Metronomy are Green Man Festival special guests

Metronomy are The Green Man Festival's very special guests , with more additions also confirmed to appear over the weekend of Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August 2012 at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, in Wales.

The Devon/Brighton-based quartet, led by Joseph Mount, will play an extended live set on the Mountain Stage on Saturday August 18. Joseph is an old friend of the Green Man, having curated the Far Out After Dark in 2010.

Also added to the bill are Savages, Loney Dear, and Tom Williams & The Boat.

Whilst the Walled Garden will host DJs including I/O (Stornoway Afrogrids DJ set), Communion DJs featuring Michael Kiwanuka, the brainchild Sean Rowley (Guilty Pleasures) and Christian Laing (Buttoned Down Disco) Cover to Cover, Adam Walton, and Jen Long.

Added to the Chai Wallahs line-up are Coda, Heymoonshaker, Laid Blak, Polaroid 85, Ambassaduers, The Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra, HoneyFeet, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, Moneyshot, Nick Mulvey, Rackabeat & Barlow, Sheelanagig, Syd Arthur, JFB vs Switch, Will And The People, and The Peoples String Foundation.

The Friday headliner is Mogwai, with Van Morrisson headlining the Saturday, and Feist headlining Sunday. Other confirmed acts include Dexys, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lower Dens, King Charles, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks making a UK exclusive festival appearance, tUne-yArDs, Of Montreal, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Michael Kiwanuka, Field Music, Friends, CW Stoneking, Willy Mason, Three Trapped Tigers, Trembling Bells, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Bees, The Staves, AHAB, Toy, Gang Colours, Pictish Trail, Cold Specks, Cate le Bon, Withered Hand, Paul Thomas Saunders, Crybaby, Stuff, Steve Smyth, Laura J Martin, Stealing Sheep, Treetop Flyers, Seamus Fogarty, Gabby Young and Other Animals, Hidden Orchestra, Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate, King Porter Stomp, Nuala Honan, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, Rodney Branigan, Sheelanagig, Smerins Anti-Social Club, Tako Lako, The Urban Folk Quartet, and more.

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.

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