The Green Man Podcast

Tomiwa Olowade is a British Nigerian writer and critic. 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.

Smokin’ Jo is the only female DJ to have won DJ Magazine’s DJ of the Year Award, and stands as a pioneer of the 90s dance scene. She has gigged all over the world, from Ibiza to Miami, China to Brazil, and collaborated with many major figures in music, film and fashion. Her memoir, You Don’t Need a Dick to DJ, tells of a childhood spent in a children’s home, the elation, euphoria and community she...

Once more unto the fields of joy we go, as we join Olli Dutton of Duty Disco, the late night Green Man institution, in conversation with pillars of the festival scene Deptford Northern Soul Club, and from New York to Crickhowell-via-London, electro-punk disco connoisseurs Baba Ali. Between them they all know a thing or two about staying up late, and share some fond Green Man after dark memories. T...

Ash Kenazi returns to the Babbling Tongues stage for 2024 bringing the same humour, perspective and drama for which he has become cherished. Host of the podcast The Pink Room, Ash has spoken to the likes of Self Esteem, Mac De Marco and Ezra Furman on issues ranging from queer experiences in the music industry to the dangers of huffing poppers. Here, Ash sits down for a sgwrs with our fearless lea...

Joe Boyd is the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, R.E.M., Fairport Convention, ¡Cubanismo!, Toots and the Maytals, Toumani Diabaté, Taj Mahal and numerous others. He founded and ran the Hannibal label for twenty years. His film productions include Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace. His memoir, White Bicyles: Making Music in the 1960s, was published in 2006 to wide critic...

Under the green canopy of the towering tree next to the podcast tent, Welsh comedian and podcaster extraordinaire Esyllt Sears chats to Irish folk legend and multi-instrumentalist John Francis Flynn, just before his performance on the Walled Garden on Sunday.  Then we pop across to the other side of the festival, joining broadcaster Jason Solomons backstage at the Cinedrome with Mercury Prize winn...

Ahead of their Far Out Stage headline slot, William and Jim Reid joined their co-writer, critic and radio host Ben Thompson, to discuss their memoir Never Understood: The Story of the Jesus and Mary Chain. A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, it is the story of how the Reid Brothers t...

Joelle Taylor is the winner of the TS Eliot Prize and the Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ literature; a queer, working class author of six plays and four collections of poetry, most recently C+nto and Othered Poems. She is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK’s premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre, features regularly on BBC radio and television, and is a fello...

More magic awaits as Welsh folk singer Gillie, who brought wonder to the Walled Garden when she opened the stage on Thursday, returns to the fabled podcast tent, joined by Cerys Hafana, known for her transformation of classic Welsh Folk with her triple harp, and Sheffield’s own Gia Ford, the soft rock singer-songwriter who’s been supporting Self Esteem on tour.  Next, Scottish-born fingerstyle gui...

Chameleonic LA composer and multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter has shape-shifted before our eyes since 2006, moving between indie, electronica, art pop, and chamber pop, between studios and outdoor settings, between ancient Greek tragedians and twentieth century American poets. Her imminent sixth album Something In The Room She Moves is an equally fluid exploration of melody and voice, and of “bei...

Recorded at the Talking Shop 2024. André Marmot is an agent at Earth Agency in London, specialising in the common ground between African, jazz and global electronic music. Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion, is his first book, and explores the new U.K. jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to the birth of the genre itself. Dra...

Wales meets West Africa as we jump into another tale from the mountains, starting with Mari Mathias and N’Famady Kouyaté. Mari’s mystical sound won her status as one of the Green Man Rising finalists, and her mythical Welsh folk songs mesmerised the Sunday crowd.  Mari speaks to N’Famady Kouyaté, Guinean artist based in Cardiff, who uses his wooden xylophone (balafon) to create modern interpretati...

Join us on a jaunt over to Einstein’s Garden, Green Man’s hub of scientific delight, to explore the activism of anarchy gardening! Stuart Goldsmith, the internationally award-winning podcaster & climate comedian, is joined in the garden by Kalpana Arias, the tech-philosopher and climate activist, and Koundinya Dhulipalla aka KD, a digital artist combining nature and technology. Dive into a new wor...

