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My guess is JAMC for Thursday headliner yeah. I’ve not seen them and nor am I particularly a huge fan, but definitely think GM would get them for Thursday headliner if they’re about. They’ve never played the festival and very on brand for the sorts of more heritage act they often book for Thursday (e.g. Ride and Spiritualized).

It’s happened a few times over the years. Usually a pretty sizeable gap between repeats (maybe at least 7 years?). From memory I think it’s Fleet Foxes, Super Fury Animals and Joanna Newsom but I think there might be one more. Spiritualised have headlined twice if you count their Thursday slot last year as a headline slot. A slight curveball shout for this year is Sampha. Reckon he could be quite a cool headliner for this and has popped up now on a few EU festival lines ups in August. Not a massive fan myself but would make for a more interesting choice than some other potential candidates. My view is that The Smile and Jesus & Mary Chain are two of the headliners. Seem to be a few options for the other two but hopefully there’s a surprise round the corner as well. Not sure about Justice at GM tbh, doesn’t quite feel right to me style wise. The other electronic headliners are much more live band focused (Caribou/Hot Chip) except for Four Tet, but he’s had a long history at the festival having played some of the very earliest GMs. Headliner of Field Day also makes them arguably too big. Would be cool though.

Lankum would be a small but excellent headliner for this. They’d be great as a garden headliner but if they’re gunna bump up acts to headliner then they could do a lot worse than give it to Lankum. Sleater Kinney (Thursday) | Lankum | Slowdive | Big Thief would be my current guess. Would be great to get four excellent and female/female fronted bands headlining as well. Do feel like someone unexpected and probably rubbish will pop up instead of one of those though.

They would be great I agree but unfortunately I think they are too big/expensive for GM.

Somewhere between 0% and 0.1% likelihood.

*Green Man Possibilities (15-18 August)* - Sziget (7-12) Fontaines, Yard Act, Wednesday, Blondshell, Overmono, Pip Blom - Ypsigrock (8-11) Explosions In The Sky, Bdrmm, Heartworms, Chalk, Egyptian Blue - Oya (8-12) PJ, The National, The Smile, Idles, Loyle Carner, Overmono, Alvvays, Blondshell, The Kills, Orions Belte, Wednesday, Yard Act, Yussef Dayes, Yaya Bey, Sampha, Bala Desejo, Arca - Way Out West (8-10) PJ Harvey, The Smile, Loyle Carner, Yaya Bey - Flow (9-11) The Smile, PJ Harvey, Jessie Ware, Overmono, Denzel Curry - Paredes (14-17) Fontaines DC, Jesus & Mary Chain, Cat Power, Sleater Kinney, Baxter Dury, Nouvelle Vague, Superchunk, Gilsons, Wednesday, Destroy Boys, Still Corners. - Wild Fields (15-18) Ezra collective, Picture Parlour, Tara Lily, Nabihah Iqbal, Bess Atwell, Chappaqua Wrestling, SBTRKT, Los Bitchos, Opus Kink, Priya Ragu, Lime Garden - Cabaret Vert (15-18) PJ Harvey, Fontaines, Blondshell, Justice, High Vis - APE (17-25) Pixies, Jai Paul, Floating Points, Loyle Carner, Nation of Language, Ezra Collective, Vagabon - Canela Party (21-24) Crack Cloud, Curtis Harding, Metz, Ibio Sound Machine, Militaire Gun, Protomartyr, Sheer Mag, Show Me The Body, Slift, Snooper, Wednesday - Rock En Seine (21-25) The Smile, Jungle, Massive Attack, Blonde Redhead, Soulwax, The Kills - Other gigs: Osees (London, 15), Wednesday (London, 20), Pixies (Piece Hall, 21), PJ Harvey (Gunnersbury, 18, Piece Hall, 20), Tirzah (Gunnersbury, 18). Pixies have other gigs on GM weekend but are free on Sunday technically. - Selected Recent Instagram Follows: Grandaddy, Woods, Beachwood Sparks, Kneecap, Beth Gibbons, Kara Jackson, Tara Clerkin Trio, Lorraine James, Geese, Alogte Ohe, Personal Trainer, The Mary Wallopers - Tenuous Twitter Activity: Gruff Rhys, Villagers, Euros Childs, Sault, Tindersticks, The Smile My current guess would be for Jesus & Mary Chain Thursday headliner plus The Smile as one of the other headliners. The recent addition of Sampha to Oya festival is interesting and I think he would make for a cool GM headliner.

