So, who is going to ATP?

I'd love to go to ATP but this year it's not an option.

... and you're not, Cabbage, unless you get your ticket off me ;)

someone kidnap Wire and send them to me, ok? thanks.

Oft-discussed pub question of late, for those who are going: Who would have to be playing ATP next year for you not to go?

That is all.

ATP RoXoR.

I have never heard of most of the bands playing.

If most of the bands playing next year were sucky pop bands who SuXoR live then I would not go. Or if they were all sports metal bands I would not go. But if they are all bands I have never heard of, then I will go.

Mind you, if Autechre are curating next year I might spend the entire weekend rabbit watching.

No they will. It will be like releasing a genie, they'll have to grant Petra three wishes in return for their liberty.

I'm going to ATP, tickets arrived this morning.

(I have no festival/gig fun planned at all and I've been working here for a month and I haven't even been paid yet and even when I do it'll cost 2 days' wages to get home from any possible evening out BAD MOOD BAD MOOD oh bloody hell someone stop these people using frontpage and putting 7000 font tags in I'm trying to CSS-ify the whole lot argh and stop them calling me rachel dammit gurgle gurgle no wait I'm calm really I am)

FuXoR.

that is a vision of hell. The Queen Vic is a truly dreadful place. I know British pubs are gank, but even on that scale it is a shithole.

Portishead, nightmare before xmas, almost sold out. Anyone here going? Was gonna buy a 4-bed and just see who was up for coming along but... didn't.

The line-up looks pretty good, but financial ruination of no job and a new house means it's very VERY unlikely I will make it this year.

me neither :(

I'm putting F into cryogenic freezing the day after, so it's out for me too. Shame.

Pitchfork leaked as one of the curators next year.

you're doing waht?

Since this year is a notable birthday for her, I am taking her to the Ice Hotel in Sweden. The bedrooms are a toasty-warm -6 or so, "which actually feels quite warm because it's -35 outside".

Cool. Quite literally, in fact.

It's going to be fucking freezing.

omg i'm FAMOUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3k0-2plaA

tags "dance machine kid cane AWESOME"

WP!

Was gutted to have missed this, I was told the legend with great enthusiasm. AWESOME indeed.

hey, g-kit, you know that photo of you and onimo on the DDR with the scared girl in the background? the scared girl was there when we were in hotshots!

damn, we should've demanded a reshoot.

Imagine going to ATP just to stand by DDR machines looking scared. That's dedication.

omg i'm FAMOUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3k0-2plaA

tags "dance machine kid cane AWESOME"

-- ken c,

OMG I'm famous too.

(26 seconds in it pans across and I'm right next to Ken!)

tags "DDR n00b watches Ken C pwning"

ha, so you are!

hi dere!

Is this about The Nightmare Before Christmas? Just bought tickets!

nope. breeders weekend first.

nbc sounds good obv. but then will see MBV at primavera innit

"vs The Fans" weekend for me.

I'm thinking about going to the Christmas one too but haven't convinced myself yet.

no ATP for me for the first year since ought-four. :'( I'm not sure if my not being particularly enthused about either lineup is a little bit of unconscious compensation for not being remotely able to afford to go.

I get a horrible feeling that this year's NBC will end up with a lineup not even, um (I think there's a notable literary reference here but it escapes me) could deceive themselves about.

Breeders & Nightmare for me.

gg g-kit!

i want to go but can't convince anyone to go with me as yet.

to the breeders one?

(may have space in chalet)

Hmmm, Nightmare Before Christmas. Have already seen MBV, De La Soul and Sonic Youth recently, but all were A+++ would watch again, even at the other end of the country in freezy cold December.

(money has forced me out of plans for either of the upcoming ones, more's the pity)

I would go to all these ATPs but too skint :(

Make credit crunch go away so my wife can get a job and I'll buy yr Breeders tickets Ken.

I am going!

kat is going to Fans ATP now cos her friend won tickets.

say hello to her

srsly if anyone wants 2x tickets to breeders and party with me then please say so

(xpost do it colonel poo! job schmob!)

Pfff, tried to order tickets Saturday morning for Nightmare Before Christmas, but received no confirmation and found out today the order had not gone through, and that in the meantime double rooms are sold out. Quited pissed off actually.

sold those tickets now soz.

Woooooo, am just about to go. Just hope we our chalet-booker gets there in time for us to see Grouper.

we our? Blarrrgh.

Me, in an hour.

I'm there on the Sunday only, but didn't expect to be able to go at all so still amped

zomg what an ATP

FUCK YOU. first year I haven't been to a summer ATP since 2004, woe is me.

Tell me more, make me jealous.

it was grate.

aw sad face.

ok some bits (some are not actually so much as highlights e.g. this):

• They've upgraded butlins!! The upstairs centre stage bar now looks a bit like star trek enterprise - except they neglected to change the carpet so it still smells like 500 wetherspoons dumped into a sewer. BUT they also now sell icecream, pancakes and jacket potatoes so one can be dining at a table while watching RAWK.
• some chalets now also seem to have LEATHER SOFAS and MODERN BATHROOMS with AMBIENT LIGHTINGS and NEW SHOWERS zomg
• chalet karaoke party - LIPS on xbox360 has all the best songs ever and it also told me that i pwn3d the UNIVERSE when i scored 1,500,000 pts.
• watched man united win the league at the sports bar (there were more people there than watching some bands)
• peeled myself away from eurovision to watch breeders and danced with an overly excited lady
• participated in a 400 people group hug with k1mya daw5on
• randomly ended up playing late night poker at st3v3 alb1n1's chalet and won £60!!!!!!

also discovering THE BEAST an ale that is 6.6%.

Andrew WK, the week before, was bizarre.

10 years?

Aye,see you there.

no ticket. holding out hopes for a mega cheap one though.

a friend called trying to get rid of a spare ticket. apparently now i'm seeing my bloody valentine this weekend

wahey. if they have a 10yr one spare let me know ;)

I'm going this weekend, it's going to be awesome.

If anyone wants to join me on a walking tour of Minehead on saturday afternoon, get in touch. The town has some amazing sights, including a train station and Arthur C. Clarke's birthplace.

Are you the DV I met or the one I didn't?

I might have to hop a plane to the UK if Groening keeps knocking it out of the park with his lineup

oh did he announce pavement or something?

z.

I'm going this weekend: MBV/Nightmare B4 Xmas. It will indeed be awesome.

New DV I doubt I will be awake on Saturday afternoon but would otherwise enjoy exploring Minehead. It would make so sense not doing so, after a 5 hr train journey.

Tomorrow! Can't wait.

I'm getting really excited about it now.

still really disappointed there's no actual mine heads in minehead.

they should really have put the MBV one in an underground bunker. no problems with noise regulations if it's down in a hole in the ground, right?

I'll be at MBV shizz this weekend. Sucks that they still haven't sorted out decent/sufficient transport to the site from Taunton station!

i want a festival in a mine.

Not the best ATP ever, but still wasn't bad.

Some ace, ace sets from mum, Dirty Three, Sun Ra Arkestra and School of Seven Bells,

Finally gave in to the 2p machines.. don't want to think about how much I spent on it...