Taking sides: UK ATP04 1 Vs. 2

Shellac have still to announce their day (really wish they'd get on with it though) and Envy are a cool addition to the w/e... oh, someone said something about Mission of Burma playing the second weekend, anything to go on there but hearsay?

Going to W1, frustrated by the lack of announcements. And wish I was seeing Love. However, too much not working at a festival = last year.

On Burma, I mentioned it after seeing it the 'new album' press release on the Matador boards - it definitely said ATP in April i.e. W2. Interestingly, the wording has changed since appearing on the Burma website and now just says Europe in 2004. I still think the weekend Bob Weston will be there makes sense, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.

also, atp 1 has sold out, which would make 2 the obvious choice.

*envisages looking at watch as 'Didn't We Deserve A Look At You The Way You Really Are' drifts into its third hour*

Mencap - I wasn't thinking of Shellac playing all day. Just doing their set and us all going to the beach for chips and ice-cream.

Weekend 2's going to be fun :)

I'll be the one dancing with a complete lack of inhibition to LCD Soundsystem, Har Mar Superstar and The Fiery Furnaces.

Yes (a completely different version according to another thread. My question there - what exactly am I going to get from "The Boredoms" at ATP? - is still unanswered BTW). Bardo Pond, Threnody Ensemble and Broadcast all have as well.

2 looks like more fun. 1 looks like like beard stroking boyrock boredom (except for Braodcast and Kid 606)

BLACK DICE

Still, they would quite appropriate for a clapped out Butlins camp!!!!!

In an ideal world I'd be going to a Sonic Youth/Shellac/Tortoise w/end, but as it is, our rub mob are going to the 2nd, w/ Boredoms and Bobby Conn so far the real only regret (I did see MOB at the 2002 Shellac w/end and they were v. v. excellent, so am really hope it is the 2nd w/end they're playing - if not, you 1st w/enders are in for a treat)

(btw Mencap, what you'll get from the current Boredoms incarnation is a trio of drummers w/ Eye making sounds and shouting over the top and - if their last appearance in London is anything to go by - it will blow yr fuckin mind)

Best perf I've seen at any of the three ATPS I've been to - Derek Bailey's set during the Tortoise w/end, easily

OOIOO is a goofy Boredoms side project.

I'd imagine that it sold out because those are the curators of the UK lineups, so people know what they're getting.

Bought tickets when I knew nothing except who the hosts were. Still waiting in hope for a good line up on the Shellac day (and refusing to believe any rumours about Pixies, MBV, AC/DC, The Cure or MOB until I see it confirmed).

New Confirmations for W/E 1:
ATOMBOMBPOCKETKNIFE
THE DISHES
MCLUSKY (hooray!)

New for w/e 2:
VINCENT GALLO
ARAB STRAP
ANGELBLOOD
DREAM/AKTION UNIT
CARLA BOZULICH RED HEADED STRANGER SHOW

Do we care about any of these people? Personally, I am totally excited about Mclusky.

Who is Carla Bozulich? (Actually, there are loads of acts on the 2nd w/end I don't know anything abt - I'm hoping this thread can partly become an infoswap one - Double Leopards, for example, who they??)

double leopards are umm quite droney. a bit taj mahal travellers maybe? there are threads about them here somewhere i think.

The bill for the first weekend is looking more depressing all the time (although I love McLusky)

http://www.doubleleopards.org/

i am thinking about making the trek up to leeds to see them with vibracathedral orchestra in mid-feb...

Isis were a bit dull, not as good as on their previous tour, and didn't you notice the huge gap in the middle? Don't you think that spoiled it just a little bit?

oh no not another drum trio w/ electronics and shouting, how passe

One thing that I did which was utterly awesome was to head along the coast a bit on the saturday morning in our hire car. About 10 miles east, by the power station, is one of the most amazing places I've been to. Totally flat, shingle all around, old boats, old boat shells, big bits of rusted machinery, bigger bits of even more rusted machinery that look like they have survived a nuclear ttack, fishermen's shacks and wee timber houses. We got fresh and smoked fish from one of them. Another one of them used to be owned by Derek Jarman and still has the garden he made.

fiery furnaces were again amazing. 'fancy some elidor, eleanour?' (in-joke for the observant ATP goer. haha those posters!)

love made me so happy.

lcd soundsystem were banging even if listening does feel like when you stand in between two mirrors.

dizzee rascal!

my favourite moment of the festival was smiling and making eye contact w. a japanese boy, after he'd watched me watch him playing pool w. his gf earlier, when he was giving his asleep gf a piggy back home at 3am on sunday.

there was a guy in the vic on the sunday dancing and reading a book at the same time. can anyone explain this to me?

etc etc

Kathleen Hanna looked great. Really great.
Explosions In The Sky were my favourite new discovery.
Carla Bozulich was also a treat.

ESG! ESG! ESG!
LCD followed by Dizzee was a perfect ending, except I then went and danced till whenever. Also next to the dude reading a book and also dancing.

I dunno about that bookdancing guy; I was right next to him and he had a patch on. did you see the bit on saturday night when someone starting pulling the panelling off the pub dancefloor's roof?!

On Friday, I saw some guy was hanging - oranguatan style - off the top of the wood pannelling that frames the stage/dancefloor in the pub.

I thought Dizzee and Har Mar were just DJing? Cool.

why did you have a bike there?

what a great weekend...

I'm a bit gutted that the Explosions in the Sky and Black Dice records I've listened to this morning haven't really clicked, especially I throughly enjoyed both their sets.

Favourite bits: watching the Notwist and over-excited young dude shouts out between songs, "This Is Brilliant!!!"

And the fact that Explosions In the Sky were standing behind me watching Dizzee.

Rememeber Jackie-O Motherfucker setting up, all the while smoking away as gut with the yellow hoodie handed out his cigarettes? I lent him the 10p he was short when he bought them in the supermarket. I had no idea who he was.

What did everyone else make of their late-show, rubbish explanation, 'you're needling me like my mother' bollocks?

His faux-self-deprecating "You'll here to have a good time no, but you'll forget about us by next week" aside was grating.

But when they got finally started, it was fantastic. No "Yeah", though.

I wasn't that impressed with the Fiery Furnaces though. Just saw a bit of a song, and then went to see Nina Nastasia

the room during lightning bolt
http://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk/photos/atp2004saturday/lightningbolt5.jpg

Sonic Youth
http://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk/photos/atp2004saturday/sonicyouth1.jpg Kim looked so good.

saw one of them walking round on the sunday

oh man, that place is so great, when i'm old and don't want to be around people any more (ie next year) i'm going to live there. beside the power station is a miniature steam railway station, with carriages just big enough to sit in, one of which has a little bar attached. they sell their own specially made beer, and you can drink it while steaming up the coast for a few miles. the perfect hangover cure!

actually, andrew, my friend saw dream aktion unit and he said they were phenomenal; my mileage varies w. this kind of music (haha not that I know what it actually um is) in such a weldingly hot live context [this ws a problem w. a lot of the bands that played], but if they put out a record...

And Chris is giving us a lift/I'm giving him one so we don't get lost (again).

But will you be taking lots of drugs, do you thiunk?

I'm still sort've haunted by that Marianne Faithfull cover that Carla and Nels ended their set w/