Green Man Festival
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The Green Man Festival is an independent music festival
held annually in the Brecon Beacons
, Wales
. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with live music
including psych
, folk
, indie, dance
and Americana
across five stages, as well as DJs playing everything from dub-reggae to electro and stoner rock, throughout the night.
Literature
, film
, theatre
, ceilidhs, all-night bonfires, comedy
and secret gigs are part of the festival's unique identity. The festival has carved a niche as a non-corporate and ethically-minded festival.
, James Yorkston
, Julie Murphy
and The Memory Band
near Hay-on-Wye
(Wales) and increased in size to host 1000 people over two days. The music included Four Tet
, Alasdair Roberts, Fionn Regan
, M Craft, Daimh, Gravenhurst, The Earlies
, Lone Pigeon, My Latest Novel and an early appearance from Joanna Newsom
. Baskerville Hall had an inside space, allowing some aspects of the festival to be hosted indoors.
, Bonnie Prince Billy and Joanna Newsom
. Other artists included Wizz Jones
, Adem, The Fence Collective, Josephine Foster and Tunng.
organiser of The Big Chill
festival went into partnership with the founders Jo and Danny and moved the festival to Crickhowell
, near Abergavenny
). The festival really established itself as a national outdoor event and saw a rapid expansion to 6,500.
The festival was given a 5 star rating in the Guardian
newspaper and 4 star rating in The Times.
The event was headlined by Donovan
, José González
and Calexico. Other performers included Adem, Bat for Lashes
, Jack Rose
, Marissa Nadler
, and Micah P. Hinson
and Joe Boyd appeared in the Literature Tent, and the Institute of Physics started the science tent. The festival became more than a music event and elements from all aspects of culture and living were added. Quality food tents offered cuisine from around the world, whilst bars offered everything from real ale to cocktails.
, Robert Plant
and Stephen Malkmus
headlined on their respective days of the festival weekend. The following acts also performed: Devendra Banhart
, Bill Callahan, Vashti Bunyan
, Stephen Duffy
& The Lilac Time
, Battles
, Seasick Steve
, Fridge
, Dead Meadow
, Gruff Rhys
, Vetiver
, The Earlies
, Richmond Fontaine
, Euros Childs
, Tunng
, Steve Adey
, Starless and Bible Black
, Lisa Knapp, Men-An-Tol
, Arborea
, Alela Diane
, Monkey Swallows the Universe
, Six Organs Of Admittance
, Gilbert
, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love, John Power, John Renbourn
, Thistletown
and My Brightest Diamond
.
, Super Furry Animals
, and Pentangle
(a worldwide festival exclusive) were the headline acts, joined by Richard Thompson, Iron & Wine
, The National
, Nina Nastasia
, Laura Marling
, Radio Luxembourg, Drive-By Truckers
, Black Mountain (band)
, Junior Boys
as well as a special night hosted by Domino Records and many, many others played to wildly enthusiastic crowds. A new bar called the "End Up" was added that had the first 24-hour drinks licence at a UK festival.
The 2008 festival was widely praised.
on Friday, Jarvis Cocker
on Saturday and Grammy award winners Wilco
, also 2008's hottest success Bon Iver
, as well as Wooden Shjips, British Sea Power
, Errors
, Grizzly Bear, Peggy Sue, Erland & The Carnival, Megson, Pivot
, It's A Buffalo, She Keeps Bees, Golden Animals, 6 Day Riot
, No Thee No Ess, Sound Carriers, and The Fuzzbirds. Other acts included: Andrew Bird
, Trembling Bells
, Dirty Three
and Peter Broderick
on the Bella Union night on Saturday in the Far Out Tent.They also announced the first of many new hidden surprises around the site including 'Einstein's Garden', which combines science, green issues and art in a fun and thought provoking way, Chai Wallahs containing an exciting line-up of dj's, an expanded the children's area with even more workshops, entertainment and great stuff to do. An 8 metre sculpture of the Green Man was set alight at the end of the festival, which created a wonderful finale and great spectacle to finish the celebrations for 2009.
