Green Man Festival

We regularly do Hay Tour.

We regularly do a Green Man Festival in Bovey Tracey.

We do Timmoth Folk Festival we do every year.

We do Sidmouth every year.

I've been aware of this probably 15 years or so.

I guess I would have found this through going to the Green Man Festival.

So I was a very, I was very good friends with Joe and Danny, who were the people who started it.

And I went to all the, I went to the Green Man for every year for a long, long time.

yeah exactly and again there's a theme isn't there that maybe that's what you know i think it's amazing record and again it's something that was i suppose the one really positive thing of i think of the digital age and the internet is that things that previously would have been you know national or regional or local records the internet has allowed real kind of, you know, record collectors share all this music and it's become, you know, it's gone beyond the local restrictions it had at the time.

This was comped on like David Byrne's label or something, I think.

so i would have heard this 10 12 years ago whenever it came out and then actually back to green man festival i saw there was a group of musicians who played this is around this at the time this came up came out who played the formed the band and played a lot of the songs from this at green man So it was, you know, the guy from Hot Chip and Green from Skritti Politti, Money Mark from the Beastie Boys and a couple of other people.

And it was really brilliant, actually.

Really loving the sound coming from King Koosk at the moment.

I managed to catch a bit of them at Green Man Festival earlier this year.

Big fan of their tune Morbius that we played on the show.

They played that when they were playing at Green Man and it was in my head for the entirety of the rest of the festival.

365 in Welsh, but I'm just... reading it as I can see it.

And I was introduced to Ceri's Havana at the Green Man Festival in Wales in August this year and usually at the Green Man Festival there's a ceremonial burn of the effigy of the Green Man and people write wishes on tags and when these get incinerated it's meant to make your wishes come true and this year they couldn't burn the Green Man because of the wildfires but they wanted to do something appropriately celebratory and Keri Savannah was the musician that performed and alongside her they had a dancer suspended from a crane above the green man and the first dancer that they had had this incredible dress it was sort of armatured and floaty and she looked like a jellyfish with strips of LED and the next dancer that they had, or it might have been the same dancer, there was an outfit change, was covered in mirror balls so she was a human mirror ball which was Really awesome.

And I cried and cried and cried watching her because it was so painstakingly beautiful.

And the next song that I'm going to play for you is also by Keri Savana.

I've been.

Um, and you also played a few other festivals, like Green Man and Truck.

Um, um-

Yeah

... that's great.

Yeah, so Green Man was my first sort of major festival back in, uh, three years ago.

Uh, that was incredible.

It was during the settlement, so it was like a lovely acoustic vibe.

Apparently Hay on White is all swingers.

And apparently Green Man Festival, this

is what I heard, started as a swingers festival.

Shut up.