Time Out’s ultimate guide to Green Man Festival 2026: line-up, set times, best acts and everything you need to know

This weekend, in the shadow of the glorious Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Green Man Festival returns. The wonderfully eclectic Welsh festival, dubbed by some as a ‘mini Glastonbury’, has something for everyone at every age. You can do some sunrise yoga, have a go at throwing a pot at midday, catch an up-and-coming indie band in the evening, then get sweaty to hypnotic DJ sets deep into the night. 

Music is, of course, the main thing here, with headline sets from Wolf Alice, Four Tet, Mogwai and Wilco. But elsewhere, Joe Lycett tops the comedy bill while the literature lineup includes talks from the likes of Caitlin Moran and Kevin Rowland. There’s also cabaret, film screenings and science talks and workshops. Most years, the festival concludes with the burning of the giant wooden green man, which people spending the weekend tying wishes to – but due to higher risk of wildfires this summer, that won’t happen this time. 

From the stage timings to the weather forecast to 10 acts you shouldn’t miss, if you’re on you’re way to Green Man this weekend, here’s everything you need to know.

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🎟️ Last-minute tickets
🌟 Best acts to see 
🎤 Lineup and set times – Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
🚗 How to get to Green Man
⛔️ Banned items
⛅️ Weather forecast

When is Green Man Festival 2026?

Green Man 2026 is happening from Thursday August 20 until Sunday August 23. 

Where is Green Man Festival 2026?

As ever, the festival will take place at Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell, surrounded by the lush greenery and glorious mountains of Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park. 

Who are the headliners for Green Man 2026?

At the top of the bill this year, we have Mogwai on Thursday, Wilco on Friday, Four Tet on Saturday and Wolf Alice on Sunday. 

Last-minute tickets for Green Man Festival 2026

Tickets for Green Man 2026 sold out in less than an hour when the went on sale last year. But you might be able to find some last minute via its official reselling partner Tixel. At the time of writing there are full weekend tickets starting from £229. 

10 unmissable acts at Green Man 2026

Beyond the headliners and sub-headliners, here are the bands and musicians we think are worth seeking out at this year’s festival:

Avalon Emerson and the Charm 

Avalon Emerson’s Written Into Changes is one of the standout albums of the year so far. In it, the DJ and producer draws heavily from her love of the Cocteau Twins, delivering a stream of hazy, glimmery pop. If you’ve only ever seen Emerson in her DJ capacity, this will offer a totally different side to her. 

Dove Ellis

With his gently rasping tone and folksy rock ballads, Galway-born singer-songwriter Dove Ellis has been tentatively pegged as the Irish Cameron Winter. Expect soul-bearing lyrics, passionate crescendos, full-bodied piano and an Irish jig moment or two. 

Jessica Winter 

Opulent, camp and a little witchy, Jessica Winter’s debut record My First Album, is just delicious. The alt-pop star gets giddy with glam rock references, disco beats and gleaming synths, and is a blast to watch on stage. 

Panic Shack

I first saw Cardiff-based band Panic Shack in nearby Brecon, when they turned a small community venue into a riotous mosh pit. Between storming riffs and chaotic beats, their ferociously fun lyrics combine wit with unfiltered, zeitgeisty truths (‘The Ick’, for example, laments an ex who made their tea milk-first).  

ML Buch

Armed with a seven-string guitar that allows her to use open tuning and reach deeper ranges, ML Buch’s sound is warm and otherworldly. Played live, her 2023 album Suntub, which spills with seductive reverbs and simple drum beats, is an immersive, hypnotising experience.

Madra Salach 

Six-piece Irish folk band Madra Salach (Gaelic for ‘dirty dog’) will bring a feral energy to the festival on Thursday night. Aptly, Paul Bank’s vocals are thick and growling against tin whistles, mandolins, harmonium and injections of synths, pedal distortion and tape loops. 

Get Down Services

Raucous duo Get Down Services might provide the most fun you have at any Green Man set this weekend. Spanning garage rock, post-punk groove and ‘apocalyptic disco’ their songs are sublimely silly and subversive, their live gigs chaotic and cathartic.  

Pigeon

Helmed by formidable Guinean vocalist Falle Nioke, this Margate-based band burst onto the scene in 2022. But this year, its has soared to new heights with the release of its debut album OUTTANNATIONAL. The psychedelic record melds Afrobeats with electropop, punk-funk with jazz and will no doubt translate into a spectacular live show. 

Smerz

Smerz have fans in the likes of Blood Orange, Caroline Polachek, Lorde and Weyes Blood. If you’re yet to discover the off-kilter Norwegian duo, imagine trudging beats and lo-fi instrumentation layered beneath dead-pan vocals. 