(Saturday) and Joanna Newsom
(Sunday). Other acts on the Main Stage bill included Mumford And Sons
, Beirut
, Billy Bragg
, The Unthanks, Tindersticks
, Laura Marling
, Darwin Deez
, John Grant, Fionn Regan, Erland And The Carnival, Johnny Flynn and Mountain Man.
In the Far Out (second stage), Fuck Buttons
headlined Friday night, Wild Beasts
on Saturday and Efterklang
on Sunday. Girls, The Tallest Man On Earth, Megafaun, These New Puritans
, Avi Buffalo
, Summer Camp
, Je Suis Animal
, Steve Mason, Sleepy Sun and Chew Lips, also performed in the Far Out.
Music continued in the Far Out After-Dark (Far Out stage after 11pm) until 4am. On Friday night Hexstatic
provided a night of "Audio Visual Dancefloor Mayhem" and invited Dj Yoda
, DJ Food
& DK and Cheeba to join them. Saturday night saw Metronomy
provide the evening's entertainment in the form of "Metronomy Presents", inviting Factory Floor, James Blake and Wild Geese. Sunday evening saw Greco Roman Sound System taking over the After-Dark- "Greco Roman vs. Green Man" with Matthew Herbert
, Gold Panda
, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Greco Roman Soundsystem DJ's including Ross Allen and Full Nelson.
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
held annually in the Brecon Beacons
Brecon Beacons
The Brecon Beacons is a mountain range in South Wales. In a narrow sense, the name refers to the range of popular peaks south of Brecon, including South Wales' highest mountain, Pen y Fan, and which together form the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with live music
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
including psych
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...
, folk
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
, indie, dance
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...
and Americana
Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
across five stages, as well as DJs playing everything from dub-reggae to electro and stoner rock, throughout the night.
Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, ceilidhs, all-night bonfires, comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
and secret gigs are part of the festival's unique identity. The festival has carved a niche as a non-corporate and ethically-minded festival.
2003 festival
Green Man was held in Craig y Nos Castle for one day with 300 people attending. Artists who performed included King CreosoteKing Creosote
Kenny Anderson, known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has released over forty albums, with his latest, Thrawn, released in 2011. Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band, The Burns Unit...
, James Yorkston
James Yorkston
-Music career:A native of Fife, James Yorkston was an integral early member of the Fence Collective whose reach across contemporary music continues to lengthen: King Creosote, The Aliens, KT Tunstall, The Beta Band...
, Julie Murphy
Julie Murphy
Julie Murphy is a singer who sings in Welsh and English. She sings in the Welsh band Fernhill, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist.She has also collaborated musically with John Cale , and Afro Celt Sound System .-Biography:Murphy was born in Highgate, London,...
and The Memory Band
The Memory Band
The Memory Band is an English folk group founded by Stephen Cracknell. The Memory Band has a rolling cast of collaborators from across the musical spectrum...
2004 festival
The festival moved to Baskerville Hall Hotel at ClyroClyro
Clyro is a village in Powys, Wales with approximately 600 inhabitants . The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 1.5 miles to the southeast. The nearest city is Hereford in England, some 23 miles to the east.-History:...
near Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye , often described as "the town of books", is a small market town and community in Powys, Wales.-Location:The town lies on the east bank of the River Wye and is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains...
(Wales) and increased in size to host 1000 people over two days. The music included Four Tet
Four Tet
Kieran Hebden is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet....
, Alasdair Roberts, Fionn Regan
Fionn Regan
Fionn Regan is an Irish singer-songwriter and artist from Bray, County Wicklow, who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his Mercury-nominated debut album, The End of History...
, M Craft, Daimh, Gravenhurst, The Earlies
The Earlies
The Earlies are a band formed by Christian Madden and Giles Hatton from Lancashire, England, and Brandon Carr and John Mark Lapham from the United States...
