All Tomorrow's Parties - Classic or Dud?

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I mean the event, not the song. Obviously.

So is it - an exciting weekend of meeting new people and enjoying new sounds, or a load of self-indulgent chin-strokey post-rock cockfarming shite?

― Pihkal Boy, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is this a joke? 2 days of constant drinking and having fun with your mates, the beach, chalet singalongs, all night parties with security guards threatening to evict you, winning the five-a-side football competition (and beating the scummy NME in the process..), more drinking and even one or two decent bands to go and see...if there's anything not good about that please tell me, cos I think I may be going mad. One week to go!

― Ally C, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You have to book in groups of four, which is rubbish if you're the only person in your group of friends who's interested in going.

― DG, Saturday, 31 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, this would be a very good question, if I could actually *remember* the event in question.

Let's see- Scotch, Irn-Bru, Mogwai in the swimming pool, lying on the floor threatening to burn down Sonic Youth's chalet, more scotch, my birthday, people coming up to us at random and selling us cool zines, more scotch, drunkenly lurching to avoid the drunkenly lurching Aidan Arab Strap, too much speed and channeling my dead scottish grandmother during the aforementioned arab strap, drunken liverpudlians accosting our keyboardist until she punched them, more scotch, oh yes, clinic, bobby gillespie/sterling morrison clones playing footie on the beach, more scotch, who broke the shower there's water all over the floor, what's on tv- wee brainy guy decides to talk to hell, aye, smart- more scotch, please, voodoo foot powder, bobby gillespie's hair, minature golf anyway oops too pissed, let's just dance around the dead sheep instead, why is Melody Maker passed out on our couch- get him on the floor so we can sleep, shagging on the chalet roofs, oops, is that the cops?

Oh, WAIT! Are you talking about the music? Is there music there?

Erm, so who's going to the Strange Fruit AnTiciPate thing at Upstairs at the Garage the night before? We're all going to wear our SF badges in the hopes of getting some mods/rockers style action on the beach with the Crack & Wield posse.

― kate the saint, Saturday, 31 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bloody indie kids and their bloody festivals. Bring back National Service, I say.

― DG, Saturday, 31 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So basically everyone loves All Tomorrow's Parties, apart from DG ( rgreenfield@btinternet.com ) who has no friends.

Anyone for an all-in swedgefest with the Jeepster messageboarders?

― Pihkal Boy, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, you could say that, but I'd prefer to think that I do have friends and that they have better taste than to like Arab Strap.

― DG, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm glad someone else doesn't like Arab Strap. I've better things to listen to than drunk scottish people shouting abuse at their ex- girlfriends. "Maggie!" "MAGGIE!" etc.

― Pihkal Boy, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe I once owned their first album. Well, I think so, I get this feeling it was so bad I've subconsciously repressed the memory.

― DG, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More bouze than I've ever had in one weekend. Four hours of sleep per night. A skateboarder wearing nothing but socks and a grin. Lambchop's dogshagging song. Watching Tim Hopkins bury his face in a bowl, slurp loudly, choke and spray himself with orange jelly. Classic, obviously.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Most annoying thing about ILM is the tendency to tedious in-jokery"

-- Tim (hopkinstim@yahoo.com), February 22, 2001

― polymer, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure Tim Hopkins sticking his head in a bowl of jelly counts as an in-joke. As I understand it, he put his head in a bowl of jelly. No insider information is required to understand this description. It's a man called Tim Hopkins and he has his face in a bowl of jelly. Do you see?

It's a crazee post-rock Animal House.

― nick, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Not sure you can blame me for the above.

2. Not sure the above is an in-joke.

3. The Tim Hopkins mentioned above is a different Tim Hopkins. Yes it is.

― Tim, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven years pass...

hey if anyone is going to the shellac curated ATP today show up early to see infrequent ilxor chr1s b3singer play with his band STNNNG

Stage 2

3.00pm - Doors
4.00pm-4.45pm - Shellac
5.15pm-6.00pm - Helen Money
6.30pm-7.15pm - STNNNG!
8.30pm-9.15pm - Uzeda
10.30pm-11.30pm - Turing Machine
12.00am-1.00am - Prinzhorn Dance School
1.00am-2.30am - DJ Carrie Weston
2.30am-4.00am - DJ Barry Hogan
4.00am - Close

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 November 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago)

chr1s and the boys picked as the #1 highlight of ATP by Line of Best Fit:

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/lists/atps-nightmare-before-christmas-curated-by-shellac-our-highlights-114064

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago)

eight years pass...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8dw8/all-tomorrows-parties-oral-history

― delta variant blues (morrisp), Friday, 2 July 2021 02:03 (three years ago)

Come back ATP

― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 July 2021 03:13 (three years ago)

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