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Only kidding. I'll probably wear a suit that matches my mask.
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I know this is my first ever post here but whatever.. To the people that were bitching about the size, the queues etc etc can they please shut the fuck up? What the hell are you taking about "populist approach" and "glastonbury unsigned tent"?? There were only 6,000 people at ATP, not the 200,000 that arrive at galstonbury.. What other festival are you going to get to see all these bands (this is just an excuse to post what I saw myself)
Friday: Ashtray Navigations, Nurse With Wound, Hive Mind, Deerhoof, Iggy & The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Dead C Saturday: The New Blockaders And The Haters, The Melvins, Deerhoof (again!),Hair Police, Mats Gustaffason & EYE, Corsano/Flaherty/Yeh, 16 Bitch Pile Up, Leslie Keffer, MV/EE & The Bummer Road, Comets On Fire Sunday: Bark Haze, Aaron Dilloway, The Skaters, My Cat Is An Alien, Wolf Eyes, Negative Approach, Six Organs Of Admittance, No-Neck Blues Band, MC5, Sunburned Hand Of The Man Glastonbury-lite? Yeah right.. |
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I think Moshe's being a bit shy... Come on Moshe, I know your ATP stories, and they need to be shared with the rest of the board...
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Why thank you screamingskull... it's nice to know that I can still turn a head or two :) I have to say that it was really, really great to meet some fellow boardies... and it was a real shame that we didn't get a chance to hang out more... (Whorefrost I hope that your journey home wasn't too nightmarish!... also I meant side C of Melbourne Direct and not side B.) Peace and love to you all! (fuck I've turned into a hippy now...) |
I just realised sonicl reminds me of the bad guy from "roger rabbit"....argh!
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Must have been one of the best times I ever had. So many highlights I don’t know where to begin. It was really cool to meet other board members.
Sonicl – what a super cool guy. If it wasn’t for him I don’t think we would have mange to meet each other. Thanks for everything. Greenlight – you wouldn’t believe how much this guy eats and still stays thin :) Tris 1979 – well, you don’t snore but you do speak in your sleep. Too bad I can’t understand French :) John boy –Thanks for financing the first word of my book :) The rest of the guys seem so nice: Pokkeherrie,Toilet, Nefeli, Whorefrost, o o o, Bastian,Toxic Johnny,Naomi, Jennthebenn,Pantophobia, Iain and simpsonic. I wish I had more time to speak with you. Maybe we could do that in the forthcoming Ecstatic ATPeace (2007 U.S. or Japan)? One other boardie I was really happy to meet was Lee is Free. He managed to get me a backstage pass. While the others where waiting in long lines I was chatting with Deerhoof (cool guys), Nels Cline ( a big SY fan who was so happy to hear candle) and with the sonic dudes. It was so cool sitting next to Kim on the side of the stage watching the Dinosaur gig. She seemed to enjoy it so much. I think that the Dino/ Lee collaboration was a last minute thing. Saw Lee and Lou talking about it a few moments before the show started. Maybe it was some inside joke (Lee was laughing about it). I was feeling like a teenage groupie but I enjoyed every minute of it. Sonicl and I met Steve and Lee a couple of time and they were so friendly. They laughed when I told them I know the sonic youth news before they do. They said they know it all but they can spread the word like I can before it is all confirmed. As for sonic news, we got this info: Steve is working hard on the DDN deluxe edition and there are early plans to release a soundtracks box set. The sub pop single never happened. Steve “accused” me of National Inquirer reporting :). Music highlights: The Stooges (twice), SY (twice) –second show was way better, Ibold told me they felt a little rusty for the first show, seemed to me that Thurston was too excited from the whole thing. Dead C were great but too long for that time of the night. other great acts: Deerhoof, Wolf eyes, Corsano/falherty/Yeah, Gustafson/Eye, Dino Jr. (twice), Bark haze and sunburned which were a perfect way to end the festival. |
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But I can't believe you missed the bit of news that Steve told about joining Melvins... |
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well at times Barry Hogan can be a little over ambitious, in choosing certain acts on some stages, Deerhoof was a big suprise with that line just weird math at times, 6000 people, 2800 capcity main stage, non-wristband specific bands like Dinosaur, Gang of Four but he pulled it off and deerhoof, dinosaur, melvins and gang of four all had second sets, and thats the point |
My only disappointment of the whole weekend was being unable to see Bardo Pond. Perhaps some sort of official wristband exchange system could have been set up so that people could know where to find people who wanted to swap.
Apart from that, no complaints at all. |
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you guys seem to have had so much fun wish i could have been there too. |
^this was the "envious" post
now the angry one - a big BOOHH to all you atp-fuckers who bought all the Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals CDs and LPs, they haven´t had any left in Brussels |
It wasn't me. I bought a Clint Takeda CDR.
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Well, he said it is not official and it is only for the melvins spring tour. I didn't understand if they going to have 3 drummers on the stage or he is going to replace one of the drummers. |
He was talking about stages having to be strengthened, so I assumed it was going to be three drummers.
