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fuck. i dont think any atp i've been to before has had so many incredible musicians at it.
squarepusher x 2 with live drummer
farmers market = omg
zu so so so good
MELVINS MELVINS MELVINS loudest kick drum sound i've ever heard
mastodon
MELVINS/MASTODON BIGBAND! they played The Bit with three drummers and i almost died of happiness
monotonix = utter mayhem and i need pictures
boss hog were great
fantomas was really great fun, great atmosphere
kontakte very good indeed
generally the atmosphere was brilliant, really good attentive crowds
bohren, the locust, tweak bird all great
i'm probably forgetting some other big highlights but my body and brain are dying.
was very cool to meet a lot of new people there and to see a bunch of people i hadn't seen for a while. May atp weekends can't come quick enough.
also the 95% finished atp film premiered and is brilliant, can't wait to see it again.
also
for those that mocked me all weekend here's the proof that that utter twat dave grohl doesn't believe in aids:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/02/foo.html
sounds super!
how was it without the Pavilion?
better
but they sucked you in with more ten p machines!
sounds splendid!
how did it go without the pavilion?
fine
no problems whatsoever.
yeah so my brower went mental and i thought it didn't work the first time
I prefered it I think
There were only queues when the empty rooms became open but they vanished quickly.
Melvins /Mastodon big band?!
I cry. And my favourite Melvins track too!
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Definitive, immutable Top 3
3) Mastodon/Melvins Big Band
2) Farmers Market
1) Zu. Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu Zu.
were you there?
were you? is that why i didnt see you this weekend?
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...where did you think I went?
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monotonix = http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q90/idlehanz/DSC00309.jpg
i'm one of the people holding up the drum :D
hahahaha, amazing!
We couldn't get outside for this
It was at the point where the security freaked out and locked us all inside. "You can't come out until you go back in."
I'm so tired
I want to cry but I can't get to sleep. WOE! Staying up and getting the 7am bus was an inspired idea mind, despite the 90 min wait for a train.
I have to say, musically that was one of the most consistant ATPs I've been to. I liked about 90% of the bands I saw.
Highlights:
Boss Hog - Fulfilling a ambition of the past 8 or so years for me. And they played 'I Dig You'
Bohren - Great great great and perfect for my hangover blues
Damned - Surprisingly brilliant
Dirtbombs - Great fun, should have been on later in the evening though.
Monotonix - Insane, probably wouldn't give them two thoughts on record but they were superb. Shame that dickhead tackled the guy from ATP when he told them to stop playing outside.
Dalek - Mesmerising
TARAF DE HAIDOUKS! Had me grinning like an idiot.
Fennesz - Beautiful, wish he played longer.
The ATP film is brilliant - and I'm in it!
Declan's DJ sets all 3 nights
Not so good stuff:
Butthole surfers
Falling asleep in my chalet and completely missing the Black heart procession
Managing to miss Fantomas and Squarepusher despite them both playing twice
The aforementioned wait for the train this morning
Amazing weekend. I can't miss an ATP ever.
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Supplementary: Afterburner Climax for Best Arcade Game. You put £1 in, and you get like, 70 lives. The seat moves. And it reminds me of the little mullet kid from Terminator 2.
I hope you wore your seatbelt.
I won 100 tickets on Deal or No Deal. If the prize place was open i could be the proud owner of a Postman Pat sharpener/eraser pack.
I agree, Afterburner Climax was pretty damn cool, but...
Out Run 2 SP - Definitely the best arcade game - only 50p a go, you can have head-to-head in some classic ferraris, get smacked by "yo' beatch" and powerslide sideways round the most tame bend, making you look like some driving supremo! I did have a go on afterburner but I think it made me look less of an accomplished pilot than I am. And I'm not very accomplished.
Why were Buttholes bad?
rubbish!
Even if the Buttholes were shit I bet they were still great. As for the other amazing bands, double rubbish. Should have gone. Though I do have a slightly healthier wallet now. Which one for May is the question now...
i liked them on saturday
very much indeed. they were gloriously silly.
less fun on the sunday. admittedly i was wiped out by that point but still.
fantomas made everything in life seem a little better. i felt for the poor guy from minehead. mike patton, how do I love thee? let me count the ways.
All good apart from being by myself a lot of the time and getting my foreskin stuck in my zippers
Loved Fennesz, Zu, Buttholes, Mastodon/Melvins, Fantomas and the delay on the main stage which made it easier to see most of Dalek, Mastodon, Black Heart Procession and Melvins although by the time Kool Keith was meant to be on The Damned were still playing and with that stupid early coach i could't be bothered to wait up.
i'd rather be on my own and see bands like that
than sat in a chalet with a load of stoners 'partying' and talking shit while missing all the action
Seeing the bands alone was fine but finding stuff to do between some of them.
Also, my chalet werent stoners, they just wanted to watch tv and eat when there was a band they didn't know on.
Also, add Teenage Jesus (or Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore and Jim whats his face from Grinderman/Bad seeds performing Teenage Jesus songs) to the list of good stuff.
And the Guitar Solo for the cover of Hotel California by Vocal Sampling!
link
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=80UevGcOmGc
Anyone make it through to Double Negative this morning?
I was far too ruined by that stage.
A really enjoyable weekend. My highlight was probably the member of Butlins staff freaking out during Monotonix "That's it, I'm closing the venue. They're fucking animals the lot of 'em." (and then locked us inside the venue).
I also played a lot of bingo.
double negative were okay,
ended with a cover of straight edge.
kool keit was good fun, squarepusher amazing on the sunday but i wimped out at about 3:45 and went to bed
I really enjoyed Double negative
The crowd were going buts
er... *nuts
:D
Double negative were ace!
the perfect way to end the festival, even if I did get chucked out halfway through for trying to crowdsurf.
I felt bad for Leila
It might have been better to have her on later, and I can't imagine she was happy with the sound cutting out...
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Ah, so that wasn't intentional. Glitchcore Babe Hoist By Own Petard. Shame. She was alright, but I just don't have time for technical difficulties.
Also: I just remembered, the undisputed highlight of ATP was actually the showing of Spider Baby. THE END. ?
oh man!
spider baby was awesome!
I thought ATP TV was pretty ropey this time
Not sure whether there was a TV guide floating around anywhere, but any time we turned on, there were just bizarre, not even ironically funny films...
Bottom was on a lot as well.
That hardly matters though does it?
Ok - someone asked whats it like without the Pavillion?
Bit confused - whats the set-up this time? Am going to Fans one in May...
Centre, Reds and about 3/4 bands played Crazy Horses over the weekend.
Merch now where the Pavillion stage was.
it was just centre stage, reds and crazy horse. we dropped the capacity
by about 1500 to fit everyone in. however we should be using the pavilion again in may.
I thought it worked fine,
but I've no idea why people were starting to queue an hour before bands started. Were people turned away from venues at any point?
