"Anna Thomas is an award-winning comedian, originally hailing from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. She wrote and starred in ‘Lady Bigfoot’, a short film that premiered on BBC One Wales at 10:40pm on 4th July, and became the most watched comedy short on BBC iPlayer in 2023. ‘Lady Bigfoot is a tender and utterly charming portrait of an outsider’s yearning. And it’s very funny too with little jokes squeezed in where they have no right to be’ ★★★★ Chortle. Anna also wrote and starred in the radio sitcom ‘Gulls’ which is currently available on BBC Sounds."

Hailing from a musical family in New York, Cassandra Jenkins learnt to play the guitar from a young age. She's released 4 studio albums, with her most recent - My Light, My Passage receiving critical acclaim. While making her third album, My Light My Destroyer, Cassandra Jenkins set up a soundcloud page for unfinished songs called "Valley of Despair". Loneliness and its corresponding shades and images - blue orbits, delphinium blue, dawn
— feature heavily on the new album. But just as on the New York songwriter's previous record, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, her superpower is in celebrating the poetry of the everyday. Life-affirming stuff, and about as far away from the valley of despair as you could get.

Jacob Alon is a Scottish poet, musician and singer, who blends the worlds of ethereal storytelling with music. Initially, they started studying medicine at university, but only found joy through creating music - and how lucky we are. They joined the Green Man family at the Walled Garden on Friday aftenoon.

The absurdity of the world on the outside juxtaposed with the world taking place on the inside,* says John Grant of his latest album, The Art of the Lie. "That fascinates me, the ability to capture what it really feels like to be a human." It could apply to much of his output since 2010: inducing comfort in the candid, and expressing that via handsome baritone, lubricated grooves, slightly sordid stickiness. and everything from opulent electronica to folk strum. The Art of the Lie borrows - or rather amends - a title of a book by Trump, and owes much to funk, vocoder, the Bladerunner soundtrack, Dead Can Dance, and Devo.

Taff Rapids, Cardiff’s bluegrass sensation, is taking the international stage by storm with a unique blend of original bluegrass compositions and their own take on traditional American and Welsh tunes. Comprised of seasoned musicians Darren Eedens, Siôn Russell Jones, David Grubb, and Clem Saynor, the band infuses their music with Welsh-language elements, bringing a fresh perspective to the bluegrass genre that resonates worldwide.

Jarred Christmas, in his own words: Comedian. Joker. Storyteller. Professional idiot. Word clown. We couldn't have said it better ourselves!

Adwaith hail from Camarthen, Wales, and formed in 2015. Their first album Melyn won the Welsh Music Prize in 2018, and Bato Mato in 2022. It's a joy to have them back at Green Man Festival.

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek refer to themselves as “outernational” over international as they say it suggests a sound that’s more inclusive or “beyond borders.” Derya, who sings and plays the bağlama, is German born to Turkish parents. Drummer Helen Wells is Berlin-based by way of South Africa while keyboard player Graham Mushnik and guitar/bass player Antonin Voyant are both French. The collective influences they bring to Anatolian music make for a completely unique and fresh sound that both pushes the genre forward and champions its rich heritage.

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Richard King is the author of the Gordon Burn Prize shortlisted Original Rockers, a Rough Trade, Times and Uncut Book of the Year; How Soon Is Now?, a Sunday Times Music Book of the Year; the Penderyn Prize shortlisted The Lark Ascending, a Rough Trade, MOJO and Evening Standard Book of the Year; Brittle with Relics and the Penderyn Prize shortlisted Travels Over Feeling, all published by Faber. His recent appointments include Visiting Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow, University of Manchester and Royal Literary Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture.

We’re also joined by the icon that is Asha Puthli, in conversation with Big Special - the collaboration we never knew we needed. Together they take us on a journey through their musical styles, the magic of Green Man, life on tour, and Asha’s mission to inspire older generations to chase their dreams.

Respected producer and DJ Don Leisure brings to life his recent Tyrchu Sain album, a favourite on BBC Radio 6 Music and an album with history and tales to tell. It's a beat tape, a mix tape and a respectful homage and reimagining of the Sain Records back catalogue - Wales’ oldest and most influential record label.

We then take a wander across to Cinedrome, for another wonderful conversation with film critic Jason Solomons. This time, he chats to Director Kim Hopkins about the 2025 movie Still Pushing Pineapples (remember Agadoo doo doo push pineapple shake the tree?!), about an ageing pop star trying to revive and keep alive his past triumph.

