Kieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe — patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.
From London, UK · Sounds like Caribou, Bonobo, Jon Hopkins, Floating Points
Green Man 2026 Lineup
Four days under the Black Mountains — folk, psych, and left-field pop in Wales's mist-wrapped mountain amphitheatre.
About Green Man 2026
Green Man is the UK festival people get evangelical about: four August days in a natural amphitheatre under Wales's Black Mountains, capped at a size where you can actually move, with a burning of the Green Man effigy to close and not a single sponsor banner in sight. The 2026 bill is peak Green Man — Four Tet, Wolf Alice, Wilco, and Mogwai up top, The Beta Band reunited, Sparks being Sparks, and below them the festival's specialty: psych, folk, Welsh-language pop, dub, and left-field discoveries stacked deeper than bills twice its size. Mountain weather included, no extra charge.
Expect electronic, indie rock, post-punk and folk across 96 acts.
Green Man 2026 lineup: all 96 acts
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Glasgow's volume worshippers — instrumental post-rock that goes from whisper to avalanche, thirty years of earplugs earned.
From Glasgow, UK · Sounds like Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, This Will Destroy You, Sigur Rós
America's great art-rock institution — 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' to now, endlessly generous live, Nels Cline solos included.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, The National, My Morning Jacket
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
From London, UK · Sounds like Foals, Florence + the Machine
New Zealand's shapeshifting folk enigma — every song a different possession, delivered with unnerving stillness, strange voices, and total command of a silent room.
From Lyttelton, NZ · Sounds like Weyes Blood, Julia Holter, Marika Hackman
Operatic guitar heroine — twice Mercury-shortlisted, all flamenco-flecked drama and white-knuckle restraint until the Telecaster finally erupts.
From London, UK · Sounds like PJ Harvey, St. Vincent, Patti Smith, Marissa Nadler
Louche London spoken-word pop — Ian Dury's boy, filthy and funny over silk grooves, delivering seedy character studies like a lounge singer gone wrong.
From London, UK · Sounds like Ian Dury, Jarvis Cocker, Sleaford Mods, Fat White Family
The selector's selector — Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear, no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
From London, UK · Sounds like Pearson Sound, Joy Orbison, Objekt
Chan Marshall's smoke-and-velvet songbook — fragile, fearless, singular, whether reinventing her own catalog or channeling Dylan's.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Mazzy Star
Welsh art-pop's crooked genius — angular, elegant songs bent at fascinating angles, and a home-turf hero on any Welsh bill.
From Carmarthenshire, UK · Sounds like Deerhunter, Stereolab, Weyes Blood
Smoke-voiced British soul — torch songs with modern nerve, a BRIT-anointed voice built for the spotlight and the string section.
From Brighton, UK · Sounds like Amy Winehouse, Adele, Duffy, Jorja Smith
The 'Drone Logic' architect live — strobe-lit techno with a shoegaze heart, walls of texture that blur the line between club and gig.
From London, UK · Sounds like Jon Hopkins, Bicep, Nathan Fake
Deadpan spoken-word over wiry post-punk — Florence Shaw's found-text poetry delivered motionless while the band churns behind her.
From London, UK · Sounds like Wet Leg, Yard Act, Squid, black midi
Young Chicago trio channeling '80s–'90s indie — deadpan harmonies over jangling guitar pop, Sonic Youth homework turned into something their own.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, The Breeders
Philly band swinging between shoegaze tenderness and full-throated hardcore, often inside one song — catharsis with total dynamic control.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like Speedy Ortiz, Bully, Soccer Mommy, PUP
Brooklyn's OMD-hearted synth-pop romantics — motorik melancholy that soars live, analog synths and total sincerity, romance for drum machines and the people who love them.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like OMD, New Order, The Killers, Depeche Mode
'New Forms' and beyond — Bristol jungle royalty with a Mercury on the shelf, breaks chopped like it's 1997 forever.
From Bristol, UK · Sounds like Goldie, LTJ Bukem, Krust, Photek
Dub's mixing-desk prodigy — King Tubby's heir rewiring bass in real time, a live dub masterclass at festival volume.
