the only band in that list i'd be excited to see are melt banana, i saw unsane a few years ago and they were a bit of a let down. otherwise it just looks like it's going to be a weekend of prog hell.

i still think there will be a few suprises but instead of me having too many bands to choose from and deciding who i will have to miss i think that it will be more of a case of who i would want to avoid. not that i am going there anyway.

Agreed, but I'll probably go anyways.

Even melt banana is kinda ehhhhh

are you fucking kidding? have you seen them live? they were fucking perfect all three times ive seen them, agata's guitar playing is mind blowing. they dont have one bad record!

and seriously, you guys wouldnt wanna see ruins? boredoms? melvins? or any of those other bands that i mentioned?

true that.

not really melt banana just isnt really interesting to me

boredoms sure, but thats a give in

melvins...no thanks i though the stuff with big bussiness is lame city

i fell asleep the last time i saw em

Dunno.
I'm not thrilled about this at all, but on the other hand I could picture these people ending up playing there that I like a lot:

Boredoms (Patton-Zorn link)
Merzbow (Patton has collaborated and played live with him)
Keiji Haino (He played with The Melvins last January at the Rotterdam Film Festival)
Slayer (Fantomas link with Patton)
Melt Banana (Patton link)

That would definitely get me interested, even though I've seen all of them before. But the biggest problem I see for now is that pretty much everything on Ipecac either sucks ass or is horribly boring... and I don't expect too much from The Melvins either.

But I'll just wait for the lineup before shooting this down or not. The Portishead one wasn't that bad in the end either.

I'd check out all them rocking motherfuckers!

...and it's a good thing to do.

Yeah I NEED to see Keiji Haino...Black Blues (both versions) are amazing

Your more than welcome to worship me as I've seen him thrice, and will be seeing him at least once more before the year is out.

oh im sure i'll see him sooner or later

I think Haino's gig was the loudest one that I've ever been to. Pure hell.

both melt-banana and slayer are unbelievable live.

Gulity Of Being Right!

hehe, i meant that about the bands they may choose. but you were talking about them live, right? i remember you said they were disappointing at the donau festival...

i've actually seen them 5 times, even though i'm not a fan. the first 3 times i wasn't impressed much, but the last two times (at the rotterdam film festival) they played a live sountrack to films by cameron jamie and i really enjoyed those. the first night it was the melvins, the second night keiji haino and then the third night keiji haino and the melvins played together and that is still my favourite show of 2008 so far.


anyway, it's on the atp site now and the first names have been announced:



CURATED BY MELVINS
MELVINS »
ISIS »
NEIL HAMBURGER »
DäLEK »
BIG BUSINESS »

CURATED BY MIKE PATTON
FANTôMAS PERFORMING THE DIRECTOR'S CUT »
THE LOCUST »
ZU »

damn right. ive seen slayer twice, one in 01 and once in 06, they still play like reign in blood just came out. and melt banana is jsut so ridiculously tight, like king crimson tight, while playing spazzed out nutso noise punk, truly controlled chaos.

i'm suprised at the hating in this thread...
i am really excited about this. will deffo be going and what not.

i saw fantomas/melvins at the forum last year (or the year before maybe, can't remember) it was amazing.

I'll probably go - bring on the scrumpy, vodka and endless junk food.