Nope!
You could turn up about a minute before the band was about to start and then get straight in. It didn't seem like people needed to queue at all really
^ Yeah this.
We never stood around in a queue for very long, and only missed a couple of songs if we did come a little late, wasn't long to get in. Beats waiting around for 45 minutes in a line beforehand.
aye, but i didn't want to tell the queuers that
cos then they might actually have been queuing when I turned up (similarly to you, 2-3 minutes before a band was due to start.
I don't think I missed anyone due to queuing actually. Good job ATP.
They showed 'Cruising' -
win in my book
Did they? That's really weird.
A friend mentioned Cruising after he noticed I was wearing a red hat in my back pocket. Oh dear.
will someone tell me what this film is?
please, thank you.
THANKS A LOT, PEOPLE
The ATP film?
The one that's been in the works for a couple of years.
http://www.myspace.com/atpfilm
my favourite atp
set up was definitely better than previous. great bands, chalet gigs and a monotonix invasion of the area outside reds. what's not to love?
No love for Teenage Jesus?
They were amazing, Lydia is just wonderful.
Neil Hamburger! Especially loved the Yo La Tengo and Smashmouth jokes.
Kontakte and Bernard Parmegiani were incredible,exactly the type of stuff i'd like to see more of at ATP.
Vocal Sampling were an unexpected delight, the Police cover was incredible!
Also loved Butthole Surfers, The Locust, Zu, Monotonix, Rahzel, Fantomas and Bottom on ATP TV!
Squarepusher was ridiculously dull, his new stuff is really kitschy.
Teenage Jesus
were so good I saw then twice
"When you're this fucking ugly you better be perfect"
I loved Squarepusher
on Saturday night, much less chinstroking than I imagined he'd be. The Hamburger/Rahzel/Squarepusher trilogy was some of the best times I've ever had at a gig.
It was the drumming weekend really, virtually every band had either a shit-hot drummer or a dual setup. The dirtbombs were one of my big surprises, something like Andrew WK fronting a garage band (loved the ending too).
So much great stuff all weekend with none of the queuing problems/confusion I feared (I walked straight in both nights for Fantomas even whilst wearing a Sunday only wristband). Monotonix outside is probably my favourite moment, shame the chaos couldn't go on longer.
friggin
amazing! Butthole surfers were great both times, they played my favourite song EVER 'Edgar' AND then we met Gibby outside and he was really friendly and then Buzzo popped along for a chat. Monotonix obviously amazing, I was like 'hate it when bands play on the floor, no cunt can see' and then 10 seconds into them I was all 'FUCKING LOVE IT WHEN BANDS PLAY ON THE FLOOR!' He drank my snakebite and spat it everywhere and then jumped right on me from the kick drum. Great great scenes. Melvins were fab, better the Sunday night I reckon, maybe by chemical enhancements. I keep on forgetting about Isis who were also great, and really good set. All good! PLEASE don't ever use the pavilion! The set up with the stages was perfect. Don't really see the point in chucking everyone out though, I reckon you snooze you lose, if you really want to see a band you'll make sure you get in. ROLL ON MAY!!
Teenage jesus
were fucking incredible. Most old bands who reform just seem to be going through the motions but they were so raw and still are quite scary.
AWESOME
my DIS review should hopefully be done tomorrow, or whenever my ability to write/think/talk/feel returns.
Anyone here end up in the drum party in Holicote Village S2 on Saturday? Absolutely amazing, I know the first guy with the beard was the drummer from Torche 'coz he told me so, but did anybody know who the British guy drumming was? And anybody confirm that the guitarist was from Big Business?
I SLEEP NOW
S2
HA the chalet party was soooooo good. i was squished up against the tv watching the madness unfold and thinking 'awesome! awesome! awesome! AWESOME!'
i'm told there was another one in F4 [?] on sunday night but i was too wiped out by that point.
ha
F4 were the loons who turned up with basically an entire 70s disco - glitter ball, decks, smoke machine, fairy lights... THE WORKS. They were mental, we were in F12 and ended up chatting to them a fair bit, but basically they're huge ATP fans but weren't so into the line up this time (fools) so thought they'd have a permanent disco in their chalet. They disco-ed for at least 16 hours on Saturday, lots of people went there after the S2 party was broken up.
Don't think much was happening there late on Sunday, but we went out looking for something at 5am-ish and came across some sort of guerilla electronicy thing staged by the guy resposible for the drum party, dunno what chalet that was, stayed for about an hour, quite fun.
there was a chalet party
happening near Splash World when I left this morning, it looked ace. I wanted to stay :(
WE ARE NOT LOONS
And we will play *N Sync if we want to. Repeatedly.
you are loons
brilliant, brilliant loons. Top marks for festival oddity also offered to one guy we met outside Crazy Horse at about 4am last night - he had come to the festival on his own, was dressed as a bee, and was trying to convince us that Kool Keith was an imposter.
Arch loon crown goes to an American guy we met around the same time - he po-facedly informed us that he'd managed to catch "at least seven to ten minutes of every band, not including repeat sets"
Haha was that you?
I never saw you!
That S2 chalet party was right next door to one of our chalets, saw them all getting booted out the next morning. We had some overflow in our chalet that night, and someone locked the bathroom door before climbing out the window, after sticking all our loo roll in the bath and turning the shower on it. That's what you get for hospitality!
OMG is that you
Were you one of the boys dancing with no tops on? I LOVE YOU ALL. Best chalet party ever!!!
No, I didn't have any fairy lights, so I thought it would be a bit odd.
I was there
at s2 and yes it was the guy from Big Business. I think the britsh guy was just a random punter. I was one of the guys crowd surfing, it was so much fun.
That buy Jared from Big Business was ace. I bumped into him again about 5 on sunday night, off his face and by himself shouting through a megaphone and giving people beers.
so many bands, not enough time.
My sunday was just perfect. Vocal Sampling, Joe Lally, Farmers Market, Monotonix, Dalek, Mastodon, Melvins, Boss Hog, Double Negative. What a friking line-up. Saturday and friday were also amazing, pity about the short Fennesz set though. Also mildly annoyed I missed Zu and Dirtbombs.
Fennesz was
just finishing when I walked in 15 minutes before it was scheduled to end, most disappointed.
Did anyone see James Blood Ulmer or the Labeque Sisters?
Just got back.
Music-related highlights:
Monotonix - they were so entertaining that it more than made up for the fact that they sound like the Darkness.
Fantomas - super sweet
Zu, Zu, Zu, Zu
Kool Keith
Melvins
Meat Puppets. When they played the Nirvana songs and didn't sound like a bar band.
The second half of Leila's set. The first was heatbreaking.
Musical non-highlights:
Missing Squarepusher, Torche and Farmer's Market.
Mastadon. They were good, but sounded just a little underpowered, which was probably down to their guitarist being absent.
Butthole Surfers. It just didn't click.
