SCOTLAND AT TGE
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14-17 May, 2025
We’re heading back to Brighton from 14-17 May 2025 for The Great Escape! 🏖️
Full details below, and drop us a line if you’re at the event and want to connect 👋
Brighton, England
Scotland at TGE Showcases
Thursday 15 May | Horatio’s
12:30 - Water Machine
13:30 - Fourth Daughter
14:30 - Bottle Rockets
15:30 - SOAPBOX
Pier, Madeira Dr, BN2 1TW view map
Friday 16 May | Brighthelm
12:30 - Indoor Foxes
13:30 - Theo Bleak
14:30 - Azamiah
15:30 - corto.alto
North Rd, BN1 1YD view map
Scotland’s Networking Reception
Thursday 15 May
17.30-19.30 | The Old Ship Hotel RSVP
Connect with Scotland's music industry and showcasing artists and enjoy a selection of Scottish delicacies at the Old Ship Hotel!
Join Wide Days and Creative Scotland at the Old Ship Hotel on Thursday 15 May from 17.30-19.30, to connect with key figures from the industry and the Scottish artists showcasing on Thursday and Friday!
Deep-fried confectionary and haggis will be served, along with soft drinks made from girders.
2025 Showcase Artists
Azamiah
Azamiah curates a healing experience taking you on a journey across moody and light landscapes. Heavy groove based, Azamiah seeks inspiration from the likes of Hiatus Kaiyote, SAULT and James Blake.
Currently in a release cycle of their first EP and second album set for release in 2025, Azamiah continues to develop their sound through the exploration of new instrumental textures.
Bottle Rockets
Winners of BBC Introducing’s Scottish Act of the Year 2024, Glasgow band Bottle Rockets have continued to raise a storm and have an exciting 2025 ahead of them. The band’s infectious blend of shoegaze, indie rock and radio-friendly hooks has seen them sell out King Tuts, close Tenement trail with ques out of the door and hit the festival circuit at TRNSMT and Reading & Leeds festivals. Driven by a love for both gritty guitars and dreamy melodies, Bottle Rocket’s music explores the highs and lows of modern life with their tracks garnering consistent radio support on BBC R1 and further afield. 2025 is set to be an even bigger year with new music and an EP expected to land in Spring. Watch this space and get down to the show early!
BRÒGEAL
Melting together indie rock and traditional celtic folk, Brògeal are a Falkirk-based five piece who are set for a break-out year in 2024. Forming in Falkirk out of the ashes of high school bands, Brògeal came together over their love of Scottish and Irish folk music, punk and garage rock, adding banjo and mandolin to electric guitars, finding their own unique voice on the way.
corto.alto
Fast-rising Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist corto.alto has been described as a traditional jazz head raised in the age of the internet. The moniker of Glasgow-based Liam Shortall, corto.alto brings a fresh perspective to a heady mix of intuitive improvisation, electronic production, broken beat bounce and bass-heavy dub.
His debut album ‘Bad With Names’ out in Oct 2023 was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize 2024. It’s an honest and iconoclastic work, challenging the boundaries of contemporary jazz and live electronic.
Fourth Daughter
With her music’s arresting blend of pulsating synths, luminous soundscapes and her own radiant vocals, listening to Fourth Daughter feels like bathing in the Balearic sun. Her soul-on-sleeve approach and undeniable talent as an artist, producer and writer, Atkinson is quickly turning heads and hearts, establishing herself as one of electronic music’s most exciting rising talents. Fourth Daughter’s music is an irresistible island of escape, with a rapidly growing population.The youngest of four daughters, Emily Atkinson aka Fourth Daughter, creates euphoric electro from the Scottish capital. Drawing influence from the likes of Rufus Du Sol, Jamie xx, and Sylvan Esso, her lush, intricately textured music is imbued with emotional narratives that offer a cathartic and joyous release.
Indoor Foxes
Indoor Foxes, Scottish born singer and songwriter, makes indie rock music, described as “Courtney Love meets Paris Hilton vibes; a bit pretty and very, very loud”. Indoor Foxes is the moniker of Martha Barr, who cites artists like Wolf Alice, Phoebe Bridgers, Paramore, and Fatherson as her main inspiration. To Martha, Indoor Foxes is a vehicle of expression; a cooler and braver version of herself, “I almost idolise this half-character I have in ‘her’. It feels like wearing your favourite outrageous jacket or a really big pair of stompy boots when I move through the world as Indoor Foxes.” The name Indoor Foxes was coined a few years ago, inspired by an influencer named Feral Creatures. Indoor Foxes was born when she switched the word ‘feral’ for Indoor and creatures for her favourite animal ‘fox’.