In the second half of this episode, we're joined by Jason Solomons from the Cinedrome, as he talks to Emilíana Torrini and Zoe Flower, about the film based on her mother - The Extraordinary Miss Flower, a 2024 documentary about Geraldine Flower, a woman whose collection of 1960s and 70s love letters inspired a film.

“Ten years of documenting my life in song,” says Nadia Reid of her career so far. The New Zealand artist captured hearts immediately with early albums such as 2014’s Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs and 2017’s Preservation. All change for her new album Enter Now Brightness, made in the throes of morning sickness before moving across the world to Manchester and giving birth to a second child. Circumstances change, but the timeless poise of her music remains unaltered.

W.H. Lung

So-named after a Chinese wholesale supermarket in their home city of Manchester, W.H. Lung have cultivated a steadfast live reputation over the last few years, their sound growing increasingly urgent with each new album. Latest offering Every Inch Of Earth Pulsates does indeed pulsate, with driving, expansive indie and synth pop, and shades of New Order and Sea Power.

The Extraordinary Miss Flower is a film about the life of Geraldine Flower, whose discovered suitcase of letters inspired Icelandic singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini to compose, and star in the movie. Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with Geraldine's daughter, Zoe Flower co-producing.

Based in South Wales, the Pedal Emporium specialises in creating fun bicycle powered activities to promote cycling & sustainability. These marvelous machines are all built by hand using recycled & re-purposed items, and are available for event hire throughout the year.

South London’s PVA have already garnered a reputation for emotionally and physically liberating dance punk that borrows from LCD Soundsystem, SSION, Planningtorock, and The Knife. Their debut album Blush is even paced like a DJ set, so you can expect barrier-jostling fun when they take to the decks this summer.

Anna Thomas is an award-winning comedian, originally hailing from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. She wrote and starred in ‘Lady Bigfoot’, a short film that premiered on BBC One Wales and became the most watched comedy short on BBC Iplayer in 2023.

wing! — the instrumental recording project of Adam Swan that blossoms into a live trio, with drummer Joe Killick and bassist Kai Charlton — meld trip-hop, post-rock, jazz, broken beat, and ambient electronica to ethereal, mesmerising effect. They’re informed by Portishead and Flying Lotus, they’re fans of Boards Of Canada, Burial, and Madlib, and as this year’s Green Man Rising winners, they’ll kick off festivities on the Mountain Stage.

The Flying Seagull Project was founded in 2008 to bring happiness to children and communities in crisis, marginalised or suffering. The international charity currently has teams of entertainers, musicians, magicians and play specialists engaged in arts workshops, music and dance lessons, circus shows and clown doctoring all over the world.

Together they’ve spread love, light and laughter to more than 350,000 children in hospitals, orphanages, deaf/blind schools and refugee camps around the world.

Familia de la Noche is a female led award winning theatre company based in Wales. We make shows that are funny, beautiful, raucous and moving; using puppets, clowning, sound and music. Above all we love stories; we’ve adapted old ones and crafted new ones, always with a Familia twist. 

Charlotte Church is an award-winning singer, composer and activist. She is also the founder and lead practitioner at Welsh wellness retreat The Dreaming and, for many years, has used her platform for activism, passionate about environmental issues and human rights. In 2019 she set up 'The Awen Project', a charity that helps establish free-to-attend democratic learning communities for children. Join Charlotte at Green Man for an interactive introduction to The Dreaming, including a conversation with broadcaster Huw Stephens and a taster of the retreat’s programme, led by Charlotte.

The Green Man podcast team take a walk beyond the Helter Skelter to the secret Wishbone tent to speak to drag artists Dolly Trolley and Rhys' Pieces about their performance at Green Man 2025.

Broadside Hacks find sanctuary under a shady tree to discuss the evolution of their tribute to Bob Dylan.

Adam Flood is an award-winning comedian and (failed) musician. The Times ‘Top 3 Rising Stars of the Fringe’ 2023, Most Outstanding Show in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023. The Stoke-on-Trent comic blends standup with sounds and music to deliver everyday observations and existential malaise.

Find her up and down the aisles or going rusty upturned in a ditch, Dolly Trolley is a Yorkshire-born drag queen based in London who is completely bonkers, utterly delightful and always at 100mph. Now entering her ninth year of drag, she’s become a household name of the UK drag and cabaret scene, known for high energy acts, fierce dance moves, hilarious parodies, and rip-roaring hosting. She’s a versatile performer full of surprises, commonly reviewed: “I’m exhausted just from watching”. She’s a regular feature of the UK’s top cabarets, been featured on BBC Breakfast, taught celebs how to walk in heels on SkyOne, and performed in theatres, stages and festivals across Europe. Dolly is the world’s leading drag fitness instructor (self-titled but unchallenged) with her famous Drag Aerobics classes, reaching online global fame during covid lockdowns.