From Kingston, JM · Sounds like King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Augustus Pablo, Mad Professor
South London post-punk's sweatiest live act — communion by mosh, shirtless and crowd-borne by mid-set, 'One Rizla' to now, all sweat.
From London, UK · Sounds like IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Squid, black midi
Norwegian duo's icy avant-pop — classical strings meet club unease, beauty kept deliberately off-balance, fashion-week cool with conservatory bones.
From Oslo, NO / Copenhagen, DK · Sounds like Arca, FKA twigs, Kelela, Erika de Casier
North London's warped pop miniaturists — sticky hooks, uncanny angles, songs that sound familiar until they curdle.
From London, UK · Sounds like black midi, Squid, Goat Girl
The Mael brothers' 50-year art-pop conspiracy — wittier than everyone, still ahead, and finally getting the flowers.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Roxy Music, Devo, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys
Dublin garage-punk catharsis — Karla Chubb turns anxiety into anthems, every chorus a controlled explosion, the city's loudest catharsis specialists.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, IDLES, The Murder Capital
Scotland's beloved kitchen-sink psychedelicists, reunited — 'Dry the Rain' at last, and the High Fidelity scene made flesh.
From Edinburgh, UK · Sounds like The Avalanches, Gomez, Super Furry Animals, Beck
Trip-hop's shadow king — the whispered menace of 'Maxinquaye' live, Bristol paranoia thickened by three decades.
From Bristol, UK · Sounds like Massive Attack, Portishead
Asheville's country-gaze storytellers — lap steel, feedback, and busted-truck poetry, narrating the South's weird corners in high fidelity.
From Asheville, NC · Sounds like MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee, Big Thief
NYC's loudest band — strobe-and-feedback annihilation through homemade pedals, carrying the Jesus and Mary Chain's torch straight into the noise floor.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Metz
Leeds lads making hardware-driven post-punk bangers about mundane dread — deadpan vocals over squelching synths, pitched somewhere between a big night out and an existential crisis.
From Leeds, UK · Sounds like Working Men's Club, Suicide, Squid, LCD Soundsystem
Hot Chip's falsetto heart alone at the piano — tender machine-soul unplugged, reworking dance euphoria into something small, strange, and quietly devastating.
From London, UK · Sounds like Hot Chip, James Blake, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright
Rio's disco-funk polymath — boogie basslines, tropical glam, and a crate-digger's command of Brazilian pop history reassembled into something completely current.
From Rio de Janeiro, BR · Sounds like Sessa, Tim Maia, Gilberto Gil, Rubel
Welsh dream-pop noir — slow-burn electronics and 3 a.m. honesty, building club pulses into songs that stay whisper-close no matter how big the room gets.
From Wrexham, UK · Sounds like London Grammar, Beach House, FKA twigs
The lost-tape legend himself — hyperactive Twi rap-highlife joy, rescued from an obscure cassette by Awesome Tapes From Africa and turned into a global dance party.
From Kumasi, GH · Sounds like William Onyeabor, Ebo Taylor, Fela Kuti
Minimalist LA synth-punk trio — icy grooves and motorik precision, like a security-camera feed of a party you're not cool enough to attend.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Devo, Suburban Lawns
Techno DJ turned dream-pop bandleader — DJ-Kicks grace rebuilt at song scale, club-honed instincts smoothed into gauzy, sophisticated pop.
From San Francisco, CA · Sounds like Beach House, Jessy Lanza, Caroline Polachek, Cocteau Twins
The Welsh voice-of-an-angel leading a maximalist covers party — pure joy, zero irony, and a setlist that swerves from pop bangers to power ballads without apology.
From Cardiff, UK
Church Village Collective — Welsh good-time rock with '70s harmonies, guitar-solo swagger, and a bar-band looseness played at festival scale.
From Church Village, UK · Sounds like The Black Crowes, Fleetwood Mac, The Doobie Brothers
Barcelona's tribal-industrial duo — chants and drum machines in lockstep, EBM pulse with a Mediterranean ritual streak.