GM Instagram account has been hitting the follow button a lot recently. Here’s a list of bands/acts they’ve recently followed in the last few weeks: Grandaddy, Woods, Beachwood Sparks, Kneecap, Beth Gibbons, Kara Jackson, Tara Clerkin Trio, Loraine James, Geese, Alogte Ohe, Personal Trainer, Tapir!, and The Mary Wallopers. They have also recently followed a few acts that played last year. I’ve not included those in the above list. Some of these names above have played before so who knows if they’re likely to play again and GM does starting following acts sometimes that don’t end up playing so take it with a pinch of salt.

Woods: Big Thief | Sleater Kinney | Fontaines DC | Slowdive 6 others: Mdou Moctar, Baxter Dury, Lankum (Garden Headliner), Gilla Band, Show Me The Body, Mui Zyu

I think they are extremely likely to play. Middle of the afternoon Far Out stage 👍

Used to be end of Jan, but has been later in recent years.

A complete guess, although somewhat based on acts that are around (Big Thief, PJ, James Holden, Mdou Moctar, Fontaines, Protomartyr, Baxter Dury).

WS: Big Thief // Squid GS: Lankum BT (post-headliner): Oneohtrix Point Never WS: Fontaines DC // Baxter Drury GS: Weyes Blood BT (post-headliner): James Holden WS: PJ Harvey // The Lemon Twigs GS: Mdou Moctar. BT (post-headliner): Protomartyr

Predicting Jesus & Mary Chain for next year’s Thursday headliner.

Are Ezra Collective an exclusive at Wild Fields? If not, then I’m sure they’ll be playing GM next year. Mountain Stage sub is my guess given they did the Far Out in 2019.

FO: Jesus & Mary Chain / Working Men’s Club / Bill Ryder-Jones / TEKE:TEKE / M(h)aol WG: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Papur Wal / Ynys MS: THE SMILE / Broken Social Scene / Natalia Lafourcade / Bonny Light Horseman / Bombino / Silvana Estrada / Friendship FO: Alison Goldfrapp / Kero Kero Bonito / Just Mustard / SLIFT / bdrmm / Wednesday / The Tubs / Opus Kink [**After Dark**: Oneohtrix Point Never / Whatever The Weather] WG: Model/Actriz / Nala Sinephro / Robert Forster / Julianna Barwick / Kara Jackson / Ratboys / Joanna Sternberg / Hannah Jadagu [**After Dark**: Dos Monos] R: Maruja MS: LITTLE SIMZ / Ezra Collective / Weyes Blood / Cymande / Steve Gunn / The Last Dinner Party / Susanne Sundfor / Star Feminine Band FO: Yard Act / Protomartyr / Altin Gun / Ibio Sound Machine / Geese / Speedy Ortiz / Feeble Little Horses / Moin / Whitelands [**After Dark**: / Yaeji / Surgeon] WG: The Clientele / serpentwithfeet / Marissa Nadler / Rachika Nayar / The Staples Jr Singers / Hatchie / Sarah Mary Chadwick [**After Dark**: Benefits] R: Man/Woman/Chainsaw MS: IDLES / Bat For Lashes / Tinariwen / Hamish Hawk / Arthur Verocai / Meg Baird / ADG7 / Billie Marten FO: John Cale / Metz / Dan Deacon / Japandroids / Courting / Bar Italia / Snooper / O. / White Flowers / Tara Clerkin Trio [After Dark**: Forest Swords / Dar Disku] WG: KOKOKO! / William Doyle / Jeff Parker / Linda Perhacs / Orions Belte / Corridor / Ada Lea [**After Dark**: DNSC] R: Trout

