Brighton's Great Escape have announced its first wave of acts for this year's festival, among them the Allah-ahs and Phosphorescent, who will be appearing on Uncut’s stage. Other acts announced include Unknown Mortal Orchestra, King Krule, Eddi Front and Tom Odell. A full list of this round of acts is bellow, but more will follow. We will announce more acts appearing on our stage in the April issue. “The core aim of TGE is to champion new music,” said Festival Director Kat Morris. “And it’s great to be in a position where we can give festival goers an exciting cross-section of new artists to engage with.” Running alongside the festival will be the Great North conference, featuring a mixture of speakers and networking events. Speakers include Alan Davy, who will announce the artist-centric The Music Industry Talent Development Fund, and a panel of managers moderated by Convention Programmer Chris Cooke. Early bird tickets for the concert and conference are £45 and £145 respectively and can be found on the Great Escape website. The bands announced so far for the Great Escape are: The 1975 Allah-las Alunageorge Awaken I Am Bδstille Bear's Den The Black Heart Rebellion Blackeye Blaudzun Brodka Caitlin park Charlie Straight Childhood Christine and the Queens Chvrches Cloud Boat Cousins Cub scouts Dan Croll Dark Star David Rodigan Del Barber Dingus Khan Dinosaur Pile-Up Drenge Dune Eagulls Echo and the Empress Eddi Front Ed Harcourt Eliza and the Bear Fist City Foam Lake Gallops How to Dress Well Humans Hungry Kids of Hungary Indians Jacco Gardner King Krule Lab Coast Lawrence Arabia Lewis Watson Luke Sital-Singh Mac Demarco Made in Japan Marmozets Mø The Naturals The Neighbourhood Neighbourhood Youth Nick Mulvey Night Engine Phosphorescent Portasound Rainy Milo Royal Canoe Ryan Keen San Zhi Skaters Skip&Die Sleepmakewaves Snakadaktal Soak Spectres Stonefield Superfood Sweet Baboo Swim deep Teleman To Kill a King Tom Odell Tomorrow's World Towns Tres B The Trouble with Templeton The Upskirts Unknown Mortal Orchestra Velcro Hooks Velociraptor Wall Wolf Alice Young Rival