sphincter wrote:I'm also mostly amped about Earth and also Crippled Black Phoenix.

Sadly, i can personally report i saw CBP and that they are a bit of a yawn fest. Well they certainly were at Supersonic at least. It was holding my interest for a song or two but i got very restless after that. Was looking forward to them as well. Maybe they will be better by december. Here's hoping anyway.

ATP Nightmare Before Christmas '07

first thing i thought when i saw the thread title was that alabama thunderpussy had yet another album coming out this year and it was a tribute to tim burton or maybe claymation.

Well, it seems like they're listening

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/pitchfork/

Back to Camber we go...

hip priest wrote:Well, it seems like they're listening

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/pitchfork/

Back to Camber we go...

Hoooray for that. It'll be cheaper and smaller. Woo ha!

PS. Friday the 7th is my birthday, I may attempt to host a pleasant cheese and wine party before/during/after stuff happens. BYOB&C.

fantasmatical thorr wrote:Hoooray for that. It'll be cheaper and smaller. Woo ha!

Smaller, but not cheaper! I don't remember Camber costing £147 per person before....

Weekend 2 is announced tomorrow. Which would be exciting if the band curating hadn't already put it on their website and if that band wasn't Explosions In The Fucking Sky.

Bands confirmed so far... don't all book at once

Broken Social Scene
Iron and Wine
Dinosaur Jr.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Adem

That Camber bill better start getting good

Ouch. Weekend two looks like a dick. Why do these people hate music so much?

Explosions in the fucking sky? For fuck's sake. Why would anyone think that a 4th rate Godspeed (who i don't love in the first place) clone would make for an interesting centerpoint to an entire festival that people have to pay lots of money to go to?!

Blimey.

Just put Ween in charge and be done with it. At least it wouldn't be completely predictable that way.

Surfrider wrote:Explosions in the fucking sky? For fuck's sake. Why would anyone think that a 4th rate Godspeed (who i don't love in the first place) clone would make for an interesting centerpoint to an entire festival that people have to pay lots of money to go to?!

For some years now, I have been struggling to understand ATP / Barry Hogan. I guess he has a kind of monopoly, his shows and festivals usually sell out, and so he just does whatever the hell he wants. Good luck to him - however, I often have watched the undercard at ATPs, and sighed, and ruminated that at least five bands I know personally are about twenty times more interesting/fun than whichever noisy bunch of Jazzmaster-wielding American hippies were on at that particular moment.

I haven't been to ATP in a couple of years, because I thought it was getting samey, slightly self-important, very expensive, and there was a pretty constant attitude of put-up-or-shut-up to the audience. This new site, with the queuing to see popular bands? - sorry, but that's not my idea of a fun weekend out. Hey, if you don't mind putting up with it, that's cool. Not me.

Going back to Camber seems like a good move. Maybe the Pitchfork bill might end up being a load of completely bonkers crazy fun. Maybe it'll be fun again. I hope so.

I'm just going to add that I've had another look at the site, and the Portishead ATP line-up is actually pretty damn. Curses. All that moaning, and I'm still tempted...