Rhys’ Pieces is a London based, international, award-winning queer performance artist, drag performer, cabaret producer and burlesque artist who has been making waves in the city's vibrant arts scene for the past 8 years. Rhys’ Pieces uses their art to explore issues of gender, sexuality, identity and race creating work that is both political and fun. You're going to want a Piece of Rhys.

It feels like the year of Bob, with Timothée Chalamet appearing as the grizzled luminary on the big screen — and London-based collective, record label, and promoter Broadside Hacks are capitalising on that with their Dylan tribute event, with Clara Mann, Spitzer Space Telescope and special guests in the mix. Known for encouraging a faithful yet freeing new wave of folk music that repurposes tradition, Broadside Hacks are no strangers to honouring artists with special themed events: The Pogues and legendary Soho folk club Les Cousins have also been celebrated by their eclectic gang of musicians and contributors.

It’s not often you stumble across a budding young post-punk artist with a predilection for Spitfire planes. Enter Heartworms, aka London-based artist and producer Jojo Orme. Her debut Dan Carey-produced album, Glutton For Punishment, which landed early this year, fused early 1980s spiky synth pop, gothic noir, and industrial dance punk, running on themes of international and internal war. But despite the career take-off, she still finds time to volunteer at Hendon’s RAF Museum, cleaning and maintaining those beloved Spitfires.

North East powerhouse, Nicola Mantalios brings her energetic storytelling to Green Man 2025. Her performances are packed with a perfect mix of chaotic energy, dark wit and the kind of brilliant honesty you'll be thinking about long after she's left the stage.

Kerris Gibson describes herself as being like a cinnamon bun that's been dropped many times (and that one weirdo would eat). She uses her standup material for therapy and her therapy session notes for standup. Twice Felt Nowt New Act of the Year Finalist, Kerris is also an improviser (Spontaneous Wrecks) and has had sketches showcased at Sunderland Film Festival and BBC Radio.

The long awaited follow up to Slow West, John McLean puts a Samurai puppeteer, caught up with a local crime gang, in Scotland, for a thrilling genre mash up in 'Tornado'.

Pete Cunningham cut his teeth as a teenage DJ playing at raves in quarries, before sampling some of the finest club culture his home city of Bristol has had to offer. He’s a saxophonist as well as a DJ and producer, and since 2017 has led eclectic collective Ishmael Ensemble to increasingly epic heights. Last year’s Rituals upped the ante with a generous use of drones and drums you might hear on a metal record, and the result: vast, textured Massive Attack-style soundscapes that will sound right at home in the Welsh mountains

Cardiff indie rockers Los Campesinos! met during freshers’ week at university and seven albums on, achieved their first Top 20 album, All Hell — self-produced and self-released and with a total marketing spend of £190.86. They’re true champions of the independent DIY spirit and when they’re not at their day jobs, they’re making songs about “local football, doomed romances, and the fall of capitalism” that are made to be danced to.

An exploration in free thought and improvisation, 137 is the combined sonic force of Adrian Utley (Portishead), Larry Stabbins, Jim Barr (Get the Blessing) & Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear, Patti Smith). Brutal noise interlaced with meditative rhythms, ferocious yet fragile, 137 will venture into the world of expanded cinema playing in symbiosis with avant-garde experimental film.

The light still breaks through each morning. That’s the driving sentiment on You Are The Morning, the debut album from trans woman and Manchester-based singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t. Its title is dedicated to queer friendship, which she says saved her life. The first UK signee on Saddest Factory Records, the album was produced by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Jasmine and her band travelled to L.A. to record at Sound City Studios. It was made across 12 days in a highly collaborative and emotional process, and because Jasmine sees her songs as fluid and ever-changing, the recordings carry that free and spontaneous spirit. Jasmine considers her album as a call to action for a brighter future for trans people.

Ash Kenazi is a London artist who has honed his craft after years of experimentation, finally evolving into their true form through writing that draws from sounds that have shaped their experience - a youthful chorister, an indie drummer and a queer dancer. Known for his work as a member of Happyness, drag royalty to the indie scene and podcast host, Ash has built a strong following across the UK through supporting the likes of Self Esteem, CSS, Jess Winter and Dreamwife with his impressive counter-tenor vocals, queer storytelling and magnetic stage presence.