, Lone Pigeon, My Latest Novel and an early appearance from Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
. Baskerville Hall had an inside space, allowing some aspects of the festival to be hosted indoors.
2005 festival
Attendance of the festival increased to 1500 people, and the event spanned three days. The headline acts were the Incredible String BandIncredible String Band
The Incredible String Band were a psychedelic folk band formed in Scotland in 1966. The band built a considerable following, especially within British counterculture, before splitting up in 1974...
, Bonnie Prince Billy and Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
. Other artists included Wizz Jones
Wizz Jones
Raymond Ronald Jones better-known as Wizz Jones is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present...
, Adem, The Fence Collective, Josephine Foster and Tunng.
2006 festival
In 2006 Fiona StewartFiona Stewart
Fiona Stewart is the Managing Director of the Green Man Festival. Stewart became involved as a director and shareholder in the Green Man Festival in 2006, to develop Green Man after having turned around The Big Chill . She moved the event to a new site, developed the design of the event, themed...
organiser of The Big Chill
The Big Chill (music festival)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...
festival went into partnership with the founders Jo and Danny and moved the festival to Crickhowell
Crickhowell
Crickhowell is a small town in Powys, Mid Wales.-Location:The name Crickhowell is taken from that of the nearby Iron Age hill fort of Crug Hywel above the town, the Welsh language name being anglicised by map-makers and local English-speaking people...
, near Abergavenny
Abergavenny
Abergavenny , meaning Mouth of the River Gavenny, is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located 15 miles west of Monmouth on the A40 and A465 roads, 6 miles from the English border. Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches...
). The festival really established itself as a national outdoor event and saw a rapid expansion to 6,500.
The festival was given a 5 star rating in the Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
newspaper and 4 star rating in The Times.
The event was headlined by Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
, José González
José González
José González is a Swedish-Argentine indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg, Sweden.González is also a member of Swedish band Junip, along with Elias Araya and Tobias Winterkorn.- Biography :...
and Calexico. Other performers included Adem, Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes
Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....
, Jack Rose
Jack Rose (guitarist)
Jack Rose was an American guitarist originally from Virginia and later based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rose is best known for his solo acoustic guitar work. He was also a member of the noise/drone band Pelt....
, Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.-Early life:Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer...
, and Micah P. Hinson
Micah P. Hinson
Micah Paul Hinson is an American americana singer and guitarist and recording artist for Sketchbook Records in the United Kingdom and Jade Tree Records in the United States. His debut album Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress was released in 2004 to much critical praise...
and Joe Boyd appeared in the Literature Tent, and the Institute of Physics started the science tent. The festival became more than a music event and elements from all aspects of culture and living were added. Quality food tents offered cuisine from around the world, whilst bars offered everything from real ale to cocktails.
2007 festival
The 2007 event increased in size to 10,000. Joanna NewsomJoanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
, Robert Plant
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
and Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...
headlined on their respective days of the festival weekend. The following acts also performed: Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
, Bill Callahan, Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. In 1970, Bunyan released her first album, Just Another Diamond Day. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career...
, Stephen Duffy
Stephen Duffy
Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...
& The Lilac Time
The Lilac Time
The Lilac Time is a British alternative rock band that was originally formed in Herefordshire, England by Stephen Duffy, his brother Nick Duffy and their friend Michael Weston in 1986. The band's name was taken from a line in the Nick Drake song "River Man."...
, Battles
Battles (band)
Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City, comprising guitarists Ian Williams and Dave Konopka , and drummer John Stanier .-Biography:...
, Seasick Steve
Seasick Steve
Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. He plays guitars, and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work.-Childhood and early life:...
, Fridge
Fridge (band)
Fridge are an English post-rock band, comprising school friends Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played guitar, Ilhan bass, and Jeffers drums, but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999's Eph the sampler was playing an increasingly...
, Dead Meadow
Dead Meadow
Dead Meadow is an American hard rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1998. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille and drummer Mark Laughlin, the band has released five studio albums and one live album.-Biography:...
