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Switzerland @ The Great Escape, 15-18 May 2024

Posted by SME Zurich on Apr 25, 2024

Ambience – that is what puts the great in the Great Escape. Somewhat ramshackle but also grand, Brighton is the archetypal English seaside town. It is crammed with boiled sweets, ice cream, record stores and souvenir shops catering for lobster-red nostalgia-hunters down for the day from London. Plus, there’s more than enough fish & chips shops to feed a giant herd of music people for a spot of talent hunting, networking and partying.

We are looking forward to see you all there and invite you to our Swiss Business Mixer and to the fantastic shows by Fulmine, Bound By Endogamy, Soft Loft and Sirens of Lesbos!

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Swiss Business Mixer
FRI 17 May 2024 | 12:00 – 16:00 | Komedia Studio Bar

Swiss Music Export has once again booked the KOMEDIA Studio on Friday for an afternoon of cutting-edge Swiss music with live performances by Fulmine, Bound By Endogamy, Soft Loft and Sirens of Lesbos! Come and share a pint of specially imported Swiss Hürlimann beer, a sandwich and a chocolate with us. Turn up with a TGE wristband, and you’re more than welcome to sample what we have on offer – and do spread the message! However, space is limited. In other words: arrive early and stay late! It’ll be worth it, we promise.

LIVE ACTS
12:15 FULMINE
13:15 BOUND BY ENDOGAMY
14:15 SOFT LOFT
15:15 SIRENS OF LESBOS

All artists appearing at the showcase will also be part of the official Great Escape schedule.

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Swiss performances at The Great Escape 2024

SIRENS OF LESBOS
THU 16 May 2024 | 21:15 | One Church
Having moved a world away from their early tongue-in-cheek hit “Long Days, Hot Nights”, Denise Häberli, the Serag sisters, Jasmina and Nabyla, and producers Melvyn Buss and Arci Friede, have combined their impossibly wide-ranging palette of influences to create a joyful melange of Nu Soul, Fleetwood Mac, Lee Perry and Hercules & Love Affair.

SOFT LOFT
THU 16 May 2024 | 23:15 | Fabrica
The five-piece formed to perform the songs of 25-year-old singer/songwriter Jorina Stamm recently made another giant step forward with the release of their acclaimed debut album, “The Party and the Mess”. “Music is a safe space”, says Stamm. “Music does not judge; it speaks to you directly and offers a refuge whenever you want to get away from reality.”

BOUND BY ENDOGAMY
THU 16 May 2024 | 01:30 | Green Door Store
Prominent figures in Geneva’s still ultra-active squat, punk and DIY scene as well as the Bongo Joe crew, Shlomo Balexert and Kleio Thomaïdes will be presenting material from their eponymous album, a high-octane and playful mixture of synth-punk, rave and fun.

FULMINE
SAT 18 April 2024 | 15:00 | Volks
Fulmine is a mixture of over-excited and burning sounds, with flaws and wanderings of a smiling mess, a release of liquid molecules and darker hopes, of myths and contradictions staged in a trashy way. Lightning is the new project of Rebecca Solari, a promise with Italian-disco drone slam rap noise flavors like a lightning bolt landed a in a thick swamp.

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These events are presented in partnership with Pro Helvetia, FONDATION SUISA, and the Embassy of Switzerland in the UK.