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"The" band of my adult life, a self confessed Sad Dad, and having seen them a dozen times (first in little old Rescue Rooms way back for Alligator) this would make me weep with joy. And I don't think it is impossible.

Arguably they started in the Alcove at Latitude, then went for seconds (and 3rds if you include sessions set) at Green Man?

Also with new album The New Pornographers, I shan't hold out much hope but they might just return...

Still not quite sure I 'get' Black Midi, let alone enjoy, but they were simply stunning as Garden headliners at EOTR this year.

I (sort of) get the excitement from some quarters, but apart from the excellent booking of Pulp and a tiny bit of Melvin bravery with Black Midi (I hope he puts them high up, they were sensational at EOTR even though I'm unsure I understand or even like them 😮 ) this is really, quite overtly "Man at Harvester Pub" music festival. There might be more on the undercard to pretend at credibility, but really? This is Shit.

Shout out for By The Sea. Liam deserves his own pedestal now.

Frankie Cosmos to return please.

She is a character, and has a voice. Very local to me and would love to see her make that breakthrough. Good shout.

Ta v much for that Vegas Water Taxi lead 🙂

With complete randomness, and with zero inside info, would love to see GM try and get / get back: Bill RJ, SVE, Panic Shack, whatever outfit Ben Kane decides to create, Twilight Sad, King Hannah, Low Cut Connie, Stella D, caroline, Warhaus, Luke la Volpe and L'Objectif. In realistic mode, feels highly likely we'll get Big Moon (now up to Roundhouse gig size) and (with a x3 date Ally Pally gig run) Four Tet.

Spot on. Might be controversial but reckon it is even more skewed than that, not only in money but gate size. Lets say instead of one camper you could fit x3 extra cars and tents. The one camper gives you: £170 and (say) 2 tickets totalling £500 = 2 people for £670. The three cars gives you: £135 (if priced as blue) and (say) 6 tickets totalling £1500 = 6 people for £1635. So reducing campers by 200 vehicles gives you ~800 more adult tickets and about £200k incremental revenue (if you up the gate capacity for those 800 tix). That ignores the infrastructure saving that incident describes. Why not ban 'em (apart from accessibles of course).

Just listened to the new Micah P release, be fab to (finally) have him back with or without broken arm and / or a belly full of booze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZa6AFFVOtE

That was really quite alright wasn't it? One of our mates had been going on about her St M's church gig for a few weeks, but personally didn't really believe she could possibly be that good. She more than was. You know an artist is 'something' too when Simon Taffe is taking time out to be sat watching from the barrier step.

Just (about) recovering from EOTR, a few highlights that would absolutely fit a Green Man 2023: - Kevin Morby sub headlined the Garden stage, and wow has he ramped up his show since he was last there - would easily have warranted headline status tbh - not everyone's cup of tea [@BornintheFifties notably 😉 ] but Black Midi's set as Garden headliner was utterly sensational - not quite sure who to credit for this, possibly The Independent - but described as 'brilliantly playing all of spotify within 80 minutes'. Anyway, nuts, intense, brilliant, amazing. Wow! - Green Man 'old fave' Aldous Harding was completely sublime as a Garden headliner Down the lineup a touch, but Grace Cummings is something very special, and deathcrash (on a much bigger stage than at GM) were immense.

Worth looking at EOTR's "boat stage" line up as early signpost, which has a few of these and some others e.g. Taraka. And (along with @Born in the Fifties) I'll put in a big echo shout for 'mon the VLURE.

Mum's Welsh, often comes back and quotes her Mum often.

Her Lump set last year in Far Out was stunning, headliner worthy (imho) and perhaps that set up with Mike might be an easier headline option than #just# Laura?

Just saw that too. Best wishes Mimi, be well soon.

I actually think that's fair (not saying I'm U turning here 😉 ) and certainly the undercard was strong enough to be pretty attractive when it was the only guaranteed option immediately post COVID - helped no end by being forced to choose British & Irish acts I think. To be fair to FR, when they moved the weekend and upped the capacity they needed to shift more tickets and those who still wanted the likes of Cave, Yorke, Harvey, Kraftwerk, Portishead (not a fan personally), Bon Iver etc at the top of their line up were the casualties. And personally I'd still be interested (Henham is just gorgeous) if at the same time they hadn't ramped up the commercials (Poetry lost for ... Carlsberg; Film & Music lost for .... Lineker) and begun ars*ing around with the General Camping format.

Great job yet again cheers. Shame about Buffalo N tbh.

Although of course, I did momentarily imagine this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZHKUpE4mFM

nice one! be good to hear of the experience after, can't imagine (at GM anyway) that it wouldn't be other than positive...

Agree with this 100%. And I'm declaring an interest here, did Latte for ten years straight 2008-17 then last year as a COVID 'special', but like many have given up on it as it moved to R2 / R1 flavour from 6Music. Latitude could have had a look in with Pulp if like a number of other festivals they'd positively booked JarvIS or even had Jarvis DJ'ing these past few years. Can definitely see Eavis getting Pulp headlining the Other Stage, and then also see them main stage headlining something with credibility like Green Man / EOTR, and just maybe something niche close to home like Tramlines / Y Not or Hillsboro' / Sheffield. Likewise PJ Harvey. Latitude had every opportunity to book her back when it was actually a brave festival, either White Chalk or latterly Let England Shake. Almost can't forgive Melvin Benn that he failed to do that when (back then) she would have fitted perfectly. She was an astonishing headliner at Green Man (about 2017), and she'll likely be amazing wherever she chooses in 2023. It is just possible Melvin could call on the early support he gave Florence to get her back, but he'd be blowing the budget on it. He'll get obvious easy stuff like Haim / London Grammar / Pixies. My random shout, again possibly testing the budget: Kiwanuka.

Jeez ten years! Also have memories of poor weather, but loved the site. First time I ever saw David Thomas Broughton, he completely transfixed the crowd down at that little lakeside venue. And I still love Joe Gideon & the Shark. It was nice, but not a patch on EOTR.

^^this