#385

Sounds like they had to keep asking the same bands as they were the only ones with any goodwill left to actually risk coming and playing. I agree Shellac @ ATP did become a running joke.

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#386

Just thinking…interesting how Bloc set up at Butlins too (with a similar vibe to ATP - great line-ups, musicians moping around Burger King, chalet parties) and also blew it by getting too big for themselves and ended up stopping. Bit annoying that they’ve both seemingly blown it for smaller niche festivals away from the standard set-up.

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#387

However badly it ended for ATP they can at least take comfort that they didn’t fuck it half as badly as Bloc did.

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#388

Funnily enough it was mostly reading about ATPs that drew me to the DiS forums in the first place, many years ago and under a different username. Much has changed since then, but when there’s ATP goings-on it’s the only place to be

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#389

And Bloc can take comfort in the fact no one died as they easily might have!

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#390

tbf them at Primavera is an equally valid joke, but also think people would be pretty devastated if they couldn’t play one year for some reason!

have they actually played every single year?

#391

Damon Krukowski (Damon & Naomi/ Galaxie 500) wondering how the fuck they managed to track Barry down. Don’t think they had a great experience at ATP.

Brian from Lightning Bolt with an unusual level of trust in someone who is dreadfully bad at event management.

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#392

Me too!

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#393

Owes them money and refuses to lower how much he’ll pay them :smiley:

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#394

Fucking wild stuff that.

#395

this is why i stopped going more than anything tbh, the lineups got dull as fuck

dino jr again is it

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#396

“£5k and not a penny less”
“Barry that’s too much and you end us not paying us anyway”
“OK, fair enough, £7k it is”

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#397

I was there for that Bloc - seriously sketchy stuff and genuinely felt a bit scared stuck on a ship with crowds bottle-necking to get on and people kicking off. Before that it was relatively amusing - went to see Mala DJ right in the middle of the dancefloor and could have a full on chat with my mate at normal speaking levels

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#398

Didn’t they try a really different line-up once and it didn’t go down as well? Or am I misremembering that.

#399

Yeah, we saw DMZ and Shackleton in that terrible tent, could barely hear either. After that we heard the main stages had closed so we gave up and left. Had a fairly decent night at Fabric in the end.

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#400

We couldn’t get a taxi so walked to a hotel nearby. Sitting waiting for a taxi and met Flying Lotus and Snoop Dogg. Started drinking Hennessy out of the bottle with Snoop’s drummer in hotel reception. Asked to join Snoop in his limo into central London but he literally laughed in my face. 10/10 night

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#401

See you in the pit for Vengaboys.

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#402

And then on the day after…

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#403

Aka “the Peter Ridsdale technique”

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#404

Matt Groening one: half full
Pavement the next weekend: sold out

I think once it shifted to Butlins it always existed in an awkward space between what a smaller number of people online thought it should be and what a larger number of people would actually pay for.

But then I say that as someone who would rather watch Dino Jr for the 20th time than basically any drone set

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