, Gruff Rhys
Gruff Rhys
Gruffydd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008...
, Vetiver
Vetiver
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver , is a perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to India. In western and northern India, it is popularly known as khus. Vetiver can grow up to 1.5 metres high and form clumps as wide. The stems are tall and the leaves are long, thin, and...
, The Earlies
The Earlies
The Earlies are a band formed by Christian Madden and Giles Hatton from Lancashire, England, and Brandon Carr and John Mark Lapham from the United States...
, Richmond Fontaine
Richmond Fontaine
-History:Formed in 1994, Richmond Fontaine started touring the Pacific Northwest live circuit to support their first three albums released on Cavity Search Records. Gradually gaining attention in the UK and Europe the band began regularly touring there. Most of the core musicians and producer JD...
, Euros Childs
Euros Childs
Euros Childs is a Welsh musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. His sister is the violinist Megan Childs...
, Tunng
Tunng
Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom.The band is often associated with the folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work.-Biography:...
, Steve Adey
Steve Adey
Steve Adey is a musician and singer-songwriter. His music is characterised by slow tempos, minimalist arrangements, underpinned by a rich baritone vocal and chordal piano playing...
, Starless and Bible Black
Starless and Bible Black
Starless and Bible Black is an album released by the British progressive rock band King Crimson in 1974. Most of the vocal pieces on the album are satires and commentaries on the sleaziness and materialism of society...
, Lisa Knapp, Men-An-Tol
Mên-an-Tol
The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones near the Madron-Morvah road in Cornwall, United Kingdom . It is about 3 miles north west of Madron...
, Arborea
Arborea (band)
Arborea is an American musical duo combining elements of Acoustic, Folk , Blues, World Music, and Rock. Their music is associated with the Indie Folk, Psych Folk, Indie Rock, and New Weird America genres. Arborea consists of wife and husband team Shanti Curran and Buck Curran...
, Alela Diane
Alela Diane
Alela Diane Menig is an American singer and songwriter living in Portland, Oregon.-Life and career:Alela Diane Menig, she grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the school choir...
, Monkey Swallows the Universe
Monkey Swallows the Universe
Monkey Swallows the Universe was an acoustic/indie band from Sheffield, England. MSTU is centred around its founders, Nat Johnson and Kevin Gori, who formed the band in 2003 after meeting at the University of Sheffield. In the band's first incarnation they both sang and played acoustic guitars...
, Six Organs Of Admittance
Six Organs of Admittance
Six Organs of Admittance is the primary musical project of guitarist Ben Chasny. Chasny's music is largely guitar-based and is often considered new folk, however it includes obvious influences, marked by the use of drones, chimes, and eclectic percussive elements...
, Gilbert
Gilbert (band)
Gilbert is the performance name of Matthew Gilbert Linley, a London-based composer and musician. He is also the drummer in Engineers with Ulrich Schnauss.-Biography:Linley grew up in south-east London, England....
, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love, John Power, John Renbourn
John Renbourn
John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...
, Thistletown
Thistletown (band)
Thistletown are a psychedelic folk band from Falmouth, Cornwall.They came to public attention through a Guardian Newspaper column by Will Hodgkinson concerning his year long project to start a record label, after he saw them playing in The Jacobs Ladder pub in Falmouth...
and My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. The band has released two studio albums, 2006's Bring Me the Workhorse and 2008's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, along with a remix album Tear It Down and a download-only release through iTunes...
.
2008 festival
The 2008 festival's capacity was capped at 10,000. Despite taking place in the fourth worst British summer ever recorded, the festival received fantastic reviews, and the weather didn't close any entertainment areas down. SpiritualizedSpiritualized
Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce after the demise of his previous outfit, space-rockers Spacemen 3...
, Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...
, and Pentangle
Pentangle (band)
Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...
(a worldwide festival exclusive) were the headline acts, joined by Richard Thompson, Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine
Samuel Beam , better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter. He has released four studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live album...
