Green Man Festival 2016

[Amy Lawn]

4 hours ago, zahidf said:

sigur ros are in europe around green man. could be there second uk festival...

I've got my fingers crossed for Joanna Newsom and Sigur Ros. They seem likely.

[dirty_dog]

If I could hand pick the three headliners I'd go for The National, Laura Marling and Bon Iver but 2 out of 3 will do 

[Chawk]

I still have to see Underworld live, are they too big to be considered as an After Dark act? They can't be that much more expensive than Jamie XX. They've made some of my favourite tracks ever.

[cdm22]

First wave of bands to be announced next Tuesday according to their facebook page

[5co77ie]

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 26th January, and eFestivals will have links to buy them then, they sold out in the beginning of June last year.

[Amy Lawn]

Dare we dream of Sufjan? One thing I observed last year was that loads of people were wearing Sufjan t-shirts.

[giantkatestacks]

God that would be beyond amazing.

 

[Amy Lawn]

Tenuous link to GM here but I thought it was worth mentioning.

There's a show on the telly now where the guy from The Revolution Will Be Televised is getting Crickhowell small business to band together and legally dodge tax, as Amazon, Starbuck et al like to do. Only saw a few minutes while I was brewing up, but I'll watch it on the BBC website later because it looked really interesting. They pointed out that Facebook paid less tax last year than all of Crickhowell's small businesses.

[Chawk]

3 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Dare we dream of Sufjan? One thing I observed last year was that loads of people were wearing Sufjan t-shirts.

It would be good, but (I know this is stupid) it's slightly less amazing because of headlining EOTR last year, I don't want GM to make a habit of getting seconds on EOTR headliners-  although it's happened a lot the other way round too.

Edited January 20, 2016 by Chawk

[Zoo Music Girl]

So this is announcing next tuesday? Very interesting. What are the dates this year? Any guesses for headliners?

[glastobuds]

10 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

So this is announcing next tuesday? Very interesting. What are the dates this year? Any guesses for headliners?

18-21 August. Not a clue about headliners. That's what's good about GM, Ive never managed (with possible exception of SFA last year) to guess a single headliner. Don't think anyone would have put money on ST Vincent last year and she was excellent. 

Be good to see the National or Bon Ivor or Bat for Lashes. BC camplight is a strong rumour to appear somewhere on the bill

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, glastobuds said:

18-21 August. Not a clue about headliners. That's what's good about GM, Ive never managed (with possible exception of SFA last year) to guess a single headliner. Don't think anyone would have put money on ST Vincent last year and she was excellent. 

Be good to see the National or Bon Ivor or Bat for Lashes. BC camplight is a strong rumour to appear somewhere on the bill

Cheers! If it's the national I'd obviously be all over it. Or Bon Iver.

[dirty_dog]

few clues there that The Animal Collective are playing.

would they be a headline act?

[cdm22]

They also followed Sigur Ros on Instagram or twitter recently (I can't remember which I saw it on) so you never know. Saying that, they followed Nick Cave a while ago and that didn't happen.

[dirty_dog]

started following them on Twitter recently and also Beck

[cdm22]

and Django Django, Temples, Drenge, Jamie XX.

Edited January 25, 2016 by cdm22

[dirty_dog]

they've just tweeted " what's the Collective noun for  GM headliners"

[Chawk]

They also tweeted some Belle & Sebastian lyrics this morning, pretty good, I really like The Boy with the Arab Strap etc, they're not a headliner I'd get really excited about like Sufjan or Neutral Milk Hotel though, but sure the set would be really fun.  

Also have replied to tweets about White Demin, so shaping up well so far! And yeah Animal Collective would headline.

Edited January 25, 2016 by Chawk

[dirty_dog]

tweeting lyrics from Unknown Mortal Orchestra now

 

[Amy Lawn]

Saw B&S twice last year, really good but I wouldn't be massively excited about them as a headliner. Still, they seem a big deal for Green Man, they're properly famous!

[giantkatestacks]

They're no SFA though or Hot Chip. I really want at least something to get excited about. 

[cdm22]

T-minus 15 minutes!

[jackarmy]

Think they just tweeted the lineup poster and deleted it.

Belle & Sebastien, James Blake and Wild Beasts looked like your headliners.

Fat White Family, White Denim, Unknown Mortal Orchestra also on the bill that caught my eye.

[cdm22]

Well thats rather disappointing!

[Zoo Music Girl]

Anyone got a link? Can't see it on the site.