Club Uncut has decamped to the seaside for the duration of The Great Escape, the three-day festival in which mostly new bands fill Brighton’s plentiful pubs and clubs. Our weekend starts, though, with a disappointment, when The Slits are a late cancellation, leaving a contingent of Northern Irish girls I meet here specifically to see them in a mood of gloomy resentment.
Also starring: Evan Dando, Jason Isbell, Steve Van Zandt, Kevin Morby, The Skids, U2, Van Morrison, Fleet Foxes, The Beatles, Prince's Revolution, Buffalo Tom, Aimee Mann and shoegazers galore!