you know what? maybe becase I've seen MBV (actually twice) and SY at same festival in space of 2 days, I'm grand now, hahaha. yeah, still looking forward. it just that I've never seen Bardo Pond and the rest of the lineup live. I know this one will be good too. music, swimming and the rest. whole atmosphere. music wise it wont be as good as Thurston one, but hey!

that would be only for us before the first act, hahaha....joking. s tou spisskou si starosti nerob....sa dame nejaky english tekuty matros.

I'm gonna bring a cheeseboard and some crackers.

same here. so we should meet this time.

right on, i'm looking forward, it's gonna be a fun weekend.

/english mode OFF

to som zvedavy na english tekuty matros ... co to bude, cider? :) to snad nie, haha

/english mode ON again

Lightning bolt!

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSS! finally something "really bad ass"! don't tell me they playing on Sunday. please not on Sunday!

Nice.

very cool indeed!

+ Th' Faith Healers :)

I only just noticed that Mercury Rev are playing here under a different name. This makes me very happy. Also, No Age should be fun...

so is this the final line up or will there be anymore added?

my bloody valentine
Sonic Youth
De La Soul
E.P.M.D.
Sun Ra Arkestra
The Horrors
Buzzcocks
Spectrum
Fucked Up
Le Volume Courbe
The Wounded Knees
The Pastels
J Mascis And The Fog
Lilys
A Place To Bury Strangers
Witch
Bob Mould
Swervedriver
Dirty Three
Primal Scream
Yo La Tengo
Brightblack Morning Light
Serena Maneesh
The Membranes
Ariel Pink
Josh T. Pearson
Lightning Bolt
That Petrol Emotion
mum
Harmony Rockets
Th' Faith Healers
School of Seven Bells
Robin Guthrie
No Age
The Robert Coyne Outfit
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

latest ATP newsletter: The final additions to the my bloody valentine Nightmare festival are coming very soon

I'm delighted to see how many bands are playing that I'm not even remotely interested in watching.

It's exciting. I've got the how-the-hell am I going to get to minehead blues though. Intuition tells me something about this festival is going to go horribly wrong... it's just a little too good to be true.

i'm supposed to be getting a lift with a friend but in the last week his car has broken down twice, i don't think my car would make it either.

we will depart on thursdaynight for a 12 hour trip.

gonna be fun.

figure another way to get there then. I want to meet you and have a pint with you, man.

Travel wise, buying an advance train ticket to Taunton, then getting the bus seems to be the most doable. Ends up costing like £80 return from where I am (York). I'm getting a lift with the 3 other people who are coming and splitting the driving though...

one way or another i will get there, i have paid for the tickets. it'll be good to meet you too man. i still haven't actually received my ticket, how long before the event do they normally turn up? have you got yr's yet?

mr. Blunderbuss got mine, a while ago.

I haven't received mine either. Apparently they don't send them out until the week before in some cases...

For Thurston's I think it was a case of taking your booking confirmation, and that then got exchanged for the wristbands. Although I think I got my tickets from wegottickets that time - I used Seetickets this time, and they never send their tickets out until about 20 seconds before the event starts.

Final confirmations made. Television Personalities, Gemma Hayes, and The Tyde. My reactions respectively were HELL YEAH!, who? and who?...

fuck what?
they must be kidding.

Shit line-up... now let's see if they can come up with a shit time schedule to match it.


It's going to be fun though, ATP always is.

8 quid each way to taunton from London waterloo. Seems like the cheapest way too me.

but Stu is not a Londoner, is he?

Look, I'm sorry, maybe my expectations are way of for a festival, but this seems a long fucking way from a "shit lineup". I mean sure, it's no ATP New York 2008, but as someone who's only seen SY live once, never seen MBV, never seen Yo La Tengo, never seen Lightning Bolt, ETC, this looks like a damn amazing weekend to me. Even though, sure, there aren't that many "OMG AMAZING" bands there, pretty much all the acts will be enjoyable to see I'm sure, and hell, it's still 3 days of at least decent loud rocking music, in Butlins, which to me is a recipe for awesome under any circumstance. Quit yer bellyaching!

i thought my ears were burning, i'm not a Londoner no, i'm a Suffolker which is about an hour or so from London on train or in a car. 8 quid from London to Taunton does sound very cheap but my friend has had his car fixed and serviced now so we should be ok to drive. Plus all my friends are heavy smokers and i don't think they'd last the train journey without a smoke.

Sorry, I'm just really looking forward to this and I got a bit sick of so many people moaning about the lineup, which to me is pretty damn fantastic.

On an unrelated note, is the cinema usually awesome?

are you coming as well Nefeli?

looks like there's going to be a massive SYG party taking place in one of the chalets.
I can bring a life-size carton statue of crypto to give the party a proper kick.

oh men, Lightning Bolt live is something amazing, especially if they play in small club. I've seen them twice, second time they played like open air and on stage for like many people, which lost a bit on their live spirit, but it was still cool. first time I've seen them, that was in the small club and it was just blast. I'm so looking forward to see them again, coz it will be rather in small place and indoor. I wonder in which venue of them three they'll be playing. by the way I hope they are not scheduled to play on Sunday. I have to leave on Sunday morning, so I can catch Sonic Youth in Dublin that evening....fingers cross. it would be nice to see time schedule already. I can see ringing in my ears for a few days after this festival. imagine MBV on that main stage, it's not that big, I've seen them in bigger place and they were really loud....uff.

hehehe.

I haven't been in non sonic gossip section for ages. how is he? still old good crypto?

TRAITOR !

c'mon! SY playing their own gig in proper venue (not festival) in my "hometown"? it's been few years since they did it here. that would not be a good idea to miss it. I'd know I'd regret it. ehrmmm, bit of bribery....I might have one spare ticket for a gig....fancy a drink in Ireland on Sunday?

that'd cost me a London-Dublin and Dublin-Bratislava airline ticket as well, wouldn't?
well, unless you don't have a private jet, of course :)

my bloody valentine Rehearsal show + Early fest check-in!

my bloody valentine will perform a special warm up rehearsal show at ATP Centre Stage on Thursday 3rd December.

We are allowing fans who have bought tickets to the my bloody valentine curated ATP weekend the special option to check in early from 5pm on Thursday 3rd December to see the warm up show. This means they will get to stay in their chalet that night and wake up at the festival on the morning of the 4th.

The cost is a special deal of £11 per head including booking fee. See Tickets will be selling the tickets tomorrow from 12midday.

Tickets are only available on a full chalet basis - so if you have a 2 berth chalet it will cost £22, if a 6 berth chalet £66. Single tickets unavailable; tickets only available to mbv weekend ticketholders. Please note you can still buy tickets even if you didn't buy your weekend chalet through Seetickets. Tickets will be available on will call- they will not be mailed out.

A very limited amount of tickets will be available from Midday tomorrow - this will be an intimate rehearsal performance; the band may even restart songs and there will be gaps but it will be a full performance, the bar will be open from 7.30am – 2am in Centre stage and BP Fallon will DJ after. There will be no other bands.

fuckers. booked the cartrain already...