Ghostdigital. Really, really awful. They sounded like the children of wealthy European industrialists who have decided to become squatters.
Non-Musical highlight:
The chalet party. Glitter balls, strobe lights, smoke machines, 50-0dd people (including Dalek), plus an A0 sized print of Hogarth's Gin Lane.
Hi to those I saw and spoke to. Sorry to those I saw and didn't speak to.
I need to sleep.
FORGOT
ABOUT TORCHE! INCREDIBLE!! Too much stuff to remember.
Oh...and why the fuck were there so many dreadlocks?? Disgusting.
False Buzzes as well
loads of em! Probably strategically placed decoys.
That Leila set was painful to watch. So much brokenness! Fair play to her for keeping it going. I probably would've stormed off in a huff after about five minutes
I stood in one queue and learned from my mistake
after getting in there and the room being empty! Was never a problem at all, you could get to see who you wanted, when you wanted; was brilliant!
I'm pretty sure I was at
that party
I think you must have been.
Hi!
I enjoyed
drinking that nice mans Pernod, dancing to Britney and meeting Fleetwood Mac fans at that party. Also so many people's faces seem to have melted off. Great.
its a shame
the meat puppets are so fond of their full on version of lake of fire. having said that, parts of their set were really really great
"I hate this festival"
That was the phrase on everyone's lips at Butlins this weekend.
- Dale Crover not in enough of the bands playing
- Neil Hamburger not funny, I can't believe ATP gave him £260,000 to appear! Also innocent people were hit with drinks. Fucking prick
- Squarepusher made my nose bleed
- Any bands that didn't feature Dale Crover were forced to play outside in the cold without a stage, here is my photo evidence:
http://nl.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10mq988&s=4
http://nl.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9gyl4n&s=4
Look at that poor man as he desperately begs God to let him inside the venue so he can give the ATP fans the show they so richly deserved but were sadly unable to experience.
- I had more fun watching people on the Elvis game and watching people play bingo (I don't gamble myself) than watching the 'bands' (one 'band' didn't even have instruments!)
- I didn't like the colours of the wristbands
On a positive note everyone I met seemed to be soldiering on bravely despite everything and trying to have a good time.
why aer those links in dutch and who are those dudes
I haven't had any sleep
because the chalets were so cold so it's hard to remember
did you go to morroco by accident instread of atp
I'm
going to look at the rest of my photos and check
yeah I did
man that sucks
even with the heaters turned on?
ours was lovely and toasty once we cranked those suckas up.
there were heaters?
Nooooo
um, yeah.
they were attached to the walls. like radiators.
gutted... haha
That whole thing was my poor idea of a joke
I had only had about one hour's sleep, cut me some slack hyar. I knew there were radiators. I thought the whole thing was fecking brilliant, best one yet. All that stuff Mike Patton picked that I hadn't heard before was amazing! Vocal Sampling! Junior Brown! TARAF DE HAIDOUKS! People were crowdsurfing and going mental for them, it was so good. I think Torche & Melvins & Meat Puppets were my favourites but I struggle to think of anything that was bad, apart from Leila but all of her equipment was fucked. When Terry Hall from the Specials came out and said 'Please take my life' I just felt terrible! Mad props to Dale Crover for being in every band and perfectly replicating Dave Lombardo without the aid of his silly massive metal kit. Mad props to Squarepusher for making me dance so much I started bleeding from the face.
Neil Hamburger was brilliant too although his drink throwing could do with a bit of target practice. AS HE LAY ON HIS DEATH BED,
Everyone new I met was ace too, including the Melvins forum people and the bloke from Torche. He really really likes Harvey Milk. "Creston is like Robert Johnson or something man!"
I will put photos up somewhere in a bit. If you were outside for Monotonix or Taraf De Haidouks you might be on them. Oh the excitement.
:D
Neil Hamburger was ace.
I had such a dreadful time
Can't believe it rained on me ONCE for about TWO MINUTES
FUCK THIS PLACE
Fuck it all!!!
atp have lost its totally
So many highlights
Fennesz was incredible..the whole atmosphere in reds was quite surreal, but playing arcades (and failing to execute a one-handed shotgun reload) while listening to him was so much fun.
I thought the Buttholes were great on saturday too. Much tighter than I would have thought. Oh, does anyone reckon Gibby still takes dr*gs?
Taraf De Haidouks! I think one of their guys thought my friend Fernando was a beggar, he kept on thrusting pound coins at him when we were leaving
Drinking gin with Dalek and trying to find a house-party with him on saturday night (he is one of the nicest men I think I have ever met in my life). You won't believe how many people came up to him thinking he was Kool Keith :-/
"Kool Keith being Kool Keith"
I'm sure there's loads more, but my mind needs rest. I think I had lots of fun.
twas fun
torche and mastodon.melvins big band were awesome.
photos will appear here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kukulaka/sets/72157610913108026/
oh yes
melvins on sunday....
:)
oh bad bit:
seeing somebody after they had just been run over by security. the whole thing was quite scary and hysterical.
I drank lager with Isis
WHO WINS?
You do
the gin was horrific
"If it had to be anybody, I'm glad it was you"
hmm, i'm quite tired
let's see.
the good:
fantomas
melvins
fennesz
kool keith
neil hamburger
isis
the bad:
the locust (utter, utter turd music. so shit).
kontakte (WANK WANK WANK WANK WANK WANK)
ghostigital
the ugly:
that horrible traffic jam on the a39 this morning caused by some stupid temporary traffic lights up the road.
i had bad drugs and went very sideways for a few hours on saturday night.
all the morons in attendance. there were many.
that traffic was a fucking headache
and agreed on the locust - pretty much the only band I did not enjoy of the weekend (kinda except Leila, but that's not fair on her given the problems... I do like the album a lot).
Well, depending on who you talk to, the problems with Leila's set might have been
as a result of her not knowing how to set up her own equipment.
I find that hard to believe given that she's an experienced producer who must know her way around her kit, but that's what a lot of the behind-the-scenes guys were saying.
considering how much locust type stuff i love, i don't understand why i don't understand them at all
Ditto with Locust...
