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Final additions for Pavement-curated ATP ft. Times New Viking

JoeDiddly by Luke Slater [Edit this content] ▾ 4 comments 17:53 March 4th, 2010

And so it came to be...the final wave of bands were announced for the Pavement-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. It was met not with a fanfare, but with a polite smattering of applause, mostly from those who had seen it mature to something of relative beauty, but pale in comparison to its younger, prettier sibling.

ONE MORE TIME! This round we have:

Terry Reid featuring Matt Sweeney Times New Viking
Surfer Blood
Avi Buffalo

Who join this rabble of people who call themselves 'artists':

Pavement The Fall Faust
Quasi
Endless Boogie
Enablers
Broken Social Scene
Mission of Burma
Calexico
The Raincoats
Fiery Furnaces
The Walkmen
Omar Souleyman
Atlas Sound
Grail The Drones
Saccharine Trust
The Clean
Wooden Shjips
Sic Alps
Pierced Arrows
Spiral Stairs
Blitzen Trapper
The 3Ds
Marble Valley
The Authorities
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Boris
Boris performing Feedbacker
Camera Obscura
Mark Eitzel
Monotonix
The Dodos
Venom P. Stinger
Wax Fang
Tim Chad & Sherry
Horse Guards Parade
Still Flyin'

Interested?!

The festival takes place at Butlins, Minehead from May 10 to May 13. Tickets are PRETTY MUCH already sold out so, unless you want to engage in some kind of unofficial ticket buying, you might find it difficult to gain entrance lawfully. More information can be found here. Remember there's still plenty of tickets left for the spectacular Matt Groening-curated ATP. Well worth a look.

 

Main photo by Simon Fernandez

Pavement Times New Viking Surfer Blood Terry Reid

A National Scandal!

Why the hell aren't The National playing this?

Every time people complained about how weak this festival's line-up was, there were retorts of -"Don't worry, you'll defo get The National!". We were appeased with that hope, particularly as the last couple of updates for the Groening ATP included Liars and Joanna Newsom. Wasn't it our turn for a biggie!? Errr. It seems not.

yechrist | 5 Mar '10, 19:07 | X | Reply

what are you talking about?

nobody from ATP said anything about the national playing. they weren't asked to play by Pavement and if you looked at their tour schedule they wouldn't have fit in anyway.

Jamie_Summers @yechrist | 7 Mar '10, 00:12 | X | Reply

Obviously

no one at ATP said they were, but discussion on these boards were routinely along those line; spurned on by a few things: they play in Germany on May 9th - then there's a long gap in their tour until May 21st. To a lot of people that is a suspiciously ATP-friendly slot; the general consensus was that the Pavement ATP was due one more headline act; and people assumed, wrongly, that the May 7th Pavement/ National gig in France was evidence of their buddy buddyness. Nevermind eh. I'm sure it'll be fun regardless.

yechrist | 7 Mar '10, 12:04 | X | Reply

Well that's the problem with taking any stock in gossip

discussion about who might play is totally irrelevant. It all depends who the curator picks for the festival (which is really the charm of the thing) - they might pick three dozen relatively low profile acts, as is their choice - I don't know why you have any sense that you are due a 'big' act - it's not V festival.

WhiteLightWhiteCity @yechrist | 8 Mar '10, 12:52 | X | Reply

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