Idles, Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten for this year’s Green Man Festival


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Idles performing in London for PRS Presents (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Idles, Father John Misty and Sharon Van Etten are some of the leading names confirmed for this year’s Green Man Festival.

Four Tet are also at the forefront of the announcement, while Broken Social Scene, Car Seat Headrest, Stella Donnelly, Avi Buffalo and Stealing Sheep are some more names who’ll be at the Brecon Beacons between August 15th-18th.

Idles’ place high up this line-up in another indication of the huge stride forwards rightly being made by their number one album of 2018, Joy As An Act Of Resistance. “The biggest surprise is that in a very cynical world we’ve had such a positive reaction,” Joe Talbot told Live4ever of it. “Not in terms of, ‘your album’s really good’, more like they’ve reacted positively as people to our positive message, or our positive outlook.”

“Often positive outlooks or positive attitudes are reacted to with awful cynicism. Not just cynicism, that’s not awful, cynicism is often pragmatic, but just people being arseholes for the sake of it. But we’ve actually had a really positive reaction to it. It’s been a very compassionate exchange, and that’s a massive surprise.”


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