We set off for Brighton's The Great Escape festival to find out if it's possible.
"This," warns my colleague,"is a spectacularly bad idea"'And with that endorsement ringing in my ears I set off in the hope of catching 16 gigs in just 12 hours.
Most of them are newcomers - either freshly signed to a record label, or hoping to drum up record label interest. The majority will never trouble a radio station, festival bill or Spotify playlist in their lives. But maybe, just maybe, I'll spot a diamond in the rough.Down on the beach front, former Britain's Got Talent contestant James Smith is 10 minutes late, immediately throwing my schedule into disarray.
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