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As of last night I have tickets to this.

only then will I come (yes I am fussy)

this festival is looking great.

Though time for another moan. The 10 Ani festival now has more bands announced then the NBC one!? even though it was announced afterwards and apparently only offered after NMC sold out?! how does that work! It really doesn't do much to ease the minds of people who said things like NBC christmas will get pushed to the background!

Both fest look great though!

we have now reached the point at which i'd quite like to change tickets :(

pleasethankyou.

Nice.

Give me Broadcast.

yaaaaaaaaaaay

I'm hoping they'll make up for it by being decent at ATP.

I couldnt be more excited for NBC, really, its a great line up. But why did this have to be the weekend before? Surely the ATP organisers know that the bands at both these weekends appeal to the same target audience.

Also, It's almost unnivering how big the bands being announced for the anniversary ATP are, YYYs? Modest Mouse. Have the organisers put one weekend at a higher importance? Saying that I loved last week's NBC announcement of Bob Mould and Swervedriver, I hope that the future announcements of NBC are as exciting.

I understand ATP is a business and needs to make money, but this just puts me and other people in a weird position for future ATPs. Why should I buy an early ticket, at the risk of there being a potentially better festival at an extremely close date?

but Modest Mouse and YYYs aren't what I consider likely candidates for an MBV curated event. Basically whats better....the second weekend happening or not happening at all? Those bands wouldnt necessarily be playing here at all if it wasnt for the festival. Why does it follow they would play NBC? Quit ya whining.

that I've felt even the slightest pang of wishing I was going to 10Y instead of NBC. Summers, you are morally bound to fix this by booking Jesus & Mary Chain for NBC and loads more good stuff besides.

You've been told!

YYYs is a staggering catch considering their size, it's making me feel jealous to only be going to NBC. I'm seeing them at Reading though so it's all good.

One good upside of NBC is that I'm discovering bands either altogether or in more depth because I want to enjoy it more - I bought Sonic Nurse, Sister, both Pastels albums and Mezcal Head last week, I'm grinning like a fool.

cheers

Fuck it

Im def. coming to this

I might even talk to some DiSers.

now that I've noticed Melvins, YYYs and J Mascis in there, this has piqued my interest a bit...

would ATP like to issue us a refund please as it appears im paying more for bands i dont really care about a few days before and the week after i wanna see ALL the bands.

i'll share a chalet with some strangers. im hip.

are we getting anything on that one anytime soon? you're killing us here with these other announcements...

thanks jamie, now i can go back to checking every day and feeling like i have a reason!

but since this seems to be where the action is..

Don't get me wrong the MBV isn't a bad lineup but every announcement so far makes me less convinced that we are going to end up with 2 events of similar quality. And why would we? If I was in ATP's position I would be putting all my effort into attracting people to the second weekend as it makes perfect business sense.

Yeah I know, it's what the curators want etc... but let's not kid ourselves here. Sure 'quality' is subjective but ATP know perfectly well which bands are 'major' announcements for an ATP and so far, apart from the usual ATP recordings suspects, every announcement for weekend 2 has been a solid-gold DiS favourite. They know it. We know it. Whether or not it is fair to put that down to cold-hard business sense is neither here nor there and really I'm not interested what anyone from ATP has to say about it. It's like MPs expenses - it's how it looks that matters. I am desperate to be proven wrong here and will hold my hands up if this is the case but if not then I am done with ATP.

jesus

anyone interested?

at least this will make up for it BIG TIME

now I really need to go to this. Think I actually might be able to as well.

is that usually there are hordes of messageboard festival organisers berating ATP for booking "the same bands all the time".

and now that they're booking both a festival that's clearly very curator-defined with smaller names and one which is only going to consist of previous ATP bands, everyone is moaning about the disparity in the lineup as regards "known" bands.

GOOD WORK GUYSs

... Honestly. Do you have the same budget allocation for bands for each event? If you are going to spend the same money on both, then I think it's fair to put the fact that the announcement was a rather unfortunate misjudgement behind us, and to give you the benefit of the doubt w/regards to the highly dubious claim that you had "no idea" that 10yrs might be on the cards when you announced NBC.

If you are planning (as it currently appears) a fucking giant blow-out, in which you spend vastly more on the 10yr, booking all the big hitters for your 'special' event then I think us whingebags are absolutely right to feel utterly short-changed.

i wouldn't bother posting any more updates on here. the bitching is getting seriously undignified, and doesn't reflect well on the DiS community at all...but credit to him, he obviously has more patience than me.
there's so many toys being thrown out of prams around here, i dunno how i haven't broken my neck tripping over one...

in all likelihood, there's gonna be some serious heavy-hitters announced for the MBV weekend... jesus and mary chain and mogwai? wouldn't be surprised at all. and i wouldn't be surprised if evryone who goes to MBV weekend has the time of their life and ends up feeling really silly about all this.

... Even I admit that this is probably getting a little out of hand, people are going to end up tainting what looks like an awesome event (on either weekend) for themselves and for others. I've said all I intend to on the matter, I'm going to keep my MBV tix either way, and just hope that these latest announcements are as exciting as promised... Schtum.

MBV are without question one of my fave bands ever and virtually all the bands they've picked so far i love. So what if the bands on the 10 yr old are bigger? it doesn't mean anything, it's what they sound like that matters. infact i can't be arsed to even look at the line-up for the other one as i've got tickets for NBC and that's all I can afford for this year, so why tease myself?

people complain on here as if 'DISers' are the one and only target audience of ATP, when they probably only make up about 5% of the attendees. If that. I know loads of people who go that have never even heard of this site. It's as if ATP are gonna go, oh a handful people who write on internet message boards aren't happy, lets cancel the festival! Idiots...

what there is to complain about.. those people who bought tickets for MBV obviously wanted to go to that festival, and now all of a sudden they feel ripped off because ATP didnt ask they're permission to put on another festival a week later? stroppy little cardigan wearing,neon leggings sporting, indie elitists.... ATP is pretty much the best festval going and its slowly being infiltrated by people who go to it because they want to be part of the 'ATP scene'. If u go to any music festival surely its because you want to see the bands that are playing not just because you feel you are gonna be missing out on a party if you dont. Maybe some of the people who bought tickets for MBV got them just because it was NBC ATP and not because they love the music! ooh now there's a revelation.... sorry, ranting...

you people are crushingly embarrassing moany cunts. Get over yourselves.