That is all.

i hurt less that after last week's.

broken social scene made me feel amazing. okkervil river ("this is a song about MURDER!" "wooooO!") were on fine form. animal collective... OH THE DRUMS! dinosaur jr were great. battles were incredible. so were the octopus project. ...trail of dead slayed my face and if they don't make another great record i will cry. the drumming game in the arcades has destroyed my thumbs. i now have a user account on the golf game in the sports bar. i don't suck at bowling as much as i thought i did, although i do still suck. chalet raves are fucking hilarious, as is the sight of jamie summers losing it after two ciders and some andrew wk and running around with a box on his head. not having both ATP channels blows. drinking baileys and watching baseball until 4am is definitely the way to end a festival. david whathisfacesilverjews is like a drugged up college professor. did i mention broken social scene? leaving ATP makes me sad.

Bands that were AWESOME = Saul Williams, BTTLS, EITS, Mono, BSS and others too

Things that were awesome = Sunny day on Sunday! Swimming! Flumes! Picnic on the beach! Meating nice people! Getting drunk and dancing like a moron to bttls and the field! Watching Back To The Future drunk! 1.21 Gigawatts!!! etc

Things that weren't so good = Being ill most of the time. Not meating as many people as I would have liked. Not finding/getting invited to any chalet parties. Leaving.

kthxbed.

tang!

extreme Dino Jr. moshing

Okkervil River awesomeness!!! (the bassist!!! I want him as my friend.)

Jens Lekman was lovely

getting just a bit emotional in BSS

getting lost on the beach at 1am when the tide went ALL THE WAY OUT

having a burger king and suddenly realising I was sat next to Animal Collective

It was all brill though..... I only got a bit bored during Mono.

OH AND THE FIELD!!!!

were (was?) amazing, didn't think I'd make it through the set due to extreme knackerdness but ended up dancing like a goon anyway. Jens Lekman was brilliant too.

Does anyone know when details about Nightmare Before Christmas are gonna appear? I know it's ages away, but I need something to look forward to, to stave off post-ATP depression!

but it was brilliant as ever, all sort of ended just as i started really getting into it though.

the idiot security guards during dinosaur jr's second set was the only negative for me.

for me were trail of dead, polvo (i think im alone here), the national, papier tigre, bttls, stars of the lid (lying on the floor).

let downs: atlas sound (love the album but wasnt happening live.), explosions, mono (poor sound for both.), dinosaur jnr (mr j mascis still manages to make the biggest guitar rig ever sound like a fart.)

were the National, having only heard one album once (maybe twice) I was impressed. Broken Social Scene were amazing. Battles on saturday night despite having a t-shirt ruined by glowsticks. nuts quiz. saul williams. chalet rave. wince on the dance game. silver jews. seeing eits for the first time.

Sunset Rubdown were awesome, as were Ghost and Raekwon - super entertainment. Polvo (although short) weren't far from brilliant and World's End Girlfriend was the perfect start to the day.

Low points...Phosperescent - why put this kind of stuff on so late?? The verging on rascist dickhead guy shouting 'fried chicken' and 'aaah shit!' after everything Raekwon said...if you are reading this, you suck big time.

my first atp and it was awesome

best bands - jens lekman, i love him so much. broken social scene were amazing as were eits. de la soul were ace, the field last night were ace, the national were really good, silver jews, stars of the lid and battles also. basically most of the stuff i saw was good

other high points: brendan canning raving his face off at the front for the field, sneaking in huge amounts of gin, the weather on sunday, dancing in crazy horse on friday night

yaytp.

I think we'll definitely be going back.

Great things (other than a real bed!showers!clean loos!) = eits, Broken Social Scene, Trail of Dead and the sun coming out on sunday. Oh, and the bizarre confused coach driver to minehead that kept telling us about the mystery tours he usually does for OAPs.

Bad things = sitting through the incredible horrible dullness of Lichens only to get kicked out and not get to see Battles at all over the weekend :/ would have been nice to have at least had a warning.

Beach House - my band of the weekend. Just incredible. I completely geeked out in front of Victoria later when i bought a t-shirt and Devotion on vinyl... free cupcake!

Jens Lekman - as ever. Seeing him again on Wednesday, third time in two weeks.

Dinosaur Jr. - Yes.

Phosphorescent - especially the last song.

Ghostface Killah - Solo set I thought a little better. Especially inviting all the girls on stage and launching straight into 'Greedy Bitches'. Amazing.
Silver Jews - so funny.