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No, no, from what I remember that was a light-hearted cuntishness, which was fairly common across the festy. There were a specific few who were crossing the line from, "He's wearing a silly hat, he's up for a laugh" to "Let's be cunts to this guy". |
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http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/m...cle2070377.ece
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Butlins, Minehead  It's Butlins - but not as we know it By David Pollock Published: 13 December 2006 The name of this innovative winter festival from the people behind springtime's All Tomorrow's Parties very nearly became reality, had it not been for some tireless last-minute reorganisation. It was held in Minehead's Butlins holiday camp off season, and the task of ensuring that a few thousand bedraggled alternative rock fans saw each headliner, spread over three rooms, was always going to be tricky. The anticipated demand for the main draws, Sonic Youth and The Stooges, allied with a main hall of insufficient capacity, meant that both had always been scheduled to play two separately-ticketed gigs across the weekend. However, unforeseen rushes for acts such as Gang of Four and Dinosaur Jr - hundreds were locked out as the former played on the Saturday night - meant that the first ATP Festival here (having moved from Camber Sands in Sussex) came dangerously close to disastrous. Fortunately, some swift negotiations with the bands which led to four other acts playing second gigs themselves meant that those who were disappointed first time round got to see everyone. It was testament to the solidarity at this most fan-orientated of festivals. With such potential catastrophe averted, the weekend proved to be memorable for all the correct reasons. Programmed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, the line-up revealed his predilections or classic psych-rock and post-punk alternative bands, and for modern-day avant-garde and experimental outfits. Indeed, it was perversely amusing to see signs that proclaimed this particular Butlins' history of pop acts such as Liberty X, A1 and Romeo while on the way to witness such mind-expanding aural experiences as the caterwauling San Franciscan rockers Deerhoof, the subtly expansive post-folk of Charalambides, or the riotous and surely semi-ironic electro-punk drone of Wolf Eyes. To recommend any of these bands to partisan fans of the supposedly "alternative" guitar music in vogue in the UK would surely be a fool's errand. In their own way, each sounds like a science-fiction approximation of what music might sound like in the dystopian far future, and what many of the 40-odd such names on the bill lacked in discernible commercial appeal they made up for with wildly interesting experiments in tone and musical structure. Even Nurse with Wound, one of the more dizzyingly inspiring projects on the bill with a Dada-inspired combination of ambient soundtracks and lithe avant-funk, have managed to remain resolutely unknown for almost three decades. Fortunately for the more casual attendee, Moore's taste in older music is less potentially exclusive. Recently-revived English post-punks Gang of Four are a revelation, providing an energetic and eminently danceable collection of almost-lost classics. "At Home He's a Tourist", "Damaged Goods" and "Anthrax" were among the highlights of the weekend, as was Dinosaur Jr's "Freak Scene" - although one's enjoyment of the grunge linchpins may have been decided by an individual taste for loud, feedbacking guitars. The Saturday set by Sonic Youth came close to earning the description "legendary". Moore has been known to let his eclectic tendencies overwhelm his own band, but this show was an utter crowd pleaser. A few songs from the definitive Daydream Nation album - including the magnificent "Teenage Riot" - elicited a joyous reaction from an otherwise somewhat brow-furrowed crowd. Yet it was possible to upstage the hosts, as The Stooges demonstrated. Iggy Pop remains an icon in motion, a complete rock-and-roll performer whose years don't dim his magnetic excitement. He launched himself into the red-strobed sweat-pit time and again during "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and ordered a stage invasion before "No Fun". DKT/MC5 - the recently revived and still-entertaining incarnation of Pop's contemporary MC5 - couldn't help but suffer in comparison with such elemental force. Shell-shocked festival-goers clearly felt that any amount of queuing was worth it to witness such a primal display of definitive, empowering performance. The name of this innovative winter festival from the people behind springtime's All Tomorrow's Parties very nearly became reality, had it not been for some tireless last-minute reorganisation. It was held in Minehead's Butlins holiday camp off season, and the task of ensuring that a few thousand bedraggled alternative rock fans saw each headliner, spread over three rooms, was always going to be tricky. The anticipated demand for the main draws, Sonic Youth and The Stooges, allied with a main hall of insufficient capacity, meant that both had always been scheduled to play two separately-ticketed gigs across the weekend. However, unforeseen rushes for acts such as Gang of Four and Dinosaur Jr - hundreds were locked out as the former played on the Saturday night - meant that the first ATP Festival here (having moved from Camber Sands in Sussex) came dangerously close to disastrous. Fortunately, some swift negotiations with the bands which led to four other acts playing second gigs themselves meant that those who were disappointed first time round got to see everyone. It was testament to the solidarity at this most fan-orientated of festivals. With such potential catastrophe averted, the weekend proved to be memorable for all the correct reasons. Programmed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, the line-up revealed his predilections or classic psych-rock and post-punk alternative bands, and for modern-day avant-garde and experimental outfits. Indeed, it was perversely amusing to see signs that proclaimed this particular Butlins' history of pop acts such as Liberty X, A1 and Romeo while on the way to witness such mind-expanding aural experiences as the caterwauling San Franciscan rockers Deerhoof, the subtly expansive post-folk of Charalambides, or the riotous and surely semi-ironic electro-punk drone of Wolf Eyes. To recommend any of these bands to partisan fans of the supposedly "alternative" guitar music in vogue in the UK would surely be a fool's errand. In their own way, each sounds like a science-fiction approximation of what music might sound like in the dystopian far future, and what many of the 40-odd such names on the bill lacked in discernible commercial appeal they made up for with wildly interesting experiments in tone and musical structure. |
