Green Man 2022

[Aeroplane Over the Sea]

 

42 minutes ago, Mambonumberfive said:

I would also love PB to headline having seen her in the walled garden a while back and at Latitude this year, but please don’t start that rumour too soon. Her fans are nuts - the last thing Green Man needs is 20,000 Phoebe fans descending on the mountain stage - It would be Limp Bizkit as per Woodstock Trainwreck all over again!

Crikey, went to one of her Brixton gigs and had quite a shock!

[SweepingTheNation]

46 minutes ago, Mambonumberfive said:

I would also love PB to headline having seen her in the walled garden a while back and at Latitude this year, but please don’t start that rumour too soon. Her fans are nuts - the last thing Green Man needs is 20,000 Phoebe fans descending on the mountain stage - It would be Limp Bizkit as per Woodstock Trainwreck all over again!

They'd rape women and burn the campsite down?

[SweepingTheNation]

...but on a more practical level, even though she only played it four years ago (and was fourth down on Walled Garden) Bridgers is now I think at a similar level to Pavement in that they're possibly the wrong size of the borderline for who would realistically play a GM-sized festival.

You know what's just occurred to me? There was a lot of 20th anniversary publicity around this year's festival, but it started in 2003! (And it couldn't be the twentieth festival because of the forcibly missed year)

Edited August 23, 2022 by SweepingTheNation

[Aeroplane Over the Sea]

I reckon booking her would risk a great invasion of the wristband-less at the very least even if they could afford her!

I guess if 2003 was the first year of green man then in 2022 it’s the twentieth year of green man. It’s a bit tenuous though!

Edited August 23, 2022 by Aeroplane Over the Sea

[jimbo_l]

It was our first time. We got bought Settlers tickets off someone who couldn't make it. We're a childless late-30's couple and usually avoid family stuff. When we arrived we were a bit concerned that we might have mis-judged it because the stuff laid-on was so kid-focussed. But actually, we both softened-up a bit to that, and thought it was quite nice that so many kids were entertained for a week with a diablo and a bottle of bubbles. I think part of it is that on the whole the interaction between families and not-families seemed fairly intuitive and respectful, and perhaps the 3 settlers days helped us acclimatise to it.

I do appreciate that everyone has different interactions over the course of a weekend, and that it isn't always nice if you've been coming to something that you love for a long time, and see it going in a direction you're not a fan of.

A shame to hear about the crimes that took place, because the vibe we got was extremely safe and relaxed. I hope everyone involved affected is OK.

Edited August 23, 2022 by jimbo_l

[Ha French Bread]

Sharing my five-word five-star reviews I do each year as mementos for looking back in future years (mostly at how stupid I was for massively underrating someone at the time)

I personally and sadly did not see Jessie Buckley/Bernard B, so that one's a guest review!

Fair to say the run of performances on Sunday evening was possibly the best I've been lucky enough to experience in the space of mere hours

Will try not to take up a whole page...

Thursday
Wesley Gonzalez - nice glass of Orange Juice ***
John Mouse - shirtless danceoff avec anthropomorphic pigeon ****
Mandrake Handshake - aesthetically pleasing Brian Jonestown dabblers ****
El Goodo - Coralesque harmonisers now sadly departed ****
Adwaith - amazing songs, didn't click live **
Metronomy - sweet, slightly insubstantial. Like Squashies ***

Friday
The Real Charlie Chaplin (documentary) - amazing archive of 'complex' character ****
Pregoblin - another Adwaith situation unsure why **
Mdou Moctar - supersonic desert rock guitar wizardry ****
Ailsa Tully - shimmery melodies for shimmery afternoons ***
Mickey Callisto - ass-slapping dance party good times *****
WITCH - most interesting backstory of festival ***
Viagra Boys - basically being blended in humans *****
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - lessons in warmth and class *****
Public Service Broadcasting - archivists with synthesisers? Yes please ****
Kraftwerk - bad graphics fetishists press buttons ****
Scalping - angriest guitars since records began *****

Saturday
Ghiblioteque (live podcast thing) - Ghibli lore: not just nerdfodder! ****
Donny Benet - Pope of delicious, sleazy bass *****
Alice Low - Alex Cameron/Iggy Pop = daughter? ****
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - name of my next cat ***
Katy J Pearson - uncannily vocal'd trumpety pop sweetness ****
Mary Lattimore - hopefully what heaven sounds like *****
Black Country, New Road - proper wonderkids. Basically limitless potential ****
Arab Strap -  bittersweet never sounded so good *****
Beach House - sous vide in liquid synthesiser ***

