Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

P.G. Six - Starry Mind

Sinead O'Connor - Take off your shoes

www.soundcloud.com/sineadoconnor/take-off-your-shoes

From her forthcoming album

Powerful stuff.

Lots of stuff from Folk Police records.

Bach.

Listend to lanterns on the lake, but didn't think much of them.

Walter Pardon and Fred Jordan.

Have now totally revised my opinion of Josh T Pearson, having listened to him in that band he was in. Listened to it on the way to Brecon, and it was bang on.

yesterday it was the liminanas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-5qUa1JEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MartCry9yBM

fantastic french garage pop

with a girl drummer

always the sign of quality

before that, i had sharon von etten's 'epic' on repeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cLMdbgRf0U

but the last couple of month's most played record by a country mile has been wild flag's self titled debut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25zB3lJqgY

not on that record but a pure rock and roll moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDo3eNVIOok

I am loving the shit out of Lower Dens right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0UWi5W_B4E

yeah - that IS great!

i've always kind of wanted to like jana hunter

but nothing she's done has ever seemed like quite the right vehicle for her somehow

but that two guitar thing they have going on is working really well

thanks for the link!

I'm listening to 2 Lauras a lot at the moment: Laura Veirs and Laura J Martin.

i've just been converted to the leisure society by watching tyrannosaur

i know everyone here's been banging on about them for years (someone has anyway - krasnyi, cytharfa, peridot?)

so i am late to the party

but it's a good party

They are rather lovely mr ray aren't they - got into treefight yet?

Just been spotifying some of the line-up I'm not familiar with - didn't manage long with feist I have to say, or the walkmen . . . but peaking lights are doing it for me.

Just been listening to Teeth of the Sea- very good too : )

yeah, i'll be skipping feist

too poppy for me

but quite a lot of ok stuff on there

peaking lights are great

they're married

and have a LOT of tattoos

as for the swedes - sorry - nope

Danes, man, Danes. Now as for Swedes - let's have First Aid Kit back please. I still haven't managed to see them despite them playing at my local last year!

otherwise i'd have seen them in borgen

yes please to FAK though - the new record is grand

You did take your time ray_rad but it's good that The Leisure Society are one of the few we can all agree on ... along with First Aid Kit.

Haven't done much listening yet but liking Dark Dark Dark and Junior Boys.

Feist is what I think of as a typical Sunday night headliner (although last year was untypical) ... better than Joanna Newsom, but not a lot.

Been listening to Jonathan Wilson a lot cos we are off to see him tonight at The Ruby Lounge...

I hate that pillar....

Thee Oh Seas new one and the Liminanas old one.

Mark Lanegans---Blues funeral

Mount Eerie - Winds Poem.....only just discovered Phil Elverum; he'd be great at Green Man.

hey gaster

someone else listening to the liminanas!

it's a miracle

would love them to play GM

but don't think they've ever made it to the UK

they've got to NY - so i know they paly outside of france

come on, GM, tempt em over

Yes they're fab aren't they?

I particularly like "Je suis un go-go girl"

My local vinyl emporium (Probe Records) made their record album of the year for 2010, which was how I chanced upon them.

They would go down a treat at this year's GM I'm sure.

They rather good but very retro. Their last record - Focus in on the looking glass - brings to mind classic UK 60s psych (floyd, tomorrow, pretty things, July etc.) but they're all fressh faced young 'uns from Nashville. In fact the band is on hold while they complete their studies. Not much chance of them appearing at GM this year I'd have thought, but you never know - they'll be on their summer hols.

Bugger

That should be 'The Paperhead'

Sorry for the triple posting - I'll get me coat.

This mostly- http://youtu.be/YyGdhvtklc8 (PARENTAL ADVISORY - EXPLICIT LYRICS)

whooooof

it's not very folkey dokey, though, is it, walter

The new First Aid Kit album is sublime! Let's have them back again this year! Field Music out tomorrow - woo-hoo!!!

new bowerbirds and tindersticks are both great

but listening almost exclusively to bonnie bill for the last month

if GM aren't talking to his people, for the 10 year anniversary, something very wrong is going on...