, The National
The National (band)
The National is an indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1999 and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger, a baritone...
, Nina Nastasia
Nina Nastasia
Nina Nastasia is a New York City-based singer-songwriter born in Hollywood, California.-Biography:She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her...
, Laura Marling
Laura Marling
Laura Beatrice Marling is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim and her second album I Speak Because I Can were nominated for...
, Radio Luxembourg, Drive-By Truckers
Drive-By Truckers
Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of six members are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. Their music uses three guitars as well as bass, drums, and now...
, Black Mountain (band)
Black Mountain (band)
Black Mountain is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. The band is composed of Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Joshua Wells.-Overview:...
, Junior Boys
Junior Boys
-History:Junior Boys formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as a duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Years of collaboration followed and a demo was produced, but after many rejections and near-misses, they were resigned to being bedroom beat constructors. Soon after, Johnny Dark left the...
as well as a special night hosted by Domino Records and many, many others played to wildly enthusiastic crowds. A new bar called the "End Up" was added that had the first 24-hour drinks licence at a UK festival.
The 2008 festival was widely praised.
2009 festival
In 2009 Daniel Hagan resigned as a Director . The festival increased in size again and was headlined by Animal CollectiveAnimal Collective
Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
on Friday, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
on Saturday and Grammy award winners Wilco
Wilco
Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
, also 2008's hottest success Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is a Grammy nominated folk band founded in 2007 by American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. It includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was...
, as well as Wooden Shjips, British Sea Power
British Sea Power
British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band members originally come from Kendal in Cumbria. Critics have likened their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire. The band are famed for their live...
, Errors
Errors (music)
Errors are a four piece "post-electro" band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are signed to Rock Action Records, the label founded and managed by the band Mogwai.-Biography:...
, Grizzly Bear, Peggy Sue, Erland & The Carnival, Megson, Pivot
Pivot (Australian band)
PVT is an experimental rock band based in London and Sydney.-About:PVT are a 3-piece band based in London and Sydney. They are currently signed to Warp Records. Band members are Richard Pike, Laurence Pike and Dave Miller...
, It's A Buffalo, She Keeps Bees, Golden Animals, 6 Day Riot
6 Day Riot
6 Day Riot is a London based alternative pop band, formed in 2006, and featuring Tamara Schlesinger , Daniel Deavin , Edd Harwood , Gabriel Lucena and Rachel Coleshill...
, No Thee No Ess, Sound Carriers, and The Fuzzbirds. Other acts included: Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...
, Trembling Bells
Trembling Bells
Trembling Bells is an English folk rock group formed by drummer Alex Neilson, a musician with a strong history of free and improvised playing with several artists...
, Dirty Three
Dirty Three
Dirty Three are an instrumental trio consisting of Warren Ellis , Mick Turner and Jim White , originating from Melbourne, Australia. Since the Dirty Three formed in 1992, they have spent a lot of time overseas...
and Peter Broderick
Peter Broderick
Peter Broderick is an American musician and composer from Carlton, Oregon. He has released solo material under his own name, been a member of Efterklang, and played with several ensembles as a session musician.-Biography:...
on the Bella Union night on Saturday in the Far Out Tent.They also announced the first of many new hidden surprises around the site including 'Einstein's Garden', which combines science, green issues and art in a fun and thought provoking way, Chai Wallahs containing an exciting line-up of dj's, an expanded the children's area with even more workshops, entertainment and great stuff to do. An 8 metre sculpture of the Green Man was set alight at the end of the festival, which created a wonderful finale and great spectacle to finish the celebrations for 2009.
2010 festival
Green Man 2010 sold out a record ten weeks in advance. The festival took place on 20/21/22 August 2010 and was headlined by Doves (Friday), The Flaming LipsThe Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...
(Saturday) and Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
(Sunday). Other acts on the Main Stage bill included Mumford And Sons
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford , Ben Lovett , Country Winston Marshall , and Ted Dwane...
