CAMERA OBSCURA, AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS’S MONSTROUS PSYCHEDELIC BUBBLE, HAWKWIND, BEYOND THE WIZARD’S SLEEVE, GANG GANG DANCE, WAVE MACHINES, THE YELLOW MOON BAND, CATE LE BON, EUROS CHILDS & NORMAN BLAKE CONFIRMED…

Camera Obscura

Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve

Gang Gang Dance

He’s only gone and done it again…just when you thought we couldn’t possibly squeeze in anymore bang for your buck, the Green Man pops up with yet another raft of top acts to make this year’s festival the hottest ticket of the summer.

You know about Jarvis Cocker, we’ve told you about Animal Collective and Wilco, but if you’ve missed out on the lovelorn sweeping beauty of Scots romanticists Camera Obscura then take our word for it, you’re in for a treat.
 
With 2006’s gorgeous Let’s Get Out Of This Country rightly acclaimed as one of the albums of year, new long player My Maudlin Career confirms singer Tracyanne Campbell as one of Britain’s finest songwriters - and with a voice to die for to boot. Think Dusty Springfield fronting the Smiths…Green Man, are you ready to be heartbroken?

On Sunday night in the Far Out Tent Amorphous Androgynous will be performing as a band in their own right as well as curating 11 hours of Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble cosmic space music. Bands will include legendary space rockers Hawkwind, beautiful folk from the mellifluously voiced Alisha Sufit (of 70s MAGIC CARPET fame ), The Yellow Moon Band hot off the space launch pads of last year’s album 'Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World”. Nick Nicely will enthrall with his colour saturated universe of psychedelic songs and Cranium Pie will cover the space-prog end of the MPB spectrum, with Amorphous Androgynous themselves covering all sonic dimensions in between. On the DJ front expect to hear a spectrum illuminated by psychedelic, funkoid infused progtronica, to pagan love vibrations and Indian sitar cover versions. Basically expect the unexpected to liberate your mind, soul and your feet from Andy Votel and the Monstrous Psychedelic impresario himself Gaz Cobain! With lighting by the Bardo States it'll be an 11 hr visual and sonic feast!
 
Clear the decks on Saturday as two of Britain’s finest psychedelic minds, top DJ/producer Erol Alkan and musician Richard Norris – a.k.a. Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve - embark on an epic mission to remix and “re-animate” some of the greatest songs of our times. From the electro-pop shuffle of Franz Ferdinand’s Ulysses to the hazy summer shuffle of Goldfrapp’s Happiness, brace yourself for an onslaught of euphoric bliss as The Sleeve (as they are known to their fans) take you on a Technicolor tour of their acclaimed four-part series of EPs.
 
Gang Gang Dance will bring a little New York City art-school cool to proceedings with their highly danceable effects-box of cinematic tricks. We’re told their new album Saint Dymphna is named after the patron saint of general disorder…how fitting. Meanwhile mercurial Merseyside four-piece Wave Machines are one of 2009’s most hotly-tipped newcomers, their budget disco-pop Bee Gees-meets-Beck mash-ups earning more than one glowing comparison with Hot Chip.
 
The Green Man stays true to his roots with a cracking line-up of Welsh wonders sure to keep the home crowd happy in the heart of the Brecon Beacons. The simply stunning Cate Le Bon returns to the fray her beguiling bi-lingual folk-pop after a highly successful stint with Mercury-nominated supergroup Neon Neon.
 
Don’t miss sets from former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci legends Richard James and Green Man favourite Euros Childs, the latter appearing as Jonny - a harmony-drenched collaboration with Teenage Fanclub‘s Norman Blake for what promises to be something of a modern-day masterclass in the ancient art of the song. And there’s a shower of violin and acoustic-led loveliness from local legends 9 Bach and Cardiff’s electro-pop whizzkid Pagan Wanderer Lu.
 
All this plus new discoveries Scott Mathews, The Strange Boys, Stornoway, Erland and the Carnival as well as unmissable sets from Bon Iver, The Aliens, The Fence Collective Sunday Social, British Sea Power and DJhistory.
We are spoiling you, aren’t we?