From Barcelona, ES · Sounds like Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Boy Harsher
Fat White-adjacent acid-house deviants — sleaze at 303 pressure, live, like a basement club night gone gloriously wrong.
From London, UK · Sounds like Fat White Family, LCD Soundsystem, Andrew Weatherall
Drum & bass's quiet radical — deep, soulful selections from a scene lifer who has championed the genre's overlooked voices for decades.
From London, UK · Sounds like Goldie, LTJ Bukem, Fabio & Grooverider
Hushed, unhurried songwriting — a new voice with old grace.
From London, UK
Ear
North London's wry indie-pop prodigy — glitter over grit, fuzzy hooks with a lyricist's smirk underneath.
From London, UK · Sounds like Beabadoobee, Soccer Mommy
Richard Russell's XL house band — rotating voices, deep soul, the label boss producing a revue built on whoever's in the room.
From London, UK · Sounds like Gorillaz, Sault, Massive Attack, Blood Orange
NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Confidence Man, Jamie xx, Primal Scream
Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner solo — knotted, generous art-pop where the guitar heroics hide inside the arrangements.
From Baltimore, MD · Sounds like Wye Oak, Sylvan Esso, Big Thief
Chicago's chamber-punk romantics — big feelings, bigger crescendos, and a debut that made half the indie press swoon.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Arcade Fire, Los Campesinos!
Bristol's absurdist funk-punk duo — crisps, capitalism, and cowbell, mundane British life set to grooves that genuinely slap.
From Bristol, UK
Golomb
From UK
Burlington's cracked-country rocker — road-worn songs that lurch and soar, scuffed-up guitar poetry in the Lenderman school.
From Burlington, VT · Sounds like MJ Lenderman, Bill Callahan
Fingerpicked folk parables — 'The Bug Collector' and quiet devastation, garden-and-insect imagery hiding songs that cut deep.
From Portland, OR · Sounds like Big Thief, Julie Byrne, Adrianne Lenker, Angel Olsen
Texas duo's pillow-soft indie pop — warm tape hiss and quiet ache, songs that feel like naps you wake from slightly sad.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like Alex G, Pinegrove, Elliott Smith
Fat White Family's Saul Adamczewski gone easy-listening — seedy lounge-pop pearls, sweetness with something unsettling underneath.
From London, UK · Sounds like Fat White Family, Sean Nicholas Savage
Simian Mobile Disco's half and producer to Arctic Monkeys — solo pastoral electronics, a studio polymath finally under his own name.
From London, UK · Sounds like Simian Mobile Disco, Jon Hopkins
Manchester's hyper-collage electronics — noise, pop, and motorsport samples spliced into club music with a crash-test thrill.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like SOPHIE, Iglooghost, Arca
Gothic disco-pop melodrama — hooks with a broken grin, theatrical sadness you can dance to, camp and heartbreak sharing one microphone.
From London, UK · Sounds like Charli XCX, Empress Of, Christine and the Queens
Dean Blunt's favorite guitarist — smudged, dreamlike folk sketches that hover somewhere between demo and dream.
From UK · Sounds like Dean Blunt, Grouper, Vashti Bunyan
Cherokee songwriter with an old soul — quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep, lines that sound handed down rather than written.
From Moore, OK · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker, Gillian Welch
London-Congolese powerhouse — rumba, soukous, and horn-stoked joy, virtuosic musicianship played strictly for dancing, Kinshasa tradition at London velocity.
From London, UK · Sounds like Franco & TPOK Jazz, Kokoroko, Ibibio Sound Machine
Omnichord hymns from rural Virginia — luminous, homespun minimalism, songs that glow like lamplight through gauze.
From Virginia · Sounds like Angel Olsen
Brighton's wonky-pop quartet — groove-led indie with a wink, disco basslines under deadpan observations, art-school playfulness with proper hooks.
From Brighton, UK · Sounds like Wet Leg, Sports Team, Courting
Technicolor rave nostalgia — breakbeats bathed in VHS sunshine, hardcore's golden era remembered warmer than it ever actually sounded.