James Emmanuel
James Emmanuel’s journey into music began with a gentle nudge from his father, a preacher in Nigeria, who noticed his son could use some grounding amid the challenges of youth. James joined the church gospel choir, where he discovered his love for singing that carries him through difficult times. At 16, after his father’s passing, he took on a new responsibility staying home to support his mother. Later, he set out for the UK on his own, working as a cleaner in a sports bar, where his love for music came alive again. Singing while he worked, he caught attention and soon earned the role of running the bar’s karaoke.
Edinburgh is where he found a true musical home. His warm, soulful performances have become a mainstay at The Jazz Bar, and his gratitude for Edinburgh’s embrace shines in his track, “Nothing But Love For This City.” Inspired by the challenges he’s overcome and his sense of peace and belonging, he released “Lonesome Man,” a heartfelt debut that resonated far and wide.
Rubie
Blending high-drama piano balladry, polymetric alt-pop, and transcendent plainsong, Rubie is a London-born, Glasgow-based artist, producer, and profound storyteller. Fresh from sold-out headlines at The Divine, Queer Theory, and supporting Tom Rasmussen and Jasmine.4.t, she’s gaining recognition beyond the queer underground for her intricate songwriting and raw, emotionally charged performances. Her 2024 album Seek Sisters—an ode to the many-gendered siblings who carried her through tumultuous years accessing trans healthcare—earned glowing praise from The Quietus (“Brilliantly restless”), and has been championed by The Matrix director Lilly Wachowski, who selected lead single To Change’s music video for screening at New York Pride.
Sim0ne
In the last two years, sim0ne has gone from bedroom DJ/Producer to BBC Radio 1’s Future Star of 2024 and star of TikTok’s #ElectronicMusic campaign. The Edinburgh-born, London-based DJ and producer has gained an increasing global fanbase (including 2 tours of Australia and a debut Asia run) through a series of viral remixes including “Say Yes To Heaven”, a bootleg turned official remix that garnered so much attention that Lana Del Rey officially released the single with sim0ne’s being the only remix.
Her high-energy blends include hard house and happy hardcore and have landed her a viral Boiler Room, guest shows across the BBC, a special stream with Mixmag and seen her dominate the DJ circuit. Having performed at some of the world’s most iconic venues and festivals including Glastonbury, Reading + Leeds, Fabric and DC10 Ibiza, sim0ne has also completed 2 sold out tours of her own show: club zer0.
SOAPBOX
Glasgow punk band SOAPBOX are set to release their new EP‘ LOCK IN’ on 25th April.
The band draw influence from acts including The Damned, Soft Play, Amyl and the Sniffers and Viagra Boys. Speaking about their music, they say “we all have a severe praise kink so as long as people keep listening, we’re happy.”
‘LOCK IN ’follows their previous EP ‘HAWD THAT’, with the release coinciding with their biggest headline show to date at Glasgow School of Art.
Theo Bleak
Theo Bleak is an alternative musician from Dundee, Scotland. Her work under this project explores the complexities of human emotion, pairing poetic lyrics with influences from literature, movie scores and a diverse music taste. In 2025, Theo Bleak will release an EP in late Spring and is working towards a debut album.
Water Machine
Flooding out of Glasgow, Scotland in 2022, Water Machine quickly gained a reputation for their weird and wonky art-punk, winning hearts with sing-along songs about dogs, struggling artists and the housing crisis. The world of Water Machine is a swirling eddy of melodic bass lines and volatile guitar sliding between jazz chords and punk riffs, all the while dancing harmonies sing sardonic social commentary and silly stories. A band with pop sensibilities and indignant punk urgency, Water Machine is a band for fans of great music. xx
YES AND MAYBE
Born amidst the cultural vibrancy of Glasgow, YES AND MAYBE is an electrifying two-piece band that pushes the boundaries of contemporary music. With influences ranging from the psychedelic pop of MGMT to the bold rawness of The Strokes, the classic harmonies of The Beatles, and the innovative beats of Jungle, their sound is an exciting, genre-bending fusion.
YES AND MAYBE, though relatively new, brings a refreshing spontaneity and a shared vision to redefine the musical landscape. Their commitment to creating music that resonates with their listeners’ shared experiences makes them a band worth investing in. Keep an eye on this Glasgow based duo—they’re a unique proposition with a future as innovative as their sound.
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