the green man festival. (1 Viewer)

[Latex lizzie]

tell me all about it and why should I go/not go.

 

[theoootini]

folky tenty goodness apparently

 

[Charlie Bucket]

i don't see why stephen malkmus is headlining it - apart from the fact that he once covered a mellow candle song as a b-side.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Heard from a guy I know who went that it was very good. Relaxed, not too packed and Donovan.

 

[broken arm]

i want to go this year. missed the last one. i hear it's a chilled out vibe

 

[nlgbbbblth]

i want to go this year. missed the last one. i hear it's a chilled out vibe

wonder will The Chillage Idiots play at it?

heard 'chillax' used recently?

 

[broken arm]

wonder will The Chillage Idiots play at it?

heard 'chillax' used recently?

like, totally maybe dude,

 

[outoftheblue]

I went last year. It's really lovely. Sort of a strange mix of hippyish families (all with beards) and indie kids (who are there for the more mod'rn stuff). All the best bits are away from the main stage - wee folk stages, a mini-cinema, banjo workshop and bookstalls. Deadly veggie food and pies. You sort of have to be completely covered in rain and muck for a few days, but that sort of fits the whole thing quite well. Usually some interesting free folk happenings - Sunburned Hand of the Man did a live soundtrack to a film last year, people like James Blackshaw, Nalle and Marissa Nadler (and Circulus) and other such gems usually fill up the billings. The DJ tent is lovely, James Yorkston played a brilliant set there last year of old field recordings and odd dance tunes. There's bats. And thunderstorms. I'm sure I wrote about it properly at the time, I must try to dig out my review. But ay, lovely and small and a fine accompaniment to ATP as your second summer festival.

 

[VARUKA]

HIPPIES SUCK

 

[corksongs]

i've been to the last two and what made the first one great seems to have diluted. The bonnie prince billy/joanna newsom had "a very we'll work it out as we go along kinda thing", whereas last year the festival more than double in sized. was still really fun and stuff but had lost a lot of it's craic and intimacy.

very very laidback festival. a lot less hectic than any other festival i've been at.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

how many tickets?

3,000 isn't it?

 

[Charlie Bucket]

I went last year. It's really lovely. Sort of a strange mix of hippyish families (all with beards) and indie kids

 

[corksongs]

i think it was 3000, and the new place is closer to 6000

not 100% about that though