Most festivals have a “new bands” element of some sort or another, but the Green Man really seemed to put a lot into programming and promoting their up-and-coming acts, and the artists they featured on the Green Man Rising stage were not…
Most festivals have a “new bands” element of some sort or another, but the Green Man really seemed to put a lot into programming and promoting their up-and-coming acts, and the artists they featured on the Green Man Rising stage were not…
Most festivals have a “new bands” element of some sort or another, but the Green Man really seemed to put a lot into programming and promoting their up-and-coming acts, and the artists they featured on the Green Man Rising stage were not…
Formerly known as Wildest Dreams – until realising that DJ Harvey had just released a new project under that name – the newly christened Wyldest are Zoe Mead on vocals, samples and synths and Holly Mullineaux on guitar. Having won…
This year saw Welsh band 9Bach releasing their second album, Tincian, whose delicate yet deep and inventive sound has brought them a new level of adulation and a more mainstream audience. After their mesmerising Sunday afternoon set on the Mountain…
Rating: It is about 2am and I am sitting under a comfortingly huge tree, eating a pizza, on my own. (It is a really nice pizza, too – as they tend to be when you realise you haven’t eaten for…
This week, Green Man festival announced their day-by-day stage line-ups, and – damn it – it has thrown up a few conundrums. Slint or East India Youth? The War On Drugs or Panda Bear? Neutral Milk Hotel or Kurt Vile,…
Rating: If I have learned one thing in my time on this planet, it is not to try and second-guess a Super Furry Animal. The experimental Welsh rock band’s overall style has always managed to be at once immediately distinctive…
With his sentimental lyrical leanings and a sense of unpretentious, freewheeling hedonism, it is immediately clear from listening to Ezra Furman’s music – especially his excellent latest album, ‘Day Of The Dog’ – that the Chicago born twenty-something is not…
Scroobius Pip couldn’t have picked a better character to name himself after than Edward Lear’s The Scroobious Pip – a creature who doesn’t fit into any category of being, and simply is. Part rapper, part poet, part folk storyteller and…