ATP NY 09: All Tomorrow's Parties New York

Some video footage from last year now up on Pitchfork TV, info here:
http://ourtrueintent.com/?p=302

Is anyone else still waiting for tickets to arrive? I admittedly didn't buy one until August 20, but thought they would be here by now.

They went out a little late but people should get them in the next few days.

Thanks!

Still haven't received my ticket... hopefully it comes before my Tuesday AM flight to NY.

I made an ATP warmup CD-R mix:
http://rapidshare.com/files/275415199/ATP_2009.zip.html

27 tracks!

Sufjan is going to play Seven Swans, just confirmed

So, which ilxors are def. going this weekend? Whiney, I know you'll be there. Too lazy to read through the rest of the thread on my mobile (on the ATP bus right now). Who else can I expect to see there?

The best of Day 1 (in order of descending greatness):

Suicide
Dirty Three
Panda Bear
The Jesus Lizard
The Feelies

Liz Harris/Grouper was fucking incredible.

sitting at the merch booth eating free ice cream = good festival

Fucking excellent:

El-P
Shellac
Grouper
Melvins
Akron/Family

Solid, if not spectacular:

Animal Collective
Antipop Consortium
Autolux
Sleepy Sun
Black Dice
Deerhunter

Yaaaaaawn:

Atlas Sound (enjoy the records, but didn't translate well live)
Sufjan Stevens (not a fan; this shit was PACKED though!)

Just one word: ONEIDA.

Best of the best:

Oneida - "presents the Ocropolis," aka 10+ hours of krautrock inspired free improv., a total mindfuck
Boris - performing Feedbacker
Boredoms - 9 drummer Boadrum

Really damn good:

Caribou Vibration Ensemble + Marshall Allen
No Age + Bob Mould - performing Husker Du songs (oh yes)

Enjoyable enough:

The Flaming Lips (great showmanship, lacking in actual tunes)
Super Furry Animals
Deerhoof + Martha Colburn

Weekend top ten, loosely ordered:

Oneida - "presents the Ocropolis"
El-P
Suicide - performing first LP
Boris - performing Feedbacker
Boredoms - 9 drummer Boadrum
Shellac
Grouper
Caribou Vibration Ensemble + Marshall Allen
Melvins
Dirty Three + special guest Nick Cave

What exactly did Oneida do? Did they do a bunch of sets or was it one long set?

It was one long set, they had their own stage and played for about 10-11 hours. All but the last hour or so was improvised, and they had guests at different points come in and sit and play with them for 10-20 minutes apiece. I saw them play with members of the Flaming Lips and Boredoms, a jam with drummer extraordinaire Zach Hill, and a couple other people I didn't recognize. The last hour was billed as "Oneida Plays Oneida," and they did a bunch of (mostly shorter) songs from albums past and present.

Having their own stage was a really great concept. I was never bored during the day, in between sets of other bands I'd just go see Oneida for a few minutes or half hour or whatever. I dropped in maybe a half dozen times over the course of the day.

Thanks for the quick answer!

I love Oneida. But I love them even more live. Or just hanging around with them. Super nice guys and total bad-asses on stage.

I first crossed paths with them on tour a few nights in '99. Then really re-discovered them when Anthems on the Moon came out.

Was only there for a few hours, seeing Boredoms and Caribou. Thought both were fantastic - best shows I'd seen be either of them. Boredoms overrunning and having their equipment broken down while they played was kinda funny.

I didn't hear a lot of the WFMU broadcasts.

At the NYC Boredoms show last Wednesday, about 5 minutes into the piece, the older of the core drummers was suddenly brought in from the rear of the space perched on a fucking litter with a drumkit on it, borne by 6 or 8 dudes. Did they do that shit at the ATP performance?

thank god I was playing a show so I didn't have to agonize over whether or not to drop $75 to see suicide

that oneida thing sounds incredible. dudes must have been exhausted, though, by the time their actual "set" came along.

god.

fucking amazing weekend. maybe the best atp i've been to, and i only got to see little bits of a bunch of bands. good bits:

* ten or eleven hours of oneida jamming/recording/rehearsing with collaborators including aaron from tall firs, members of flaming lips, boredoms, no neck blues band, zach hill and tons more
* no age / bob mould was amazing though i only got to see three songs :-(, but one was with brandon cox helping them do a cover of chinese rocks so that was pretty sweet
* the low lows playing an extra gig next to the lake, and then their trombonist accompanying the kutshers regular entertainer guy on covers of showtunes and time of my life from dirty dancing
* insane party on saturday night with some couple having sex in the walkin closet with 100+ people just outside
* boris feedbacker absolutely incredible
* 9 drummer boadrum fucking insane, included some crazy 8 necked electric guitar that kept being smashed every now and then. drummers included kid millions from oneida and zach hill
* sufjan seven swans set was beautiful
* last night in one of the hotel lobbies which has a grand piano there was a massive jam session featuring punters and band members including brandon cox playing some microcastles stuff on piano, circulatory system people playing, and most weirdly ryan schrieber from pitchfork playing tiny dancer by elton john
* ian svenonius dance party on saturday night = ridiculously fantastic
* generally lovely crowd
* nick cave played piano with dirty three
* another great jesus lizard show, and the main stage has no barrier thus tons of good crowd interaction
* dj last night playing 4/5 smiths/morrissey songs in a row

exhausted now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQ--qAlo1w

At the NYC Boredoms show last Wednesday, about 5 minutes into the piece, the older of the core drummers was suddenly brought in from the rear of the space perched on a fucking litter with a drumkit on it, borne by 6 or 8 dudes. Did they do that shit at the ATP performance?