I’m strongly considering EOTR for the first time next year. Headliners seem very difficult to predict, particularly this far out. I would probably be more interested in the Garden headliners anyway given past line ups. Big Thief would be good for me but who knows if they’ll be active next year. Headliners I would like and that are at least semi realistic would be: Big Thief, FKA Twigs, Fever Ray, Anohni & The Johnsons, Pavement, Slowdive, Sharon Van Etten, Sleater-Kinney, Orbital, Mitski, Animal Collective. Acts I would love to see on the undercard: Lonnie Holley, Blue Lake, Lost Girls/Jenny Hval, Model/Actriz, Kelela, deathcrash, Colin Stetson, Brighde Chaimbeul, Ichiko Aoba, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Lucinda Chua, Susanne Sundfor, Algiers, Billy Woods, Moor Mother, Blacks’ Myths, Taqbir, Maruja, Sprain, Kate NV/Decisive Pink, Joanna Sternberg, Old Saw, Marina Herlop, Tara Clerkin Trio, Joanne Robertson, Forest Swords, Blawan, upsammy, grouper, Natalia Lafoucarde, Mdou Moctar, Spellling, Backxwash, clipping., Jockstrap, Legss, Weyes Blood, Alvvays, Kero Kero Bonito, Gazelle Twin, Haru Nemuri, Anna Von Hausswolff, Japandroids, Hatchie and L’Rain.

Protomartyr, Metz, Crack Cloud, Wednesday and Ibibio Sound Machine all already announced for Canela Party in Spain, 21-24 August 2024.

