If you curated atp
 

Given all this talk about All Tomorrow's Parties, which groups would you chose if you were given the chance to curate?

My choices would be:
Sonic Youth (duh)
Mission of Burma
Pixies
Smashing Pumpkins (possibly, depending on how their reunion goes)
Meat Puppets (reunion)
Controller.Controller
Interpol
Radiohead
Dalek
Greg Ginn solo
International Noise Conspiracy
.....and a bunch of others

I like yr choices. mission of burma! I would have the following

sonic youth
dinosaur jr
mission of burma
broken social scene
magik markers
mike watt w/ someone
jim o'rourke
and bunch of others which i will pop in later.

oh and.....
shellac
nels cline

sy
smegma
radiohead
slayer
boredoms
fushitsusha circa-90's (actually, just keiji haino would be enough)
eyehategod
bardo pond
anthony braxton
growing
charalambides
high on fire
motörhead
mono
yo la tengo
darkthrone
yellow swans
merzbow
isis
sunn o)))
genghis tron


plus others i can't think of right now

The Velvet Underground (revived) headliner of course
Beck
Dresden Dolls
Metric
Tomahawk (or Faith No More reunion)
Iggy Pop (solo) or Stooges reunion
The Grates
The Ravonettes
Tom Waits

Sonic Youth... but only if they played improv stuff or if I could approve the setlist beforehand
Animal Collective
Deerhoof
Yo La Tengo
Black Dice
Sunburned Hand of the Man
No Neck Blues Band
Ween
Wu-Tang
Bardo Pond
Devendra Banhart
Black Heart Procession
Six Organs of Admittance

I'd also let each of these bands pick another act to bring along

i like yr list, nature scene.

Sonic Youth
The Flying Luttenbachers
AIDS Wolf
Wolf Eyes
Animal Collective
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Hair Police
You Say Party! We Say Die!
(International) Noise Conspiracy
The Doers
do make say think
Silver Mt Zion
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (whenever they get back into it)
Mogwai
Broken Social Scene
Chris Corsano w/Weasel Walter and Chris Corsano (woow)
The Locust
Lake of Dracula
XBXRX
Crime In Choir
(maybe) 31 Knots


i feel like i am forgetting some crucial ones, but whatever.

Australians:
Happy Go Hate Fuck
Grey Daturas
Fire Witch
Kiosk
True Radical Miracle
Whitehorse

the rest of the world:
Akitsa
Khanate
Wolf Eyes/Graveyards
Boris
Big Business
High on Fire
Comets on Fire
Yellow Swans
the psychic paramount
jesu
magik markers (maybe)
prurient (maybe)

*edit: forgot Ghost, ghost would be unreal

Sonic Youth
Broken Social Scene
Jim O'rourke
Radiohead
Queens of The Stone Age
Sunburned Hand of The Man
Mudhoney
John Spencer Blues Explosion
Smashing Pumpkins (also depdning on their reunion)
Lou Reed
and me/my band

+ more..

I foprgot I would invite ESG along

Neil Young solo
Eddie Vedder solo
Bettie Serveert (if they would only play songs from their first 4 albums)
David Crosby & Graham Nash (I don't care for Stills)
Cat Power (in the Steve Shelly/Tim Foljahn limeup)
Low with Dirty Three
Neil Young with Pearl Jam
Natalie Merchant
J Mascis with Broken Social Scene
Retribution Gospel Choir
Neil Young with Crazy Horse
Sonic Youth
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, with Warren Ellis and Blixa Bargeld
Crosby Stills Nash Young
Low

with special guest: Johnny Cash


oh I forgot:
Soundgarden in their Badmotherfinger days

The Stooges
Sonic Youth
Bardo Pond
Acid Mothers Temple
Deerhoof
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Sunn 0)))
Hair Police
Radiohead
Six Organs Of Admittance
John Zorn
Tv On The Radio
Stereolab
Beck

A reformed Les Rallizes Denude; Haino, in any capacity; Erasure; Sclub7; Mis-Teeq; Atari Teenage Riot; Kelis; Dr Dre; La Monte Young (Well tuned piano please); Bhundu Boys; Zakir Hussain; Lady Sov; Kano & Dizee Rascal.

And more.

Let me think about it some more.

Also, I would love a reformed Les Rallizes Denudes but isn' one of them still exiled in North Korea for his part in the Yodo-go hijack thing in the 1970? Although he can't of been that much of an important member because they did most of their stuff after that.

Actually, I've been trying to find out more about their link with leftist politics in Japan but information is thin on the ground. I read somewhere that the Japanese Red Army tried to get Mitzutani involved in the Yodo-go thing...if he did then there would be even less Les Rallizes stuff recorded. Imagine that!