Sunday
Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 w/ BBC Welsh Orchestra - Bond flies to Brazil soundtrack ****
Ural Thomas & the Pain - Pixar grandad and his band ****
Gruff Rhys & Imarhan - Gruff goes well with everything ****
Jenny Hval - genuinely mindblowing songwriting. Exquisite oddball *****
Ezra Furman - Queen of modern rock? YES *****
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - these guys are so good it broke my review system see them immediately *****

Edited August 23, 2022 by Ha French Bread

[lessthanwill1]

Love that @Ha French Bread

[Yoss]

5 hours ago, lessthanwill1 said:

My highlights were Arooj Aftab, Jenny Hval and Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul.  All three of those were up there with my favourite live shows of all time.

 

2 hours ago, Ha French Bread said:

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - these guys are so good it broke my review system see them immediately *****

Yeah I know I've already mentioned it myself as well, but I wanna reiterate it was right up there with my favourite festival sets ever. Glad so many of the other people who chose it ahead of Kiwanuka and PQ seem to have rated it as highly as I did.

[zico martin]

Wow. After 5 glastonburys in a row greenman has changed everything for us.  What's the dates for next year as i need to book the time off now! Can't wait!

[xxialac]

15 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:

You know what's just occurred to me? There was a lot of 20th anniversary publicity around this year's festival, but it started in 2003! (And it couldn't be the twentieth festival because of the forcibly missed year)

This is a really good point.

Their 20th anniversary/birthday will be in 2023 and 20th edition will be in 2024

You can’t pretend otherwise.

This is a bigger disgrace than importing our apples!

[lessthanwill1]

39 minutes ago, xxialac said:

This is a really good point.

Their 20th anniversary/birthday will be in 2023 and 20th edition will be in 2024

You can’t pretend otherwise.

This is a bigger disgrace than importing our apples!

If you include the online festival they did in 2020, then this last festival was the 20th festival that has occurred.  So it sort of makes sense. 

[March Hare]

Someone has posted a video of the 😮 BCNR moment/song on YouTube 

[SweepingTheNation]

15 minutes ago, lessthanwill1 said:

If you include the online festival they did in 2020, then this last festival was the 20th festival that has occurred.  So it sort of makes sense. 

Except they were promoting it as the 20th anniversary, not the 20th festival. Look at the descriptions on their Twitter and IG.

[pie_and_a_pint]

4 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

Except they were promoting it as the 20th anniversary, not the 20th festival. Look at the descriptions on their Twitter and IG.

Yeah, it was an anniversary thing (like 2020 was Glastonbury's 50th birthday not the 50th festival)

[lessthanwill1]

4 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

Except they were promoting it as the 20th anniversary, not the 20th festival. Look at the descriptions on their Twitter and IG.

I take your point but who really cares 😂 

[retromoz]

Reading all peep's reviews is really interesting. What Im getting mostly is that Green Man is loved by all! Yes, there are a few tiny niggles (talking in crowds or wagons/trollies in crowded spots etc Or, my personal niggle, going to the urinals and, if looking a certain way, seeing turds drop into a wheelie bin. I love the fact that compost loo's were de rigueur on site. Just a 'modesty wall' would have been nice is all...). We all had our highlights (my personal one which hasnt been mentioned is Pblic Service Broadcasting. Maybe everyone was super gutted like I was that Low couldn't make it to bother. However I found them playing the stuff from Every Valley all quite moving. So close to Blaenavon etc.). But ALL of us loved our time there. Im trying REALLY hard to not use the word 'vibe'. But there IS an aura around which turns everyone into happy goons. Even the guy doing coke in front of me at Michael Kiwanuka (which, to be honest, I thought was odd. Mr Kiwanuka doesn't strike me as the type of thing you listen to coked up to the eyeballs) seemed a lovely chap, getting all emotional with the last few songs.

Now.......can we ALL please stop talking about it, lest others get to find out about it? Thanks. Its already a freaking nightmare gettign tickets.....x

[xxialac]

3 hours ago, lessthanwill1 said:

If you include the online festival they did in 2020, then this last festival was the 20th festival that has occurred.  So it sort of makes sense. 

Heh, you might be right but god, counting a Green Man event as a festival where virtual yoga makes it to the second highest line of the poster is painfully desperate!

