#365

I remember the kitchens and facilities being so so bad in the chalets that I constructed a huge vegetable lasagne at home and brought it down in a massive baking tray ready to be cooked in the chalet oven. Arrived and quickly realised the tiny narrow oven didn’t stand a chance of fitting the tray in and was absolutely gutted. Then just before giving up and resigning ourselves to chips all weekend my friend picked it up and spun it 90 degrees. It slid in with a millimetre to spare, to a huge cheer from our chalet mates. Highlight of the weekend.

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#366

remember for tortoise in 2001 barry phoned up my mum and made her pay £800 on her credit card for a festival she knew nothing about because I had selected the ‘invoice me’ as a payment method and they never sent the invoice

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#367

What :grinning: :grinning: :grinning: :grinning:

“Listen lady if you don’t fucking pay this mark e smith is gonna glass someone”

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#368

to be fair, I dont know it was Barry, but someone from ATP phone my mum and scared her into paying. I selected the ‘invoice me’ option as thought it would give my friends more time to find the money, reckon one of them still owes me

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#369

ATP?! Aw wicked can’t wait to take the family on that!

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#370

Proper cracked me up this.

Why did you get in financial difficulty Barry?

“Well i put an invoice me option on ticket sales and ended up having to shake down everybody that got tickets parents”

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#371

great word though tbf

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#372

Delighted to see DiS has managed over a hundred posts since this article droped a few hours ago

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#373

Had some very good times at ATP and I think it’s been long enough now that I’d happily give my credit card to Barry again.

This thread made me book a chalet for Rockaway Beach next year, such is my desire for chalet silliness.

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#374

remember wondering if I had missed some instructions about how the invoice me worked so went on their store and ordered an ATP2000 (mogwai lineup) poster and selected invoice me again to see if I missed any instructions, I didn’t. Never got the poster though (wish I had), hope my mum didnt pay for it

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#375

Barry’s holding the poster to ransom and sending random squares of it in the post to your mum as threats.

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#376

That lasagne’s name? Wembley.

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#377

Yeah, as mentioned in the article, quite a few of the earlier festivals fell through for various reasons before they seemed to build up momentum.

Punters were pretty forgiving to keep on buying chalets after that.

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#378

I’m going to this in January. Might be a different vibe.

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#379

Looks more fun tbf.

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#380

Yeah, but Bognor 🤷

#381

A rare post/username interface that works both sincerely and sarcastically

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#382

Only an ATP thread can persuade the social boarders to cross the great divide.

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#383

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#384

The AUDACITY of Barry accusing Alex Marshall of having a vendetta!!! So little self awareness…

I was a big ATP fan, went to loads, met my now husband at one etc etc but the writing was on the wall before that Stool Pigeon article was even written.

Also, a big part of why it ended badly was the fact that they kept asking the same bands to play again and again. I went to the first one that Shellac played and I remember it being a big draw, because they hardly ever played the UK at that point. By the end they were pretty much the house band and I was bored of their whole schtick.