Just, no. As for Leila, I hadn't heard her stuff before so apart from the nano-powercuts (which I knew must have been unintentional), I couldn't make up my mind if I was watching guitars so distorted that it was intentional or not? I was completely left without opinion one way or the other because it was pure white noise at times. If that's what she does then she was pretty damn good at it, but it just seemed wrong. It seems she actually had more gremlins than a mogwai-only swimming pool hosting "Good Food Live" at 12.05 am! Shame for her, as there were some flashes of brilliance, but I left after about 15 minutes of utter confusion.
had fun
but stuck mainly to the mainstage, only saw 3-4 bands in Reds and missed Melvins on Sunday. Was speaking to Gibby and my Glaswegian ramblings obviously may as well have been in Swahili judging by how much he could understand
lived on nothing but Pot Noodles with water boiled from the tap on my bathroom sink, I'll probably die in my sleep tonight
some highlights for me
Zu- what i saw of them very good
Fantomas - Very Good (sunday performance was even better)
Mugison - Great set that suited the ATP crowd
Locust - not that impressive
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Reall good live, went to both shows
Butthole Surfers - amusing
Melvins - great live
Meat Puppets - not that good
GhostDigital - very amusing, great electronic sound
Big Business - thoroughly enjoyable
Squarepusher - accidently stayed for the whole set, good to finish off the saturday night live acts
Dalek - really good
Crowdsurfers through windows
meeting batman
Wish I had Seen:
Bohren - missed due to lineup change
Kontakte
ATP Film
Leila
Leila
sadly had loads of technical difficulties- but if it hadn't been for those it would have been AMAZING.
Fucking great weekend - i sleep now. My photos probs be crap but check it later:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucylovestodance/
ZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
that was about the best thing, ever.
kool keith actually turning up and being really rather good.
melvins - loud loud loud.
lots of other really good stuff that i need about a day to remember, i'm going to bed.
Ha I didn't think anyone else I knew
went to Mugison, 'twas a great set.
i think whoever it was that said that the bands having faster songs made it go quicker was right :(
my highlights were:
Mastodon
Fantomas
Soph, Jake, Mike, John and Zakia making me a lovely birthday cake, even though Jake burnt it, and the icing wastoo sweet :D and then throwing a balloony party <3
manorexia was good, and nice to see some violins
NEIL FLAMING HAMBURGER - GENIUS!
Meat puppets, though it would have been good to have not had some stupid american twirp smoking next to us. Hollie asked him not to smoke next to her as she is asthmatic, but as he wasabsolutely trashed, he decided to argue, which turned into him shouting abuse in her face, and then pushing her, which i thought was just a bit out of order as he was taller than me, and clearly being a dick, so i grabbed him, and pushed him out of the way. he then stayed out of our way for a few minutes before lighting up again and starting off some more shouting before walking away, pushing my drink over me in the prcess, so i did what any sensible and celebratory drunk person would do, and threw the tiny bit of drink i had left at him as he walked off.
imagine my surprise and mild disgust when i found out that the guy turned out to be some wise guy singer in an otherwise rather good band called something like The Butth0le Surfers!! it got better when, at the beginning of their set, he mentioned having a fight with two girls, one of whom was a man, and that in the all too safe knowledge that he could defend himself by making his voice sound all scary and an octave lower with a little chaos pad, a smidgen of delay, and a weeeeeeeeoooooooorrrrrrooooooop noise, that he would welcome a fight, if the chap wanted to throw more stuff at him... (turns out he also punched a female security guard that morning) so i've decided i do like their music, but the guy is a complete arseparsnip, no in fact he's not even that, he's a pathetic little shít. oh well.
i like big business though...
squarepusher was good, i only heard about 25 mins, but he played the fuzzy songs from the new album in order, which is what i really wanted to hear this time anyway.
i did find the night time djing at the crazy horse a little too shoe gazey which i like, buit not when i want to dance with everyone :(
in conclusion, the reply box on drownedinsounddotcom is too small for me to be able to see most of what i've just written, so i'm just going to press post now.
Interesting
We were walking past the artists canteen and there was a situation going off with someone saying a woman had been hit in the face. As we walked up to the venue there were a load of security heading down that way.
i was walking out when the security guys ran past
the guy from the buttholes was just inside the boardwalk. some guys recognised him and started talking to him, the security guys ran past, he then said something i can't remember and said it was his fault they were running off down that way. i didn't really take it as much but it kind of puts it in context i suppose.
There were some twats smoking during Dalek too
they got ejected though thankfully. That sounds horrid though.
What a stupid thing to do
Lighting up a joint right in front of the security guards. Nice one.
yeah i saw
that guy being frog-marched out, what a dick.
that was you he was talking about?
amazing.
well, not really.
y'know.
probably the other fights he had, but still i can dream
ATP used to be very smokey before the ban
so at least now it's jus.t a few people at worst, it used to be up to about half of the room puffing away..
though it does stink so so so bad, i think i'd rather be choking
My first ATP and definitely not my last
Despite getting my glasses smashed, falling in a massive mud puddle, getting my drink spiked and missing Fennesz as a result, I had a ridiculously fun weekend. Highlights included The Locust, Fantomas, The Damned, Taraf De Haidouks, Vocal Sampling, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks and Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt. Other good things included the swimming pool, various chalet parties, the cinema, playing Dominoes and drinking wine with Vocal Sampling, meeting a few fellow DiSers (apologies for the outbursts of nonsense, I was still a bit confused), catching up with friends I haven't seen for ages and being really happy the whole weekend. This weekend has inspired me to get a ticket for ATP vs. The Fans, who's in?
T.I.R.E.D.
Great time had.
Gutted, tho, that I accidentally - through wine consumption/fatigue/my own damn stoopidity - missed a few key acts, most of which have had their praises sung above!
If anyone here was in the Irish Bar Sunday night - apologies for not playing on after 1am, but I was only meant to do 'til midnight! T'other guy didn't show. I did an extra hour but... was pretty knackered, and I wanted to see KOOL KEEEEET.
You played Shove It
I smiled. Lots.
Sorry for my in coherent ramblings on Saturday night. I only remembered it on Sunday morning when I saw you walking around and cowered my face in shame.
Shove it was AMAZE
dancing to that was FUN TIMES (although my feet had died in those boots after Friday and Saturday's intense dance sessions so albeit fun, rather painful...) - also trying to dance to Slint was an interesting experience... but worthy of joy.
so to sum up: Diver - your dj set was AMAZE. FACT. (and your wine was nice too)
that was you?
That was the best DJ set ever. I was grinning from ear to ear as you kept on dishing out awesome song after awesome song.
I meant to go hear more of that DJ set.
When we saw "Mike Diver" on the DJ list we thought "Hmm? 'spazz-core' party?", and got very excited, but then when we got there it was just some quiet, empty, well-lit, chilled-out little place which wasn't really the vibe we were after.
We said hi though.
Next time bring some volcano!
other than that, great DJing!
ALSO
Finding out that Pizza Hut guy was actually Stealthy made my day.
Highlights:
ZU
Monotonix
Tweek Bird
Fantomas
Dalek
Fennesz (too short a set though)
Generally being mashed all the time.
Not having the shit big stage
Talking shit at various DISers who I had only just met.
low points:
now. I am dying.
nope, thats one of the ones next may.
Bernard Parmegiani was my highlight.
