Green Man 2020

[SaintEwart]

I think The Big Moon are likely to return, big year for them and with Juliette's onstage proposal last year I'm sure it will be high up their priority list for favourite festivals! Thinking about albums due for release this year, Laura Marling? Mystery Jets is a good shout.

[Cottsy]

My 10 picks are:

black midi

Girl Band

Field Music

The Orielles

Pigsx7

Liz Lawrence 

Richard Dawson

Pom Poko

The Big Moon

Cate Le Bon

 

[Callum_96]

Go on then you've enticed me.

Shame

Sorry

Black Midi

Boy Azooga

Working Men's Club

Porridge Radio

Richard Dawson

Do Nothing

Floating Points

Baxter Dury

 

[NCruz]

I've been following this topic so might as well share my prediction (more of a wishlist)

 

• Pixies
• Stef Chura
• Porridge Radio
• Cigarretes after Sex
• Caribou
• Fontaines DC
• Pip Blom
• Lambchop
• Jesus and Mary Chain
• Sports Team

[Biffo123]

Field Music just announced for Wales Goes Pop in Cardiff over the Easter weekend. Bound to be one of the headliners as it's only 350 capacity.

[Dancers Stand Very Still]

This would of course be much easier after the EoTR announcement, but why the heck not have a go now! OK, people have beaten me to some of these, but here are my 10 predictions. There are lots from last year's Rising I'd like to see promoted (BCNR, Porridge Radio, Pozi, Peaness, Oscar Lang, Scalping, Dry Cleaning, Just Mustard) too, but have left them out along with my dream big names and headliners and gone for acts who as far as I can tell have never played GM (at least in their current guise):

• Warmduscher
• Working Men's Club
• Pom Poko
• Pip Blom
• LIFE
• SOAK
• Taylor Skye
• William Doyle
• Fontaines D.C. (granted, they are a big name now)
• Heavy Lungs

A few for Rising:

• Sinead O'Brien
• Disq
• Eyesore & The Jinx
• Lynks Afrikka
• Lazarus Kane
• Tugboat Captain

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by JHad

[SweepingTheNation]

Bikini Kill
Phoebe Bridgers
Richard Dawson
Holy Fuck
Algiers
Black Midi
Real Estate
Talk Show
Working Men's Club
Shopping

Edited January 16, 2020 by SweepingTheNation

[lessthanwill1]

Thanks for all the predictions! Got them all in a spreadsheet. Black Midi leading the way so far with 5 votes.

I think imposing a deadline of anytime before the EOTR (Tuesday 21 Jan) announcement seems fair. 

[rug568]

Murder capital

Angel Olsen 

Sports team 

Phoebe Bridgers 

Shame 

Dry cleaning

Pigs x7

Big moon 

Fontaines DC 

Jon Hopkins

Edited January 16, 2020 by rug568

[zzzfest]

Fountains D.C.

The Murder Capitol

Tash Sultana

Ren Harvieu

Kathryn Joseph

KT Tunstall

The Twilight Sad

New Order

Saving Grace (Robert Plant)

Brian Fallon

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Sorry, couldn’t resist the temptation, just dismiss this. No mistaking for Phoebe Bridgers.)

 

I’d put British Sea Power, Black Midi and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever unless they appeared at GM fairly recently (17, 17 and 18, respectively).

[SweepingTheNation]

Bikini Kill, Chromatics and Mac DeMarco (and Michael Kiwanuka) announced for Flow the same weekend.

[retromoz]

Green man is actually the weekend after.....but still possible, obviously....

[SweepingTheNation]

26 minutes ago, retromoz said:

Green man is actually the weekend after.....but still possible, obviously....

Doh, forgot about the calendar shifting over.

[lessthanwill1]

I feel very confident about Bikini Kill being at Green Man this year.

Hopefully we get some of the “unusual” Primavera bookings. Arthur Verocai would be amazing but probably not likely. Bauhaus and Les Savy Fav would be awesome as well. Ditto for Jawbox. 

[Gilgamesh69]

26 minutes ago, lessthanwill1 said:

Bauhaus 

Kinda feel like they might be too big but get them headlining Far Out and that would be a dirty night 🤤

[lessthanwill1]

2 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

Kinda feel like they might be too big but get them headlining Far Out and that would be a dirty night 🤤

Agreed

[Guy Incognito]

Rumour has it the EOTR headliners are Pixies, Big Thief and Bright Eyes. If thats true then I guess you lot at Green Man have Angel Olsen.