Green Man 2023 Here goes… **THURSDAY** If the drive there was pretty painful - 6 hours or so from SE London - then the extent of the pain was equally matched by the relief and joy on arrival. Beautiful weather and back, for the third time, in one of my favourite places on earth (maybe my actual favourite at this point!). We had some first-timers with us this year and I was very excited to see what they thought of the place. Quick change to go for a jog up the “mountain” behind the main stage to check out the views and the wild horses (1hr and a bit up and down - it’s not as far as it looks). Then a swift shower on site (no queue on a Thursday!) and headed in for a few drinks in The Courtyard with friends before Rouge Jones. •Rogue Jones - decent fun, and lovely weather. Felt so special to be back. Is there a more wonderful place in the world than The Walled Garden on a sunny evening? Heaven on earth! Music was good, but not really my thing for the most part but they do have a few songs I like. 6.5/10 •Lost Map - headed up to Far Out for Johnny P’s new band with his label mates. Not as good as I had hoped for unfortunately. The last song was great (the single that’s been released) but the other songs weren’t nearly as a good. 5/10 •Spiritualised - better than I expected and some parts were really amazing (second half was a bit slow though). She Kissed me was so good. A friend even turned to me after that song and expressed some form of amazement (can’t remember the exact quote!) So Long You Pretty Thing and Shine A Light were also magical. 8/10 Had some great Thai food to the right of End Up bar before Spz. I also had a great aubergine filled Naan from the place near Goan Fish Curry/Record Store on the way “home” (💚) after a few hours in RTT and CWs following Spz’s set. ***FRIDAY*** Typical morning routine of: getting in the shower queue and debating whether it is worth it > showering and thinking it definitely is > heading to Frank’s to fill up water with their amazingly pristine water (maybe just placebo) > saying hello to the wonderfully cheerful security chap by the stairs > walking around site with a coffee and some breakfast taking it all in before it starts to get busier. Had a great shakshuka breakfast as well from the tent near The Courtyard. Worth it even just for those beanbags in there! Music wise I was busy (as I was each day!), although I had less “must sees” in comparison to Saturday and Sunday. •Speilman - seems like a great guy but the music wasn’t particularly amazing or anything. He was pretty funny though so was fun to watch. 6/10 •Eve Appleton Band - don’t really remember all that much from this which suggests I wasn’t really into it. 5/10 •Ziyad Al Shamman - he’s a good performer and fun to watch but I don’t really get much out of live music that just seems to largely be somebody pressing play on something. 6/10 •Juni Habel - first act on Friday I was particularly keen for and was very lovely. The rain was falling very imperceptibly at this stage and was so light it was almost snow like. It gave the show this very magical feel to it. I love the new album so was great to hear those songs performed. 7.5/10 •Mega Bog - off to the Far Out for another act whose album this year I really like. This set took a while to get going but was brilliant by the end. 7.5/10 •Dur Dur Band - Great fun in the rain, which was starting to get heavier by this stage. Got the crowd dancing despite this though! Funny to look back at our photos of this set as we are all laden in our waterproofs - feels weird to see after Saturday and Sunday’s gorgeous weather. 7/10 •Jockstrap - Headed into FO while the rain became stronger and stronger for one of my favourite bands who I still hadn’t managed to see yet. Not quite enough for an hour’s worth of back to back bangers yet but there were some fantastic moments during this set. Really enjoyed most of it but it fell a bit flat with the crowd in some parts. Ending in particular, however, was amazing with Concrete Over Water, Greatest Hits, Glasgow and 50/50. Georgia throwing in Nikki Manaj’s verse on Monster (Kanye) as well during one of their songs (I forget which one) was brilliant! In a few years they could be headlining GM/EOTR I think, they had a big crowd. 8/10 Brief respite with some friends in their tent to wait out the worst of the rain… •Squid - frustrating as usual with Squid for me as they can be really good and also really dull, fluctuating multiple times between the two during a set. I get that they like to ebb and flow the set tempo wise but seems way too much down time given the number of great songs they have. When it was good it was great. 7.5/10 •Slowdive - Possibly my favourite band that I hadn’t seen before. Was very excited and definitely met my expectations. It sounded brilliant (though could have been even louder if I’m being picky) and Allison into When The Sun Hits into Golden Hair was astonishingly good. I could have listened to an extended Golden Hair outro that went on for hours, simply sublime. Turned to my friend after it ended and he just had his hands on his head muttering about it being the best thing he’s ever witnessed. Very slightly disappointed not to get a bit longer set as they cut Sleep which would have made it perfect - but yeah, loved it. 9/10 •Daniel Avery - sound wasn’t good for this so was disappointed, pretty quiet. 