Fleet Foxes touring Crack-Up, London Brixton Academy (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
The Green Man festival has revealed the six finalists of its Rising competition for 2018.
Adults, Bitw, The Hungry Ghosts, Perfect Body, Park Motive & URF have all been invited to perform at The Lexington in London on Tuesday, June 5th when a judging panel will pick the act which gets to open this year’s Main Stage.
The War On Drugs and Fleet Foxes are leading an excellent 2018 bill which also includes the likes of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, John Grant, Grizzly Bear, Public Service Broadcasting and Anna Calvi.
The full line-up for August 16th-19th is as follows:
The War On Drugs | Fleet Foxes | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | John Grant | Grizzly Bear | Dirty Projectors | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Public Service Broadcasting | Anna Calvi | Cate Le Bon | Mount Kimbie | Floating Points (live) | The Black Angels | John Maus | The Lemon Twigs | Joan As Police Woman | Teleman | Kevin Morby | Baxter Dury | Curtis Harding | Tamikrest | Courtney Marie Andrews | Susanne Sundfor | John Talabot | Simian Mobile Disco (live) featuring Deep Throat Choir | Wye Oak | Jane Weaver | Alex Cameron | Phoebe Bridgers | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Kelly Lee Owens | Bo Ningen | Beak> | Chastity Belt | HMLTD | Sweet Baboo | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Xylouris White | Lost Horizons | Shannon Lay | Pictish Trail | Marlon Williams | Lucy Dacus | The KVB | Omni | Goat Girl | Duds | Snapped Ankles | Jade Bird | Boy Azooga | Snail Mail | Nubya Garcia | Charles Watson | Ider | Ed Dowie | Haley Heynderickx | Bas Jan | Seamus Fogarty | Juanita Stein | Sacred Paws | The Murlocs | Jim Ghedi | Sorry | Stella Donnelly | Spinning Coin | Group Listening | Haze | Fenne Lily | Adwaith | Accu | Sock | Aadae | Teenage Fanclub | Whyte Horses | Follakzoid | The Lovely Eggs | Insecure Men | Frankie Cosmos | Eleanor Friedberger | Ari Roar | J. Bernardt | Horsey | Celebrating Bert Jansch | Black Midi | The Cosmic Array | Squid