The Great Escape

Sydney's best live-in festival, The Great Escape is back for another cracking Easter in 2007!Get along for another unforgettable Easter long weekend of music, camping and stacks more, with three jam-packed days and nights of leading international and Aussie acts rocking out right in your campsite!
Brought to you by the folk behind Cockatoo Island, The Great Escape continues the long tradition of great live-in festivals like Glastonbury and Coachella and transports it to the very heart of Sydney.

FESTIVAL HOURS
Campers: Days (Thu April 5 - Mon April 9). Hours (8.00am - 3am Fri/Sat/Sun)
Daytrippers: Fri 6/Sat 7/Sun 8 April (9.30am - Midnight)
Much more than a music festival, TGE'll keep you busy this Easter long weekend with:
Cabaret * Comedy * Cult Cinema * Circusworks * Acrobatics * Conspiracy Talks * Disco Bingo * Rockdog's Trivia * Freak Zone * Markets * Record & Collectables Fair * Token Cereal * Ping Pong Club * Totem Tennis Tournament * Sunrise Yoga * Art & Music Workshops * Pool Hall * Waterfront Beer Garden * & loads more...

Nestled on a riverbend only 25 minutes from the centre of Sydney, with its lush rolling hills and motley collection of old buildings, the sprawling Newington Armory is the perfect setting for a great escape. Dating back to the 1800's, the heritage-listed Armory features a huge range of abandoned and long-forgotten spaces, including a spooky gunpowder crypt, cavernous armament depots, hidden explosives bunkers, eerie cottages, tiny train stations, groves, glades and an old school working wharf. This Easter, we'll throw off the shackles of the past and turn the Armory into one awesome party venue!

FESTIVAL STAGES
The beating heart of festival, stake your place on the sloping lawns of the VILLAGE GREEN to catch all your fave big name bands rocking out into the night.Right on the waterfront, cosied up between towering old cranes and tiny train tracks, the RIVERSIDE STAGE takes over the Armory's century-old wharf to showcase the best of the fest's roots, funk and global grooves.Burlesque, risque and occasionally very naughty. Get stage-side and experience first-hand the exotic underworld of cabaret in a disused ammunition factory, BUNKER 8 CABARET.Home to festival faves like Disco Bingo and Rockdog’s Trivia the festival's very own version of the classic RSL (aka TIN SHED) also boasts an eclectic mix of international and Sydney hot shot bands.Shake it up, shake it down, get your booty all around in the Armory's stencil cutting and tool room, THE DANCEHALL.Get a panoramic view of the river, the mangroves and the crowd while you kick back, sip a chai and absorb the chilled tunes of THE TERRACE.