5/10 Food wise, I recall having a great Mac and Cheese while half watching Melin Meyln from the top of the hill who had a huge crowd but I don’t get them at all. I think I might have forgotten to eat for the rest of the day as can’t remember any other food that day. Thankfully missed most of the rain as was mainly in the Far Out tent, and then the rain I think had stopped after Slowdive. Spent a few hours with friends in CWs to see out the night. It ended up being a fairly late one as I only got to bed around 4.30 ish… ***SATURDAY*** After very little sleep, maybe an hour or two, the typical morning routine kicked in. Had one of the Hot Patatoes’ breakfast bonanzas as well, which was incredible. Hash browns, beans, cheddar, crispy kale etc. Music wise, I knew this was going to be a busy day. Ended up doing 49,000 steps, although this did include a lot of steps dancing in CWs in the early hours of Saturday morning… •Rozi Plain (RTT) - a lovely relaxing start to the day with a short and sweet “secret” set. Didn’t watch her full set on Friday as I was at Slowdive but am sure it was good. •deathcrash - About as good a live music experience as I could possibly expect to experience. So emotional and powerful. Sound was SO good for this (those drums!!!), and crowd were perfectly quiet and receptive. I had my eyes closed for most of the set just letting all the emotions wash over me and was basically a trembling wreck by the end. Can’t wait to see them later this year again at Fabric. Their GM set was a cut above last year’s already very good performance on the Rising stage. I turned to two friends at the end of the set who both appeared to have tears in their eyes 💚 10/10 •Julie Byrne - In my top 5 albums of the year and a very beautiful performance. The only reason I’m not ranking this slightly higher is because it was very hot and my hangover began to kick in quite viscerally during the last couple of songs haha! 8/10 •Etran de l’air - After 20 minutes or so in the shade, things were looking promising again and was back out in the sun for this extremely entertaining set. Bumped into an old friend who I hadn’t seen in 7/8 years and we watched them play together, which was lovely. The only negative is that the style of music can get quite repetitive and the songs themselves are pretty long so can get somewhat tedious occasionally, though I expect this in part due to my ears being more used to Western music. 7.5/10 •Anna B Savage - another favourite of mine and one of my favourite 2023 albums. First time seeing her and really enjoyed it. Was hoping to hear “One” off her debut, which is one of my favourite songs of the decade so that was a slight shame but everything was great anyway. 8/10 •Obongjayar - had lots of fun at this set and we had the perfect early evening sunlight which made it extra special. Not 100% taken by the music but he is a great performer. 7/10 •Lankum - again, incredible evening sunshine for this set. My 3rd favourite album of the year and was going in to this with very high hopes but slight reservations about the slot on the Main Stage rather than in the tent or even headlining Walled Garden. I thought it was fantastic. Thought it was amazing how big a slot they had given how weird/experimental they were! The only slight downside was that a couple of ladies had brought 3 or 4 young children to the very front right next to me and were quite distracting/chatty in parts. Apparently I was on the screens for a lot of this set with my eyes closed just smiling and swaying about…little embarrassing! 8.5/10 •Uh - some of this was very up my street. Lots of interesting acid/squelchy beats that appeared to be improvised live with the singer adding very ethereal and hard hitting vocals over the top. Beginning and ending of the set was fantastic. 7.5/10 •The Walkmen - Just caught 20 mins of this and saw In the New Year, The Rat and Juveniles which all sounded great. Crowd were great even where I was which was pretty far back. Left early though as not that into their stuff and wanted to see WFYE. Crowd were very bemused about his helicopter/Van Morrison story which seemed to be unnecessarily long with no real point to it haha - I guess it was just to say Van Morrison didn’t really get the vibe of the place? •Water from your eyes - this was mainly as I expected music wise but singer was definitely more engaged with the crowd than I thought they’d be and seemed thrilled to be there, so that made it even more entertaining as I had wrongly assumed they would be a bit too cool. Great experimental band imo and very fun to watch. 8/10 •Mandy Indiana - great fun to watch. Lots of hopping over the barrier to interact with the crowd. Music was great as well. 7.5/10 •Clipping - unbelievably excited for this and when the piano keys started for Nothing is Safe and Daveed walked on as his verse started I completely lost it! Was amazing start to finish, and there was a great crowd who were all up for it. SO much fun and I enjoyed seeing so many amazed faces when Daveed would do one of his insanely fast and long verses. Nothing is Safe, Check The Lock, Wriggle, Enlacing, Body & Blood and Story 2 were my highlights. 9.5/10 •Confidence Man - this went exactly as I expected really which was three good songs (on and on, now u do, holiday) but with a bad crowd that significantly impacted my experience. In particular, four women next to me wouldn’t stop incessantly chatting to one another and occasionally screaming “This is amazing”! I mean they were barely watching it! Costume changes were also a strange move for me as they probably spent as much time off stage as they did on stage. Don’t really get them at all. Highlight was that it was then my birthday so had a nice moment with my group of friends 💚 5/10 Had some very good nachos from the vegetarian Mexican place at the top of the Mountain Stage during Obongjayar. Got some hash browns at Hot Potatoes to keep me going through the joys (sarcasm) of the CW DJs until 4 am ish again 😉 ***SUNDAY*** Typical morning routine again…plus a friend had bought me Julie Byrne’s vinyl for my birthday which was a lovely surprise. Also bought some GM merch as a present to myself! As with Saturday, this was to be another busy day music wise and ended up being another 49,000 steps approximately. Feet were beginning to ache by this stage and the creeping sense of dread due to it being Sunday was starting to set in. Tried to push back the fear with some vegan sushi from the Walled Garden, which was fantastic. •Thus Love (RTT) - Went along to the early RTT set at 11.15 again. Not massively familiar with Thus Love but do really like a couple songs and really enjoy the guitar tone the lead vocalist and guitarist has. Another good start to the day. •Kanda Bongo Man - very pleasantly surprised by this as thought it could be a bit naff based on some reviews I had seen. Weather was fantastic and crowd was very into it. It was quite incredible to witness everyone’s energy levels despite it being the last day. The power of good music, ey? The main chap (I think his name is actually Bongo Kanda) was less present/active but the rest of the band were brilliant. 