The setup was spot on and the result was a womb-like experience. The sounds were incredibly interesting and evocative, and i think it might have started me on a journey of abstract sound-scape investigation. Pretty sweet.
hello
i had a fun time. not my favourite ATP ever but it's ATP and it's always going to be fun. also being ill for a lot of it sucked the big one, i felt so awful on friday night that i went to sleep after Big Business and only resurfaced when White Noise were playing. bleh.
melvins on sunday were totally mighty
so were fantomas
dalek was incredible and probably the best "new thing" i saw all weekend, it was so fierce and overwhealming
rahzel was brilliant, i wish i could beatbox
teenage jesus <3
really enjoyed meat puppets, far more than the records i've heard, i actually used the phrase "sweet guitar licks" at one point
am i the only one who actually liked ghostigital?
please don't let The Fuck Buttons DJ for sixteen hours again
who else was at the chalet party with Cove and then some guy playing drums on saturday night? that was amazing
also
i am never not getting a catering chalet again, that was an awful part. pizza hutt is so terrible, how can you people eat that rubbish and not feel horrible afterwards?
also also
the Deal or No Deal machine was the best thing ever
they moved the drumming game and silent scope to the arcade by the crazy golf and it closes really early :(
I'm sick now :(
we were at that party for a bit but just outside then abandoned ship for our chalet as it was next door - must have missed you there.
i saw james outside
he looked a bit tired and said "my bedroom is next to that wall"
after the band finished some guy started drumming and even more people poured in. i left at 4:30 as my friend greg was crowdsurfing...
Ha, I think he had about
3 hours' sleep max each night, nothing to do with parties next door.. don't feel too sorry for him :)
ghostdigital were so bad they were great
"my knickers don't smell, because i wear a thong"
As someone else commented, they could well have been a Chris Morris creation
When I say 'Marco', you say 'Fella'
i liked his Alan Titchmarsh-style sweater
That wasn't cove!
It was however the drummer from cove's other new band Bad Guys.
Good times
The good: ISIS - really enjoyed what i saw, In Fiction was maybe my favourite musical moment of the weekend
Neil Hamburger - much better than I thought he would be - I thought he'd be good, but it was really good.
Fantomas - thought this would be OK, but I actually really enjoyed it. Works well live.
Fennesz - gutted he finished 15 min early (there was a lot of this?), and I got there 20 minutes late, but I really enjoyed it, have to see him in london when he comes
Bernard Parmegianni was great, nice to lie back and enjoy to swirls, although he should have been an early morning (as in little hours) rather than early afternoon (Kontakte was also good in this vein)
Bohren - very good, although would have been better about 12 hours later
Squarepusher - drum and thrash bass? Unexpected but brilliant
Mastodon - glad I ended up missing the first performance, as I caught almost all the second one - 3 x drums, bass and 2 x guitars at the end
Big Business, Locust, Melvins, Meat Puppets, Monotonix (pronounced Mon Oh Tonn Icks) were all very watchable too
ATP TV - all the films Directors Cut is based on! brilliant. We randomly watched all of Fire Walk With Me (Twin Peaks prequel), which was great
Home cooking, and more importantly, home baking. Making that cake was so much fun Sophia.
Meeting everyone, as ever (although not everyone unfortunately)
The Sun and Moon for pub grub, and Crazy Horse as ever, although sunday night was brilliant
The Lazarus rising from various friends
Being pulled over by the police after literally 5 minutes of driving (on holloway road)
The Beach and the Belgians
The not so good: Leila - shame about technical problems, but that bloke singing was the final straw
Os Mutantes, Black heart Procession, James Blood Ulmer - just all very meh
plus
Car racing - UNLUCKY SPECTRUM
10p flipperoonie
air hockey/thwockie thwock
bowling - STRIKE STRIKE 6 HALF STRIKE STRIKE. You can touch me, I'm real.
but
no moccachino :(((((
good and bad:
good:
Troy Sanders asking me for a hug
Dance machine madness with Justin Pearson watching!111one! hunk!
Melvins
Torche
Trying to lift up the bass drum during Monotonix. AWESOME!
Isis being not completely boring
BAD:
Big Business were disappointing
Mike Patton really really hates me
Panic attacks so bedtime at 10 on Saturday
The Damned
Why does Mike Patton hate you?
I thought The Damned were brilliant.
Cos we were hassling him a bit on the Sunday
at the bar in Crazy Horse. You could see the look in his face 'great, drunk English kids annoying me, again...'
I'm sure he expects it though
My friends bumped into him outside the swimming pool and chatted to him for a bit. Apparently he was really nice and chatty. He did seem to be in high spirits when Fantomas were on.
he had a face like thunder on Sunday morning
That man is really pissed off! Whoa, it's Mike Patton!
Such a great weekend.
Highlights:
Torche (SO GOOD PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH)
Melvins both times (ALSO SO GOOD)
Vocal Sampling (PERFECT START TO THE DAY)
Bernard Parmegiani (WHAT A NICE MAN)
Neil Hamburger (THREW DRINKS IN MY GIRLFRIEND'S FACE)
Dalek (EVERY SONG WAS VERY SIMILAR BUT STILL GREAT)
Big Business (HOORAY)
Dirtbombs (ALL OTHER GARAGEY SOUL-TYPE BANDS SHOULD JUST QUIT)
White Noise (REALLY ENGAGING WHEN THEY WEREN'T PLAYING A BAD TECHNO BEAT)
Lowlights (not many):
Leila (DIDN'T LIKE WHAT I HEARD OF THE MUSIC or the ear-splitting technical mistakes or that dreadful singer man)
Os Mutantes (I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD)
Butthole Surfers (BAD SETLIST GUYZ)
Black Heart Procession (Way to make me miss the beginning of the 2nd Melvins set you plinky plonky men)
Kool Keith's dreadful freestyling ("Check the one, check the two, check the three, check the four, check... the... chicken... and get some... fries" OKAY KEITH) and gimpy sidekick
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
I
love Gibby Haynes and we were also smoking quite a bit in the venues. Oh well!
Keith's freestyling
is all part of his charm for me. I was half-expecting a phoned in performance but they put a good show on.
The first male singer for Leila was terrible, I did almost leave then but was happy that I stuck around - got much better near the end when there were a couple of Aphexy beats and Terry Hall did a spot.
Oh I forgot Os Mut was bad
Sort of not very psychedelic or weird like the records. It's always good when someone from a far off land goes 'Come on Mine-Head!' though
That BB song about you take the east i'll take the west is on the myspace now \m/
So much goodness
highs:
Butthole Surfers
Ghostdigital
Melvins
Mastodon
beef monster munch
Spider Baby
<3
Lowz:
dude from Butthole Surfers being a cunt
missing most of Fantomas
missing most of fantomas.. ouch
.
don't make me do a cry
:'(
this should help. a nice youtube tissue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-x2fWKbmo
<3
that helped.
On an aside: you're Oxford based? :o
I am indeed Oxford based
I live just off Cowley Rd
I see your Oxford based too, I moved there in sept.
how about you?
...
I too live just off Cowley. *stalks*
brilliant
I live near the Reagle.
are you my neighbour who walks up and down the stairs heavily?
