the wider festival catches on.

Hosted at Secret Comedy Club, the showcase brings together an international lineup spanning Australia, Canada and the UK, curated by US tastemakers Planetary Group alongside leading UK music publicity agency Impressive PR.

Among this year’s standout names are Australian indie-rock trio Fool Nelson, Canadian experimental rock duo Yoo Doo Right, Welsh alt-rock firebrands CHROMA and London underground favourites Sweet Unrest.

The event also promises a major surprise with an as-yet-unannounced “Very Special Guest” slot already generating serious speculation ahead of festival week.

Blending indie, post-punk, shoegaze, garage rock and experimental sounds under one roof, Alternative Escape 2026 looks set to continue its rise as one of Brighton’s most exciting Great Escape week showcases.

Afternoon Set List:
12.00-12.25 Fool Nelson
12.40-1.05 Very Special Guest (to be confirmed)
1.20-1.45 Yoo Doo Right
2.00-2.25 Joan And The Giants
2.40-3.05 sundayclub
3.20-3.45 Tullamarines

Evening Set List:
6.00-6.25 Chroma
6.40-7.05 My Life Story (acoustic)
7.20-7.45 The Sick Fix
8.00-8.25 Sam Scherdel
8.40-9.05 SONNY E.
9.20-9.45 Sweet Unrest

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Host Bodies’ track ‘On A Roll’ Gets a Psychedelic Reinvention from Soul Glitch

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1 day ago

August 21, 2026

Joni Jones

Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.

For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.

The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.

There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.

The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.

Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.