Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear are in many ways the perfect band for Green Man. Part folk, part avant-garde pop, their distinct sound perfectly encapsulates the festival’s folk roots and its embracing of more dissonant fare in recent years. Playing the same twilight slot in which British Sea Power shone the day before, the four men from Brooklyn prove themselves more than capable of filling up the hilly space around them. Their music has always had a sense of the pastoral about it and, removed from their East Coast incubator, the Welsh countryside makes for a perfect surrogate as highlights from Veckatimest and Yellow House waft out into the evening air.

The Doran verdict: John Doran is now officially MIA. There are rumours that he’s locked himself in at a nearby hotel and is attempting to watch all four seasons of Battlestar Galactica in one sitting: "This is amazing. It's like the Old Testament rewritten by Isaac Asimov and Phillip K Dick set in outer space and acted by the cast of Days Of Our Lives."