Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks exclusive for Green Man Festival

plus tUnE-yArDs, of Montreal, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 28th Feb 2012

The Green Man Festival 2012 - around the festival site
Photo credit: Steve Palmer

The Green Man Festival 2012

Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August 2012
Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales, NP8 1LP, Wales MAP
£145 adult weekend ticket
Daily capacity: 10,000

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, tUne-yArDs, Of Montreal, and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins lead the latest acts announced for The Green Man Festival as the first 26 acts are announced for the 10th edition and full priced tickets go on sale.

around the festival site
Lead singer with Pavement Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks will make a UK exclusive festival appearance at Green Man 2012.

Also confirmed today are Michael Kiwanuka, Field Music, Friends, CW Stoneking, Willy Mason, Three Trapped Tigers, Trembling Bells, Toy, Gang Colours, Pictish Trail, Cold Specks, Steve Smyth, Laura J Martin, Stealing Sheep, Treetop Flyers, Seamus Fogarty, and Georgia Ruth Williams.

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 for the festival which takes place annually at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales. The dates for The Green Man Festival 2012 are confirmed as from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August 2012.

The Green Man Festival is 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.

Literature, film, theatre, ceilidhs, all-night bonfires, comedy and secret gigs are part of the festival's identity. The festival has carved a niche as a non-corporate and ethically-minded festival.

Ticket are 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 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.

To buy tickets, click here.


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