I didn't see them either
but saw Monotonix and TARAF DE HAIDOUKS instead. So y'know, win.
what an awesome weekend!
Best bits:
MELVINS. MELVINS MELVINS. They were so fucking awesome
Seeing Mastodon twice and the second time being about 10 times more awesome than the first. King Buzzo! Three Drummers! Yeeha!
Torche - Incredible, plus the singer looked so happy the whole way through
Vocal Sampling, really really excellent. I phoned my mum during it and she texted back with "KOOL!" which i think sums it up nicely
Fantomas followed by Neil Hamburger followed by Rahzel - totally awesome, fantomas were brilliant, Neil Hamburger was simultaneously the worst and best thing at the festival (WHY NEIL??? WHY? WHAT?), and Rahzel was so much fun (I AM IRON MAN)
Monotonix - Shame their songs are so shit, my friend hit the cymbal into someones face.
The awesomely fast balkany bits of Farmers Market
Big Business - never heard them before, but they were awesome.
Isis being great and not boring as i thought they might be
Dirtbombs - lots of fun
Stealthy being mistaken for the man from the dirtbombs all the time :D
watching Spider Baby and The Omen on ATP TV. Excellent.
Lame Bits:
Kontakte - i know they're all avant garde and shit, but seriously. bore-o-rama. I actually fell asleep on the floor.
Missing Bohren, Teenage Jesus (by the time i remembered i was supposed to see them their set had finished ),Meat Puppets, Taraf De Haidouks, Squarepusher and everything after Melvins on Sunday when i crashed out.
The wanky jazz bits of Farmers Market
Butthole Surfers - meh
The headbanging man with dreadlocks at Isis who hit me in the face with one of them :'(
The massive traffic jams on the way to and from minehead
10 hour train journey to get home
al in all though, musically one of the best i've been to. It's a shame actually because i spent most of my time watching bands and not doing much else, so the weekend went really quickly :( here's to next years NBC!
You missed Bohren, Teenage Jesus AND Taraf De Haidouks?!
I feel sorry for you, they were all absolutely brilliant.
I know :(
i missed Taraf for Fantomas who were also awesome (and Fantomas clashed on sunday with Monotonix, who were...an unmissable experience, i'll say that!). But yeah, i really wanted to see them :(
too much good music Jamie, sort it out.
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were crap anyway so no worries there
you spelt "fucking awesome" wrong
Also
WHHYYYYYYY is a Suicide Girl similar to a bowling ball?
!!!!!!!
They were great!
I respectfully disagree.
They did nothing for me at all.
i'm going to believe this opinion
because it makes me feel better about having missed them
I think they were ok
Not amazing or owt. I'm glad I went to see them as Rahzel was starting his fourth Neil Hamburger impression.
Did you see Squarepusher? I think i'm going to see him again in Glasgow on Thursday because it was really very very good. Some of the songs had hardcore punk style beats but they aren't on the album I got :( If anyone knows where I can find them please let me know!
I just read your other bit
Spider Baby was awesome! Also The Incredible Mr Limpet, a man who turned into an animated fish and subsequently defeated the nazis. So good
i really really enjoyed The Incredible Mr Limpet
i got really sad when he was imagining being hailed as a hero and then lost his glasses :((((
Monotonix have great songs
I'm alone in this thought, I feel.
I don't understand the hype
They sound like a mega fun live band, but on record I find them incredibly disappointing.
naturally they are a live band
first and foremost. I like the scuzzy simplicity of them on record. Some nice riffs and stuff.
I think so
i couldn't really make out most of them to be fair, he was just hanging from the ceiling and shouting stuff and his mic broke a bit towards the end :D it was awesomely entertaining though!
yeah the film was really great
I'm glad someone else on here saw it! It really made me miss Camber though.
I went in at 3am and the dancefloor was full...
Sunday night did seem quieter though.
Sunday at Crazy Horse was great
Declan playing Come to Daddy = :D
i was in the crazyhorse until about 1:30am
and nobody was there. for the most part the only people dancing besides myself and my friends was some butlins woman. someone DJing played Stonehenge by spinal tap.
my first record - it seemed like a good idea at the time
my friend was the one dancing
i was the one probably pointing at her and laughing
I was dancing in there from, er, 1130? till 2?
or something like that
oh. I think we got there before he'd started though?
i can't remember.
also
i was in there from after ghostigital to sometime during kool keith's set and for most of that time we were the only people dancing.
we started the dancing when we got there
maybe we arrived just after you left. I'm sure we got there before 1.30 though.
I say sure. I mean have a hunch.
on sunday?
you lie!
I don't!
I was there, Sophia, Steve and Zakia too. We were off to the side, dacing around handbags. On the wooden floor though (mostly)
Live they were entertaining
in an I'm-glad-I-saw-it sort of way, but I don't think I'd bother to see them again. Musically, not very remarkable.
yeah
a very musically diverse weekend - i'm trying to think of a 'genre' it didn't cover.
yays:
seeing fantomas twice, i love you mike patton!
zu - awesome
bohren & der club of gore - mmm doomy droney. shame they didn't have any cds on sale
soulsavers - i really got into it especially the second half of the set, after 'spiritual'.
farmers market, boss hog, mastodon/melvins big band i enjoyed very much.
i was in awe of the performance of 'kontakte' actually. and it helped that the audience were quiet & respectful in the crazy horse. it amused me when the bar staff clanged some glasses just right at the end of the set. we overheard some people chatting to the sound projectionist afterwards about how he manipulates the tape and had a peek at the frankly indecipherable sheet music.
other bits:
bumping into lots of people off here on friday
walks along the beach and into town, weather was so much nicer than last nbc
spying on mike patton in the crazy horse on sunday night
getting the 7am coach was a good idea, except for the damn train delay at taunton.
VIDEOS
Squarepusher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCCgGfm3aao
Damned doing 'Happy Talk'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7gyNNLWbiw
I didn't need to see Captain Sensible's arse
I think that was the only negative point of the entire weekend. I liked that he did Happy Talk though.
Good:
The Melvins are one of the best things ever.
Big Business
Watching my friend meet Mike Patton, one of his heroes.
Neil Hamburger was incredibly funny. I wish ATP would utilize stand-up comedy a bit more, as him and Sadowitz have been highlights of the last two NBC's. Just get a Chunklet-curated stage and be done with it.
Monotonix was one of the most extraordinary things I've seen in ages. Except for the douchebag who tackled the security guy right on top of my head. You Sir, are an absolute cunt.
Bad:
Buttholes, Squarepusher, Meat Puppets, Mastodon, Locust, being horribly drunk on Saturday and dancing by myself in Crazy Horse. I have no recolection what was being played or, really, how I got back to my chalet.
The Good...
Os Mutantes
Mastodon
Bohren
Dirtbombs
The Locust
Torche
Crazy Horse Sat.
