All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
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.
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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
And The Fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPAFF!
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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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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christm
£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.....
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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christm
Awesome.
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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!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
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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!
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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas - Headliners Announced!
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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