The Great Escape (festival)

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The Great Escape is music festival held over Easter at Newington Armory, located within Sydney Olympic Park since 2006. It evolved from the 2005 Cockatoo Island Music Festival. The music and other attractions run from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, with some patrons camping from Thursday evening to Monday morning. Punters can attend either for the full weekend camping, purchase a 3 day pass and commute each day or attend a single day. Many acts also play the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival the same weekend, however The Great Escape line up is more diverse featuring pop, hip hop, electronic and rock acts that would not fit into a Blues and Roots line up. In addition to musical acts, there is also a wide range of other features such as comedy acts, bingo and trivia, conspiracy theory talks and yoga. The festival gained its name due to the fact that it is held across the road from Silverwater Prison.

[edit] Artist lineups

Friday April 16, 2006 Silverchair, Sigur Ros, Something For Kate, The Beautiful Girls, Wolf & Cub, Slightly Stoopid, Afro Moses, Waiting For Guinness, Blue King Brown, Mia Dyson, Hawksley Workman, Dave Graney & Clare Moore, Hat Fitz, Tim Ireland, Melanie Horsnell, Stephen Cummings, Martha Wainwright, The Darling Downs, Dobracoracol, Arabesk, Declan Kelly, Freeway, Angus & Julia Stone, Sam Shinazzi, The Herd, DJ Scoob, TZU, Koolism, Def Wish Cast, DJ Prince V, Hermitude, Combat Wombat, Local Knowledge, The Fumes, The Camels, Leanne Paris, Botanics, The Pedestrains, DJ Jack Shit, Unkle Ho, Toydeath, Layer, The Zion Band, The Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon, Garry Who, Gary Bradbury, Bruce Griffith, Mickey Gee, The Red Paintings, Mikelangelo, The Dawn Collective, Joel Plaskett, Pony Club Massacre.

Saturday April 17, 2006 The Black Keys, Femi Kuti, Juan De Marco's Afro Cuban Allstars, Eskimo Joe, Daara J, Slightly Stoopid, Funktrust, Kid Confucius, Rastawookie, Entropic, Andy Clockwise, Liz Martin, Joel Plaskett, Jesse Younan, Watussi, Brain Campeau, Hawksley Workman, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Girls From The Clouds, The Audreys, Blue King Brown, The Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon, Panda, Durbeyfield, Laura Imbruglia, Paul Mac, The Bird, The Red Eyes, Endorphin, Butterfingers, The Vasco Era, The McMenamins, Those Bloody McKennas, Causal Projects, Johnny G And The E Types, Lordz Of The Fly,

The Great Escape 2007 Lineup

Friday 6 April

Wolfmother, Hilltop Hoods, The Vines, Ben Kweller (USA), Blue King Brown, Ooh La La, Angus & Julia Stone, Bertie Blackman, Holly Throsby, Kingtide, Rastawookie, Fishbone (USA), Kaki King (USA), FourPlay, Bev Killick, Gary Bradbury, Steve Philp, Greta Gertler, Expatriate, Children Collide, The Panda Band, Macromantics, Bridezilla, Iain Archer (UK), Melanie Horsnell, The Exploders, Toydeath, The Mares, Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie (NZ), Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar, Regal, Simon Caldwell, Somatik, Stereo Thief, Frenzie, Gsan

Saturday 7 April

Missy Higgins, Ziggy Marley, Bob Evans, Deerhoof (USA), Bliss n Eso, Little Birdy, Lee 'Scratch' Perry (Jamaica), Blue King Brown, Hermitude, Astronomy Class, Coda, Sparkadia, The Sins, The Bird, John Butler Trio, Darren Dempsey, The Flairz, Haskel Daniel, Mick Meredith, Simon Kennedy, Greta Gertler, Kaki King (USA), Waiting for Guinness, The Magic Numbers (UK), Children Collide, Whiskey Go Go's, Macromantics, Joel Plaskett, Wons Phreely, Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie (NZ), Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar, Regal, Simon Caldwell, Somatik, Stereo Thief, Frenzie, Gsan

Sunday 8 April

The Living End, The Lemonheads (USA), The Roots (USA), The Cops, The Temper Trap, Darren Hanlon, Stick Figures, Flogging Molly (USA), GoGol Bordello (USA, Ukraine), Fat Freddy's Drop (NZ), The Fumes, Lou Rhodes (UK), True Live, Carla Werner, Waiting for Guinness, Gomez (UK), Operator Please, Alice Russell (UK), Mickey Gee, Darren Carr, Clint Paddison, Bridezilla, Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie (NZ), Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar, Regal, Simon Caldwell, Somatik, Stereo Thief, Frenzie, Gsan