#405

I vaguely remember some noise around Matt Groening’s choices and maybe a Sonic Youth/Thurston Moore (??) one which was a lot of similar noise artists and was quite repetiive. Memory is cloudy though

#406

Haha, that was exactly what it reminded me of too!

#407

Just gonna share some fun ATP memories, in no particular order

  • be your own pet playing for twenty minutes and then running off with bits of the PA, to the sound man’s visible annoyance
  • having no idea who tune yards was and just going cos it was morning and I was bored
  • Franz Ferdinand’s “secret” set at Bowlie 2
  • Modest Mouse playing in the big top on a beautiful sunny afternoon
  • an afternoon that even Camber count ruin that I’m pretty sure went Los Campesinos > Hold Steady > Les Savy Fav
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs being really late, and Karen O walking on stage to boos, only to snarl “what’s up, fuckos” :sunglasses:
  • seeing Portishead
  • Broken Social Scene like a gazillion times
  • Daniel Johnston playing on a lawn outside a chalet
  • organising and having a Christmas dinner for 20-odd people at a late December one
  • that creepy man from Belle & Sebastian walking in to a killer DJ set of 90s hip hop in the Irish bar, shaking his head and leaving
  • Oneida playing for 8? 12? hours and still managing to do Sheets of Easter as a closer

I dunno, loads more. Great festival. Dickhead organiser.

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#408

Pavement was fun but this had a much better line up in retrospect. Stooges, toumani diabate, deerhunter, the xx, joanna newsom, thee oh sees (no idea who they were then so probs would have missed it but still). Think Pavement sold out before any other acts were announced.

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#409

There was a day of I’ll Be Your Mirror in 2011 where I saw a run of Godspeed, Liars, Beach House, Swans, Grinderman and Portishead. Could have seen Caribou afterwards but I was far too drunk and needed to be taken home.

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#410

loved grinderman fucking up the opening to their first song at their live debut and having to start over

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#411

EPMD at nightmare before christmas 2009 were amazing.

#412

2005 Mars Volta ATP blew my mind apart. Loved it.

Enjoyed all of the others immensely but that MV one was really just the best.

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#413

yeah this, lineup was just incredible

#414

My new house, you should seeeeee my new house

#415

It was my first ATP as well, and I was so ready for it.

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#416

My ex and friend were too hungover to deal with Godspeed so had to sit on the grass outside :grinning:
Got right to the front of that Alan Moore & Stephen O Malley thing. Was total bobbins but had to stay for the duration.
Portishead were spectacular

#417

In the end I saw Steve Reich, Amon Tobin’s ISAM set and MF DOOM for free (having been refunded), and Oneman, Darkstar, Factory Floor, Oneohtrix Point Never, Blanck Mass, and Flying Lotus (backed by The Weeknd) for a fiver, so it wasn’t all bad.

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#418

Remember seeing poptimusgrime’s name and phone number in marker pen in one of the toilets with a lewd message so texted him with some silly DiS references and refused to tell him who it was

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#419

Yeah as a non-Londoner I didn’t have the luxury of going for any of the replacement events, sadly. Got to the site with ample time to see Nicolas Jaar and Amon Tobin but spent the next hour and a half in a queue. It’s not a day I remember fondly.

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#420

I know we’ve moved on from discussing the article, but absolutely delighted about this bit:

Kevin Shields [My Bloody Valentine] is not exactly a laugh a minute. It should be fun, but he had all these demands.

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#421

Hope be brought his chinchillas

#422

“Man famously known for perfectionism not impressed by amateur, disorganised and haphazard organizer”

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#423

“he had all these demands… like getting paid as agreed!”

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#424

I love how he makes out the National’s manager to be demanding. By the time they played in 2013, they had sold out places like the Royal Albert Hall and Brixton Academy, and High Violet was a top 5 US album.

Imagine them turning up to Butlin’s and meeting him. To be honest learning about it now I’m surprised they even made it to the stage.

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