All Tomorrow's Parties 2006

next year Babyshambles?

The Shins? This is the US ATP?

I'm not hugely excited about the bands either but I'm not totally appalled by them either. The actual line-up is going to have to be really bad to put me off. In previous years I have also found that there have been so many bands that I wanted to see that I've really got burned out by the Saturday evening and have had to take a break, despite their being stuff on I wanted to see (I left lightning bolt because of this). Some filler might not go amiss in my view. Plus, it's in May so the weather should be pretty ok.

But damn, are The Strokes considered veterans now? Why do I think 'curating' should be an honour given to those who've proved themselves a bit? i.e. not 'one successful album' bands.

OTM Mencap. One of the joys of ATP is the suprise choices/unknown bands that different curators can bring.

It doesn't matter if it is Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mudhoney or whoever, as long as they keep to the ethos of the event.

That said, I'm not sure that I can stand another year without Shellac!

I'd love to see Ween, and think their day might be great, but have a sneaking suspicion the first weekend will be better on balance.

That depends who the special guests are, doesn't it?

Hmm...

The webpage for that weekend also lists Comets On Fire and the Country Teasers. Coments On Fire seems like a pretty good bet...

Mencap's OTM though, the curator often has very little to do with it. Autchre's year, for example, was great although I knew very little about many of the bands and would have thought I wouldn't have enjoyed a lot of the ones I did. ATP is about lots of other things, like getting chatted up in the Queen Vic by Irish girls; drinking far, far too much; and eating the world's worst fried chicken.

Also does anyone have experience with their press office? Do press passes tend to exist, or are they only for the ultra-well-connected?

am i the only one who thought there just weren't enough bands at gallo's one this year? it felt like he'd kinda run out of ideas halfway through.

i'm pretty sure the shins/s-k/ween weekend will be wonderful. the other one? too much noise pour moi, methinx.

i bet the 2006 line-up is more fucking indie shit like the headliners

1) Lots, some of whom you might know
2) No, two bands normally perform at the same time, unless you're Slint and don't book enough. Come the evening there are DJs as well. And you can't legislate against Lightning Bolt setting up in a chalet and playing too.
3) That's about it, unless you plan on buying merchandise.

See some previous year threads here:

ATP2003
ATP2004
ATP2005

otm.

I've been to 2 ATPs and have seen them a total of 5 times as a result.

I've got a feeling that these are going to be during term time, so I can't make it, but I wish I could make it to the second weekend...

PF got their info from a leaked source and it wasn't quite correct. John Spencer Blues Explosion aren't doing it, the curator for that day is still to be confirmed.

Ok, cool.

Och, wheesht. Noise fans are so blinkered at times! And I bet they were into "indie shit" only a couple of years ago. Surely there's a place at ATP for both a bit of noise/drone and indie rock?

Went to the Slint ATP in Feb. Was my first ATP, although if I'd had enough indie pals before I'd have loved to have gone to the early ones, esp Bowlie. Anyway, Slint ATP was a blast, even though I didn't make as much of it as I could have, seeing as I got horribly drunk in London on the Thursday night and got very sleep.
Still, I rocked the dance machine and the indie karaoke, blowing the crowd away with my rendition of Ring Of Fire.

Sean - I'm really keen to go to either of these weekends (Mudhoney is edging it at the moment, but it depends on who is announced) but you're welcome to share a chalet with myself and us Glasgow reprobates. You can get a press ticket but you have to pay for accommodation, so it's 120 either way. I bought a ticket for this years one but then Is This Music? put me in touch with the PR so I could get a photo pass. Hermana do press for ATP and they're fantastic. I turned up on the Friday to get my photo passes and they were all completely wasted. The next day the Hermana girls turned up and the place was spick and span. But they were ace. I sent an email wondering if I could get a Mogwai interview, thinking it wouldn't come to anything, and they were like, yeah, no worries and hooked me up with the Braithwaite. It was insane! Then I asked them if Ali Roberts was doing any interviews and Ken was like, you in London on Tuesday? I was and the interview went ahead! Brilliant.

nerve - the first "atp" was the Bowlie Weekender, organised and headlined by Belle and Sebastian, so there's your connection.

