Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison was born in Jamaica, and has won numerous awards for her writing in both poetry and prose, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, the Henry...
wormboys
wormboys are four people based across Leeds and Glasgow. Together they play an eclectic mix of noise-pop songs, yoking dreamy melodies to driving rhythms and fuzzed-out soundscapes. After building a...
Victoria McCloud
Dr Victoria Cloud (Master McCloud) is a Former Master of the Senior Courts, Queen's Bench Division and later King's Bench Division. In 2024 she stepped back due to Gender Critical Ideological...
Project Smok
Project SMOK is the indie-trad trio of Ali Levack, Ewan Baird and Pablo Lafuente, whose nonconformist and progressive style has set them apart since their formation in 2017. Known for their ability...
Tessa Khan
Tessa is a lawyer, campaigner and Executive Director of Uplift, an organisation that supports a just transition away from oil and gas production in the UK. Before founding Uplift, she was co-founder...
Joust
Come and play Joust, the tactical theatrical PlayStation game you play in a field, without any kind of screen. It's become a regular Greenbelt favourite. We'll hunt zombies, save the villagers...
Paul Cookson
Paul has been to every festival since 1977 and performed at every festival since 1978. Curator or The Twist and Family Twist for over thirty years, Greenbelt has very much been an artistic home. The...
John Bell
John Bell first came to Greenbelt expecting it to be an advanced judo course where he might learn some new moves. He has been moving ever since. During the pandemic he learned how to right click and...
Zia Ahmed
Zia Ahmed is a writer from North-West London. He is a former Roundhouse Slam champion and in 2019 Zia's stage debut 'i wanna be yours' premiered at the Bush Theatre. He is a recipient of the...
Jo Musker-Sherwood
Jo has experienced multiple burnouts throughout her adult life both as an activist, and as a human who feels things deeply. After a decade of campaigning for change, both from within and outside of...
Some things old. Lots of things new.
Our Creative Director Paul gives us a whistle-stop round-up to the latest May bookings for this year's Greenbelt Festival. Some favourites. Some newbies. Some surprises. All adding to the richness...
Stewart Home
Stewart Home was born and lives in London (UK). He has been working as an artist and writer since the early 1980s and had a mid-career retrospective at White Columns in New York in 2011. He is the...
Virginia’s Wolves
Virginia's Wolves are a fierce female punk band born out of Leicester's Unglamorous music project in 2022. With raw energy and unapologetic honesty, the band quickly carved out their place in the...
Twat Union
Theatrical-feminist-punk-pop 6 piece Twat Union are known for their wild, immersive gigs and trademark provocative humour. Part punk gig, part comedy show, the twats don't shy away from topics...
Them There Cowboys
Them There Cowboys bring you something the likes of which you ain't never seen or heard before; call us cowpunk, call us folk, call us country, or call us queer, all you need to know is we will have...