Is anyone going to ATP weekend 2?

ILX ATP FAP?

If I was going to weekend 2 then Spoon would have suffered two years on the trot from my watching whatever else was on instead.

mmmph! drone heaven. bugger. i wish i was going now. have fun, everybode.

Any particular day that would suit? The Sunday is the least interesting day musically, so I suspect I shall get up to such antics as karoake, crazy golf and FAPs then.

Also, don't forget the Zaireeka party after Sleater-Kinney! More details to follow...

Ah but Saturday doesn't even kick off till 3.30. And I think we're planning on Sunday for our traditional Rye pub lunch (in actual Rye, I meant to say Camber local before).

Not if you stay for Sunday night!

In all, I think it's a great line-up: really nice mix of noise and pop. But what the hell is with the Boredoms being on so early? And please, more details about Zaireeka party...

i have to leave on sunday because i have to run a meeting at 9 on monday morning. boo to work. :(

does this = clashing with lightning bolt? i think the saturday night lightning bolt might be something i have to go to, as i'll definitely be missing them on the sunday, and probably the friday too.

It's surprising how little tough decisions there are to be made. I think they've scheduled it well, in that sense.

What I would definitely do this time is to shop properly from the supermarket before i get there, i think. stock up on snacks, proper food, booze, etc. becuase as i remember the little shop in the compound isn't awesome and may well run out of stock of things later on.

things to leave behind: everything else.

things to do: laugh, drink, smoke, eat sausages, try to avoid sleeping and washing unless vital.

things not to do: spend so much time laughing/drinking/smoking/eating sausages that you miss all the bands. (unless it was the autechre year, in which case it was way more fun in the chalets.)

and take a swimsuit, because there's a big indoor pool. and the SEA, if you're brave!

FAP at the pub in camber (not on site, i guess?) lunchtime saturday? 12:30 or 1 or so?

Route planner on the bottom right will tell you how long it should take. Potins postcode is TN31 7RL.

maybe if you were SMOKING CRACK!?!?!?!

the real fun of saturday night, trying to get a signal to vote in eurovision.

Clinic were also good, but not mind-blowing, and I still haven't made my mind up about Triangle. I think I need to see them somewhere else, with better sound. Made the wrong choice by watching 1990s instead of Black Heart Procession, bah.

Other highlights: Randomly applauding people walking in and out of the pub for hours; Ken C = "Girl I wanna make you sweat" at karaoke; being filmed for half an hour stuffing flyers into free CDs (this is surely going to be the most boring documentary ever made); "Have you met my friend m4rk J4sp3r?" (okay, nobody else is going to get that); singing "RACIST!" at the guy who did 'Ape Man' for the second fucking year running at karaoke; sandstorm at the beach (eek!); erm, some other stuff.

I took it pretty easy this year, so was more band-oriented than crazy-stuff oriented. I missed the cult action, too, which was disappointing. Also, can anybody tell me what Kaiser Chiefs fans were doing at ATP? Aargh.

The New Pornographers, unexpectedly dazzling with both high and low ends and a drummer that kicked my head in - tight as fuck!; the opening of the Boredoms set, whirling screech and thunder as soandso held his glowing wizard's instrument; the Fiery Furnaces, playing songs as always unrecognisable, furious and electric; Destroyer lazy-daisy; Broken Social Scene's "Anthem for a 17 Year Old Girl", Amy Millan singing her fucking heart out; Sunday night dancing at the QV, crowd going bonkers at 4am for "Debaser"; the bloke who spent Saturday night sleeping with blanket in our quad, in the rain, who woke as seagulls dived at the bread people had been tossing onto him, who woke and scowled as fifty watching festivalgoers applauded his coming-to, someone marching out with umbrella to give him a cup of tea.

oh and the sea. i liked the sea.

Things like this are what makes Camber brilliant.

also, i am realising that perhaps in my drunken dancecrazedness on sunday night/morning that was YOU grinning at me.... ?

haha, so otm!

the guy in the front left of that video is the guy that came to our chalet with his fancy ipod speakers and helped me DJ! is he daphne's chalet-mate?

Nope, dunno where he was from...

How I could have forgotten to mention this I do not know. I was in the same quad, and duly applauded the man, oh yes.

Corin from Sleater-Kinney dancing on a table in the QV, some time after 4am.

Wandering around the sand dunes with the GF at 5:15 on Monday morning and having an excited conversation with a couple of strangers who also thought the Decemberists were the best band EVAH and who liked my glasses.

The pirate ship in the kiddy playground being turned into a giant musical instrument by bored and frozen indiekids during the fire alarm, then being stormed by security ("stop them, they're making their own entertainement!" as one man shouted).

Sitting on the fence of said playground during said fire alarm, talking to random Welsh girl who was convinced the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and who said she liked playing bass because "it's like holding a giant penis"

Lou Barlow wandering around on Friday afternoon trying to calm a crying baby.

Teenage Fanclub getting off to a worrying start by playing an instrumental track off their first ablum but then putting in one of the best Fannies sets I've ever seen.

