So, The Great Escape is over for another year. London has been reinstated to its usual industry hub status, everyone has returned to waiting until at least midday to start drinking and Brighton's makeshift weekend venues have gone back to the pubs, car parks and front rooms they usually operate as. The beachside festival always throws up its fair share of treats and this year was certainly no exception. So, with a sepia-tinted air of reminiscence in our hungover hearts, here are the best ten things that happened at TGE 2013... [subhead]Superfood.

Over three days last week (16-18 May) Brighton played host to hordes of the most exciting new bands around - along with a few established names. The Great Escape 2013 saw Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs playing a blistering headline set on the NME Radar stage at the Corn Exchange on the first night, Everything Everything tearing it up at the Dome Concert Hall, name-making shows from Parquet Courts and Superfood, and a Palma Violets/Merchandise gig that almost saw the entire festival dissolve into chaos.

Whether it's because you caught them live over the last couple of months or because you read this glowing review, it's perfectly understandable to be very excited indeed about hearing Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs' debut record 'Clarietta'. It isn't released until next week, but because we can't wait that long, here's an exclusive stream of the entire album and a few lines from Charlie Boyer to introduce it. You're welcome. Charlie Boyer: [quote]"Clarietta is our first album.

It comes as little surprise to find that imposing, gutter-sweeping storyteller Daughn Gibson used to work in a porno bookstore. “It was incredible,” he booms down the line from his middle-of-nowhere hometown of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, telling us about lipstick-smeared drag queens and filth-obsessed businessmen regulars. “I think it inspired my whole life – like, pull back the curtain a little bit and see what’s inside.

Today (May 17), Queens Of The Stone Age’s glorious leader, King Badass himself, the mighty Ginger Elvis, Josh Homme, turns 40. Josh will no doubt be celebrating with a fine barrel of aged tequila, a supersized baggie of psychedelics and a make-shift rifle range set up somewhere on the current promotional run for QOTSA’s eagerly awaited sixth album, ‘…Like Clockwork’. Annoyingly, our invite to the festivities seems to have been lost somewhere in the dusty desert plains, so instead, we’ll celebrate with a blog. Oh alright, and some tequila too.