A nicer chalet nearer all the action. Thus, is much easier to find late at night.

that said, i'll be giving it a miss this year. after 2004, i said that god would have to curate in 2005 to get me back ... slint were pretty much the next best thing (even though i was quite disappointed by some of their set in the end). this year ... i really, really need a break. i've been for four ... or is it five? ... years in a row, and the spell is in danger of being broken.

last year was, for me, the best ever - but i still remember opening the chalet door on the friday and thinking: "o god, no, three nights of this" rather than (as in previous years): "wahey, pass the bottle opener and the industrial-sized rizlas." me and camber ... we just need some time apart.

so i think i'm going to sit this one out. roll on 2007 :)

Why did I choose teaching as a profession? Or why can't ATP just do what they did a couple of years ago, and book the thing for Easter weekends instead?

A nicer chalet nearer all the action. Thus, is much easier to find late at night.

-- hmmm (hmm...), October 7th, 2005.

I was wondering that myself. So press do get nicer chalets after all? Sweet. I thought that was just for the bands and admin. As I just had a normal ticket so we were in lovely Surf City, where the tin pot symphony took place. This consisted of drunk and drugged people banging pots and pans. The guys above us seemed to be playing death metal wrestling all day. You'd hear the rumble of double kick drums and then a big thud, and so on for six hours.
No matter who the bands are - and at least half of the ones at Slint I could take or leave - you'll have a great time. There was the dance machine, the indie karaoke, the dance machine, the awesome merch area, 24 hour Simpsons and Seinfeld-a-thons on the chalet TV, the dance machine, Operation Grizzly and Batman The Movie on the chalet TV, the dance machine...
It also saw a big meet up of Plan B forum people. A very friendly fest altogether.

May = Warmer.

Forms a nice balance, with three distinctly different days. Chalet booked.

It's safe to wait until more of the lineup gets announced, though, right?

OTM.

Eight berths have gone, which is what prompted us into action, although this isn't really an indicator of how the other chalets are selling because there's so few of the largest ones. Foundation have promised to start naming other acts "over the coming weeks", but from past experience that means "a month before the festival".

DINOSAUR JR DAY - BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
DINOSAUR JR
DEAD MEADOW

SLEATER-KINNEY DAY - BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
SLEATER-KINNEY
MC DAVID CROSS
THE GOSSIP
SPOON »

THE SHINS DAY - BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
THE SHINS
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
THE DECEMBERISTS
CLINIC
BIG BUSINESS

MUDHONEY DAY - BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
MUDHONEY
COMETS ON FIRE
BLACK MOUNTAIN
THE DRONES »
THE SCIENTISTS
COUNTRY TEASERS
DAVID DONDERO
JON WAHL & THE AMADANS
TOTAL SOUND GROUP DIRECT ACTION COMMITTEE

YEAH YEAH YEAHS DAY - BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
THE LIARS »
TV ON THE RADIO
ONEIDA
THE BLOOD BROTHERS
EX MODELS
CELEBRATION
IMAGINARY FOLK
TALL BOYS

DEVENDRA BANHART DAY -- BANDS CONFIRMED SO FAR
DEVENDRA BANHART
VASHTI BUNYAN
VETIVER
ESPERS
BAT FOR LASHES
JANA HUNTER
THE METALLIC FALCONS
DANIELLE STECH-HOMSY
BERT JANSCH

So far it's looking like it will be two 6-berth chalets. People from Britain, Germany and the USA. Ages 18-41.

I might have thought we'd have seen a running order by now, there's normally one within a fortnight.

I'd suggest an attempted FAP, but mine are always failures (pub wasn't even actually open last year).

Broken Social Scene - 7/8 (Shorelines)
Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver (natch)

as someone going to both weekends, it seems inevitable that at some point there's going to be a horrible clash in the schedules that will ruin my life.

agreed.

lightning bolt - 2 Morro Morro Land
fiery furnaces - don't dance her down
boredoms - track 2 of the vcn bonus cd (does this have a name?!)
the shins - new slang

Song suggestions:

Shellac: The Crow
Boards of Canada: ROYGBIV
Wire: Outdoor Miner