Trying to fly tiger-face kites on the beach in gale-force winds, then giggling as someone ran past in a vain attempt to catch up with their plastic football.

And so may more that I can't remember them all. Top weekend.

Highlights for me:

Boredoms, Dinosaur, Teenage Fanclub, Joanna Newsom, Mission of Burman and The Gossip.

Lightning Bolt and Sleater-Kinney were also terrific, Electrelane and Clinic were pretty good, 1990s were fun, Magic Markers had some good noise going for at least 2/3 of their set.

Zaireeka party, dancing until 6 on Saturday night/sunday morning, R Kelly Trapped In The Closet.

Bummed I missed Herman Dune. Stupid bus driver should have bought a map!

Haha, I got home from ATP and it was already 4:30pm, I managed to pack everything and leave at 5:30 (for the 8pm takeoff!) to jump onto a hammersmith and city train finding that some NOB END had pressed the emergency button which killed the line. I was stranded on euston road trying to catch whatever i can to get to paddington and eventually got a taxi, and made it to the airport with 10 minutes to spare! haha, fun.

i think i learnt to hold my drinks better than at previous ATPs (not to say that i didn't get as drunk).

broken social scene (silly things with guitars!)
decmeberists (wtf the highlights are bands??!?!?!)
chalet parties
eurovision viewing!!
DDR with european girls
singing inner circle at the pub and made love to the ATP cam.
general funninity with meeting random people.
impressing someone with my knowledge of Chris Benoit haha.
looking HOTTTT omg.
midgets in the clohhhhset!
other bands

low lights
- the nerdy one out of herman dunes (heh) thinking i'm a weirdo when i gave him a loveheart saying "my hero" on it.
- that it ended i suppose.

http://image64.webshots.com/164/9/82/41/2391982410039858708vOYrFv_ph.jpg

(i can't see the photo, it's funny to me). do you have another link?

i saw teh kit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

yah but only bcuz i used my official John Locke tracking skillz to find you in yr natural habitat

Arcade?

bowling alley

lololololololol

i did spend most of my time in those two areas. plus sometimes the crazy horse.

I can't find the ATP Bowlie 2 thread. So who's going? Me, Ailsa & Ken C is all I know about.

FAP FAP FAP FAP

hooray! i lost your number in my big mobile phone meltdown, please text me or facebook or email or something. there are lots of others of my acquaintance going, but i can't remember who of the people i know are even ILXors any more, if they were at all.

A pub quiz & music quiz team to rule the world must happen.

I suggest waiting until the stage times are published, then picking a time and a pub, btw.

Sounds good to me.

my friend robert is playing with the country teasers, he's the bald one with glasses, say hi!

Stage times are up.

WTF @ there being literally NO alternative to Belle & Sebastian on Saturday o_0

That's been the ATP way for the past few events now, headliners are usually on unopposed and also only one thing at a time on between about 7 and 11.

Uh maybe I'm missing something but doesn't that mean a hugely overcrowded hall and a load of people locked outside with nothing to do?

Yes, yes it does.

It could be worse, it could have been Friday past where the thing you got to do was listen to CDs of Throbbing Gristle being played.

I think I shall just be in the up the stairs bit for the whole weekend except when B&S are on.

If you don't want to see B&S, you can go to your chalet and watch the X Factor and then tell me what happened.

I guess I'll just sit in the bar. There's not even anything on at the cinema stage!

you can go and play pool or go bowling with Neil, he is also spectacularly unbothered at the prospect of B&S.

I think I shall be in the Centre Stage most of the weekend. Pity I'll miss Teenage Fanclub watching Best Coast & the Zombies but I've seen TFC loads of times already, so I'll live.

Pool/bowling could be a plan! Probably better bowling cos Babs isn't a pool fan.

the games are faaaaaaacking expensive, i'd probably be the madman taking that free time to walk along the 0c beach. but then i'd want to see B&S, so no fear of hypothetical hypothermia for me.

anyone going to the may one? seems like it'll be a good site for me to indulge in my first ILX FAP.

Line-up looks really sparse.

I guess I was spoiled by the other ATP I went to, there's virtually nothing on Sunday.

I kind of like that, because it means I can just sit at the Centre Stage all day Sunday and not worry that I might be missing something else somewhere else. Definitely don't want to miss: New Pornographers, Howlin Rain, Teenage Fanclub (for sentimental reasons), Frightened Rabbit (saw them recently and they were great). Don't care about (but husband does): Galaxie 500 bloke. Anything else a bonus.

Yeah, everything I want to see except B&S (and the Fannies, who I will miss because I want to see Best Coast and The Zombies) is on at Centre Stage. Which is good, because that's the best place anyway.

Not interested in anything on Sunday Centre Stage really. I'd watch Laetitia Sadier but she's on right between Vaselines & Camera Obscura. No idea who anyone else is.

I mean, a Beatles cover band is headlining? Really?

Sunday evening's not great, true. FAP?