Animal Collective vibrating me to death.
Broken Social Scene - enough to bring a tear to your eye at the end.

Going batshit crazy to Battles and Envy (whoever told me to see them, thank you) and subsequently having to sit down for The Field.

Sunset Rubdown battling through despite problems. 'The Mending Of The Gown' slayed almightily.

Tony Teardrop - their first ever live show! Considering that, they were pretty great. Those songs are little nuggets of brilliance to come.

Watching Ghostface's entourage pushing t-shirts on speccy white boys.

Seeing Saul Williams EVERYWHERE.

Being a mastar at pirate ship crazy golf.

And my ultimate highlight- winning a crappy plastic care bear keyring from the 2p machines in the arcade.

Good: TOD, World's End Girlfriend, Battles, Animal Collective, Saul Williams, Explosions, De LA Soul, The National...chatting with TOD and Saul Williams staying 4 chalets up from us.

Bad: Polvo (as it felt tiresome and long winded, the opposite to what I had been expecting), being too tired, and missing the DIS meetup because I went for a cigarette, and they disappeared.

Highlights: The National, Trail of Dead, Octopus Project, Ghostface all amazing in thier own little way.

Lowlights Getting thrown out and having a Police cortion at 6PM Sunday for being overly obvious whilst getting a little bit high. That sucked a whole lot actually.....

what a weekend! hightlights for me being battles, bss with dinasaur jr and explosions and various other people on stage (dispite them coming on late and only playing for just over an hour) , worlds end girlfriend was ACE, hawk n a hacksaw, trail of dead was pounding! not as chaotic as in the past but good none the less, mono rocked! erm theres lots more but i need to sleep first before it will all come back

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE were perfection, just amazing... oh my god. So happy, it was worth the money simply for Anthems of a 17 year old girl.
Battles, of course
hawk and the hacksaw
lichens... interesting
being followed by dinosaur jr

lowlights

missing tony teardrop
getting so 'messy' that I have no memory from hawk and the hacksaw to battles on saturday
rude people
battles on Sunday-
CAN YOU PLEASE LEAVE, THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT
I have a ticket
WELL YOU NEED TO GO OUTSIDE
why?!
'COS I SAID.
finnegans chip bar >:(

good: successfully navigating getting to the fa cup final and back on saturday, 45 hours with no sleep, we lost but it was worth it. still got to see stars of the lid.

good bands: jens lekman. silver jews. animal collective. envy. stars of the lid. octopus project. the drift. mono. four tet. battles. de la soul.

bad band: the paper chase.

mistakes: pre-mixing a bottle of whiskey and coke and having to drink it all before getting in to centre stage. you only do that once.

regrets: having to miss trail of dead, the national, hawk/hacksaw etc due to cup final attendance. not making more effort to get into BSS' set.

i want a third ATP next weekend. primavera will do, though.

I am home and still on a high. Not from crack, but from the joys of my first ATP.

Highlights? Probably that I got to have a shower and sleep in a bed.

Lowlights? Spilling a bit of my cheap Cornetto replacement on me.

Can anyone remember ALL the songs played on Friday by Dinosaur Jr?

Will definitely be coming back.

Highs: Jens Lekman (about as much fun and hotness as i could take on a sunday afternoon. The Cellist! Best set of the weekend. and he really needs to release the extended version of Postcards from Nina as an EP or something.)

Broken Social Scene - Absolutely stunning barring one to many Spirit If songs, and J. Mascis masturbating on stage for 5 minutes. Anthems, KC Accidental, Superconnected were all absolutely fucking stunning. Amy Milan ftw.

The National - Mr. November! ripped my throat to shreads with this.

Beach House - Victoria Legrande does strange, strange things to me.

Okkervil River - so good, second best performance of the weekend. The bassist was gold.

Battles - So glad i persevered and stayed in the ridiculous queue on Sunday, only at ATP could i ever imagine a crowed that beig going universally nuts to a song like Atlas. And John Stanier is NOT human.

Lows -

Hawk and a Hacksaw, just not for me, i can't see the appeal at all.

Animal Collective - Wanted Feels era material.

EitS - Too long, just was a bit meh in places. The climax to their last song (can't remember what it was) shook me to the very core though.

All in all, really amazing weekend, so many odd things happening, water slides, unknown girls turning up and sleeping in our chalet, spending far too much on merch, ants, eating loads but no meals.

Roll on NBC.