Mercury Rev to headline Saturday at Green Man Festival

The Green Man Festival 2014

Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th August 2014
Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, NP8 1LP, Wales MAP
£159 adult weekend ticket + booking fees

Daily capacity: 10,000

Mercury Rev will be the Saturday night headliners at The Green Man Festival playing their album, Deserter’s Songs, in its entirety.

Also confirmed as appearing at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales are Augustines, Ben UFO, Ought, The Pooh Sticks, Vancouver Sleep Clinic, and H.Hawkline, as well as DJ sets from Huw Stephens, Heavenly Records DJs, and Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set).

They join headliners Beirut, and Neutral Milk Hotel, plus First Aid Kit, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Daughter, Polica, Anna Calvi, Sharon Van Etten, Jeffrey Lewis, I Break Horses, Tunng, Toy, Lanterns on the Lake, Ry X, Fat White Family, Speedy Ortiz, William Tyler, Frank Fairfield, Georgia Ruth, All We Are, Happyness, Plank!, Michael Chapman, Eaves, Sons of Noel & Adrian, Bill Callahan, Caribou, Real Estate, Mac Demarco, and Hamilton Leithauser.

Plus The War on Drugs, The Waterboys, Neko Case, Panda Bear, Other Lives, Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek, Jonathan Wilson, The 2 Bears, Mutual Benefit, Stanley Brinks, Womans Hour, Zachary Cale, Gareth Bonello, My Sad Captains, Farao, Highasakite, Famy, Michael A Grammar, We Are Catchers, and The May Birds Angel Olsen, Boy & Bear, Nick Mulvey, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Teleman, East India Youth, Belinda O'Hooley & Heidi Tidow, Adult Jazz, 9 Bach, Samantha Crain, Samaris, Laura Groves, Alice Boman, Hockeysmith, The Rails, Babe, and John Mouse. Expect over 400 live performances across 17 stages.

The line-up of comedians includes Josh Widdicombe, Pappy's, Joe Lycett, Jo Neary, Holly Burn, Gareth Brand, and Gavin Osborn..

The dates for The Green Man Festival 2014 are confirmed as from Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th August, in total expect over 400 live performances across 17 stages. For the line-up details, click here.

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.

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An adult weekend ticket is priced at £159 for adults, £135 for students, £85 for teenagers (aged 13 to 17 years), and £5 for children aged 5 to 12 years, infants and 4 and under can attend free, but need a ticket. A live-in vehicle ticket is priced at £60 and a car park pass is £5 for the weekend. Prices do not include booking fees.

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