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SHIT! I wanna go to ATP but am too broke to fly from Australia!

I am gonna live through it vicariously here:

http://groups.myspace.com/atpfestival

Have you seen the line up??????

― Johanna (Johanna), Thursday, 31 March 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think the line up would be that exciting even if it was 1979, and dudes, it's not 1979 any more.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other hand ATP is always classic.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeh the lineup this year doesn't look that exciting. Plus it's curated by that Vincent Gallo tossar.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but no matter what the lineup you'll have a great time. As much as a knobber Gallo might be how can PJ Harvey, James Chance, Lydia Lunch and Neutral Milk Hotel be unexciting? And it'll be warmer than Feb ATP.
It's the best festival cos you're treated like a human being, rather than cattle. You can hang in your chalet watching 24 Simpsons and Seinfeld marathons, join the death metal wrestling party upstairs, play the Pontins arcade (dance machine and air hockey rool!), walk down the beach with a lovely boy/girl, sing in the indie karaoke, oh yeah, and maybe watch some bands.

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i went in 2001. boards of canada, broadcast, lambchop, yo la tengo, autechre, prefuse 73. it was fun!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and sleep in a bed, and have showers!

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Went to the first three (OK, first two - '99 was The Bowlie Weekender). '99 and '00 were socially glorious events, '01 was perhaps musically better but I was feeling a bit old by then and was reduced to watching golf on the TV back in the chalet. Mike Ladd and Derek Bailey! Cor, the memories.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

2002 - was possibly the worst weekend of my life. Vastly overrated, if you don't really like music that much, like me :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

walk down the beach with a lovely boy/girl

Ah, the famous ladyboys of Hastings!

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been every year except one since the Bowlie. It is YAYlicious. The whole multiple ATPs thing is annoying, though, as I've already been in Feb and there is no way on earth that I can afford to go again next month. Still, even though there's some bands on that I'd really like to see at the Gallo one, nothing will ever beat NEED NEW BODY. They win all the All Tomorrow's Parties.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to 2002 and 2003 - it was great!! i saw none of the bands and played DDR for like 5 hours straight whilst pissed on vodka and red bull. sometimes there would be crowds of indie kids watching you play this crazy dancing game that they had never seen before back then.

i think the crappier the line-up, the better fun you have cos it means more time spent at the queen vic.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean 2001 and 2002?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i met my best pal calumn during an ATP.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, ken, I probably watched you dance. I love that dancing game machine so much (and I am much better at it now than when I made Ally C do it with me at about 3 in the morning a few years ago). The line-up thing is sort of true - I think there's a balance that you have to get right, though, and it always falls to one side or the other a bit too much for my liking.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

figure out when you want to refresh, and add

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― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god. wrong thread!

on this thread i was going to talk further about how all the girls were always really cute at ATP. and that i probably tried to chat some of them up, unsuccessfully, and always wondered why.

now i realise it's because i sometimes accidentally cross conversations with random programming code.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know. For some of us, Access code is a great chat up line!

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i asked a girl whether she wanted to come home with me to see my source code, once.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Emil.y - I've been meaning to ask for some time, are you Telescopes Emily what used to be in The Chemistry Experiment?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

::realises she forgot to answer the original question::

I went to ATP 2000, the one with Mogwai. It was my birthday, we got wasted on Scotch and Irn Bru, we had disco lights in our chalet, we waited with baited breath for Bobby Gillespie's Hair to appear, while avoiding the beardy bloke out of Arab Strap.

I had tickets for ATP 2001, but was forced to sell mine due to staying home to take care of my hypochondriac partner.

I never went again. The gang with whom I went in ATP2000 have since mostly fallen out with each other, so it's a bit of a poignant memory.

The best bits, of course, were not the gigs at all, even though those were very good. Chalet parties, pub nights, and one hire car bid for freedom (driving through Narrow Arch with pop music blasting because we needed relief from all that dronerock) are the things that stick out in my mind.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the most Glasgow Indie paragraph ever. Ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, I be that Emily, yes... and I still is in The Chemistry Experiment! Has nobody noticed my rampant self-promotion around here?

(Also... TS: chatting up girls with source code v chatting up boys by complimenting their cut-off frequency.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the same year that we had the Scottish themed party where we only listened to Scottish bands. I ripped my kilt; I've never been able to get it repaired. :-(

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never been to ATP

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Emily - haha, I hadn't noticed funnily enough. Although we both posted on Wangst around the time of the original Bowlie. We might have been on Unnatural & Wrong at the same time as well, I dunno.

I was the obnoxious twunt who hated Belle and Sebastian ;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, heady days. I'm much more of a lurker around here, though (rather than an obnoxious twunt who just rants about The Telescopes all the time).

