The Green Man Podcast

National Treasure Huw Stephens meets with Cardiff's Panic Shack (or 'Panics' as we shall now refer to them) to hear about how they met at Green Man, their recent US tour, and summoning (Stereo)phonic's Kelly Jones in Leigh Delamere Services. Huw tells us all about the Talking Shop line-up at Green Man this year which he helped curate, and gets us excited for the festival!

Panic Shack will be playing in the Far Out tent at 4pm on the Sunday; Huw will be hosting a few panels at the Talking Shop on Saturday afternoon.

Green Man Rising winner tall child — aka London-based Nigerian-Indian songwriter Zha Gandhi and their band — melds intense, stormy emotion and grungy riffs with sweet melody and happy-go-lucky indie jangle, to irresistible effect. The name “tall child” comes from a Mitski lyric: a marked influence, together with Radiohead, Arlo Parks, and Rachel Chinouriri. tall child released their debut EP Somehow You Grow last year, on which they grow like a tall tree and rise above the challenges of being a queer, disabled, POC indie artist.

Zha chats to Eaves Wilder, who’s been coming to Green Man since she herself was a tall (or rather, small) child. A couple of years ago, Eaves Wilder decided to quit music and join a nunnery. Thankfully the north London songwriter is still yet to don a nun’s habit — instead, she’s made a debut album called Little Miss Sunshine, which came out this spring. A compendium of influences — everything from CMAT to Philip Larkin, Wet Leg to Smokey Robinson — help her chronicle the change and loss of innocence experienced in your early twenties, and the result is something of emotional and elemental magnitude: or as she puts it, “music that would make you feel tectonic”.

tall child opens the Mountain Stage at 11.45am on Friday; Eaves Wilder does the same at midday on Sunday.

Content warning: There is mention of sexual assault in this episode.

GWEN is the solo project of Welsh artist, songwriter and producer Gwenllian Anthony. As co-founder and creative force behind the acclaimed band Adwaith, she helped bring music sung in Cymraeg to international audiences. As GWEN, she creates music that blends industrial textures, minimalist electronics and hypnotic rhythms with emotionally direct songwriting. As she prepares for her debut solo performance at this year’s Green Man, Gwen chats to Pictish Trail - aka festival stalwart Johnny Lynch.

Pictish Trail released his sixth album Life Slime last spring, “about how slimy life can get”. Written at his home on the Isle of Eigg and recorded in Margate, the new songs are sure to feel at home in the Welsh mountains too. Brace yourself for guilt, surrender, hope, transformation, renewal, fracture, and release, via warped and tender psychedelic electropop tunes.

Pictish Trail will play Far Out at 1.30pm on Friday; see GWEN in the Walled Garden at 12pm on Sunday.

SNL UK star Jack Shep has a transatlantic yap with Nora, Penelope and
Gigi of Horsegirl. The Chicago trio chat about life on tour, being best
friends and housemates in New York, and working with the great Cate Le Bon.

Jack Shep will play Last Laugh in the early hours of Saturday morning;
Horsegirl will take to the Mountain Stage on Saturday afternoon.

Critically acclaimed stand-up comedian Stewart Lee sits down with your Thursday night headliner Mogwai ahead of Green Man Festival 2026. Longtime admirers of each other’s work, Stew and Stu discuss the various eras of Mogwai’s thirty-year back catalogue of epic instrumentalism, and how Stewart keeps his comedy surprising after so many years in the game. Settle in for a chat about science, merch prices, multi-generational fandom, Stewart’s current show “Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf”, Stuart Braithwaite’s book “Spaceships over Glasgow”, and of course, an excited look-ahead to a magical weekend in Bannau Brycheiniog.

Mogwai play Far Out on Thursday 20th August 2026; catch Stewart Lee on Friday night at Babbling Tongues.