Even Nurse with Wound, one of the more dizzyingly inspiring projects on the bill with a Dada-inspired combination of ambient soundtracks and lithe avant-funk, have managed to remain resolutely unknown for almost three decades. Fortunately for the more casual attendee, Moore's taste in older music is less potentially exclusive. Recently-revived English post-punks Gang of Four are a revelation, providing an energetic and eminently danceable collection of almost-lost classics. "At Home He's a Tourist", "Damaged Goods" and "Anthrax" were among the highlights of the weekend, as was Dinosaur Jr's "Freak Scene" - although one's enjoyment of the grunge linchpins may have been decided by an individual taste for loud, feedbacking guitars.
The Saturday set by Sonic Youth came close to earning the description "legendary". Moore has been known to let his eclectic tendencies overwhelm his own band, but this show was an utter crowd pleaser. A few songs from the definitive Daydream Nation album - including the magnificent "Teenage Riot" - elicited a joyous reaction from an otherwise somewhat brow-furrowed crowd. Yet it was possible to upstage the hosts, as The Stooges demonstrated. Iggy Pop remains an icon in motion, a complete rock-and-roll performer whose years don't dim his magnetic excitement. He launched himself into the red-strobed sweat-pit time and again during "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and ordered a stage invasion before "No Fun". DKT/MC5 - the recently revived and still-entertaining incarnation of Pop's contemporary MC5 - couldn't help but suffer in comparison with such elemental force. Shell-shocked festival-goers clearly felt that any amount of queuing was worth it to witness such a primal display of definitive, empowering performance. |
Tons of photos here:
http://stodgy.com/photos/ATP06/index.html and here: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/2006atp.php |
thanks for those moshe and everyone else.
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ha, the lady I was sharing a chalet w/ is in one of the crowd shots from the Ecstatic Peace site
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That's becuz she's HOT :D
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Moshe's female Israeli friend.
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i remember her yes.
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I only got back this morning from spending 10 days in London/ATP, watching gigs from bands who also played at ATP every night since the 4th; december 5th being the only day with no live music at all. I haven't slept at all last night and I'm completely knackered, but I'm too restless to go to bed right now and I still have a gig to go to later on tonight... and then tomorrow and Saturday there's still State X New Forms to finish it all off! :eek:
Saw so many gigs that my hearing's been going numb for the last week; met so many people that if I'd try mentioning them all then I'm sure I'd forget a few; had such a great time that I don't really know where to start or what to write.. .and I'm so fucking tired that I barely even have the energy to read this thread. I don't want to forget anyone, so I'll just say that everyone's I've met has been really kind. My chalet members are all lovely people and I want to thank Toilet&Bowels (plus girlfriend and housemates) in particular because they were all so kind to provide a place to sleep during my entire stay in London. ATP itself was a really really great weekend; it just went by so incredibly fast... Don't have any complaints really... I guess the queueing was a bit stressful, but it barely affected my festival experience because I was mostly at the smaller stages that were without queues pretty much most most of the time... and because of the queues and bands playing twice due to those I actually got to see a great show by Gang of Four whom I otherwise probably wouldn't have bothered about seeing. They played an extra show right after Sonic Youth and just like the Stooges they showed that not every band reunion has to be shit... The only advantage from the old venue at Camber Sands over the one at Minehead was that it was much easier to check out everything because there were only two stages and they were both in the same building.. queueing up outside in the late night December winds without wearing a jacket to see Bardo Pond was a nightmare before Christmas for real! I might post some pictures later, although I guess there's already been tons of those posted by otheres here and elsewhere. I'll also have a few recordings to share later on, when my bearded man in London can find some spare time. |
i really want to hear some of your recordings man. post them as soon as you can and get some sleep!
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i gave them all of to the bald-headed bearded board member who never posts who's going to do the transfers for me, but l'll post them all here when i get them back. i didn't even have time to listen to everything, but the bark haze one sounded quite nice i think.
i should go to bed now but i'm affraid that if i do so now that i won't be able to wake up and go see flaherty/corsano/yeh in a couple of hours... i'll save it up for after that... nice meeting you, jon boy. |
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