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how ol' Vincent put himself in his own lineup. Ha!

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't everyone always play in their own lineup? Isn't that kind of the point?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

2003: Shellac will come around and play in your chalet if you miss all three of their gigs.
2005: Vincent Gallo will come around with a projector if you miss The Brown Bunny. (that's if you're lucky).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Autechre didn't.

I agree heartily with everyone upthread who says that the bands are actually the least to do with Camber.

My own highlights:

The girl in 2002 who tried to chat me up with the line "Psycho is on the telly in half an hour. Do you want to come back to my chalet and stab me?"
Toxic Waste this year - a sourer sweetie there never was.
Being asked if I had any drugs to sell 500 times during Dead Meadow in 2004.
Bob Weston doing the "his banner over me is love" routine while wearing Rachel's nurse hat, in the merch room.
5 bottles for stupid cheap of alcopops in 2002.
The guy outside the chalets this year "drinking vodka". "Like Rrrrrussians."

There are threads on ILM with various people's full weekend rundowns.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Super! Furry! Animals!

I'm pretty quiet so I almost never meet new people. But I met Cis and Colette there last year, which was brilliant.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chapman Brothers didn't do anything special for theirs other. I expected boobytraped chalets and stuff.

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ATP's great for meeting new people. Having to share chalets meant I got to meet friends of friends etc.
The best meeting random situation for me was the xmas ATP on the last night. We ended up sitting in the adventure playground outside the pub, chatting to random strangers. I think by that point, the amount of alchohol consumed over the weekend had helped too.

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ATP is always fun, despite the bands.

I haven't been for a couple of years, though, due to the massive hole in my budget that results. If you can afford it - great!

(Send free tickets to Top Floor Flat, 10 Beacons....

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost snapped and bought tickets when they announced Ellen Allien was playing, but I think my money would be better spent flying to Berlin one weekend and watching her there.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Emily, what happened to the pre-Shoegazing Telescopes? Are you them as well? I liked some of their songs (I like some Chem. Exp. stuff too).

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 31 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to ATP in 2001. it was actually the reason why I (finally) bought a mobile phone. Helps to deal with the old no. of ppl in chalet > no. of keys problem, y'see.

I wish I'd been to the Bowlie Weekender.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I am 'Telescopes Emily' in that I used to never shut up about them, not that I was ever in them or anything (although I was supposed to go and record some theremin with them once, but that never happened due to my general rubbishness). Not sure what happened to the other guys from the band aside from Steve & Jo, if that's what you mean (I'm sure I must have pestered Mr Lawrie about it at some point in the past, but my brain is leaky these days).

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Glad to see I'm not the only person who's enjoyed the delights of the Dance Machine.
Indie karaoke was immense. It even got a mention in the Wire's review. Words like passion were involved. I did Ring Of Fire and my friend threw a microphone at her hapless duet partner during Loveshack. Scary lady!
The Wire also mentioned the impromptu pots and pans samba session, referring to it as a protest against Staremaster. I had no idea it had any such point - methinks the writer has picked up on the mythology. That was right outside our chalet in Surf City though. A very odd sight - around 30-40 people banging pots and pans for half an hour until security turned up. What larks!
Check out the plan b forum for pics.

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to LA 2002 (3 Days - Sonic Youth)

Personal highlights:

v00redoms
Pita
Kevin Drumm
The Dead C.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the closest i came to any 'action' at ATP was watching some naked guy skateboard around the courtyard

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've been to ATP three times and have seen probably four and a half bands there. And Phil. And a naked skateboarder.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

went to camber sands in '02. had a blast. zeni geva and ex orkest were the highlights. about 20, give or take, kronenbergs/diem. good times. except i crashed out behind a coke machine during cheap trick and missed most of that. and dead moon rocked! and andrew from dead moon for some reason decided to come hang out with me for a while. invited him to come out to the dunes and smoke a jbone, but he declined and we parted ways. i'd love to go again. depending on lineup, of course.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to the Bowlie weekender. I saw four bands, none of whom were the Flaming Lips which was a shame. The pub ran out of beer, and we got told off for having a party which involved flutes and recorders. (Twee? Us?) Some other fun was had including picnics, playing pop stars at football, drawing pictures of Steve Lamacq on napkins, laughing at Jarvis Cocker and being scared of big plastic gorillas.

It was ace, but I've never felt the need to go back. Maybe I should. I would have gone to the ATP that got cancelled way back when, but it was cancelled.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 2 April 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite (non-musical) moment is possibly being down front at Kid 606, and being convinced that I knew the guy next to me, so I asked him, is he Alex Thomson, (late of this parish) and he said he was, so I introduced him to my friend Dee, also over from Dublin, and she looked at me like I was mad, and said "I know Alex, I went to college with him for god's sake".

