When: 14 – 17 August 2025
Where: Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales
A fortnight today a capacity crowd of 25,000 people will be heading towards the natural beauty of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park to attend Green Man, Wales’s largest music, science, and arts festival. Last September, all the tickets for this year’s edition of Green Man sold out in just 60 minutes, a full eleven months ahead of the event, and before a single act had even been announced.
We now know the full programme for Green Man 2025 and to say it is impressive would be a huge understatement. Music leads the way as always with some notable headliners in the form of Kneecap, Wet Leg, Underworld, TV On The Radio, and Beth Gibbons. An excellent undercard includes Wunderhorse, Greentea Peng, CMAT, Perfume Genius, Yard Act, John Grant, Panda Bear, and English Teacher, plus the perennially strong representation of Welsh acts headed up by Los Campesinos!, Gwenno, Adwaith, Tristwch Y Fenywod, Melyn Melin, The Gentle Good, H Hawkline, and MORN.
wing! won the Green Man Rising Competition 2025. The emerging producer beat a record-breaking 4,000 applicants to the title and will now open this year’s Green Man Festival, performing on the iconic Mountain Stage, continuing Green Man’s pledge to support the festival headliners of the future. The runners-up in the competition have secured a spot on the Rising stage, along with a live session filmed at Green Man.
This year’s Talking Shop is curated by the Welsh broadcaster and longtime friend of the festival, Huw Stephens and will include captivating conversations with the likes of Charlotte Church, who will be speaking about her wellness journey, Kelly Lee Owens, Ash Kenazi & Jasmine.4.t, and Will Hodgkinson and Lawrence, while Keith Cameron will present his new book Manic Street Preachers: 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure. The full Literature line-up is here.
In Einstein’s Garden you will find Pandemonium and Whimsy, Green Man’s gleaming new solar-powered stage areas which will be replete with talks and performances set to stir and stimulate inquisitive minds. With everything from immersive theatre, panels, workshops, and debate, expect to confront the world’s big challenges with wit, solutions, and shock. Some of this year’s Einstein’s Garden highlights can be found here.
Cinedrome promises a feast of animated delights, cult classics, live scores, director Q&As, Welsh Language shorts and arthouse flicks for your delectation. From surrealist comedy Sister Midnight and Björk’s Cornucopia concert film to National Theatre Live’s Dr Strangelove, by way of Amadeus, Human Traffic, and I Am Martin Parr, plus dozens of other audio-visual treats. The Green man film line-up for 2025 is here.
For all the information on this year’s festival, please visit the Green Man website.