Stewart Lee delivered an extended set at Green Man 2025 ("world's greatest living stand-up" - The Times)

An a cappella song about a man in the 1500s in Hexham, a 41-minute track, albums that channel the voices of past, present, and future: you never know what’s coming next from Northumbrian folk artist and storyteller Rich(ard) Dawson. His eighth album End of the Middle landed very recently, and he’s also dabbled in Finnish experimental rock, North Country blues, and jazzy psych-folk, raiding museum archives and releasing vinyl that plays inside-out.

A flamboyantly-dressed family affair — frontwoman Annie with her daughters singing backup, her husband on guitar, and sons on bass and drums — Annie & The Caldwells hail from the Deep South and harness the power of live gospel music like nobody can. They recorded their debut album Can’t Lose My (Soul) in a Mississippi church, a mere forty years after they started performing.

Stand out British-Sikh comedian, Daman Bamrah uses his instant likability, wry humour and a lot of heart to captivate audiences, and is best known for his cultural observations on his Indian heritage, topical writing and imaginative storytelling.

Gavin Osborn is a 47 year old singer-songwriter with six solo albums under his belt, having spent over 20 years touring the UK, Europe and Australia with his brand of witty storytelling folk songs. Familiar to listeners of BBC 6Music and Radio 4, Gavin’s tours and shows include support slots for the likes of Belle & Sebastian and Frank Turner.

Sex Week: New York duo Richard Orofino and Pearl Amanda Dickson bonded over a playlist made for a friend’s road trip from Colorado to Omaha. The dulcet tones of Baxter Dury, Wolf Alice, Liz Phair and more laid the foundations for a musical collaboration that takes in the humble joy of the mixtape, the films of David Lynch and David Cronenberg, fat cats, gothic folk, gory detail and vulnerable homespun confession.

English Teacher have captured life in Britain like no other band in recent years. It’s no wonder they won last year’s Mercury Prize for their debut album This Could Be Texas. The Leeds band, who first played on the Rising stage back in 2022, match meandering climbing bass with instances of folk, prog, electronica, and all-out vigour, underpinned by frontwoman Lily Fontaine’s impressionistic, conversational lyrics: musically adventurous, socially observant, and live, an emotional force to be reckoned with.

Introduced by director Lee Shulman and the man himself, Martin Parr, join us for a focus into the career and work of an artist and legendary photographer.

Jimmy Watkins founded Running Punks in 2019. Having broken the Welsh 800m indoor record in 2006, he made the final at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow. His life was very different a year later, when he started a band and followed a very different lifestyle – the life of athletics was behind him. However, just like in 2006, he couldn't outrun the runner! He needed to make his way back – the rock and roll lifestyle wasn't for him. Fast forward to 2025 and we have our very own music-come-running club! Don't forget to pack your trainers!

Fiona Stewart is the owner of Green Man Festival. Since 2006, she has been bringing the industry's best musicians and performers to the valleys of Bannau Brycheiniog. She is a legend in her game. But what she also focuses on is the Green Man Trust, which ensures the values of the festival have a far-reaching impact beyond the weekend in August.

Anna Thomas is an award-winning comedian, originally hailing from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. She wrote and starred in Lady Bigfoot, a short film that premiered on BBC One Wales and became the most-watched comedy short on BBC iPlayer in 2023.

We're also joined by The Beatles Dub Club, who played their first show at Chai Wallahs here at Green Man in 2021, and has since taken it as far a field as New Zealand, Australia and Bali. The brains behind it - DJ Chris Arnold -highlights some of his favourite areas of the festival, and this year he's bringing his baby - so he'll be exploring a whole new side of it as well.

“Croeso! Welcome, one and all to the magical world of the Mill On The Hill. The yellow mill that sits on top of a hill, looking down on Melin Village and all of its wonderful occupants. Everyone is welcome here.” So begins the longed-for debut album from Wales’ beloved Melin Melyn (Welsh for Yellow Mill). The group are regular friendly faces at Green Man and consummate live entertainers, who sing psychedelic surf-rock and country songs in Welsh and English about falling in love with computer characters and eating “existential crises-inducing spicy foods”. In Melin Village, the townsfolk “bask in the beauty of song” — with Melin Melyn around, Green Man merrymakers are bound to do just the same.

