THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 2012: ONE'S TO WATCH

So after some technical glitches that halted OWL BY NIGHT'S intrepid grass roots reporting from The Great Escape Festival everything seems to have come together, albeit perhaps a little late. So here is the first post in relation to Brighton and indeed Europe's biggest new music festival. ENJOY!

ONE'S TO WATCH - TWOO WORD SNAP SUMMARIES:

ALUNAGEORGE: Vampish slow-jams.

AVALANCHE CITY: Melodic folk.

BASS DRUMS OF DEATH: Maniacal rage-tunes.

BASTILLE: Sultry indie-pop.

BIG WAVE RIDERS: Fini-lectro synth-surfers.

BIGKIDS: Juxtapositional heroes.

BINARY: Sublime electro-indie.

BORN GOLD: Canadian smash-tronica.

BOY FRIEND: sophisticated revelry.

CAVE PAINTING: Brightonian thought-provokers.

CITIZENS!: Pop champions.

CLEAN BANDIT: Instrumentalist extraordinaire's

COLLEGE: Influential Franco-lectro.

CROWNS: Punk-folk bashment.

DEVIN: Rock-rolling.

DJANGO DJANGO: Effervescent artsy-rock-tronic.

DRY THE RIVER: Celestial mood-makers.

FILMS OF COLOUR: Emotive compositions.

FOXES: Seductive noire-pop.

FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS: Surreal-scape marauders.

FRIENDS: Resonant electro-tists.

GRIMES: Psychedelic fusion.

GROSS MAGIC: scuzz popsters.

HATCHAM SOCIAL: Mountainous indie.

HUSKY: Sublime folk.

JINJA SAFARI: Rambunctious Australians.

JONQUIL: Indie romanticists.

JUVENILES: French architects.

KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS: Cerebral soundscapers.

LA FEMME: Competing Instrumentations.

LIANNE LA HAVAS: Sultry vocalism.

LAST DINOSAUR: Joyous indietones.

MADEON: Electro eclecticism.

MAN LIKE ME: Forthright musicality.

MMOTHS: Picturesque noisia.

MISTEUR VALAIRE: Sophisticated beats.

NIKI AND THE DOVE: Svenska synergies.

NZCA LINES: Synth-pop thoroughfares.

PALMA VIOLETS: Skittish indie.

PEACE: Resplendent tunes.

PORCELAIN RAFT: Hazy hypno-pop.

RED INK: Ostentatious theatricals.

RICH AUCOIN: Celebratory compositions.

SAVOIR ADORE: Magical renditions.

SHIELDS: Beat-savvy construction.

SLOW CLUB: Intelligent indie-folk.

SPECTOR: Explosive slices.

ST. LUCIA: Dreamscape makers.

STRANGERS: Eighties synth-tronica.

SWISS LIPS: Elated pop.

SYKUR: Glacial wildernesses.

TANLINES: Sun-drenched synths.

THE NEW UNION: Suave indie.

THEME PARK: Dynamic lyricism.

TOY: Genre splitting.

TRIBES: Punchy alt-pop.

TRIPPPLE NIPPPLES: Hallucinogenic tomfoolery.

TRUST: Satin electro.

VISION OF TREES: Pristine electronica.

WE HAVE BAND: Exultant music.

WE WERE EVERGREEN: Franco indie-pop.

WILD BELLE: Serene blisstopia.

YACHT: Plod-along electro-pop.

ZEBRA AND SNAKE: Finnish experimentalism.

ZULU WINTER: Graceful compositions.

TO CHECK OUT ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED BANDS AND ACTS, SIMPLY TYPE THEIR NAMES INTO YOUTUBE / FACEBOOK AND FOLLOW FROM THERE.