[Jeel]

42 minutes ago, retromoz said:

Reading all peep's reviews is really interesting. What Im getting mostly is that Green Man is loved by all! Yes, there are a few tiny niggles (talking in crowds or wagons/trollies in crowded spots etc Or, my personal niggle, going to the urinals and, if looking a certain way, seeing turds drop into a wheelie bin. I love the fact that compost loo's were de rigueur on site. Just a 'modesty wall' would have been nice is all...). We all had our highlights (my personal one which hasnt been mentioned is Pblic Service Broadcasting. Maybe everyone was super gutted like I was that Low couldn't make it to bother. However I found them playing the stuff from Every Valley all quite moving. So close to Blaenavon etc.). But ALL of us loved our time there. Im trying REALLY hard to not use the word 'vibe'. But there IS an aura around which turns everyone into happy goons. Even the guy doing coke in front of me at Michael Kiwanuka (which, to be honest, I thought was odd. Mr Kiwanuka doesn't strike me as the type of thing you listen to coked up to the eyeballs) seemed a lovely chap, getting all emotional with the last few songs.

Now.......can we ALL please stop talking about it, lest others get to find out about it? Thanks. Its already a freaking nightmare gettign tickets.....x

I had, I think, blocked out the sound effects in the male urinals next to Far Out!

[leath02]

Not trying to cause anarchy by posting that in here, but know there were a few active members across both sites, myself included 

[Dancers Stand Very Still]

23 hours ago, lessthanwill1 said:

- I bumped into @JHadon a number of occasions at the Rising stage, which was cool.  A very nice guy!  

It was a pleasure to meet you @lessthanwill1!

[Mambonumberfive]

2 hours ago, retromoz said:

Reading all peep's reviews is really interesting. What Im getting mostly is that Green Man is loved by all! Yes, there are a few tiny niggles (talking in crowds or wagons/trollies in crowded spots etc Or, my personal niggle, going to the urinals and, if looking a certain way, seeing turds drop into a wheelie bin. I love the fact that compost loo's were de rigueur on site. Just a 'modesty wall' would have been nice is all...). We all had our highlights (my personal one which hasnt been mentioned is Pblic Service Broadcasting. Maybe everyone was super gutted like I was that Low couldn't make it to bother. However I found them playing the stuff from Every Valley all quite moving. So close to Blaenavon etc.). But ALL of us loved our time there. Im trying REALLY hard to not use the word 'vibe'. But there IS an aura around which turns everyone into happy goons. Even the guy doing coke in front of me at Michael Kiwanuka (which, to be honest, I thought was odd. Mr Kiwanuka doesn't strike me as the type of thing you listen to coked up to the eyeballs) seemed a lovely chap, getting all emotional with the last few songs.

Now.......can we ALL please stop talking about it, lest others get to find out about it? Thanks. Its already a freaking nightmare gettign tickets.....x

Totally agree we must stop bigging it up - never get a ticket again at this rate! I think I said in my comments further back, that PSB were a personal highlight for me also. I have seen them on every tour since 2013 so was gutted not to have seen any shows this year. It was a well deserved sub headline slot that they more than did justice. My only slight reservation is I felt a little underwhelmed by Kraftwerk after. But I may have just been knackered.

[Dancers Stand Very Still]

1 hour ago, leath02 said:

Anyone got any idea where The OtherFests Discord has gone?

1 hour ago, leath02 said:

Not trying to cause anarchy by posting that in here, but know there were a few active members across both sites, myself included 

It's perfectly legitimate to post on more than one forum, so hopefully nobody is odd enough to get het up about that but you never know! Hopefully somebody has just pressed the wrong button again as I'd very much like it back, especially for all of the chats/reviews from during the festival.

[Dancers Stand Very Still]

I'm still not sure I've processed quite how incredible that festival was. Saturday was the best festival day I've ever had and the BC,NR set was the greatest set I've ever seen, bar none.

Top 10 for me were:

1. Black Country, New Road
2. Melin Melyn
3. Pushpin
4. Deathcrash
5. Ezra Furman
6. M(h)aol
7. Modern Nature
8. John Mouse
9. Lime Garden
10. The Utopia Strong

I enjoyed almost all of the acts I saw though and there are another 15-20 acts who could be in here, if I was in a slightly different mood whilst writing it!

[bexj]

Just seen this on twitter regarding an alleged rape at Green Man. 

[bexj]

Further info from Dyfed Police.