8/10 •Hyll - Kinda like a Welsh version of Pavement/Modest Mouse but quiet considerably less good. 5/10 •Jake Xerxes Fussell - Group of us went up to the top of the hill in the blazing sunshine to lie down and watch this set. Was incredibly relaxing and his voice was wonderful. I could have stayed there all day had it not been for all the over great acts to come. 7.5/10 •julie - this band could be brilliant in the future, ones to watch for sure. Love their released music as i’m big into that sort of Shoegaze/indie rock sound, but didn’t have a brilliant live show imo. Drummer was very good I thought. 7/10 •Nuha Ruby Ra - wasn’t into this one at all I’m afraid, although I was seriously flagging at this point. Went to get one of those Bhaji wraps from the back of the Walled Garden, pretty good!! 5/10 •Butch Kassidy (RTT) - was excited for this as had wanted to see them on Friday but they clashed with Jockstrap (i think). Went along at the scheduled slot but then they proceeded to soundcheck for at least 20 minutes. I became unreasonably pissed off about this but stayed for one song, which was alright. Hope to see them again at one of their own shows! •Thus Love - went along to the first half of this before Gilla Band. Very nice again - will definitely be listening to more of their stuff. •Gilla Band - GB were the beginning of an insane b5b of acts I love all in the FO, starting with them and ending with James Holden. They were very good as expected but wanted them to be a touch more incendiary, probably a sound issue. Loved Bin Liner Fashion and Bodies in particular though, the latter was particularly raucous. 7.5/10 •Arushi Jain - dashed down to Rising out of interest to see what the Last Dinner Party Crowd was like (it was big, obvs), then I caught about 15/20 mins of Arushi Jain in the glorious sunshine with one of those amazing Choc Shop brownies. She sounded great and wanted to stay for more but had to get back to the FO… •Les Savy Fav - knew what I was getting in for as had seen them before 12 years ago…but still…it was nonetheless fairly shocking to see Tim in his brightly coloured feather outfit rush out into the crowd and run around the Far Out tent sliding in mud, stealing people’s clothes, drinking people’s drinks, cleaning his hands in people’s drinks, carrying children on his shoulders etc etc. It was very fun but at times I kinda wanted more focus on the music, which was great when Tim and the band played properly together. Some of his antics also seemed a bit over the line as well so felt a bit uncomfortable at points. Anyway, it was still brilliant and unique performance wise. 8.5/10 •Sudan Archives - surpassed my very high expectations. Fantastic. Had hoped to hear Confessions as that’s one of my favourite songs of the last few years but that’s a minor complaint. She’s an unbelievably good performer and the atmosphere in the tent was brilliant. 9/10 •Young Fathers - saw them earlier this year but this was far more enjoyable for me. The last 30 minutes of this set from Geronimo onwards couldn’t have been better. They create a wonderfully intense atmosphere and it’s a pleasure to watch them. Would have been even better if they decided to play Only God Knows. I’m not 100% into all of their music so the fast half of their set isn’t my sort of thing occasionally - hence the rating not being even higher. At times I also think they are so intent on it being an interesting live performance that it comes across a bit try hard…I dunno? Surely future headliners anyway?? 8.5/10 Then it was time for the beautiful and emotional burning of the Green Man and firework display. It’s at this point where it becomes very apparent that your time is almost up and while it’s sad, I am also very aware of how lucky we all are to spend time with friends in such a wonderful place. •James Holden - Following the emotional release of the burning and fireworks, I headed off to James Holden. I was extremely tired by this point and had become very cold as had forgotten to bring a jumper and hadn’t had time to go back for one. I came very close to just going back to my tent but when I saw James’ set up with the two other musicians I knew it was going to be worth sticking around for. I love James’ music and it was a lot better than expected live with the live percussion and saxophone. Due to my exhaustion, cold and frightfully painful feet, it also became this weird mental game I had with myself about transcending my mental state which seemed to go hand in hand with the music and James’ idea of it being some 4D underwater rave. I was trying meditative techniques of acknowledging the physical pain I was in without fighting it and trying to focus intently on the sensation and move it around my body…it sort of worked I think! The music was fantastic as well, ha! 7.5/10 •Deptford Northern Soul Club - I came so close to calling it a night after James Holden but knew my group of friends were at DNSC. I’ve seen this set a few times now so I was thinking do I really need to bother with this…but I’m so glad I did. A kind friend gave me her jumper (she said she didn’t need it I wasn’t being a dick!) and this brought me back to life, and this ended up being a brilliant end to a fantastic festival. In particular, I found it very special not only to have that one last fun moment with friends but also to watch different groups of friends hugging and saying their goodbyes as the set draws to a close. Wonderful. 7.5/10 ***EPILOGUE*** While trudging back to the car carrying our gear and aptly singing Lankum’s Go Dig My Grave, I was thinking about how I really think Green Man is my favourite place on earth. It might seem hyperbolic and I do try and cast a critical eye on it (it’s not without fault of course), but I do truly believe it’s a very special place and a festival I hope to return to for many years to come. Diolch, GM 💚 And breathe…