From Nottingham, UK · Sounds like Boards of Canada, Bibio, Mount Kimbie
West-of-Ireland dream-pop — mist, radio static, and 4AD hush, Connemara landscape rendered as sound, songs that drift in like weather.
From Connemara, IE · Sounds like Grouper, Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Julee Cruise
Montreal's deadpan club philosopher — 'Work It' irony at 130 BPM, electro-club critique you can sweat to.
From Montreal, QC · Sounds like Helena Hauff, Peaches, Nitzer Ebb, Boys Noize
Danish artist building weightless guitar-pop out of processed tones and near-whispered melody — uncanny-valley beauty rendered in high definition.
From Copenhagen, DK · Sounds like Grouper, Julianna Barwick, Cindy Lee, Sufjan Stevens
Uncanny English art-folk — pastoral songs with teeth, violin scrape and strange narratives from London's experimental fringe.
From London, UK · Sounds like Black Country New Road, Squid, black midi
Portland motorik machine — kosmische propulsion, strictly forward, Neu! worship played with total discipline, grooves that lock in and refuse to blink.
From Portland, OR · Sounds like Neu!, Can, Stereolab
My New Band Believe
From UK
Togolese voodoo-pop — call-and-response trance over analog synth bass, women's voices carrying ritual into the club.
From Lomé, TG · Sounds like Tinariwen, Ibibio Sound Machine, Bombino
Nusantara Beat
Olive Jones
From UK
Brighton's brass-blasted jazz-punk cabaret — sleazy, sweaty, superb, like the house band for a bar you shouldn't be in.
From Brighton, UK · Sounds like Fat White Family, black midi, The Murder Capital, Squid
West-coast gothic folk — spectral voice over darkwave undertow, songs that flicker like candlelight in a drafty room.
From British Columbia, CA · Sounds like Chelsea Wolfe, Zola Jesus, Julee Cruise
Cardiff's funniest, fiercest punks — group-chat energy with riffs, in-jokes sharpened into anthems, the funniest serious band in Wales.
From Cardiff, UK · Sounds like Amyl and The Sniffers, Lambrini Girls
Hebridean psych-folk mischief from the Isle of Eigg's one-man label boss — island whimsy with an experimentalist's ear.
From Isle of Eigg, UK · Sounds like King Creosote, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev
Pigeon
From UK
Izzy Hagerup's gnarled, gripping songs — beautiful and unsettling at once, a voice that turns rooms silent mid-chord.
From Western Massachusetts · Sounds like Palehound, Angel Olsen, Adrianne Lenker, Snail Mail
Detroit noise-punk provocation — confrontational and magnetic, a live show that dares you to look away.
From Detroit, MI
Seoul garage-punk cool — bratty hooks with art-scene bite, international underground buzz well earned, the city's coolest new export.
From Seoul, KR · Sounds like Shonen Knife, The Kills, Bikini Kill
Irish folk with a glitching hard drive — wry songs, warped tape, tradition run through a broken laptop on purpose.
From Mayo, IE · Sounds like Beirut, Tunng, Villagers, Sam Amidon
Sun City Girls' guitar mystic — flamenco, raga, and surf in one restless hand, improvisation as travelogue.
From Phoenix, AZ · Sounds like John Fahey, William Tyler, Robbie Basho
Snuggle
From UK
Deptford's communal jazz ritual — horns, chants, and South London uplift, a weekly session grown into a movement.
From Deptford, UK · Sounds like Sons of Kemet, Ezra Collective, Kokoroko, Nubya Garcia
Leeds's dub-jazz seven-piece — sub-bass warmth under velvet vocals, headphone music that fills a field, cinematic low-end played fully live.
From Leeds, UK · Sounds like Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, Portico Quartet, Nightmares on Wax
Saharan desert-blues caravan — Tamasheq anthems of exile and pride, hypnotic guitar circles under open sky.
From Kidal, ML · Sounds like Tinariwen, Bombino, Mdou Moctar, Ali Farka Touré
Bristol's hushed jazz-ambient miniatures — trip-hop's gentlest descendants, small songs that rewire a room's attention, quiet music with total gravity.