, Beirut
Beirut (band)
Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zachary Francis Condon, and later expanded into a band. The band's first performances were in Wollaston, United Kingdom, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar...
, Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
, The Unthanks, Tindersticks
Tindersticks
Tindersticks are an Indie rock band from Nottingham, England formed in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples took on a solo career. The band reunited briefly in 2006, but more permanently the following year...
, Laura Marling
Laura Marling
Laura Beatrice Marling is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim and her second album I Speak Because I Can were nominated for...
, Darwin Deez
Darwin Deez
Darwin Deez is an American indie band from New York City signed to music label Lucky Number. The group's frontman Darwin Deez attended Wesleyan University and previously was a guitarist for the Creaky Boards and a rapper...
, John Grant, Fionn Regan, Erland And The Carnival, Johnny Flynn and Mountain Man.
In the Far Out (second stage), Fuck Buttons
Fuck Buttons
Fuck Buttons are a two-piece electronic group formed in Bristol in 2004 by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power.-Biography:Hung and Power grew up in Worcester. Hung was influenced by Aphex Twin, while Power was a fan of Mogwai. They developed a friendship in 2004 while attending art school in...
headlined Friday night, Wild Beasts
Wild Beasts
Wild Beasts are an indie rock band from Kendal in Cumbria. They released their first single, "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants", on Bad Sneakers Records in November 2006, and subsequently signed to Domino Records. They have released three acclaimed albums, Limbo, Panto in 2008, Two Dancers in...
on Saturday and Efterklang
Efterklang
Efterklang is an indie rock group from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in December 2000. To date, the band has released three studio albums and are currently signed to the 4AD label, as well as their own record label Rumraket.-History:...
on Sunday. Girls, The Tallest Man On Earth, Megafaun, These New Puritans
These New Puritans
These New Puritans are a British Art Rock band from the Southend-on-Sea area. The group consists of Jack Barnett , his twin brother George Barnett , Thomas Hein , and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson...
, Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo is an indie-pop band based in Long Beach, California founded by singer/songwriter and guitarist, Avi Zahner-Isenberg. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 27th of April, 2010, and was given positive reviews by The Onion A.V. Club, NME, Filter, Drowned in Sound and numerous...
, Summer Camp
Summer camp
Summer camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....
, Je Suis Animal
Je Suis Animal
Je Suis Animal is a Nordic/Anglo indie pop band based in Oslo, Norway.Art school friends Elin, Merete, Matt, and Anthony formed Je Suis Animal in Oslo, Norway, in 2004, putting together a delicate, reverb-kissed sound that nodded to old-school indie pop acts like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, and...
, Steve Mason, Sleepy Sun and Chew Lips, also performed in the Far Out.
Music continued in the Far Out After-Dark (Far Out stage after 11pm) until 4am. On Friday night Hexstatic
Hexstatic
Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the...
provided a night of "Audio Visual Dancefloor Mayhem" and invited Dj Yoda
DJ Yoda
Duncan Beiny , better known as DJ Yoda, is a hip hop turntablist who uses samples to create a cartoony musical style.-Biography:From 1995 to 1998, he studied English and American literature at the University of Warwick...
, DJ Food
DJ Food
Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for DJs". DJ Food released the Jazz Brakes series, with Jazz Brakes Volume 3 being the most successful...
& DK and Cheeba to join them. Saturday night saw Metronomy
Metronomy
Metronomy are an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount , Anna Prior , Oscar Cash and Gbenga Adelekan...
provide the evening's entertainment in the form of "Metronomy Presents", inviting Factory Floor, James Blake and Wild Geese. Sunday evening saw Greco Roman Sound System taking over the After-Dark- "Greco Roman vs. Green Man" with Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert , also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician...
, Gold Panda
Gold Panda
Gold Panda is a musical composer, performer and producer from the United Kingdom.He was born in Peckham, London, in 1980 and hails from Chelmsford, Essex. He lived in Japan and studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London...
, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Greco Roman Soundsystem DJ's including Ross Allen and Full Nelson.