Uncover your GM24 line-up!

A mighty welcome to your four headliners – the luminous @bigthiefmusic, Mercury-winning @sampha, the transcendental @Jon_Hopkins_, post-punk heroes @sleafordmods & plenty more besides!

Big love, GM pic.twitter.com/eEVIsofCSS

— Green Man (@GreenManFest) March 1, 2024

Other notable acts performing at Green Man this year include prolific cult-heroes Osees, art-rock collective Black Country, New Road, alternative rock group Bar Italia, Scottish shoegaze heavyweights The Jesus and Mary Chain and singer-songwriter Arlo Parks. Also coming to the Brecon Beacons in August are New York alternative rock outfit Blonde Redhead, experimental rock favourites Fat White Family, Kate Stables’ Indie rock band This Is the Kit, jazz quintet Ezra Collective and exciting folk-punk newcomers The New Eves.

Set to return to Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales, the festival is scheduled to run from 15-18 August 2024, and will, for these four days, be home to not only a fantastic variety of live music but also an array of other entertainment, including literature, film, science, theatre and comedy. The grounds are divided into ten areas to accommodate this, ensuring that festival-goers will never experience a dull moment.

Sleaford Mods, the highly influential post-punk/punk-rap duo comprised of vocalist Jason Williamson and DJ Andrew Fearn, will return to Green Man festival for the first time since 2017, and arrive now as a headline act following their incredible success in recent years.

Listen to “Jobseeker” by Sleaford Mods below:

Also headlining this year’s event, and also returning to Green Man as a headliner following a performance in a past year, is New York-based indie folk group Big Thief. Since playing the festival in 2019, Big Thief have added two critically acclaimed albums to their total of five, combining profound, masterful lyrics with incisive and blissful folk instrumentation in the process.

Listen to “Spud Infinity” by Big Thief below:

The third headliner is English musician and producer Jon Hopkins, who’s combining of electronic music with contemporary classical music, resulting in transcendent musical beauty, will sure to have a spellbinding effect come August. The last, but certainly not least, headliner comes in the form of  neo soul and alternative R&B star Sampha, who will bring his unique musical prowess to the Brecon Beacons for all to witness.

Tickets are, unfortunately, now sold out, but you can sign up for resale tickets here.

The alternative rock outfit, dreamed of and fronted by Kate Stables, who also uses the name This Is the Kit as a musical alias, recorded the album back in December and are now ready to share with the world this LP, their sixth studio album to date.

The record, produced by Welsh musician and producer Gruff Rhys, is laden throughout with the subtle musical intricacy the group have become associated with through previous releases. The single that shares its name with the album perfectly epitomises such subtlety, with the bass floating to the top and the hints of piano lurking behind luscious guitar licks that all blend wonderfully with Stables’ effortlessly invigorating vocal delivery.

Listen to “Careful Of Your Keepers” below:

This Is the Kit was formed by brainchild Kate Stables in 2003, and released their debut album, Krülle Bol, eight years later in 2008. This, along with their second album, Wriggle Out the Restless (2010), failed to attract a significant amount of attention. It wasn’t until the release of their third album, Bashed Out, did the group start receiving praise for their musical output, with this LP widely considered as their breakthrough record.

Listen to “Krülle Bol”, from the group’s debut album, below:

Watch the music video for “Bashed Out“, from the group’s third album of the same name, below:

With the release of the folk rock group’s fourth album came a change in record labels; Moonshine Freeze was released via Rough Trade Records, the label their still with to this day, in 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. This was followed by Off Off On in 2020, marking the group’s fifth collective release.

Careful of Your Keepers will therefore be the group’s sixth studio album, and lead vocalist, guitarist and banjoist Stables seems in no mood to be slowing down any time soon. The rest of the band consists of Rozi Plain on bass and vocals, Neil Smith on guitar, and Jamie Whitby-Coles on drums.

You can get your copy of Careful of Your Keepers here.

See below for This Is the Kit tour dates:

10/06/2023 – Rough Trade East – London
12/06 – Pryzm – Kingston Upon Thames
16/06 – Black Deer Festival – Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells
18/08 – Rough Trade – Bristol
16/07 – Folk By The Oak 2023 – Hatfield House, Hatfield
27/07 – Warwick Folk Festival 2023 – Castle Park, Warwick
28/07 – Deer Shed Festival 2023 – Baldersby Park, Thirsk

Purchase tickets for the live shows here.