Bicycle powered discos with The Pedal Emporium, PVA discuss Green Man memories, and Anna Thomas chats to Rising winners Wing!
The Green Man PodcastShow Notes
The Pedal Emporium share how they bring the sparkle to Little Folk, PVA discuss their favourite festival memories, and Welsh comedian Anna Thomas talks to Green Man Rising 2025 winners about the importance of creating opportunities for new artists.
Based in South Wales, the Pedal Emporium specialises in creating fun bicycle powered activities to promote cycling & sustainability. These marvelous machines are all built by hand using recycled & re-purposed items, and are available for event hire throughout the year.
South London’s PVA have already garnered a reputation for emotionally and physically liberating dance punk that borrows from LCD Soundsystem, SSION, Planningtorock, and The Knife. Their debut album Blush is even paced like a DJ set, so you can expect barrier-jostling fun when they take to the decks this summer.
Anna Thomas is an award-winning comedian, originally hailing from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. She wrote and starred in ‘Lady Bigfoot’, a short film that premiered on BBC One Wales and became the most watched comedy short on BBC Iplayer in 2023.
wing! — the instrumental recording project of Adam Swan that blossoms into a live trio, with drummer Joe Killick and bassist Kai Charlton — meld trip-hop, post-rock, jazz, broken beat, and ambient electronica to ethereal, mesmerising effect. They’re informed by Portishead and Flying Lotus, they’re fans of Boards Of Canada, Burial, and Madlib, and as this year’s Green Man Rising winners, they’ll kick off festivities on the Mountain Stage.
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