Quite possibly Green Man’s most frequent performer — in fact he hasn’t missed a single year of the festival — Scottish musician Johnny Lynch will once again make the voyage (another kind of ancient kingdom-linking Pictish Trail) down from the Isle of Eigg to the Welsh mountains. He’s just made a new EP called Follow Footsteps, continuing to furrow his own path within the Lost Map Records family.

DJ Chris Arnold takes us on a mystery tour through his collection of covers, remixes and cuts that sampled arguably the greatest band to have ever lived, The Beatles. Get ready to dance as Chris bounces from track to track to the backdrop of a mish-mash of Beatles related film, this time with a supporting horn section.

We’re also joined by two of our late-night performers DJ Paulette, who cut her teeth at the Hacienda, Manchester in the early 90s and Ash Kenazi - who’s bringing the queer drag scene of Green Man to life with his Round The Twist takeover - Popperz. They’re celebrating what it means to draw people together through music, and the importance of the independent festival scene - as well as sharing what we can expect from their sets. 

Kate Cheka, the globetrotting comedian, has graced stages across four continents and seven diverse countries. Her comedy journey began in Berlin, where she not only performed but also organised and hosted two remarkable shows: a femme-identifying open mic and a women of colour showcase.

Already firmly established within the independent music scene — a founding member of bands such as Benin City, hugh, and Calabashed, and a Sons of Kemet collaborator — the British-raised, Stockholm-based Joshua Idehen commands stages and radio airwaves with his wise, mesmerising brand of spoken word music. On new EP Mum Does The Washing, the poet teamed up with producer Ludvig Parment to fuse his spoken word lyrics with indie and electronica — the result has been described as part sermon, part rave.

Three decades, countless countries: Manchester’s award-winning house music pioneer DJ Paulette refuses to slow down. Residencies at the Hacienda, Heaven, and Ministry of Sound, regular radio slots including on BBC 6 Music — there’s nary a club she hasn’t set foot in, and her recent memoir Welcome to the Club documents every last beat.

Ash Kenazi is a London artist who has honed his craft after years of experimentation, finally evolving into their true form through writing that draws from sounds that have shaped their experience - a youthful chorister, an indie drummer and a queer dancer.

Huw Stephens broadcasts on BBC Radio 6 Music on his daily drivetime show, guest presents on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live and hosts weekly shows in both English and Welsh on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. He co-founded the Welsh Music Prize and Cardiff's Sŵn Festival. His new book, Wales: 100 Records, offers a multifarious encyclopedia of Welsh music, from Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler, to Manic Street Preachers and Super Furry Animals, via Dafydd Iwan, Cate Le Bon, Gwenno, and Underworld, bringing us a vivid portrait of the irreverent spirit of this country.

Jude Rogers is the author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives, an arts and culture journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and others, makes radio programmes for BBC Radio, and runs arts projects. She moved back to Wales in 2016 thanks to her love of the Green Man Festival, which she has attended since 2005, where she's interviewed the likes of Shirley Collins and John Cale, and co-run the Saturday quiz in recent years.

Then we rejoin comic and Welsh wonder Esyllt Sears, who spends Sunday afternoon at Green Man meeting Little Amal, the 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child, and a global symbol of human rights. Amal has travelled to over 166 towns, this is her first time in Wales, and she not only led the Little Folk parade but also joined the crowds for the burning of the Green Man at the festival's close.

And then it’s time to get lost in the world of Welsh myth and legend, exploring the relationship between the magic of old and the technology of new. Megan Broadmeadow’s exhibition in the woods, Dewiniath (or Sorcery) mixes AI and superstition, and she’s joined in conversation by fellow visual artist Angela Davies, whose work Aequus uses a lido in north Wales to question constructs of space and greener energy solutions.

In his debut book ‘This Is Not America’, he looks at how a split away from American views on race and identity might help build an anti-racist agenda in Britain. 

Here he speaks to journalist and author Jude Rogers.

Conversation recorded at the Talking Shop 2024.

Then we wander across the green fields to catch up with Jason Solomons at the wonderful Cinedrome tent. He’s chatting to director Janis Pugh about her musical romantic comedy based in north Wales, Chuck Chuck Baby.

To round off this episode, we hand you over to some of the rising stars of the audio world, the young people who've taken part in this year's Somewhere Podcasting workshop.

Nuha catches up with her pal H. Hawkline. The Welsh icon who returns to Green Man with more bitter-sweet magic than ever before. A tireless collaborator whose recent works include fellow Heavenly label-mates Katy J Pearson and Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans), is a fearless leader of leisurely psych-folk and the lyrically absurd, divine, and profound. 

