Side B of Steve’s Green Man mixtape, featuring Beirut, Avi Buffalo and Egyptian Hip-Hop…

The first half of Steve’s Green Man mixtape, featuring Plank!, Doves and the inimitable Joanna Newsom.

10.00: Hmm. Have only just woken up. Why is the tent not reaching boiling point? I fear rain. Fingers crossed the weekend will remain dry… HB 11.50: The rest of our party are trooping away – not to see bands, but to find a pub with Sky Sports (other sports channels available. Just not to [...]

Whilst at the bar some dangerous behaviour occurs – a father is getting his daughter to carry very full pints to the rest of their group outside. The daughter can’t be more than six years old, but the father doesn’t seem to think she’s in danger of either dropping or drinking the booze. On his head be it.

All four tents are pitched, the early arrivals saved us a good camping spot, the sun’s out – as are the chairs and a well earned beer. Hello Green Man!

As Green Man approaches again, it gives Kate great sadness that she can’t make it this year. However, there will be a pair of Fugitives scuttling around the site to bring you round-the-clock review goodness in the time-honoured tradition. However, the incredible setting of the Glanusk Park Estate has made for some wonderful photographs over [...]

The weather looks set to be glorious, the music as good as ever, if not better, and Glanusk Park should be radiant for this most charming of events. However one looks at it, Green Man 2009 is not to be missed

01.30: I think that the rain has just stopped rattling on the roof of Motel HQ. KG 08.25: Sunshine and warmth. What joy. Instead of making the most of this opportunity, both of Team Motel continue to snooze for the time being. KG 12.00: Blue sky. BLUE SKY! OK, so it doesn’t last long until [...]

01.20: A couple of rounds to the good, the communal campfire up beyond the Green Man Cafe is lit, generating numerous drunken conversations combined with a flash of effortless flirting (for us, anyway…unfortunately I don’t think our unsuspecting recipients saw it the same way). A man DJ-ing in the nearby Rumpus Room is soundtracking the [...]

17.15: Green fields. Green beer cups. Green lights. Green bands (in the Shakespearean sense). Green energy. Few festivals are as green as Green Man, and few are located in such beautiful – not to mention green – surroundings as Glanusk Park Estate, in the heart of the Brecon Beacons. Friday brings glorious weather, and the [...]