I know next to nothing about the band, other than that their recordings are a) Very Good & b) Rare. Link me up yo.

Ireland, as it happens. On your myspazz is it? What's the address again?

i'd go for denudes, haino, s club 7, atr (with zombie carl crack i presume), lamonte and lady sov.

i live jam between lamonte and lady sov would be the highlight.

ps: graveyards suck, most boring "noise" band i've ever heard.

sonic youth
(zombie) nirvana
beck
the white stripes
cat power
be your own pet
gang of four
unwound
the stooges
radiohead
meat puppets
dinosaur jr.
animal collective
Pixies
Queens of The Stone Age
patti smith

that'll do

Cha-Ching.

I'd also like to have a 'festival' with Lady Sov involving her anatomy and some sort of lubricant.

Cha-Ching.

i bet you do

Sonic Youth
Gang of Four
Pixies
Tv on the Radio
Tom Waits
Shellac
Thee Speaking Canaries
Hella
Outkast
The For Carnation
Iggy
Bowie
The White Stripes

Yeah, I listened to the tracks earlier. The SY influence is coming out quite heavily in them. Very good though, I'll definitely get you some gigs down here at some point.

to be honest i think i would have a tv on the stagewith one of the previous years fest's on and bugger off to rio with all the money laughing like a banshee all the way.

all of my favorite bands are old or defunct. sorry.

Sonic Youth (headline act)
The Flaming Lips
The Breeders (i'd make then reunite)
Hole (i'd make them reunite)
Giant Drag
Sleater-Kinney (I's make them reunite)
Dinosaur Jr
Cat Power
Evan Dando
Steven Malkmus & The Jicks
Joni Mitchell (she'd be the first act on)
Bob Mould
The Dandy Warhols (but they'd only be allowed to play 4 songs)

Sonic Youth
The Cure
David Bowie
Nick Cave
Lou Reed
Pixies
The Stooges
Neil Young
Tool
Arcade Fire
Beck
Alice in Chains
Opeth
Patti Smith
R.E.M
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg

possibly more I've forgotten...

Mine would be something like this:

Sonic Youth
The Smashing Pumpkins
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pink Floyd
Brian Wilson
System of a Down
Radiohead
The Kinks
Muse
My Chemical Romance (you can laugh!)
The Mars Volta
Nine Inch Nails
Pulp
The Pixies

are you going to be making your way down to london for the two haino shows in september?

this one, for the most part, is like a nightmare.

OHHH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!! AND NEXT UP ARE THE CHILI PEPPERS!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll go the less-of-a-fantasy route

Be Your Own Pet
Animal Collective
OOIOO
OLAibi
Laurie Anderson
Yoko Ono
Cat Power
Ray Davies
Lou Reed
Elvis Costello
Afrirampo
Tom Waits
Dinosaur, Jr.
Sonic Youth
Neil Young

and you say naught of (potentially a joke...) Glice's?!?!?! sclub7!?! mis-teeq?! kelis!?

Which Elvis Costello would you request? As in, from what stage in his career?

add:

Camper Van Beethoven
OLAibi
Afrirampo
Elf Power
Kate Bush

damn, quoted too fast...




Cat Power could do half a set with The Memphis Rhythm band. I'd like to hear that band backing Laurie & her stepping away a little from her more recent storytelling/minimalist work. And Lou Reed & her could do a half a set together too.

I suppose it might be great if Pavement could reunite at ATP sometime.

...his new stuff with Toussaint, but of course he'd have to play at least a couple of classics.

I haven't got that yet... I guess its worth a listen.

OH! Add in The Advantage to my list everyone!

Well, it's less disappointing than the recent Paul Simon/Brian Eno pairing.


how about an
Arcadia reunion with Herbie Hancock?


fantasy supergroups:

Yoko Ono-v
Sean Lennon-g,v
Thurston Moore-b,v
Yoshimi-d,v

...Radiohead playing with Brad Mehldau Trio!

...Brad Mehldau Trio doing straight-ahead standards while Kate Bush sings them!

...Soweto Kinch with The Original Silence!

...Dylan & The Dead!!!
(Actually, this one is no fantasy. He toured with them when Jerry was alive & they toured again together during the Summer of '03.)

Add:

I meant to throw in some Be Your Own Pet too.
Possibly the Flaming Lips because they do good shows, but I don't like their recent stuff.

don't know about mis-teeq or kelis (early on, she was killer) but i much much rather have s club 7 than the junked up blandy poseurs.

hahaha s club 7 had a TV show

S CLub 7 had several TV shows and they were all awsome