Many have said that multi-award Norwegian comedian Ingrid Dahle is the best Norwegian import since oil. She is what you call a ‘good egg', and as a big fan of the people on this island, thinks there is something gloriously funny about the British. 

Ingrid chats with fellow comedian Colin Hoult, star of Netflix's Afterlife. Following a sell-out, award nominated run of The Death of Anna Mann, years playing characters and a mind bending ADHD diagnosis, Colin back as himself - being Colin.

Acclaimed British filmmaker Carol Morley (The Falling, Dreams of a Life) tells Cinedrome curator Jason Solomons about her new film ‘Artist Typist Pirate King’. This dark and funny road movie starring Kelly Macdonald as Sandra and the wonderful Monica Dolan as overlooked artist Audrey Amiss. 

Green Man Rising finalists and Cardiff noise creators Hyll chat to comedian Jonny Williams. Calling their sound "shambolic chaos", the Welsh language rock band formed around 2016. They've gained a reputation for their catchy melodies and explosive, energetic live sets, leaving a trail of sweat, smashed sticks, and scorched earth in their wake. 

Christian Lee Hutson starts his new album Quitters with a laugh. In this follow up to his ANTI records debut, Beginners, Hutson moves away from the focus on growing up to the dread and complications of growing older. Produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, the album conjures up a California filled with the fuzzy haze of a dream, and the half-remembered moments of a forgotten life. 

Backstage at the Walled Garden, Christian meets Vermont trio THUS LOVE, who have a once-in-a-generation kind of magnetism that comes from deep-rooted companionship, and a commandeering approach to post-rock with a pop-leaning drool. There's a gift to creating anarchy subtly, and THUS LOVE have it mastered. 

Climate scientist Professor Mary Gagen often gets asked, what can individuals do to help the planet? She wades through the politics of pollution, to talk about how to make environmental decisions without being overwhelmed.

Hannah Bland is from Possible, a charity that exists to engage people in climate action with a can-do attitude and infectious optimism for a cleaner, fairer future.

Kofi and Arthur are some of the clever folk on the team at UCell, who provide the hydrogen cell power for the Omni Tent in Einstein's Garden. UCell lift the lid on the science behind complex green technologies, from batteries and fuel cells to supercapacitors and solar wind power.

Harriet Gibsone began her career as a runner for MTV before becoming a music journalist at cult noughties free-press The Fly, and Guardian columnist. As a self-professed creep, she lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Harriet talks (to Michelle Kambasha) about her new memoir "Is This OK? One woman's search for connection online".

Both conversations recorded at the Talking Shop.

Provocative backing-tracks and space-age synths come together to form cumgirl8; the sex-positive Manhattan based trio who nobly sacrifice a mainstream media presence (due to their unsavoury namesake), in the name of lust, art, and shock factor 'n' roll. They get cosy with Ash Kenazi, the OG drag Jewish Princess from North London whose antics continue to entertain audiences through the transgressive nature of drag and the celebration of queer identity.

On the Somewhere Field, we visit The Swish: upcycling workshops packed with simple sewing hacks. 

And, we’re back at the Human Library in Einstein’s Garden, with ‘The Accidental Magician’. Beverley Bishop is an actor, writer and creative practitioner offering honest, hopeful and quirky performances embedded in humour, often focusing on well-being themes. She developed a passion for magic whilst creating her autobiographical show ‘Finding Magic’, which she has toured nationally for the last three years, everywhere from Edinburgh to Sydney. Magic has become integral to her work, using it to enhance story, provoke thought and offer wonderment. Bev believes in harnessing the power of creativity and playfulness to bring positive change in our lives.

Director Tim Mackenzie-Smith tells DJ Karl Bos how he made his film ‘Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande’. It’s a beautiful, soulful music documentary about the ‘lost’, almost-mythical, British funk band: a story of loss, prejudice, friendship, and killer bass lines.

Badminton School Science Outreach takes a break from their Solar Stage demonstrations to chat to Kidscast. Did you catch them showing how nitrogen can change materials properties, shattering flowers, boiling a kettle at -1960C and even liquifying oxygen? Or delve into the magnetic properties of oxygen before seeing how big a flame you can make with a biscuit? Their shows in Einstein’s Garden demonstrate how vortices form and can be harnessed to make tornadoes of fire, explain how extreme temperatures can leave a magnetic record that allows us to track the motion of tectonic plates, and form clouds in front of your eyes!

