Edd Keene plays for the session - BBC Introducing

The Session: Soundtracks

Our BBC Introducing gig nights at Bar Four don’t half have some great bands on, even though I do say so myself.

On Wednesday, January 14 we featured Edd Keene (pictured), otherwise known as The Green Man.

While that name tips a rather large hippy hat at his British folk leanings, a great surprise is watching Edd play.

Close your eyes and you would be convinced there are 10 musicians up on stage – all thanks to something called a loop pedal.

The Green Man expertly records various instruments on stage – including a saxophone, a flute, guitar and a cajón – gradually layering each sound to produce something veritably orchestral.

It’s really a sight to behold and if you want to see it for yourself, The Green Man is playing at the Walkabout bar, off Friar Street, tomorrow.

Then on Wednesday, he’s playing at Deja Vu in St Mary’s Butts, Reading; on Friday, January 30, he’s at the Global Café in London Street, Reading and then the following day on Saturday, January 31, he’s playing the Cellar Bar at South Hill Park in Bracknell.

By Linda Serck 

BBC Introducing

Edd Keene the Horse and Groom - Henley Fringe

At the Horse and Groom pub, we received a very warm greeting and a much welcomed drink. We arrived just in time to see Edd Keene, a remarkably talented and inventive local musician. Edd is a singer/songwriter, who uses a loop pedal to perform his music — played on a variety of instruments including an acoustic guitar, a bass guitar, a saxophone, bongo drums, a cymbal, a flute and even a pint of beer! His music is a unique blend, and I would recommend you watch him perform if you get the chance. At one stage, a talented flautist who was in the audience joined in on one of his songs. 

By Sophie Alderson  
Henley Fringe

Review by Tony Benjamin - Venue Magazine

Porter Cellar Bar, Bath (Thur 8 Jan)

• There’s enough musical gear about for a full band but, once a respectable scattering of hardy souls has arrived to watch him, it turns out that one man uses the lot. Edd ‘The Green Man’ Keane builds his warm-up set of tunes with loop pedals, flitting from guitar to bass to cajon to sax (and so on) to assemble each number. It’s a lively performance - as much juggling act as music making - and his quick-change stage hopping keeps our photographer busy. The resulting music, a kind of prog-acoustica, inevitably recalls ‘Tubular Bells’ or an out-take interlude from a lost Yes album and succeeds best on his final loping North African groove.

Tony Benjamin - venue magazine

Reviewed for Caversham festival

Got a nice review by Linda Serck for Caversham festival.

The soothing British folk of Edd Keene, aka The Green Man, on the floating stage with his excellent loop pedal mastery looked like a real summer of love sight, there on a barge on the Thames.
By Linda Serck 
July 13, 2012


Link to review :- Haunting performances at Caversham Festival

CLOUD CUCKOO LAND FESTIVAL 2012

Just got back from Cloud Cuckoo Land festival. It was fantastic. Met a Lot of very lovely people.... In fact I think I got to meet everybody! Did a set with La Mort Subite on the Saturday on the main stage and then we all clambered onto the back of a horse drawn cart with our instruments and played a gig whilst being pulled across the festival site, played my green man set on the Sunday and finished off the festi playing for the Under Cover Hippy back on the main stage. I'm not sure if I have ever danced that much in my life, It is a great little festival, I highly recommend going if you ever get the chance.

Secret Garden Party 2012 Review

It may have taken 4 hours of driving and 5 hours of queing and It may have rained on Thursday night leaving the entire festival site the colour and texture of toffee, covered all my instruments in a layer of sludge, and made it imposible to carry them to all the stages I was playing on, but.......
Who cares... What an awesome festival that was!!!
Thanks to the beautiful people of the Small World Crew, the crazy lunatics of the Tax Decductable theatre and the only just discovered People front room, for letting me play on thier stages. And a massive thanks to Guliver for his poetry about Elephants.
Pulling off a gig at five in the morning after drinking my weight in Whisky ( Well... I think I pulled it off ), appreciating the sunshine when it finaly turned up, and adventures filled with complete stupidity, dancing, and turning invisible when required. Good company and... well what else can I say. No need me thinks. Go next year and you'll see why it's the best festival in the UK.
Thankyou Secret Garden Party, I Love you. X

Well..... That was pretty muddy. I drove 250 miles yesterday to Beatherder festival with my mate Skoobie to play a gig on the Smokey Tentacles stage. We got there to find to lot of very muddy but smiley people. It didn't seem like anyone really cared about the sludge, which is always a sign of a good festival, or trashed people.
It was pretty awesome. Was a good gig. Shame I didn't get to stick around though as we had to drive back the 1million miles pretty much straight away afterwards.
Just as we were on the last stretch of road, at about 3.30am we hit a deer....! It rolled over the corner of the car and disappeared in to the hedge row. We stopped and went to go see if we could find it, Skoobie gets hungry pretty easily you see, but it legged it off when we got close, so I guess it must have been o.k... Lets hope so hey...
Anyways... I'm gonna be playing on the Smokey Tentacles stage again at Secret Garden Party at some point over the weekend it is on, so if your there and happen to stumble past while I am playing, come and say hello. :)

A GREAT GIG...

I HAD AN AWESOME GIG AT THE GLOBAL CAFE LAST NIGHT. THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO CAME DOWN FOR IT. LOTS OF OLD FACES, NEW FACES AND FACES I DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...

A MASSIVE THANKS TO STU CLARK FOR HIS SET, AND ALSO TO GULIVER FOR HIS IMPROMPTU JAM WITH ME AT THE END OF THE NIGHT.

COFFE CUP INSPIRATION AND THE DANCING GIRLS!

AMAZING, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT TIME I GET TO PLAY THERE.

AND WHEN I DO I HOPE YOU CAN ALL JOIN ME AGAIN....