#445

I only went to 2 ATPs - Tortoise in 2001 and the Deerhunter one in 2013. I’m not a big drinker but the drunkest I’ve ever been was the Tortoise ATP. I don’t remember seeing any bands apart from Autechre, Lambchop and YLT.

The Deerhunter one was so great. BC playing with pretty much everyone and having a blast. The security guys were arseholes at that ATP and Bradford threw his wig at one of them.

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#446

Slint weekend was carnage for me. I’d attended with a bunch of messageboard weirdos who I hardly knew and didn’t really know much about any of the bands playing. What I did see wasn’t really doing it for me, so got absolutely trollied to compensate. Couldn’t find my chalet one night, and was on the phone the missus back home, just wandering aimlessly. Suddenly a badger ran out in front of me and I completely freaked. She thought I’d been attacked.

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#447

Yeah I had a great time at the Slint one but not much of it was to do with the music. Seem to recall it snowed quite heavily on the Sunday and Slint helpfully programmed back to back Simpsons on the TV channel.

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#448

Yes! There was definitely snow.

Just looking back at the line-up and I hardly saw anyone. Remember being bewildered when Matmos finished their set and I honestly thought they were still tuning up. Melvins and Spoon were good, but Slint and Mogwai do very little for me. “Why did you go?” I hear you ask. The answer, as always, is “indiepoints”.

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#449

Aye was pretty broke myself and while these were at pontine there was no way I had enough buddies to convince to travel. When it moved to minehead me and Mrs twi could go. Flights and travel was costly enough too mind.
If I’d known yourself and other DiSers I might have been to more!

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#450

I was a bit too young and grew up too rurally to actually get to any proper ATPs, which is a shame: I remember when the MBV and 10 Years ones were announced, the only person I knew I might have been interested was my English teacher (which, obviously no). But I followed along vicariously via DiS and the Vincent Moon film etc.

Some of my friends at uni got pretty screwed over by the Jeff Mangum one: expensive trains they couldn’t get refunded and stuff, for students with very little ability to absorb the loss. I always still wanted to go to one but the shine came off before I could. As someone said upthread, one reason people get so angry at Barry is that they liked ATP so much, and he fucked it up and salted the earth! (RIP Safe as Milk).

Always thought that he was someone who needed to hire a ‘boring’ professional in to do the business management side of things. Then he could carry on being the big man figurehead out front (and his pals could carry on doing MD for 12 days at a time), while someone else figured out how to keep the show on the road. Sounds like that might have stopped him getting ripped off by booking agents at the very least.

I reckon his intentions were basically good, but boy was he the wrong man for the job once things got a bit more complicated.

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#451

Waiting with anticipation for the “how was it for you”thread that usually appeared at tea time on the Monday :heart::heart:

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#452

The National ATP was moved from Minehead to Camber Sands after Butlins got tired of not being paid. The reduced the capacity massively, which in turn would have impacted who The National could book. I imagine their manager saw it all as very amateurish.

I remember Barry slagging him off in the programme notes for the next ATP.

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#453

Sorry. I see we’ve already covered this.

#454

I remember in the programme for the tortoise one Barry saying ‘you won’t see these bands in select magazine’ select magazine was good though, and sponsored the first ATP, his needlessly defensiveness apparent from the start

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#455

Finally read it, think the article did a good job there really - most of the whiny ‘we were victimised’ claims were immediately countered by ‘nah, they really fucked it’ quotes. And Hogan did seem to be acknowledging that more than i expected in some of the quotes.

What puts my teeth a bit on edge with these kind of articles is the exaggerated stories of debauchery that have clearly taken on an extra flowery detail or two with every telling.

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#456

I never noticed a church at camber sands pontins

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#457

I’m annoyed ATP essentially fucked Safe As Milk from ever going ahead because punters were too burned by the last few years of ATP to assume it would go ahead, meaning it… didn’t go ahead.

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#458

The Quietus have sponsored Sea Change in recent years. Don’t know if they will do the same next year.

#459

Gah that line up was so good (he says, having been part of the problem and didn’t book)

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#460

I had tickets for this, think they went bust and it required a section 40 claim back from credit card. I also had tickets for the one which happened between Bowlie and the first Mogwao one which also got cancelled (only band I can remember from that bill was Tindersticks). Between those two I went to a majority of tbe English ATPs and somehow was lucky never got inconvenienced by any cancellations (and was actually really happy with the move to Pontins for the National one as I much preferred the venue)

For me best line up was probably Dirty Three, but I actually found the weekend a bit too stressful as there was too
many things I really wanted to see. Most fun weekend was the Pitchfork one.

Did the last Rockaway Beach (and got tickets for the next one ) which is where I now get my fill of the smell of rancid hotdogs.

#461

Would have been a great thing! Meeting my Internet pals in a holiday village in the UK with a load of loud music to entertain us.

By the time I finally got my shit together my pals had already been going to Primavera for a few years and after my first one I never, ever wanted to go anywhere else. (Plus I met my Internet pals and went to a ham museum with them! Wouldn’t get that at ATP!)

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#462

Only went to one ATP, the Pavement one but it was brilliant. They’d played at Brixton a few days earlier and we thought that was awful, but their show here was ace. I always wondered whether Pavement REALLY curated ATP-regulars Boris… but they were great too, other highlights were the Walkmen and Enablers. Memorable moment on the way home when our designated driver screeched his death trap car off the motorway to park in the services “until the hallucinations stopped”.

This is making me wistful, for them and the Dont Look Back shows - seeing (for example) the Stooges playing classic albums twice really was incredible.

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#463

weird how every band picked the Drones as well, pure coincidence that they were signed to ATP :thinking:

not complaining mind, loved that band

#464

Memorable moment on the way home when our designated driver screeched his death trap car off the motorway to park in the services “until the hallucinations stopped”……
So many horrible stories about the journey home…….projectile vomiting in various lay-bys along the way…… friend having heart palpitations on the M5…… another friend getting admitted to hospital in Bristol….
The worst was having to spend another night at Butlins on the Monday(at our own expense) in a far away chalet because our lovely designated driver was completely incapable of doing anything other than dribble …fun times though

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