Name: The Alternative Escape
Start: 2023-05-11T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-05-11T16:00:00+01:00
Location: North Laine Brewhouse

The Alternative  Escape

Planetary Group & Impressive PR

The Alternative Escape is a festival for new music, showcasing 500 emerging artists from all over the world in 30+ venues across Brighton

North Laine Brewhouse

In Brighton, the Planetary Group &amp; Impressive PR invite you to our showcase as part of the Great Escape at the North Laine Brewhouse for a day of music and entertainment on May 11th, 2023 starting at 12:00pm GMT+1The showcase&#x27;s roster includes upcoming new acts such as Civic, Zoon, Germein, Reb Fountain, Aimée &amp; Connor Mac.12:00 -12:25 p.m. Germein12:40 -1:05 p.m. Reb Fountain1:20 -1:45 p.m. Connor Mac2:40. - 3:05 p.m. Aimee2:55 -3:20 p.m. Zoon3:20 -3:45 p.m. Civic4 pm EndABOUT THE ARTISTSCIVIC: Melbourne-based five-piece CIVIC returned this year with their visceral new full-length studio album Taken By Force. One of the most exhilarating bands to emerge in recent years, CIVIC have reimagined the reckless intensity of proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty.On their 2021 debut album Future Forecast, the Melbourne-based five-piece offered up a barrage of songs matching their frenetic sound with both self-aware outpouring and incisive observation of the world around them—a dynamic that’s earned massive critical acclaim as well as admiration from the likes of musicians like punk legend Henry Rollins. As further shown on their upcoming sophomore full-length Taken By Force—an album the band aptly sums up as “1984 meets Endless Summer”—CIVIC joyfully obliterate the line between furious catharsis and unbridled fun, introducing a vital new energy into today’s musical landscape.Z﻿OON: Zoon has steadfastly woven their Indigenous experience and activism into every fabric of their work. Zoon&#x27;s debut album, Bleached Wavves was created with extremely limited, often broken gear. They worked through frustrating, lengthy delays and yet managed to reverse engineer a masterpiece of a debut. With sophomore album, Bekka Ma’iingan (releasing April 28th) a broad spectrum of possibilities, lush orchestration, resources, collaborators and friends all supported the process. Bleached Wavves provoked us to face many difficult questions and reckon with a deeply uncomfortable and painful history. Bekka Ma’iingan continues to explore their Indigenous and life experience, and while still clutching to the unresolved, it moves us more softly and sweepingly towards acceptance.Safety and wellness plays into another central theme to their new work in acknowledging their own ‘2-spirit’ identity. This comes forward in the instrumental album track, titled “Niizh Manidoowig (2 Spirit).” The choice to more openly share that side of themselves now, is partly in hope of supporting others who may not feel or be in a safe space to show or be themselves yet. “I wrote ‘Niizh Manidoowig’ while thinking about our ancestors who may have been niizh. I found a lot of peace knowing that there were others way before me. Sometimes growing up not around your own people you start to forget about your past.”

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