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The Green Man Festival '12

last updated : Mon 20th Feb 12
 
Date:  Friday 17th - Sunday 19th August 12
Location:  buy coach tickets Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales - MAP
Cost:  buy tickets £145 adult weekend ticket
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A four day event with three days of music and more than 100 acts playing indie, psychedelia, Americana, and folk across 5 stages, while DJs playing everything from psychedlia, dub-reggae, modern electro and stoner rock right through the night.

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This folk-tinged event, in its tenth year, takes place at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales. The dates for The Green Man Festival 2012 are provisionally expected to be Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August. The festival offers live music with lots of folk and folktronica bands, plus film, literature, workshop and children's areas, and DJs.

Line-up

Feist will headline Sunday, The Walkmen, The Felice Brothers, Yann Tiersen, Jonathan Richman, Junior Boys, Damien Jurado, Time and Space Machine, Cass McCombs, Scritti Politti, Slow Club, GhostPoet, Peter Paphides, Peaking Lights, Dark Dark Dark, Cashier No 9, The Wave Pictures, Islet, Rocketnumbernine, Alt-J, Teeth of the Sea, The Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Richard Warren, Goodnight Lenin, Sweet Baboo, and Alaska. Two more headliners and over 100 other acts are yet to be announced.

Tickets

Early bird tickets were snapped up in and hour and a half this year. Tickets sold out last year. This year's tickets go on sale on Monday 30th January at 9am and will be priced at £145 for adults, £125 for students, £75 for teenagers, and £5 for children aged 5 and under. A live-in vehicle ticket will be priced at £60, and holiday tickets (bought in addition to a weekend ticket, allowing camping at Glanusk Park from Monday 13th August for 3 days before the festival opens) will be priced at £40. A resident day ticket will be priced at £50.

To buy tickets, click here.

To minimise traffic congestion, any vehicle using any of the three main car parks (General, Family and Holiday Camping) at Green Man 2012 will need a £5 parking ticket. Be warned, there are a very limited number of tickets available for the Family Camping car parking.

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About

As well as the music there will be art installations, literature and film tents, Welsh poetry, art and music, ceilidhs, poetry, theatre, science, comedy, Nature and Nurture massage area, a daily dusk till dawn bonfire, impromptu jamming sessions, and food stalls offering a wide range of cuisine most of which is locally sourced and organic. The festival also has an array of quirky bars dotted around the site with the a 24 hour drinks licence, serving everything from real ale and cider, wine, to hot toddies, and cocktails.

Kids area

FutureGenerations (formerly the Kids Area) is Green Man's all-new adult-freeadventure zone, exclusively designed for young people of all shapes andsizes under the age of 18 - from toddlers to teens and everyone in between across six activity areas. Offering a chance to join the circus, learn to DJ, be part of a film crew, create amazinganimations, make monster hand puppets or hone music productionskills using the very latest computer software.

There will be a line-up of live music showcasing the UK's best young hip hop, indie, grime, pop and rap acts, courtesy of Bristolyouth project New Generation Takeover.

There's a fancy dress fantasy world with professional costume makers and make-up artists, a chance to have your picture taken inside CamperObscura, paint your whole body and be a walking talking lizard or pirate, Take part in drama classes, make fancy dress masterpieces, learn circus skills and find the hidden performer inside.

There's also a Create Tent, Eco Tent, Media Tent, Sun Stage, plus Inflatables, Giant Buckaroo, swing boats, a maze,Gladiators, assault course, trampolines, football skills arena, GiantMouse Trap, giant dragon walkabout, the Future Generations library and more.

Green issues

The festival is keen to support the environment so they are introducing a greener way for everyone to travel to and from the festival. The 'Green Bus' will travel right into the festival site from most City destinations. Plus there is a free shuttle bus service from Abergevanny Train Station to and from the festival site for all festival goers coming by train.

Green Poll

Green Man has an annual search for a band to open the festival - Green Poll. Any band can register and the public vote for the bands they like. Top bands then go through to a live final in Camden, London where the judges choose the band to open the festival.

More information will be here when available.

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