It loses something in translatation.

My least favourite (non-musical) moment is probably the year before, in the Queen Vic, avoiding the gaze of the wino that had just come in, then realising it was Kim Deal.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 2 April 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

I've just spent nearly a grand on my girlfriend's credit card (!) to book a seven-bed chalet for the second weekend of ATP 2006, my first time at Camber.

Anyone else going?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Weekend One.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Weekend one as well.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 9 January 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

not this year. isn't there a lengthy thread about this on ILM?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 9 January 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm hoping to go to weekend one, but I'm kind of doing a Ken on it, which means I am aspiring to go to it without taking any actions to actualise this desire.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 January 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

too mersh - saving my pennies for subcurrent and instal

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 9 January 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

haha

interestingly i might be going to weekend two this year! because someone's doing all the organising and all i need to do is pay money. i like that.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I might go to Weekend 2 if I can afford it, but that's not looking too likely since I just went over my overdraft limit and I have to find a new job since I quit this one last week.

Weekend 1 looks good apart from the Devendra Banhart day. I'd like to go to the Mudhoney day.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Good heavens, there are two weekends now? How does anyone decide and/or coordinate with the mass. of pals??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

it's easier than you think really.

e.g. whoever can be bothered to organise a whole chalet gets to choose which weekend the rest just follow like blind sheep to the slaughterhouse.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

ken otm.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

That works out well, then.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

It's a different Ken, Ken.

I'm also going to the first weekend, though I'm also doing a Ken on it. Same Ken, this time. Same as DV's, anyway.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

which ken was the ken who was OTM?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I meant you.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

:-D

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Why can't they do this on the Jersey shore?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Because they think you might go.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

lollerz

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I wish they WOULD, I wish ATP were in Asbury Park!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

i'm going, i think it's probably the first weekend

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Why's everyone so down on the Devendra day? No matter what you think of Mr Banhart himself, he's got Vashti Bunyan AND Bert Jansch to play ferchrissakes! That's AWESOME!

― stew!, Monday, 9 January 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

(a) fear of a bunch of drunken retards shouting through hours of great and delicate music

(b) fear of being one of those drunken retards shouting through hours of great and delicate music

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Ah, you may have a point there...

― stew!, Monday, 9 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I think the only worrying thing about the Devendra day is I'm not sure it's best suited to the Sunday. It might have been better on the Saturday.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I have just booked a chalet for the wife and I to go to the Nightmare Before Xmas at Minehead, curated by Caribou, Battles, and Les Savy Fav. This will be MY FIRST FESTIVAL, if you can call its festival. What should we expect?!

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 26 August 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

I wish they WOULD, I wish ATP were in Asbury Park!!
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:56 (5 years ago)

Prescient.

― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

I have good ideas, me. Unfortunately I'm neither motivated nor influential, which is why it's good that I can just say them on the internet and wait until someone else picks them up.

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:50 (fourteen years ago)

You goin to Asbury, Laurel?

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)

No, didn't even know about it! I should look.

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

The problem is that I don't like/know any of the bands that are lined up so far. Portishead is curating? That sounds like a disaster for me?

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

Was more bummed about missing the power-pop fest in Asbury a couple of months ago but I had some kind of conflict, think I was moving that day maybe?

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

Was that last year's? It's what came up when I googled.

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

Laurel, I don't know what you're into, but if you don't like Public Enemy and the Swans I'm afraid we can't be best friends!

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

My Minehead protips for Scik...

1. Take advantage of the waterpark EARLY and OFTEN. Most ppl drink all night and sleep all afternoon. Get a good night's sleep and hit the park the second it opens and the slides wont have crazy long lines.

2. If you're like me, you're gonna want to see as much music as possible. Definitely schedule in a movie or two in the movie theatre to rest your feet. A 90 minute break will give you the endurance to go the distance!

3. ATP shows CLEAR OUT after each band, everyone running off to catch another stage or a drink. If you want to have a really good spot for a band, Hang out at the end of the previous band's set, and rush to the front before the next one goes on and chill out for a half hour with a book. I got to see all three hours of Weird Al at the last Nightmare holding the bar, it was awesome!

4. Do your research and get familiar with the lesser-known bands. There is a 100% chance that your favorite show of the weekend will be someone on the undercard that you weren't super familiar with!

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

I barely know who Public Enemy is and I think ian likes the Swans but I have no idea. I like three-minute pop songs.

― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks Whiney!

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

xpost, then yeah, beyond Deerhoof yr prolly fucked.

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

no prob, scik. ATP is like the only music-related thing that I still get excited about.

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

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