.

The new album from Howlin Rain is out next month, hopefully they will play this year and change their name to Blazin Sunshine and play in that instead the biblical downpour they played in last time!!

i seem to be listening to Dark Dark Dark, the Felice Brothers and Fiest, no idea why, and i am always listening to the 2 Johnny Flynn albums, outstanding

I've been listening to Sharon Ven Etten's new album, Tramp alot. Also the two tracks off Bowerbirds album that have been released and their first two albums to get me in the mood for the new one. If they both played Green Man this year I'd be very happy.

agree about sharon van etten

tramp isn't quite there with epic for me yet

but no doubt a few more listens'll do it

and yup, bowerbords are fab

the whole new album is fantastic

they played years ago

way too early on the main stage

let's have them back - up near the top of the bill on the walled garden / pub stage

the tune-yards has been back on my stereo again this weekend- who kill is a great album!

Agree about the Bowerbirds album too and Sharon Van Eteen.

Today i have mainly been listening to Women and OKkervil River, its a bit of a JAGJAGUWAR day.

Slow Club, repeatedly. SO GOOD!

Lower Dens. Be a good booking imo

Hi All Green Man Festival Goers

I am from Abergavenny and have a top USA southern style rock band coming to the UK during the Festival period. The band have played with the likes of ZZ top and Lynyrd Skynyrd in the USA. Here are some video links to the band and the USA crowds love them. They are here shooting a video of a new rugby based song which is currently in mashed video form.

If you would like to see SWAMPDAWAMP at the festival please let the organisors know on this forum. You can also listen to the bands albums at the website www.swampdawamp.com and by clicking on an album and then each song.

Swampdawamp – The Videos

Fat Boy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedJ7ZRFZMU

Do Things- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJbU70Wlrc

Good People - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ggh7urIcPE

Intensity         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k9LGQ5Rfso ( New rugby song )

Dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dmyMQiNsC0

Little Angels - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0wweMCDfI

Rock this Country- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djdwvc0_l1M

Birthday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzdSfSbZKA

Shoebox- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaleI5XK7mw

Have them contact andy@southernrocksounds.com to book this band

Hope you like them

Andrew

because rugby songs sung by southern rednecks in vests is just what green man has been missing

Ha! Totally agreeing with Ray Rad on 2 accounts...that rednecks called Swampdawamp are shit! And that Sharon Van Etten's Tramp is not quite as good as Epic, which is well, pretty epic.

With so many new things I could/should be listening to, I have for some reason gone back to 2010 and can't stop listening to Y La Bamba's (not to be mistaken with the documentary about Richie Valens) album called Lupon.

http://intothewoods.tv/mfnw/episode-3

...are making a lovely sound to my ears.

I caught 'em opening for Michael Kiwanuka - a sell-out gig in a very crowded Kazimier at the weekend.

They silenced the crowd (most unusual for a support act at the Kazimier) and the missus bought their ep. We've been listening to it a lot since then. They'd be great for the Green fella methinks. 

agree about the staves, GAster

i saw them sing along with fionn regan on one song at his union chapel show last year (i think...)

and just on the basis of that, grabbed their mexico ep

they just announced a headline tour - and i'll be seeing them at the tabernacle on 1st may

watch this - and wait until that three part harmony kicks in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwXwdZNB-s

Just checked out your link ray,i agree good stuff,definately see them going down well on the pub stage round about dusk.

New Springsteen Album. It's really good.

London Welsh male voice choir

The Leisure Society on great form at the Glee Club last night. Beth Jeans Houghtton and Goodnight Lenin coming up this week.

Off to see Lambchop tonight in the great surroundings of Manchester Cathedral,can't wait.