Mogwai are to headline Saturday night at The Green ManFestival 2012.
They join co-headliners Van Morrison and Feist in Wales’ breathtaking Black Mountains from August 16th-19th.
Dexys, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lower Dens, King Charles, Cate Le Bon and more also join the bill for this year's festival.
Formed in 1995 in Glasgow, Mogwai are famed for performing lengthy instrumentals with melodic bass lines, dynamic contrasts and heavy use of distortion and effects pedals. From classic debut Mogwai Young Team to supporting the Pixies and composing the soundtrack to a film about Zinedine Zidane, this is a band that never rests on its laurels.
Mogwai’s 10th album - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will – was released last year. Their headline set (the band's only UK show this summer) is sure to bring Friday night on the Mountain Stage to a suitably epic conclusion beneath the moonlit silhouette of the Sugar Loaf.
GREEN MAN 2012 LINE UP SO FAR -
Van Morrison / Feist / Mogwai / Special Guest TBA / The Walkmen / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Dexys / Yann Tiersen / The Tallest Man On Earth / oF Montreal / Jonathan Richman / tUnE-yArDs / Michael Kiwanuka / The Felice Brothers / King Creosote & Jon Hopkins / The Bees / Scritti Politti / Junior Boys / Mr Scruff - Keep It Unreal / James Blake (DJ) / The Time & Space Machine / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / Damien Jurado / Field Music / Lower Dens / Friends / Bowerbirds / Slow Club / Ghostpoet / Cass McCombs / Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny / Bullion / Dark Dark Dark / Three Trapped Tigers / Daughter / Willy Mason / King Charles / The Staves / Trembling Bells / Joe Pug / Lucy Rose / Peaking Lights / Islet / Megafaun / Cate Le Bon / Cashier No.9 / TOY / Alt-J / The Wave Pictures / Kwes / Vondelpark / Lone / Gang Colours / Laura J Martin / Jamie N Commons / Stealing Sheep / Steve Smyth / Vadoinmessico / Psychemagik (DJ) / Richard Norris / Rocketnumbernine / Ahab / The Pictish Trail / Teeth of the Sea / Treetop Flyers / Sweet Baboo / Tiny Ruins / Pen Pastwn (Richard James) / Mowbird / Seamus Fogerty / Withered Hand / Goodnight Lenin / Paul Thomas Saunders / RM Hubbert / Airhead / Pete Paphides - Vinyl Revival / Crybaby / Richard Warren / The Perch Creek Family Jug Band / No Thee No Ess / Chailo Sim / Georgia Ruth / David McCaffrey / Alaska / Joanna Gruesome / Sen Segur / Stuff / Greta Isaac / One Sixth Of Tommy
http://www.greenman.net/lineup
COMEDY - BUG with Adam Buxton / Josie Long / Rubberbandits / Zoe Lyons / Robin Ince / Holly Walsh / Mike Woznia / Mark Allen / Behemoth / Delete The Banjax / Brian Gittins / Henry Paker / Edward Aczel / John-Luke Roberts / Mark Olver / Michael Fabbrik... plus many more TBA
http://www.greenman.net/area/comedy-tent
EINSTEIN'S GARDEN - A Supercollider For The Family / Andy Hickie / Bright Club / Bronze Medallists /Being 747 present ‘The Clockwork Universe’ Black Mountains Falconry / Green & Pleasant Land Epic / Greg Hall / Elfic A Showdown with Gravity /Jamie Gallagher / Jonny Berliner / Lori Campbell / Mimina / MJ Hibbett & the Validators: Dinosaur Planet / Nic Harrigan: Don't Try This At Home/Quantum Magic / Polar Explore / Puppets & Pandemonium: Green Finger / Rosie Wilby: The Science Of Sex / Science at Play / Simon Watt: Dissections Uncut - Channel 4′s “Inside Nature’s Giants” / The Alien Hunter’s Handbook / The Woven Project / Theoretical Girl / Unlimited Theatre / Wildlife Walks / Will Jeffery... plus many more TBA http://www.greenman.net/area/einsteins-garden
LITERATURE - James Fearnley / John Peel’s Shed by John Osborne / Jim Bob / Robin Ince / John Jeremiah Sullivan / Richard King / Stella Duffy / The Story of Wales With Jon Gower... plus many more TBA
http://www.greenman.net/area/literature-tent
