The Green Man Podcast

Cory Hanson of Wand notoriety designs acidic dreamscapes for acoustic-guitar adventurers and lovers of psychedelic ballads. His latest record 'Western Cum', released this summer on Drag City, is his third solo album, and with it he brings a slice of California to Wales. Cory sits down with DD Darillo, the soulful brainchild of Dylan Morgan. Cutting his teeth as a member of Boy Azooga, the Cardiff...

Aleighcia Scott is one of soulful reggae music's brightest rising stars, with a voice that grabs you by the heart. Aleighcia sits down with the female-led discodelic-trio Say She She, whose name is a subtle homage to Nile Rogers (C'est chi-chi: It's Chic). They pair retro-soul with luxurious electro-harmonies to build layer after layer of drum-machine laden, and at times political, disco.  On the...

Visit the Einstein's Garden 'Human Library' with Welsh comedian, actor and podcaster, Esyllt Sears. At the Human Library you don’t read the books, you talk to them - and they talk back! Esyllt meets Mike Jackson, one of the founding members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a group of LGBT activists who fundraised for South Welsh miners and whose story was immortalised in the multi-award wi...

Sally El-Hosaini is a Welsh-Egyptian BAFTA-nominated film director and screenwriter. Her brilliant 2012 debut ‘My Brother The Devil’ won Best Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival and played at festivals around the world. Sally’s third feature, ‘Unicorns’, is co-directed with James Krishna Floyd. The Swansea-born filmmaker tells Cinedrome’s Jason Solomons all about it, plus gives her tips for g...

From 1981 for almost 20 years, Greenham Common became home to thousands of women acting in political resistance to the nuclear arms race, to patriarchy and violence in all its forms and to the claiming of British common land to store US missiles.  Greenham Women Everywhere is a project focused on collating and preserving the stories from these protests, creating an archive and asking, how can the...

Why do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, ’80s club nights, Irish dance halls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life.  Dancing doesn’t just refract the music and culture within which it e...

Renowned for her captivating genre-hopping, and collaborations with Andrew Weatherall and The Chemical Brothers, Beth Orton is a timeless master of electronic ambience, and contemporary folk exploration. Full of messy narratives and all-encompassing songwriting, Orton’s eighth studio album ‘Weather Alive’ is a beast of its own perception; one which effortlessly depicts the highs and lows of a care...

Green Man Rising winners Eve Appleton Band chat to Pete Brown, and you can hear Pete's long-running show where he matches the Beers to the Bands, recorded at the Talking Shop. Finally, Nature Nurture’s Joshua chats to Joey from the Bristol Fungarium. Steeped in the waters, woods, and hills of West Dorset, Eve Appleton is a self-described “poet of modern progressive folk music”. From betrayed lover...

The Comet Is Coming's synth guru Danalogue chats to Pictish Trail. Combining the orchestral powers of members Danalogue, Betamax, and Shabaka, The Comet is Coming take us on their most astronomical jazz-voyage to date with their latest gift ‘Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam’. An alchemic deep-dive into saxophone-forces beyond the third eye, in the company of the cosmic trio there’s never a dull mo...

Legendary punk-icon and one of the founding members of seminal group The Raincoats, Gina Birch continues her creative-legacy with her first solo album, ‘I Play My Bass Loud’. In a career spanning over four decades, her work formed the foundation of the larger riot grrrl movement and saw her unwittingly become a feminist icon.  Backstage at Far Out, Gina meets newcomer Eaves Wilder. She’s been writ...

“The living version of a song for me is only ever the live one” Few do twisted-break beats quite as cinematically as clipping. With a Hugo Award nomination for ‘Best Dramatic Presentation’ under their belts, the West Coast experimental hip-hop trio subvert all expectations with their pioneering hybrid of conceptual artistry, and midnight-beats. The group consists of rapper Daveed Diggs and produce...

In this trio of backstage conversations, Warmduscher meet their heroes Devo, Sans Soucis picks the brains of Amy True, and Rogue Jones catch up with The Gentle Good.  “I was thinking of giving away free courgettes with every CD…” The Gentle Good is Welsh multi-instrumentalist, and multi-linguist Gareth Bonello. Inspired by classic Welsh and English folklore, Bonello’s heart-stirring approach to ac...

Pictish Trail, Nuha Ruby Ra, Esyllt Sears, Melin Melyn, Pete Paphides and Caitlin Moran look ahead to Green Man 2023.