Charade on ATP TV.
The Bad...
Early coach
Missing Monotonix, Damned, Topley Bird.
Being asked by the Buttholes drummer to score drugs for them (this was actually quite amusing)
Fantomas - silly band, not half as clever as they think they are.
Meat Puppets - started well, quickly got tiresome.
ps.
Did Gibby Haynes really beat some people up?
Silly??
Fantomas were amazing!
No , they were dull.
except not really
Shouty bit, slow bit, fast bit, quiet bit.Repeat for an hour.
Pantomas more like!!! (Hmmm)
:( that's a shame, i thought they were really awesome
and lots of fun, especially Spider Baby after watching it earlier that day. But each to their own i guess.
I concur
Hearing them play the entirety of Directors Cut has made my year. Did you see them on Sunday? They did that weird Ice Hockey thing where Patton was hiding behind his equipment, then jumping back up again with his fist in the air.
:D ace, but no i was watching monotonix on sunday
i'm half wishing i saw them on sunday and taraf on saturday now, but nevermind!
Plus i could never actually see the stage anyway, so he might have done it on saturday too.
Apparently the Fantomas Sunday set was waaay better :D
And you REALLY should have seen Taraf De Haidouks, they never play here.
"Apparently the Fantomas Sunday set was waaay better :D"
^^^
please don't say things like that, i thought it was pretty brilliant on saturday, 'spider baby' had me dancing like a loon.
roasthemonaspit
on pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/sites/default/files/monotonix%203.jpg
tall bastard.
:D
that's joeymahone right behind too!
you look so happy! :D
:D
Face sadly obscured by Ami's arse.
mic turned lucozade bottle
yum.
haha
that's my mate dave right next to jonny too. happy faces.
Another great ATP
Best bits:
Mastodon & Melvins doing The Bit. Face-destroying.
Melvins. 3 times in one weekend. Amazing.
Tweak Bird
Dalek
James Blood Ulmer
Lying on the floor for Bernard Parmegiani
Honourable mentions to Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Boss Hog, Squarepusher, Mastodon and Os Mutantes
Worst bits:
My friend getting soaked by the guy wandering through the audience, pissing, during Torche.
Butthole Surfers - really disappointing. It all seemed a bit forced and they looked like they wanted to be anywhere else.
Bernard Parmegiani and James Blood Ulmer clashing.
Monotonix - shit music covered up with tedious macho antics.
TWEAK BIRD
awesome performance. high quality sound.
patton and all the bosses were backstage watching their show so expect an album on IPECAC soon ;)...!!!
also, that wasprobably the last torche show with MONTOYA. unmissable.
+ MELVINS / MASTODON BIG BAND of course
that's what the Torche man said :(
I'm glad I saw it. It'll be a bit different with just three of them. We said he should get Joe Preston like every other band ever but he just laughed. He should actually get Joe Preston though
Oh...there were 4 of them?
On thursday they only had 3.
yeah
he was standing about four miles away from them on stage though
the thing is
montoya probably "had" to come and play atp because he was booked month before he left the band, this would explain why he was playing miles away from the others and hardly exchanged one look during the set
...
ahah
and we saw montoya alone, looking tired, holding a lucozade bottle, monday morning when we left for the bus. we felt very sad for him.
there was definitly a bit of tension between him and the band on stage.
it was fucking great
definitely the best and most interesting line-up in all the ATPs I have been too. I hope in future we get more stand-up and non-rock music. I think this made it all go a bit too quick as there was always something on worth seeing.
Highlights:
Pretty much all the bands I saw. I didn't see anything AMAZING or revelatory (gutted I missed Mastodon/Melvins Big Band) but almost everything was excellent e.g Isis, Melvins, Taraf, Kontakte.
Neil Hamburger was undoubtedly the best thing there. Jerry Sadowitz was the best thing last time.
Lots of nice people all around.
Finally made it to the cinema and saw some of the Thing which I have on DVD but it was relaxing.
Lowlights:
A few sunglasses-wearing swaggering loudmouth cunts around. I suppose this is to be expected but please please don't come in future.
Monotonix. Ugh. Shit shit shit music. Quite entertaining live show. Shorts.
Poor arcade selection.
Special thanks must go to MadLove
for making me leave Reds to go and watch the brilliant Dirtbombs.
my highlights
Melvins, Mastodon, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks , Torche, The Dirtbombs, Monotonix, Butthole Surfers, Fennesz, Labeque Sisters and, a nice surprise, Squarepusher (who i'd never paid much attention to before)
sorely disappointed by the reunited Os Mutantes and White Noise, but that was perhaps inevitable
thanks to everyone who came to the bingo and/or pop quiz!
A 2-D fighter would have been nice
I was a bit crestfallen after realising that there wasn't one
round the back near where the cinema was
they had tekken 5, we had a pretty intense few goes on that. But that should've been in the pavillion bit I thought. And virtua cop is always a nice one to play, but again that was in the bit that closed really early :(
Also I wished the monotonix members had decided to go into the arcade section and like smash some 2p machines in or something, that would've been awesome lol.
no, i really enjoyed Os Mutantes
i had to leave half way through because i was so tired though, they should have been on earlier!
Os Mutantes
were the second best thing all weekend (after The Dirtbombs) they were amazing.
Must say, Monotonix was the most rock 'n roll thing I've seen in years!
If most other bands had implemented one of their actions into their set it would be remembered for a long time (I still talk fondly of Pete Spiby hanging from the rafters of the Rock City's Basement in about '99 with Groop Dogdrill), but all together, in one chaotic set?!! It fucking rocked. Does anyone know if their name is pronounced like "mono tonics", or is it a slightly French sounding "monotony"?
Tweak Bird were another unexpected highlight. They surely must challenge Winnebago Deal and DFA1969 for "Loudest Duo Ever"?
just a quick observation...
Mike Patton has very smooth hands....
One of the quiz team names was
"where have all the fucking chairs gone?"
I walked around venues
with drinks all weekend, think you may have just been unlucky.
same.
the chairs can come back for the may atps ;-)
oh, i didn't realise you could do this
bollocks, i got a lot drunker than was necessary then!
god
I just remembered about the chairs and tables absence!!! That was rubbish! One of the only downpoints!
Really wish I was back at ATP hanging out with Gibby again :(
What?
No tables and chairs in Centre stage? That would pretty much ruin the weekend for me/lead me to watch no bands. I want that, and the Pavillion stage back for May please.
Why on earth you would want the Pavillion Stage back
I have no idea
A good weekend all in all.
4th ATP in a row now, and musically it’s still going strong. Musically it was as strong (not me favourite ever, but perhaps cause we were going on faith of ATP alone, not knowing too many of the acts before hand). Melvins, Zu, Porn, Taref….., Soulsavers, Locust, Bohren, James Blood Ulmer, Fantomas, Boss Hog, Teenage Jesus, the musical highlights were many and varied. I didn’t miss the pavilion stage at all, in fact it was great to have it limited to 2 stages (with the crazy horse used every now and then). Nice and compact, easy to jump between sets for those nasty clashes.