From Bristol, UK · Sounds like Portishead, Broadcast, This Is the Kit
Melbourne guitar-pop with Strokes-y snap — Australia's word-of-mouth favorite, tight songs played loose, garage-pop craft beyond their years.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like The Strokes, Courtney Barnett, The Cribs
Welsh garage-pop machine — two-minute songs, endless charm, home-crowd advantage, and a work rate that shames most bands.
From Caldicot, UK · Sounds like The Cribs, Buzzcocks, Wet Leg
Gareth Bonello's Welsh-language folk — riverbank fingerstyle and hiraeth, tradition carried gently forward, one of Cardiff's quietest treasures.
From Cardiff, UK · Sounds like Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Fionn Regan
Brighton's ritualistic folk-punk coven — violin, drums, and wild-eyed harmony, part gig and part rite, folk horror you can dance to.
From Brighton, UK · Sounds like Goat, Black Country New Road
Welsh-London jangle-punk — Richard Thompson melodies at Buzzcocks speed, folk-club craft in a punk frame, the revival's sharpest writers.
From London, UK · Sounds like Buzzcocks, The Feelies, Richard Thompson, Television
Tracey
From UK
Big-hearted showman-rock — a bar-band Springsteen for the group chat era, played with total sincerity, showmanship as its own kind of honesty.
From Los Angeles, CA
Reverb-drenched art-rock — two guitars arguing beautifully, motorik patience under the haze, built for repeat listens.
From London, UK · Sounds like Deerhunter, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine
Userband
From UK
Melbourne soft-pop sunshine — strings, Rhodes, and easy grace, '70s studio-pop craft revived gently, sunshine engineered in the studio.
From Melbourne, AU
Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.
From Manchester, UK
The headliners
- Four Tet — Kieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe — patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.
- Wolf Alice — Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
- Wilco — America's great art-rock institution — 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' to now, endlessly generous live, Nels Cline solos included.
- Mogwai — Glasgow's volume worshippers — instrumental post-rock that goes from whisper to avalanche, thirty years of earplugs earned.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Westside Cowboy — Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast.
- Lime Garden — Brighton's wonky-pop quartet — groove-led indie with a wink.
- The New Eves — Brighton's ritualistic folk-punk coven — violin, drums, and wild-eyed harmony.
- Eaves Wilder — North London's wry indie-pop prodigy — glitter over grit.
- Sailor Honeymoon — Seoul garage-punk cool — bratty hooks with art-scene bite.
- The Bug Club — Welsh garage-pop machine — two-minute songs, endless charm, home-crowd advantage.
Other acts worth planning around
- The Beta Band — Scotland's beloved kitchen-sink psychedelicists, reunited — 'Dry the Rain' at last.
- Sparks — The Mael brothers' 50-year art-pop conspiracy — wittier than everyone, still ahead.
- Charlotte Church's Pop Dungeon — The Welsh voice-of-an-angel leading a maximalist covers party — pure joy, zero irony.
- Scientist — Dub's mixing-desk prodigy — King Tubby's heir rewiring bass in real time.
- Ata Kak — The lost-tape legend himself — hyperactive Twi rap-highlife joy.
- Cate Le Bon — Welsh art-pop's crooked genius — angular, elegant, home-turf hero.
- Roni Size + MC Fearless — New Forms and beyond — Bristol jungle royalty with a Mercury on the shelf.
Green Man 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Green Man 2026?
August 20–23, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Green Man take place?
The Glanusk Estate in the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog), Wales — a natural mountain amphitheatre.
Who is headlining Green Man 2026?
Four Tet, Wolf Alice, Wilco, and Mogwai.
How many acts are playing?
This page tracks the 96-act core music bill; the full site program adds Rising-stage newcomers, DJs, comedy, and science talks.
When do set times come out?
Green Man publishes its day splits and set times on its site closer to August. Save your acts on LineupScout and they'll become a personal schedule the moment times land.
How do I figure out which acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love — it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
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