Green Man Festival holding 48%, and Kenneth Lower holding 5%. In 2009 Kenneth Lower sold his shares to the other shareholders and left the company. In 2011 the Hagans sold their shares to Fiona Stewart and left the company. Green Man Festival Green Man is an independent music and arts festival held annually in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, Wales since 2003. It has evolved into a 20,000 capacity 4-day event, showcasing predominantly live music (in particular alternative, indie, rock, folk, dance and americana), with additional events showcasing literature, film, comedy, theatre and poetry. 2015 saw 1,500 multi-arts acts perform across 17 stages.
Festival Place car park. Festival Place is also home to The Breeze, located in the centre management block. The Breeze FM is Basingstoke & North Hampshire's local radio station. Festival Place is 102,000 m² (1.1 million square metres) in size. The area of Basingstoke which Festival Place now stands on was cleared in the 1960s where a large concrete shopping centre was built. The first phase, which became "The Walks" and New Market Square was completed at the end of the decade and "The Walks" was covered in the 1987. The second phase became "The Malls" and has since been altered further