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Fake Escape Festival 2023

  • The Rose Hill 70 Rose Hill Terrace Brighton, England, BN1 4JL United Kingdom (map)

Saturday 13th May | 3pm - midnight | FREEEEE

INDUSTRY! INDUSTRY! INDUSTRY! INDUSTRY! INDUSTRY! and so on.

‘The best music industry festival the UK has ever smelt’ MOJO *****

‘I heart Fake Escape for Evsss’ Billy Eilish

This will be the 10th year we run the finest music industry festival in Brighton THE FAKE ESCAPE!!!! It began in a pop- up shop on Western road all those years ago and has grown so big (some say too big) over the years that it has had to move to The Rose Hill!

2 floors of live music, performance and visuals in collaboration with local label and collective Ceremonial Laptop!

More acts TBA!!

BEN SEAL

"Fife based producer composer and musician Ben Seal effortlessly straddles disciplines and genres, through film and music. It’s that tension that makes them an endlessly fascinating, singular artist, along with their refusal to compromise and fit into prescribed niches" The Wee review.

Mafu

Having just launched their new EP "Piss Queen" with local label New Scenery back in April, Mafu is back to wreak a similar kind of good time on the Rose Hill punters. Their improvised sets are packed with jumpy fun, hard stomping and wobbly stuff. Mafu can be heard at venues around Brighton busting out high energy DJ blends featuring lots of hard techno, ballroom, jungle, electro and basically anything sexy or silly or fun.

Meljoann

Meljoann is an experimental pop producer and video artist from Ireland, looking at identity, relationships and gender under capitalism with a comic and surreal gaze.  Her tracks have been supported by Pitchfork, Irish Times, Nialler9 and BBC Introducing. ‘HR’, her anti-capital concept album, is out now.

CEDRICK KNOX + PELICAN MAN

They will present extracts from the ongoing 'Archive Fever' project: lofi absurdist video mashup from old news and music documentaries. With a live improvised synth soundtrack.

MATHEW MULI

"He samples field recordings to make lo-fi rap magic - Matthew Muli is a Brighton artist we're excited about" Offie Mag

SEBASTIAN MüLLER

Woe records ambient musician plays beautiful and transporting music of the highest calibre.

PLURALS

one of the greatest drone noise bands in the south - prolific back catalogue can be found on Bandcamp

PLUS:

BUNTY & HOLY CIRCUIT

Vocal looping pioneer and improviser teams up with Holy VHS feedback maestro

DJ FIERY BISCUITS

Mover and shaker Graham Newbury (Lost Property / Splitting the Atom / bald nobbers + more) will play tunes in between acts all day long- always finest selection! His brief is eclectic as fuck and he shalt deliver!!

NYLON PRAWN

Alistair Strachan + Nell Howe play an improvised set for synth, brass and vocals.

DRAGONS OF DISGUST

Drum, sax and guitar trio of polyrhythmic fun and groove

I AM FYA (DJ SET)

Experimental producer and artist Anthea Clarke plays her fave far out bangers for the end of the night shakedown

NEW GARDENERS SOCIETY

Ceremonial Laptop's amorphous house band, always opening the show so no one else has to. Never what you expect but always what you need

4 EYED CLONE

Brighton based producer blasting IDM, drum and bass, techno and house as they see fit. So much gear, all the dancing

BLANK\\

Thumping noisy electro rock all the way from Caen, France.

BARELIFE

filthy dance floor beats. Incorporating sounds from both sides of the Atlantic: from grime and big beat, to footwork and dancehall