Mogwai to headline Green Man Festival

plus Dexys, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lower Dens, King Charles, and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 29th May 2012

The Green Man Festival 2012 - Mogwai
Photo credit: Chris Mathews

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

Mogwai have been unveiled as the final headlinr of this summer's The Green Man Festival taking place at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, in Wales from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August 2012 has unveiled it's 'Far Our After Dark' tent line-up.

Mogwai
Friday bill toppers Mogwai join co-headliners Van Morrison and Feist on a line-up which also sees the addition of Dexys, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lower Dens, King Charles, Cate Le Bon, Withered Hand, Paul Thomas Saunders, Crybaby, and Stuff.

The Black Mountains event will also have a 24-hour bar licence and dusk til dawn bonfire after the sun goes down.

Other confirmed acts include 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, Daughter, Bowerbirds, Beth Jeans Houghton, Megafaun, Psychemagik (DJ set), Richard Norris, Jamie N Commons, Joe Pug, Nick Mulvey, RM Hubbert, Tiny Ruins, Alt-J, Teeth of the Sea, The Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Richard Warren, Goodnight Lenin, Sweet Baboo, and Alaska.

For the full line-up details to-date, please see here.

More 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 buy tickets, click here.



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