Find her up and down the aisles or going rusty upturned in a ditch; Dolly Trolley is a Yorkshire-born drag queen based in London who is completely bonkers, utterly delightful and always at 100mph. Since debuting in early 2017, she’s become a household name of the UK drag cabaret scene, known for high energy, dynamic burlesque acts, fierce dance moves, hilarious parodies, rip-roaring hosting and Drag Aerobics. She’s a versatile performer full of surprises, commonly reviewed: “I’m exhausted just from watching.” Dolly is a host and programmer at the Wishbone stage, and here she chats to Olli Dutton, founder of late-night Round The Twist-revellers Dutty Disco. 

Melin Melyn and their uplifting blend of psychedelia, alternative-rock, folk and surf music, promise a splendidly jangling affair. Now with a debut EP under their belts, the Cymru six-piece have had memorable sets at Green Man each of the last three years; and with Huw Stephens amongst their loyal-fanbase, it’s safe to say that Melin Melyn’s rise is a continuously rapid one. Gruff from the band chats with Rozi Plain. 

Carefree vocals and jovial complexities swirl together via a hand-made electric-guitar, as Rozi Plain returns with a new series of intimate alternative-folk. Collaborating with Kate Stables of This is the Kit and jazz icon Alabaster DePlume on 'Agreeing for Two', off her fourth record 'PRIZE', Rozi Plain's world is woozy, expansive, and subtly jazzy.

Dancing doesn’t just refract the music and culture within which it evolves; it also generates new music and culture. When we speak only of the music, we lose part of the story – the part that finds us dancing as children on the toes of adults; the half that triggers communication across borders and languages; the part that finds us worried that we’ll never be able to dance again, and the part that finds us wondering why we were ever nervous in the first place. 

Recorded live at Green Man's Talking Shop, Emma Warren chats to Richard King about her new book Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor.  At the intersection of memoir and social and cultural history, the book is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor – wherever and whenever it may be – that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move. 

Emma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture for decades. She is the author of Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre (2019), which was a MOJO book of the year and was re-released by Chicago record label International Anthem; her pamphlet Steam Down: Or How Things Begin (2019), which was published by Rough Trade Books was named an Irish Times read of the year; and she published Document Your Culture: A Manual (2020). Warren was a founding contributor to Jockey Slut magazine, worked on staff at The Face and worked as the editorial mentor at youth-run Brixton publication Live Magazine. Her monthly radio show on Worldwide FM ran for six years. Dance Your Way Home is Emma’s most recent book, published to wide critical-acclaim by Faber in 2023. 

Hiut Denim make jeans in Cardigan, West Wales. Their motto is "Do One Thing Well". Sara Ladd from Hiut chats to Emma Jones from the University of South Wales about the sustainable fashion workshops taking place in Einstein's Garden.

Finally hear a Cinedrome Q&A as directors Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum chat to Jason Solomons about their film 'My Extinction', exploring themes of climate activism and personal action.

Steeped in the waters, woods, and hills of West Dorset, Eve Appleton is a self-described “poet of modern progressive folk music”. From betrayed lovers to tragic heroines, her storytelling songs come to life with a full band, turning out echoes of sixties folk, Americana, and alt-folk, and a spirit of camaraderie. 

Pete Brown is an award-winning writer of beer and pubs who has always been obsessed with music. For ten years, he has been uniting his twin passions at Green Man on the Talking Shop stage. He can remember when it was all fields round here. His latest book, Clubland, was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week in January and is out now. 

Soothe your soul and the soles of your feet in Nature Nurture, our tranquil nook offering a dreamy dose of rejuvenation. Cocooned in a cluster of oak trees, this is our blissful antidote to late nights, weary limbs, and dancing-induced aches. Refresh your body and untangle your brain with organic and natural remedies, from yoga, restorative massages, meditation and workshops, to slightly more unusual tonics. Loosen up, slow down, and let Nature Nurture float you away…

Combining the orchestral powers of members Danalogue, Betamax, and Shabaka, The Comet is Coming take us on their most astronomical jazz-voyage to date with their latest gift ‘Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam’. An alchemic deep-dive into saxophone-forces beyond the third eye, in the company of the cosmic trio there’s never a dull moment. Their Friday night Mountain Stage set surely opened a vortex into another dimension entirely. Were you there to witness what will be one of their final live performances? 

