Green Man 2024

[lessthanwill1]

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

[Long Season]

Got my ticket for 2024, never been before and really excited. Heard amazing things from mates.

Can see a choice of Pixies/PJ Harvey/Pulp?/Massive Attack/Idles/The Smile/Little Simz/Chem bros/Slowdive/ headlining, but nothing new there really. I think Jesus & Mary chain are spot on for the Thursday too.

I (rather selfishly) would be gutted to see idles play... but a triple P of pixies, Pj and pulp would be great, though maybe the lack of a more recent band would make that an unrealistic scenario.

Elsewhere on the line-up I'd love to see Echo & the bunnymen, Tara Clerkin Trio, Ty Segall, Witch, Beth Gibbons, Bush Tetras, Sam Prekop, Party Dozen, Chain & the gang, Wire, Ulrika Spacek, Dennis Bovell, Shirley Collins, Current 93, Babe Rainbow, the Cardigans, Mary Whallopers, Juan Wauters, Horace Andy, Arthur Verocai...

Either way, very excited for a well curated festival in the countryside after a very lacklustre (and heavily corporate feeling compared to other editions) primavera last year. 

 

Edited December 20, 2023 by Long Season

[suttttttt]

When can we expect an announcement for this? I know last year was a bit later than usual.

[lessthanwill1]

1 hour ago, suttttttt said:

When can we expect an announcement for this? I know last year was a bit later than usual.

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

[Aeroplane Over the Sea]

Left field one maybe, but I could see the Big Moon for Thursday night headliner. Big festival relationship and they’ve not played for a while

[suttttttt]

My Bloody Valentine are playing a show in NY next year. Might be wishful thinking but I’ll throw them in as an outsider bet

[rug568]

9 minutes ago, suttttttt said:

My Bloody Valentine are playing a show in NY next year. Might be wishful thinking but I’ll throw them in as an outsider bet

Every single year 

[SweepingTheNation]

17 minutes ago, suttttttt said:

My Bloody Valentine are playing a show in NY next year. Might be wishful thinking but I’ll throw them in as an outsider bet

If you mean the festival line-up graphic with Aphex Twin, it's fake.

[suttttttt]

1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:

If you mean the festival line-up graphic with Aphex Twin, it's fake.

That sucks! Ignore the above then haha

[mattnic]

On their website Wednesday have a show in Oslo on 9th September and one at the Scala in London on the 20th. What are the chances that gap might include a stop at Green Man, or are they more likely somewhere else?

[lessthanwill1]

8 minutes ago, mattnic said:

On their website Wednesday have a show in Oslo on 9th September and one at the Scala in London on the 20th. What are the chances that gap might include a stop at Green Man, or are they more likely somewhere else?

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

[Guest]

Sleater kinney? Playing fest in Portugal around the same time that last year had some shared acts

[retromoz]

4 hours ago, bandsrcool said:

Sleater kinney? Playing fest in Portugal around the same time that last year had some shared acts

Be still my beating heart....

[AtomsForPizza]

Bit of activity on the GM twitter page. They've updated their profile picture and in response to someone asking when there will be lineup news said:

"Dropping in the next month or two. Will have more news soon!"

 

 

 

[zahidf]

18 hours ago, AtomsForPizza said:

Bit of activity on the GM twitter page. They've updated their profile picture and in response to someone asking when there will be lineup news said:

"Dropping in the next month or two. Will have more news soon!"

 

 

 

month or two? lol hardly soon. Could be March!

[SalviaPlath]

I would absolutely love Sleater Kinney. Their most recent show in London was pretty poor but we are all allowed an off day. 

Think they'd go down really well, not sure where they would sit, maybe headliner or sub? I am never sure of their level of renown in the UK.

 

[Happyboypricey]

12 minutes ago, SalviaPlath said:

I would absolutely love Sleater Kinney. Their most recent show in London was pretty poor but we are all allowed an off day. 

Think they'd go down really well, not sure where they would sit, maybe headliner or sub? I am never sure of their level of renown in the UK.

 

I was at the Pitchfork show. Quite a lot of bands seem to struggle at the Roundhouse.

I'm looking forward to the new album based on the new tracks so far. I could 100% see them playing GM, but some bands never quite seem to fit the stages. For me, they'd suit the Far Out headline slot, but I think they might be a bit too big for that.

Edited January 10, 2024 by Happyboypricey

[lessthanwill1]

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. 

[Guest]

Just saw the new MGMT music video premiere on YouTube and the countdown graphics look suspiciously similar to the new green man art...hopes and prayers

[Mambonumberfive]

2 hours ago, lessthanwill1 said:

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. 

Some great names up there that would make me very happy! Re bands that have played before. Not sure GM have a strong history of repeating some of the bigger bands or headliners, although they do like to bring back bands that have played the walled garden etc early in their career. Roll on announcement day no 1 !!!

[Justiceforcedave]

This on GM FB today... incoming sounds better than 'Next couple of months' which was the answer yesterday.

 

Edited January 10, 2024 by Justiceforcedave

[SweepingTheNation]

1 hour ago, Justiceforcedave said:

This on GM FB today... incoming sounds better than 'Next couple of months' which was the answer yesterday.

They're pretty much ways of saying the same thing. It's highly unlikely that anything will have changed in their announcement date plans since yesterday.

[Justiceforcedave]

1 minute ago, SweepingTheNation said:

They're pretty much ways of saying the same thing. It's highly unlikely that anything will have changed in their announcement date plans since yesterday.

Agreed, I don't think they will have changed anything. Just thought that "Incoming Shortly" sounded more specific.

[SweepingTheNation]

I've been thinking about this, because we've had the first set of announcements from most of the big European festivals in and around that weekend and yet we're no closer to being able to say with any confidence who's headlining GM. The Smile aside for the Wednesday-Monday gap in their Euro dates, Pixies seemed likeliest but with their dates they'd be cutting it very fine to fly in for the Sunday and wouldn't be able to soundcheck. Sleater-Kinney might, but I'd see them as more likely to do a couple of weeks on the continent and then EOTR. Beth Gibbons is a very interesting name that's been dropped in but nobody seems to have picked up on her playing Primavera or what it might mean and surely she wouldn't immediately headline. Idles are doing Cardiff Castle in July so I'd guess they're out.

[modefan]

I agree Pixies is less likely with the Trondheim date on Saturday but its not out the question. The only direct flight to the UK gets into Gatwick at 9:50am so gives more than enough time to get across. Indirect options to Cardiff or Birmingham won't work for them.