Royal Albert Hall to present stage at The Great Escape 2023

Presenting a mixed line-up of new music at the 300-capacity One Church Brighton, the Royal Albert Hall stage will feature Canadian indie-rock band Sylvie, Welsh impressionistic singer Strawberry Guy, Irish singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson, and Australian sister band Germein.

Matthew Todd, Director of Programming at the Royal Albert Hall, said: “We’re delighted to be working with The Great Escape again. New and emerging artists provide the backbone for the whole music industry, and we’re always excited to lend our platform to the next generation of talent.”

Australian sister band Germain – Georgia, Ella, & Clara Germein – grew up jamming together on their family farm in Adelaide. Inspired by the vocal harmonies of iconic bands such as Queen and Fleetwood Mac, Germein were shortlisted in the Top 6 Unsigned UK Acts in a competition run by HOAX to open for Ed Sheeran on the Closing Night of his Record-Breaking Divide World Tour.

Sorcha Richardson is an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin. Her second album, Smiling Like An Idiot, highlights a pursuit of happiness and the full-blown intensity of new love.

Welsh-born songwriter Strawberry Guy blends truthful lyrics with lush arrangements to conjure new emotive worlds, inspired by composers of the Romantic period and other classical artists of the 1800s, such as Debussy and Ravel.

Inviting close friends and inspiring musical colleagues to gather and record at his own garage in Silverlake CA, Ben Schwab (Sylvie) channels his years of writing, arranging, recording, and playing with bands Golden Daze and Drugdealer into writing and recording expansive original arrangements.