Sage Todz

Born in Essex but raised in north Wales, rapper Sage Todz combines grime and drill with the Welsh language. It’s a sound you’re unlikely to have heard before. Backed by soft R&B arrangements, Todz is vulnerable and earnest – an emerging star you won’t want to miss. 

Full Green Man 2026 lineup and set times

Thursday August 20

Far Out

• Userband: 4.45pm-5.30pm
• Madra Salach: 6pm-6.45pm
• Friko: 7.30pm-8.15pm
• Lime Garden: 8.45pm-9.40pm
• Mogwai: 10.30pm-11.45pm
• Charlotte Church’s Pop Dungeon: 12.15am-1.30am

Walled Garden

• Dafydd Owain: 4.15pm-5pm
• Neve Cariad: 5.30pm-6.15pm
• Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn: 6.45pm-7.30pm
• Mwsog: 8pm-8.45pm
• Art School Girlfriend: 9.15pm-10.15pm
• CVC: 10.45pm-11.45pm
• Tokomololo: 12.15am-1.15am
• Esther (DJ): 1.15am-2.30am

Chai Wallahs

• Diplomats Of Sound DJs: 1pm-3pm
• Charity Shop Soundclash: 3pm-4.30pm
• Favilla: 4.30pm-5.30pm
• S.I.M.O x Hippo Sound System: 6pm-7pm
• Birty: 7.30pm-8.30pm
• Nana Benz Du Togo: 9pm-10pm
• Conservatoire Folk Ensemble: 10.30pm-11.30pm
• Eclectic Avenue DJs: 11.30pm-2am

Friday August 21

Mountain Stage

• Tall Child: 11.45am-12.15pm
• Tyler Ballgame: 12.45pm-1.30pm
• Westside Cowboy: 2pm-2.50pm
• Ata Kak: 3.30pm-4.30pm
• Shame: 5.20pm-6.20pm
• Dry Cleaning: 7.05pm-8.15pm
• Aldous Harding: 9pm-10.15pm
• Wilco: 11pm-12.30am

Far Out

• Golomb: 12.15pm-1pm
• Pictish Trail: 1.30pm-2.30pm
• Maria Somerville: 3pm-4pm
• Ear: 4.30pm-5.30pm
• Smerz: 6pm-7pm
• Sprints: 7.45pm-8.45pm
• Getdown Services: 9.15pm-10.15pm
• Baxter Dury: 10.45pm-12am
• Marie Davidson: 12.45am-1.50am
• Lone: 2am-3.30am

Walled Garden

• Modern Woman: 12pm-12.45pm
• My New Band Believe: 1.15pm-2pm
• The New Eves: 2.30pm-3.15pm
• Hovvdy: 3.45pm-4.30pm
• Ken Pomeroy: 5pm-6pm
• Greg Freeman: 6.30pm-7.30pm
• ML Buch: 8pm-9pm
• Avalon Emerson & The Charm: 9.45pm-10.45pm
• Prostitute: 11.15pm-12.15am
• Adult DVD: 12.45am-1.45am
• PVA (DJ): 2am-3am

Rising

• The Slow Country: 11.15am-11.45am
• Kiosk: 12.15pm-12.45pm
• Little Grandad: 1.30pm-2pm
• Compost Compost Compost: 2.50pm-3.30pm
• Dorothy: 4.30pm-5.20pm
• The Dogs: 6.20pm-7.05pm
• The Healing Power Of Horses: 8.15pm-9pm
• Pollyfromthedirt: 10.15pm-11pm

Saturday August 22

Mountain Stage

• Boss Morris: 11.25am-11.45am
• Tamikrest: 12.15pm-1.15pm
• Ana Frango Elétrico: 2pm-3pm
• Horsegirl: 3.30pm-4.30pm
• Cate Le Bon: 5.15pm-6.15pm
• Nation Of Language: 7pm-8.15pm
• The Beta Band: 9pm-10.15pm
• Four Tet: 11pm-12.30am

Far Out

• Sailor Honeymoon: 12.15pm-1pm
• The Bug Club: 1.30pm-2.30pm
• Ulrika Spacek: 3pm-4pm
• The Belair Lip Bombs: 4.30pm-5.30pm
• A Place To Bury Strangers: 6pm-7pm
• Daniel Avery (live): 7.45pm-8.45pm
• Mannequin Pussy: 9pm-10pm
• Celeste: 10.45pm-12am
• Ben UFO: 12.45am-2.15am
• Daniel Avery (DJ): 2.15am-3.30am

Walled Garden

• Seamus Fogarty: 12.10pm-1pm
• Prewn: 1.30pm-2.15pm
• James Ellis Ford: 2.45pm-3.30pm
• Sir Richard Bishop: 4.10pm-5.10pm
• Ora Cogan: 5.40pm-6.40pm
• Joanne Robertson: 7.10pm-8.10pm
• Insecure Men: 8.40pm-9.40pm
• Haley Heynderickx: 10.10pm-11.10pm
• Sorry: 11.40pm-12.40am
• Dame Area: 1.10am-2.10am
• Dance Yrself Clean: 2.10am-3am

