Aussies Descend Upon The Great Escape, Jagwar Ma Stay Home

The annual The Great Escape festival in the seaside town of Brighton in the UK has become a pretty vital destination for burgeoning bands looking to make a splash in international markets and a whole stack of Aussie bands have been updating their social media accounts with pictures of Changi airport, London pubs and now Brighton attractions as they descend upon the town this weekend.

Our reporter Bryget Chrisfield is on the ground in Brighton and has already enjoyed a couple of days of music since touching down. Her early pick are Paris bred but now UK based electro pop trio We Were Evergreen.

Read her full report here.

One group who won't be joining in on The Great Escape fun is Jagwar Ma, who earlier this week were forced to make the decision to stay home due to the band's Jono Ma suffering from a medical issue that will prevent him from flying for some time.

The duo made the following statement and a representative of the band has today told theMusic.com.au that they won't be commenting any further at this stage.

“Due to unforeseen circumstances as Jono is under doctors orders to avoid flying for six weeks, we will be rescheduling some of our upcoming live dates.

The shows in London (XOYO) and Manchester (Deaf Institute) have been rescheduled, new dates below.New Dates:

19th June - XOYO, London
20th June - Deaf Institute, Manchester

Unfortunately the following dates have been cancelled:

18th May - Great Escape, Brighton
24th May , London Calling Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam
25th May, Field Day, London
1st June - Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin

We're really disappointed to have to miss these shows and sorry to let anyone down, we're looking forward to playing in the UK, Ireland & Europe as soon as possible, thank you for all the support for us and our music, we really appreciate it!

Be seeing you soon,
Jono and Gab x”