Johnny Lynch of Pictish Trail fame is something of a Green Man mainstay. Ten years ago, on the Hebridean Isle of Eigg, he launched his label Lost Map, home to a merry band of genre-fluid artists fuelled by a spirit of adventure and artistic exploration. Earlier this year many of these musicians — including Tuff Love, L.T. Leif, Savage Mansion, Kid Canaveral and Eagleowl — spent a week on Eigg recording a collective album to celebrate Lost Map’s special birthday. They emerged with seven songs that embrace “indignantly erotic post-folk chaos”, from electronic psych-pop to post-punk, dream folk to wild krautrock odysseys. The result is Lost Map Presents Weird Wave, who blew the socks off Far Out Thursday night. 

Backstage at Far Out, Gina meets newcomer Eaves Wilder. She’s been writing songs since she was eight years old, graduating to what she describes as a “hyper-femme, fuzzy dream rock” sound. Eaves Wilder released her debut EP Hookey — a title inspired by bunking off school — earlier this year, taking in the riotous energy of Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna, 90s shoegaze, and her own rapidly blossoming style. 

Welsh football legend George Berry talks to Cinedrome curator Jason Solomons about his experiences as one of Wales’ first black players, as documented in his new film The Dragon on my Shirt. 

Astrid, Jasmin, Samson, Kai and Shell, aka the ‘Kidscast’ crew, meet the creators of Frogs In Bogs, the all-singing all-dancing show about superhero frog plumbers, performed daily in Little Folk.

Few do twisted-break beats quite as cinematically as clipping. With a Hugo Award nomination for ‘Best Dramatic Presentation’ under their belts, the West Coast experimental hip-hop trio subvert all expectations with their pioneering hybrid of conceptual artistry, and midnight-beats. The group consists of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes.

They chat to London’s Bob Vylan, a duo who observe modern-day insanities with an attentive ear for societal injustice. Formed of singer/guitarist Bobby Vylan and drummer Bobbie Vylan, the pair specialise in heavyweight commentary with plenty of magnetism to boot. This is community first, followed by “pizza with a side of misery.” 

Counting BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Mark Riley amongst their loyal fanbase, Caldicot, South Wales newcomers The Bug Club continue to win hearts with their playful garage-rock frenzies. They chat with Henry Widdicombe, curator of GM’s Last Laugh comedy tent. 

And hear from Seren, the first of our teen roving reporters from the Somewhere field.

“I was thinking of giving away free courgettes with every CD…”

The Gentle Good is Welsh multi-instrumentalist, and multi-linguist Gareth Bonello. Inspired by classic Welsh and English folklore, Bonello’s heart-stirring approach to acoustic guitar is a beautifully timeless delight. 

It’s been 7 years since the last album from Carmarthenshire's Rogue Jones — a wait explained by the title of the follow-up: Dos Bebés. The husband and wife duo have been busy starting a family alongside making music, but their experimental spirit remains as strong as ever, and their show covers witches, aliens, computers, the natural world, Welsh independence, Danish cinema, and 1970s orchestral disco. 

Forward thinking, British Born, Irish/Ugandan Poet and Songwriter Amy True has been delivering her unique fusion of politicised hip hop, jazz and soul since 2011. A true wordsmith, Amy’s steady stream of conscious, iconoclastic verse sits in visceral harmony amongst soulful melodic hooks and rich jazz motifs as she punches out poetry with unapologetic flare. Amy chats to rising star Sans Soucis. 

Raised on a diet of legends - from Madonna to Celine Dion, Whitney Houston to Luciano Pavarotti, Congolese-Italian soul-pop artist Sans Soucis (Giulia Grispino) is one to watch out for. Much like their namesake, which translates to “without worry”, Sans Soucis' vocals hark back to the invigorating hopefulness of childhood, and the blissed-out escapism we lose as we grow up. 

Warmduscher hail from South London via some seedy underbelly of the mind. Sexy, scuzzy, and gloriously untameable, their signature cowboy-punk aesthetic is genius; filthy bass-lines, slinky synths, and hedonistic mayhem from Clams Baker and his band of rhythmic-reprobates. The disco-sleaze connoisseurs meet their heroes, Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale from Devo. 

70’s icons DEVO combine new-wave with idiosyncratic humour and revolutionary electronic- mastery, to create something wholly one-of-a-kind. Relentlessly danceable, DEVO captured an entire shift in mainstream pop-culture, all through the power of jagged guitars, spoken word, and plucky no-nonsense percussion. Weird, loveable, and distinctly DEVO, you can’t help but get on board. 

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