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Detailed diary style review from me if you can be bothered to read. Sorry, it’s quite long! TLDR: I had a great time 😉 Green Man 2023 Diary.pdf

She played at 11.15 am and it was good! They communicated it as normal i.e. via a notice board that is put out in the morning. Will post some more detailed thoughts on here soon but am still shattered. Had a brilliant time 💚. All hail Deathcrash 🙏

My take: Lost Map / Rogue Jones (quite like both but Lost Map sound a bit funner and more interesting) Spiritualized / Bug Club (not sure tbh as not really keen on either of them. Spz are probably “better” but they also seem quite dull live. Bug Club I reckon will be more entertaining and engaging. I’m not sure what I’ll end up doing…probably neither - Round The Twist/Chai Wallahs anyone?) Sorry / Eaves Wilder / Butch Kassidy (definitely BK for me, a must see). Daniel Avery / PVA (both will be good I think but slightly prefer DA). Water From Your Eyes / Mandy Indiana (this is a tough one but I’m just slightly more excited by Water From Your Eyes at the moment, feel like Mandy Indiana are around a lot as well. I’m hoping I can see a bit of both when the final times are released though, ideally squeezing in Mandy Indiana before rushing back to WG for clipping.) James Holden / MadMadMad (definitely Holden for me, will be brilliant I think. MadMadMad will be more of a fun and danceable thing though, which might be more appealing come Sunday night - Holden will be quite chin strokey probs)

Les Savy Fav were incredible when I saw them 12 years ago! Still one of the funnest shows I’ve ever been to.