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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

All Tomorrow’s Parties would like to welcome you to The Nightmare Before Christmas.

After five years of events in April time, ATP have decided to add a new date to the festival calendar.

The event will be held on December 3rd, 4th and 5th at Camber Sands Holiday Centre, East Sussex, and it will be curated by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman.

Headlining the festival will be the legendary Throbbing Gristle and Mercury Rev. Also now confirmed are Shellac, Peaches, The Fall, Violent Femmes, The Minutemen, Carl Craig, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, a Skam Records room and a Mego Records room and many more to come.

Jake and Dinos Chapman first rose to prominence with their three-dimensional recreations of Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War. Since then, their experimental works have continued to push the boundaries in the art world and their curatorship of The Nightmare Before Christmas promises to be just as extreme.

Tickets are priced at £120, including a 3-day festival pass and 3 nights accommodation. Like the annual April event, ticket includes performances starting from mid-afternoon with bars and DJ sets through till dawn, plus three nights in a self-catering chalet accommodation all with private bathroom suites. Onsite facilities include an indoor swimming pool, mini-golf, go-karting, restaurants & fast food outlets as well as a supermarket and off-license.

Camber Sands is approximately 60 miles from London, or around an hour and half drive. Alternatively, a train into Rye Village and then a short bus journey can reach the site.

Tickets for The Nightmare Before Christmas can be purchased directly through atpfestival.com and are available in blocks of 4,5,6,7 or 8 due to the specifications of the accommodation.

Tickets can be purchased in person from Stargreen Box Office (0207 - 734 8932), 20a Argyll Street, London, or Piccadilly Box Office (0161 - 832 1111), Easynet Internet Café, St Anne’s Square, Manchester or Radio City Box Office, St Johns Centre, Houghton Street Entrance, Liverpool.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

PEACHES!?! WHAT THE FUCK!?! I thought ATP was supposed to be good.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

Should be a great beach atmosphere in DECEMBER at a freezing campsite! Will there be a lido?

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

Is it just me who gets asked for a password when going to the ATP site, and subsequently can't get on at all? I guess the password thing was introduced after the Slint "debacle"... :-)

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

But Lightning Bolt!!!!!!!!!!!!

And The Fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPAFF!

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G G G G G G G G G Go timEE!!!! And if I'm being honest I didn't even visit the beach once the second weekend this year; it's an indoor festival!! Who cares what the weather is like?? Queen Victoria watch out!!

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it aint minutemen: its "Mike Watt/George Hurley Minutemen Duet"
so like lightning bolt maybe unlikely no.
seems a strange prospect whatever.
maybe theyll have guest boons or something.
and

hey there.

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true, but not worth the £120+/the possibility of having to see shellac.

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Hahaha! I never want to see Shellac again either.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christm

hmmmmm, shellac, lightning bolt, violent femmes .. the fall.

£120 = pushing a few buttons. for few days...

and peaches is the funniest thing ive eva eva eva seen with my eyeses...... things that truly make ya pish wiv laughter are worth all the button pushing in the world.....

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christm

Why is everybody ignoring the fact that Mercury Rev will be there.

Awesome.

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Yeah, it looks great but the weather concerns me as well. Cambers really exposed and if you get one of the chalets furthest from the centre it'll be a long walk to see some bands.

Mind you if I can find some people to go with I'll probably be there. Unfortunately all of my friends who will be interested have blagged it. Bastards.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

if anyone wants to buy me a ticket it'd be greatly appreciated

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

This all sounds horrible. Except for Carl Craig.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

I was going to go to ATP a couple of years back...it looked great...mogwai, sonic youth, tortoise etc ....looks a bit weak this year!

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Oh no. Especially if it's a set made up of just the last 2 albums. and Grasshopper doing tonnes of fucking 18-minute widdly guitar solos.............

I'm hoping they'll get into the spirit of things and do the psych-out/scary-shit stuff from 'boces' and 'yerself is steam'. Or just telling myself over & over to think this so as to avert considering the former possibility..

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

What everyone seems to be forgetting is that there will be hunners of other bands playing aswell. Also, Shellac and lightening bolt would be worth the ticket price alone. AND atp is probably the best fucking party in the world. Every person there is well into music and its a great atmosphere... better than any other 'festival' in this country. At least atp celebrates good music, which i believe festivals are about..

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that was the main one in the spring, this is a bonous, there should be another spring next year

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

i would pay 120quid just to see lightning bolt, and dont forget the full line up isnt their yet so theirs bound to be plenty more decent bands to see, and it kicks the ass of glasto or reading, u can stick ur 'atmosphere' up your ass when you've got so many decent bands playing, fuck walking around in a field in the baking sun with loads of drugged up hippies!

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there's a spring every year.

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I saw Lightning Bolt for like $5 or something about a year ago. They slayed/melted my face off.

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

They should get Vox Merkoni to play, then id definetely be there

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!

None of the bands listed so far really excite me but the best thing about ATP is knowing you can check out a band you've never heard of and you won't feel like a mug because every band is selected out of LOVE rather than an estimation of what this niche market demands at the time. And hopefully hanging out with people who don't have the narrow-minded outlook that goes with that.

The danger is that it looks like the same bands/genre of bands are coming round year after year. When there are established "ATP bands" it will take away the unpredictable magic of it. Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt etc have already played at ATP this year so what's the point? I'd like to see some curator move it in less of a The Wire-reading direction, and then the next curator to move it in another direction again.

Know what I mean?

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