Yes. It was great.

Jamie OTM

i have so many highlights i can't even get it. I'll just say that Boadrum slayed everything.

And Black Dice was so oppressively loud and ugly. They were shaking the room and dirt was falling on everyone's heads.

the hell man you go to ATP in the first year I've had to miss it since 2004, and you steal my name. Harsh.

Damn, how long have you had yours?

* ten or eleven hours of oneida jamming/recording/rehearsing with collaborators including aaron from tall firs, members of flaming lips, boredoms, no neck blues band, zach hill and tons more

Recording? Nice.

xpost dunno, a while. Was confusing to see myself talking about stuff I didn't do.

The Oneida thing sounds brilliantly nuts. Unrelated, but did Excepter go ahead with their plan of playing from 10am on election day till Obama was announced winner?

Oneida was great. I know someone who stayed in the Ocropolis for like 7 hours on Sunday.

I didn't see it but apparently the NNCK guys showed up to jam. I was told one got naked and the other started throwing a cymbal around until someone kicked him in the stomach.

Oneida did a 30 minute drone with Zach from Knyfe Hits at like 2 pm and it was just heavenly. I zoned out hardcore

Let's start petitioning to have ATP 2010 on a fuckin cruise ship

http://www.sixthman.net/events

I didn't hear a lot of the WFMU broadcasts.

thank god morbz was able to let us know he doesn't have an opinion on the subject of a thread

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp298/AGonsher/IMG_3296.jpg

I attended ATP all weekend and it was a blast. There were definitely more sets that I loved this year than last year.

I agree that the Boredoms were absolutely amazing and my favorite of the weekend. Other sets that I absolutely loved in no real order:

Caribou Vibration Ensemble
Animal Collective
Boris
Sufjan Stevens
Oneida 'Ocropolis' (saw the first couple of hours with the Lips and Akron/Family which was good and caught some of the Boredoms collaboration)
Deerhunter
The Lips
Deerhoof
Dirty Three
Akron/Family
Panda Bear
El-P

Also, liked Black Dice more live than on record but could only take about fifteen minutes of it because it rattled my brain. Enjoyed what I saw of Boss Hog. Caught some of No Age/Bob Mould (which was cool and saw Mould DJing after hours. So much fun stuff and a great vibe.

Such a great time! Thanks ATP and I hope you do this next year.

Dirty Three made a believer out of me

To expand on an above question -- yes, the Oneida set was recorded in full and will possibly see release in some form.

From the ATP website:

The performances will be recorded on the fly with a multi-track mobile recording unit by Gang Gang Dance producer and engineer Sean Maffucci. Oneida will then mix, edit and compile the best moments of the day for release as soon as possible. The resultant album will then be made available as an adjunct part of the Thank Your Parents series of releases on a limited basis.

I didn't see it but apparently the NNCK guys showed up to jam. I was told one got naked and the other started throwing a cymbal around until someone kicked him in the stomach.

I was there, and unfortunately, this is not entirely accurate. He played drums for about 15-20 minutes, then started reassembling the drum kit into a tower (bass on bottom, snare on top), then took off his shoes/clothes one by one and hung them over the tower, then pulled draperies from the wall to add to the tower, then he poured a cup of beer over the whole thing. Then, completely naked, he picked up the huge tower of stuff and carried it around the stage for about 10 minutes. Then he set it down (with help from the Oneida guys) and put everything back, and put his clothes back on. This was all done in a very zoned-out, ritualistic way, I might add -- very slowly and "artistically," if you could call it that -- and served as interesting visual accompaniment to the entirety of Zach Hill's jam session.

I have pictures, btw, and could post tomorrow if anyone's interested.

While he was carrying the drum tower around the stage/floor, one of the guys in the audience went up randomly and grabbed a pair of drumsticks and started banging on the drums he was carrying, and then on the guy's ass. No, I do not have pictures of that part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aixptcz2n74

mass drunken foolishness pleases me

Did you record that???

Four pages of memories from the Voice blog.

Kinda like this as a way of reading about events more that "And then Panda Bear played Bros" et al.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/09/jim_jarmusch_fi.php

No i didnt record it, just found it on youtube.

Jesus fuck, that Village Voice thing is fantastic. Lots of shared memories in there. I love ATP.

Unrelated, but did Excepter go ahead with their plan of playing from 10am on election day till Obama was announced winner?

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8:30AM - 1:30AM
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/excepter