The Great Escape Festival, happening at the Newington Armory in Sydney in October, have just announced the second round of acts.

There's a couple of brand new faces, they've upped the folk quotient substantially and reeled in some preeners, pouters and power pop. Plus a couple of overseas heavyweights from each camp. To wit:

Second Line Up

TAME IMPALA (WA)
THE FUTUREHEADS (UK)
THE MICROPHONES aka MOUNT EERIE (USA)
I HEART HIROSHIMA (QLD)
MISSION CONTROL (VIC)
DASH & WILL (VIC)
YOUNG & RESTLESS (VIC)
THE NED COLLETTE BAND (VIC)
SOPHIE KOH (VIC)
THE TEMPER TRAP (VIC)
CLOUD CONTROL (NSW)
MACHINE TRANSLATIONS (duo - VIC)
TRIAL KENNEDY (VIC)
TEENAGERSINTOKYO (NSW)
LAURA IMBRUGLIA (NSW)
GEORGE BYRNE (VIC)
EMILY ULMAN (VIC)
GUY BLACKMAN (VIC)

There'll be one final installment of acts to come. The above mentioned join the first round of artists, recapped here for memory jogging:

C.W STONEKING
YEASAYER (USA)
THE PANICS
BLACK FRANCIS (USA)
CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND (USA)
BRITISH INDIA
SUPERGRASS (UK)
THE MESS HALL
WE ARE SCIENTISTS (USA)
LADYTRON (UK)
BLUE KING BROWN
PAUL KELLY
THE GALVATRONS
JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN (USA)
LIOR
PIKELET
YVES KLEIN BLUE
JACKSON JACKSON
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (Canada)
LITTLE RED
THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS
THE SEABELLIES
THE E.L.F.
FIREKITES
LAURA JEAN (VIC)
CASSETTE KIDS
WONS PHREELY
THE SCIENTISTS OF MODERN MUSIC
THEREDSUNBAND
THE HOLIDAYS
WHITLEY
SPOD
PLUG IN CITY

See the festival website for more details at: www.thegreatescape.net.au