Now for the constructive criticism……;
The sound in Reds? It’s was soo hit and miss. Taref were half micced up, and it seemed as though the Bass was the only instrument playing at times! Daleks vocals were muddy as you like. Lots of acts this happened to, why is it so bad when the centre stage sound is almost always perfect?
Chairs? I’m sure it was a capacity thing, as has been mentioned, but I do look forward to their return.
The Staff? Always felt very welcomed and looked after. A lot of the staff this year seemed slow and uninterested and at times a bit rude (this is just Butlins staff, every member of ATP staff – production office etc were fantastic as ever), where has the love gone?
Some of the times were strange, and perhaps inappropriate; Bohren should’ve been at 3am not 3pm, likewise Fennesz. 2 x 3 hour sets from squarepusher was a bit over the top too, he’s ok, but surely there was someone else who could’ve done 1 of the sets or half of both? Why did he deserve 6 hours of set time when most bands got between 45 mins-an hour?
The Irish bar? DJs from midday? Did anyone see anybody in there ‘enjoying’ the DJs before like 1-2am? At one point we walked past 6pm-ish, the DJ was playing to an audience of 1, the barman, who had his head in his hands in despair at having to listen to music he didn’t like when no one had been into the bar for possibly hours! Maybe another use could be found for that area during the day; comedy, open mic sessions, workshops, speakers, Q&A with some of the artists?
Anyway grumbling over, just a few things that could’ve made a good festival even better. Will be back in May no doubt with bells on. Keep it up, it is a good time every time.
um
squarepusher had 75 minutes on the saturday and 75 on the sunday.
Note to Mastodon:
Never, under any circumstances cover a Thin Lizzy tune (especially Emerald) if you haven't learnt it first, thanks.
Other than that another brilliant ATP, especially Dalek and the Butties. Cheers.
lol
I wish he played for 3 hours at a time, that was such an awesome set :) even though I knew like 1 or 2 tracks from it. Was it all the new album material then?
Different uses for the bars
like stand-up/workshops/Q&As is a great idea. They did similar at Sonar and Supersonic, and I thought it worked really well (the lecture on Grindcore was one of my highlights of the weekend!). The bars were almost always completely deserted when I walked by so seems like a real missed opportunity.
I'd like more "real" DJs at ATP too rather than the indie-disco types, I loved Various Production back in May.
i think my favorite thing was the atp film
whens it going to be released?
otherwise i pretty much missed everthing appart from
monotonix
fantomus
buttholes(so dissapointing but that could have been because of paranoid fear of the saxophone)
teenage jesus and the jerks were pretty cool
party in s3 was ace and then we met some really nice people in the challet 2 doors away and stayed there for a bit(met belinda- butchers son toby)
i am so so so fucked off that i missed everything i really wanted to see!!!!!
i guess my girlfriend warned me that she didn't like anything on the bill,but i thought i could talk her around!!
failed
mental note to take her to the breeders one next may were she loves everyone on the bill.
had fun hanging around with her and my lovely friends though!!!!
MORE BANDS AHHHHHHH...............
@holly ellen - I think Mike hates me more
For being so excitable on Sunday night amidst the dancing in Crazy Horse that I failed completely, when he came and sat on the table I was on, to realise who he was.
After my friends came to tell me they were leaving and chatted to mike for a bit, I actually asked them "so, do you know that guy?"...
Shame.
Apologies also to a pretty girl in a sparkly beanie-ish hat earlier in crazy horse if it was obvious that I was that drunk - but thank you for the dance!
Oh
and thanks to the patient man from los campesinos who I met much later that evening for tolerating what must have been quite incohrent rambling for ages, and, when I kept on trying to drink their gin, straight, his friends for making me a gin and tonic - so kind!
hello
I was Jonny who gave you some gin before the film, I managed to not realise it was you despite meeting you at Primavera. Fail.
before the film?
Which film? Unfortunately I wasn't at Primavera (despite wanting to be) either...
*confused*
me?
which film? And despite wanting to a lot, I wasn't a primavera either....
*confused*
he was replying to chasingabee
thanks for the gin
it was much needed!!
great film wasn't it?
It was superb
Those blokes weren't too amused by our antics!
...
www.brainlove.co.uk
innit
The smoking bit
inbetween the Pavillion and Reds was absolutely disgusting to walk through for non-smokers. You really had to hold your breath!
Yes, it really was an amazing experience.
my first atp
my compliments to the chefs and the organizers
had a great time, saw some fucking aliens..... farmer's market, rahzel, fantomas and zu were all unreal.
great to see such a diverse bill.
Out of interest
Is this "we reduced the capacity" thing code for "we didn't sell out"??
Just wondering.
You might be right
But it seemed a smidge suspicious that they suddenly announced that they weren't using the Pavillion quite late in the day....
Doesn't matter, just thinking aloud.
It was always the plan to not use it
hope
they never use it again. All about the centre stage.
Oh okay
I didn't realise that, thought they just announced it just before the festival. Apologies, no conspiracy here, move along.
we did announce it just before
but it had always been the plan, there's no way most of the bigger names on the bill could have played the pavilion, they're far too loud.
Were there noise issues at previous ATPs?
I seem to remember Grinderman being really loud on the Pavillion stage.
Melvins
were a noise issue for me, my ears are still ringing.
think it was more
to do with the low end this time really.
Having seen Mogwai and Shellac on that stage
That sounds a bit odd, but I hears you.
In better news Minehead is getting a Wetherspoons! Now that is news for all fans of ATP.
atp wetherspoon
opens today! and there's jobs going for those moaning they can't afford to see the cribs nine times next month.
http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pubs/pub-details.php?PubNumber=5501
it was alright
I suppose
has anyone got the melvins...
set lists at all?
Here you go:
These are based on a combination of memory and setlists for other gigs around that time, so may not be 100% accurate.
Melvins 1983
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Walter
Forgotten Principles
If You Get Bored
Matt-Alec
Snake Appeal
The Real You
Run Around
Set Me Straight
I Don't Know
Unreleased song (using "Sunshine of Your Love" riff)
Saturday night
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Nude With Boots
Dog Island
Dies Irea
Civilized Worm
The Kicking Machine
Eye Flys
Suicide In Progress
Billy Fish
Tipping The Lion
Blood Witch
Rat Faced Granny
The Hawk
You've Never Been Right
History of Bad Men
Star Spangled Banner
Sunday night
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Nude With Boots
Dog Island
Dies Irea
Civilized Worm
The Kicking Machine
Eye Flys
Suicide In Progress
Billy Fish
Tipping The Lion
Rat Faced Granny
The Hawk
You've Never Been Right
My Generation
Boris
Okie from Muskogee
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