Rising

• Cyn Cwsg: 11.45am-12.15pm
• Big Long Sun: 1.15pm-2pm
• Casual Smart: 3pm-3.30pm
• Marsy: 4.30pm-5.15pm
• Iona Zajac: 6.15pm-7pm
• Ribbon Skirt: 8.15pm-9pm
• Bathing Suits: 10.15pm-11pm

Sunday August 23

Mountain Stage

• Eaves Wilder: 12pm-1pm
• Alexis Taylor: 1.30pm-2.30pm
• Everything Is Recorded: 3pm-4pm
• Dove Ellis: 4.30pm-5.30pm
• Anna Calvi: 6pm-7.15pm
• Cat Power: 8pm-9.15pm
• Wolf Alice: 10pm-11.30pm

Far Out

• Knats: 12pm-12.45pm
• Automatic: 1.15pm-2pm
• The Tubs: 2.30pm-3.15pm
• Panic Shack: 4pm-5pm
• Scientist: 5.30pm-6.30pm
• Wednesday: 7pm-8pm
• Fcukers: 8.45pm-9.45pm
• Sparks: 10.30pm-11.55pm
• Roni Size & MC Fearless: 12.30am-2am
• DJ Flight: 2am-3.30am

Walled Garden

• Gwen: 12pm-12.45pm
• The Gentle Good: 1.15pm-2pm
• Jennifer Walton: 2.30pm-3.15pm
• Way Dynamic: 3.45pm-4.45pm
• Snuggle: 5.15pm-6pm
• Tara Clerkin Trio: 6.30pm-7.30pm
• Lael Neale: 8pm-9pm
• Motrik: 9.30pm-10.15pm
• Tricky: 10.50pm-11.50pm
• Decius: 12.40am-1.30am
• Deptford Northern Soul Club: 1.30am-3am

Rising

• Glasshouse Red Spider Mite: 11.30am-12pm
• Zach Thompson: 1pm-1.30pm
• Dermot Henry: 2.30pm-3pm
• Men an Tol: 4pm-4.30pm
• Paulie Swan: 5.30pm-6pm
• The Cindys: 7.15pm-8pm
• The Itch: 9.15pm-10pm

How to get to Green Man Festival 

Coach

You can catch a National Express from various cities around the UK to Green Man (and back again). These drop you off and pick you up from the festival site, and run from over 20 places including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester. Find out more on the National Express website here. 

Car

A car is probably the trickiest way to get to the fest. Every vehicle needs a car park ticket which you can buy in advance or for £40 on the door. Alternatively you can use the Park and Ride, which costs £20 per vehicle on the door. It opened at 10am on Thursday. If you’re being dropped off by car, you’ll have to go from the Park and Ride, too. 

Note that there are ongoing road closures due to wildfires, so there’s no access on the Llangynidr Mountain Road.  

Train

The nearest train station is in Abergavenny. There’ll be free shuttle buses running between there and the festival site every day. You should allow around 90 minutes for the journey. These are the timings:

• Thursday – 10am-12.45am
• Friday – 10am to 11pm
• Sunday – 9am-10pm
• Monday – 6am until early afternoon

Bicycle

Coming from Bristol? Green Man has teamed up with Red Fox Cycling to offer guided cycles to the festival. They’ll carry your bags and festival kit in a support van, serve up snacks and drinks along the way and will even bring you (and your bike) back home on Monday after the festival if you want. Plus, you get a free beer at the fest as a reward! 

Banned items at Green Man

These are all the items you won’t be allowed to take into the festival site:

• Illegal substances
• Drugs, including laughing gas
• Fireworks or other explosives
• Chinese lanterns and pyrotechnic devices
• Generators
• Tin foil barbecues
• Weapons
• 8-person tents or bigger
• Glass bottles or containers
• Pets and other animals (apart from pre-authorised guide dogs)
• Soundsystems
• Lasers and strobes

You’re also only allowed one ‘reasonable sized’ gazebo per group. Campfires, charcoal BBQs and disposable BBQs are banned but you’re allowed gas BBQs and camping stoves that are raised off the ground on legs. 

Weather forecast

After weeks and weeks of dry hot weather, the rain has chosen to arrive on Green Man weekend. But don’t worry, it won’t be too wet. Here’s the forecast:

• Thursday August 20: Light rain and gentle breeze. Max temperature 19C. 
• Friday August 21: Light rain in the afternoon and gentle breeze. Max temperature 19C. 
• Saturday August 22: Around 40 percent chance of light rain. Light winds and max temperature 20C. 
• Sunday August 23: Bright and sunny with max temperature of 21C. 

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