The 2024 Green Man Podcast continues with another unmissable episode from the black mountains. We’re back to the podcast tent with festival icon Ash Kenazi, swapping stories with Moonchild Sannelly, the future ghetto funk musician and blue-haired tour-de-force who exploded onto the Walled Garden headline slot on Friday. They chat all things collabs, including working with Self Esteem, and Beyoncé...

It’s time to tuck into a second slice of Green Man 2024! Join us again on site as we head backstage at the intimate Walled Garden to hear from a duo that are usually found hidden behind the scenes. Producer Barney Lister who has worked with Obongjayar, Rina Sawayama and Celeste joins forces with Kojo Degraft-Johnson, a vocalist who can be heard on Little Simz tunes to create MRCY, a soulful sound...

Another weekend for the ages! If you’re already missing the mountains, let’s take you back there for the first podcast from the 2024 festival. Kicking things off is Green Man legend Pictish Trail, helmsman of Lost Map Records, in conversation with This is the Kit’s Kate Stables, who took the Mountain Stage by storm on Friday. We then join first time attendees and folk duo Lemoncello as they take a...

Not long now ‘til we’ll be together in the mountains. In this final preview episode ahead of Green Man 2024, N’famady Kouyaté shares some Green Man stories and Ella from PVA picks her favourite After Dark offerings. See you all soon. With balafon — wooden xylophone — in hand, N’famady Kouyaté returns to Green Man with his modern interpretations of West African mandingue songs. The Guinean artist r...

As we get ever closer to Green Man Festival 2024, This Is The Kit shares her must-sees, Ash Kenazi talks queer representation on the line-up, and comedian Robin Morgan shares some foodie favourites and top camping tips. British-born, Paris-based Kate Stables — the intimidatingly talented artist behind This is the Kit — has been delighting stages since 2008. Her seventh album Careful Of Your Keeper...

Almost as ubiquitous of the festival as the Green Man himself, Pictish Trail — aka Scottish musician Johnny Lynch — hasn’t missed a single year, voyaging down from his home on the remote Isle of Eigg every August. He furrows his own, idiosyncratic path on records of unpredictable electro-acoustic psych-pop, most recently on fifth album Island Family, and also helms Lost Map Records — a linchpin of...

Nuha Ruby Ra played all the instruments herself on her second EP 'Machine Like Me', which landed earlier this year: just one example of her formidable autodidactic spirit. Winner of our Green Man Rising competition back in 2020, her raw, inventive sound is informed by the creative freedoms of post-punk and free jazz, and she's no stranger to the stage, having spent 2022 supporting Yard Act, Warmdu...

Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions. His book The Full English became an instant Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, and Stuart's previous bestsellers include Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas. He hosts a show for BBC Radio 6 Music on weekends. He can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a The...

Did you wander down to the pine woods behind the Walled Garden this year? There, you could explore the narrative of a fake cowboy town inside Welsh visual artist Kathyrn Ashill's new commission Gunsmoke City. The work is based on a real Gunsmoke City in the Swansea Valleys village of Seven Sisters - an unlikely setting for the masculine idyll of the Wild West. Themes of the frontier and escapism a...

Ed Easton, Kath Hughes and Adam Drake from sketch supergroup Tarot sit down with comedian Esyllt Sears. Come learn life lessons from five people still doing sketch in their thirties. The Guardian's 6th best show of 2022. One of the best reviewed shows of Edinburgh 2022. Sell-out runs in Edinburgh and London. Chortle's No. 1 show of 2019 and stars of their own Radio 4 sketch show, Soundbleed.  Chri...

Four magnificent minds from Einstein's Garden come together for a big green chat. 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...

Marchelle Farrell is a writer, medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and has spent 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. Marchelle talks (to Isabel Berwick) about her book "Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden". Harriet Gibsone began her career as a runner for MTV before becoming a m...