 

Edit - obvious disclaimer that this might not be true.

Edited January 17, 2020 by Guy Incognito

[lessthanwill1]

6 minutes ago, Guy Incognito said:

Rumour has it the EOTR headliners are Pixies, Big Thief and Bright Eyes. If thats true then I guess you lot at Green Man have Angel Olsen.

 

Edit - obvious disclaimer that this might not be true.

Ooh interesting. Where’s that come from?

[Guy Incognito]

Just now, lessthanwill1 said:

Ooh interesting. Where’s that come from?

Someone elsewhere on the internet who claims they know from what should be a credible source.

[rug568]

10 minutes ago, Guy Incognito said:

Rumour has it the EOTR headliners are Pixies, Big Thief and Bright Eyes. If thats true then I guess you lot at Green Man have Angel Olsen.

 

Edit - obvious disclaimer that this might not be true.

Very interesting, pixies would be the only one out of the three that I would be interested in. 

[lessthanwill1]

3 minutes ago, Guy Incognito said:

Someone elsewhere on the internet who claims they know from what should be a credible source.

Cool, thanks. Thought Pixies would be quite a big get for Green Man so that would be a pretty impressive booking for EOTR. The other two are great bookings in my opinion. 
 

 

[Guy Incognito]

Just now, lessthanwill1 said:

Cool, thanks. Thought Pixies would be quite a big get for Green Man so that would be a pretty impressive booking for EOTR. The other two are great bookings in my opinion. 
 

 

In fairness EOTR booked Vampire Weekend as a UK exclusive in 2018, which is huge.

The Green Man or EOTR comparisons are always interesting. For me EOTR wins because it just seems to get slightly more unusual/special bookings (e.g Mulatu Astatke, Laraaji, Bill Callahan etc), partially due to Late Junction's involvement of course. Green Man always has really solid line ups, but they don't often have that WOW factor for me, although they do often have bigger bands and in 2019 especially, had better headliners.

[lessthanwill1]

1 hour ago, Guy Incognito said:

In fairness EOTR booked Vampire Weekend as a UK exclusive in 2018, which is huge.

The Green Man or EOTR comparisons are always interesting. For me EOTR wins because it just seems to get slightly more unusual/special bookings (e.g Mulatu Astatke, Laraaji, Bill Callahan etc), partially due to Late Junction's involvement of course. Green Man always has really solid line ups, but they don't often have that WOW factor for me, although they do often have bigger bands and in 2019 especially, had better headliners.

For sure. Was going to mention the Vampire Weekend booking in my post - EOTR definitely have a big booking in them so the Pixies booking wouldn’t surprise me although I thought they were pretty nailed on for GM given their tour dates.
 

Have you been to Green Man? I haven’t been to EOTR but have always wanted to but can’t afford both in one year sadly. Feel like the setting of GM can’t be beaten but have heard great things about the Garden Stage. 

[Guy Incognito]

35 minutes ago, lessthanwill1 said:

Have you been to Green Man? I haven’t been to EOTR but have always wanted to but can’t afford both in one year sadly. Feel like the setting of GM can’t be beaten but have heard great things about the Garden Stage. 

Nah I haven't, sadly. One day I will. Thus far EOTR has been better suited to my taste and geographically is a lot more convenient for me. I try limit myself to only three weekend festivals a year and they tend to be Glastonbury, End Of The Road and Primavera Sound. If the EOTR line up isnt to my liking this year, I may well go to GM for the first time.

Yeah the GM setting does seem unbeatable, but the EOTR is also very, very lovely.

[xxialac]

27 minutes ago, Guy Incognito said:

Nah I haven't, sadly. One day I will. Thus far EOTR has been better suited to my taste and geographically is a lot more convenient for me. I try limit myself to only three weekend festivals a year and they tend to be Glastonbury, End Of The Road and Primavera Sound. If the EOTR line up isnt to my liking this year, I may well go to GM for the first time.

Yeah the GM setting does seem unbeatable, but the EOTR is also very, very lovely.

I did GM for the first time last year (partly, as someone said, they had better headliners than EOTR).

Both festivals are 10/10 frankly. You can't go wrong.