Am mildly surprised no-one has posted yet.
Anyone?...anyone...Bueller...
how was ATP?
2All-Terrain Pregnancy?
"The bastards have landed"
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album
how was ATP?
4Just got back.
NEGATIVE APPROACH ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
Nurse With Wound were good, nice to see David Tibet.
Flipper were great!
Melvins were ok - Dale is an amazing drummer though.
Iggy and The Stooges were great
Sonic Youth started to do a greatest hits set, and then I passed out so I missed Dead C, but I met Bruce Russell later and he was a very nice man
Deerhoof were good
I didn't really get Taupis Tula
Hair Police were kind of funny
Blood Stereo were good, 16 Bitch Pile Up improved on Blood Stereo and Leslie Keffer is my new noise pin up - she was great.
MV/EE and teh Bummer Road - bummer, couldn't get into them.
Magik Markers were great
Aaron Dilloway was great, sounded like he was possessed
Awesome Colour were ok when they played Led Zep riffs instead of pissing about
Wolf Eyes vibrated my nose, which was a new one for me
NEGATIVE APPROACH - so good! Someone threw a chair in the mosh pit as well.
Notekillers were great and funny, Six Organs of Admittance I really liked, they were ramshackle in a nice way, No Neck Blues Band were amazing - I didn't think they were going to pull their set off for the first fifteen minutes or so but it came together really well. Sunburned Hand of the Man were ok but I was pretty tired by then.
I also now have an appreciation for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. South Bronx Paradise, baby. I need to go and de-reek myself now.
NEGATIVE APPROACH ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
Nurse With Wound were good, nice to see David Tibet.
Flipper were great!
Melvins were ok - Dale is an amazing drummer though.
Iggy and The Stooges were great
Sonic Youth started to do a greatest hits set, and then I passed out so I missed Dead C, but I met Bruce Russell later and he was a very nice man
Deerhoof were good
I didn't really get Taupis Tula
Hair Police were kind of funny
Blood Stereo were good, 16 Bitch Pile Up improved on Blood Stereo and Leslie Keffer is my new noise pin up - she was great.
MV/EE and teh Bummer Road - bummer, couldn't get into them.
Magik Markers were great
Aaron Dilloway was great, sounded like he was possessed
Awesome Colour were ok when they played Led Zep riffs instead of pissing about
Wolf Eyes vibrated my nose, which was a new one for me
NEGATIVE APPROACH - so good! Someone threw a chair in the mosh pit as well.
Notekillers were great and funny, Six Organs of Admittance I really liked, they were ramshackle in a nice way, No Neck Blues Band were amazing - I didn't think they were going to pull their set off for the first fifteen minutes or so but it came together really well. Sunburned Hand of the Man were ok but I was pretty tired by then.
I also now have an appreciation for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. South Bronx Paradise, baby. I need to go and de-reek myself now.
how was ATP?
6What was Butlins like compared to Camber Sands?
Glad to hear about Negative Approach (although annoyed I wasn't there). Almost every ATP I have ever been to would have benefited from some more face slaying.
Glad to hear about Negative Approach (although annoyed I wasn't there). Almost every ATP I have ever been to would have benefited from some more face slaying.
how was ATP?
7despite the feeling that something of the original ATP spirit might have been lost due to the size of the new place, it was one of the best ATPs I've been to, if not the best.
I managed to see none of the noise stuff and filled my boots with solid rock for 3 days straight.
I injured my knee on the first day (long story involving medical tent) and the bands were so good I forgot about it.
Only disappointment really was sonic youth who just don't sound like sonic youth anymore. Not getting technical but it's like the guitars don't sustain enough, everything sounds really dead.
I managed to see none of the noise stuff and filled my boots with solid rock for 3 days straight.
I injured my knee on the first day (long story involving medical tent) and the bands were so good I forgot about it.
Only disappointment really was sonic youth who just don't sound like sonic youth anymore. Not getting technical but it's like the guitars don't sustain enough, everything sounds really dead.
Rick Reuben wrote:We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be... Lets say, I love you
how was ATP?
8Negative Approach hit me so hard that I shat out my own testicles. I can't believe that this was my first proper exposure to them. This situation is going to be swiftly rectified.
There really weren't many bands (that I actually managed to see - see below) that missed the mark this weekend.
However, my one (major) gripe is that the whole event was really poorly managed. That people had to queue for up to THREE hours (myself included) to watch a band play really fucking sucked. Sure, sure, I realise that the bill contained a handful of enormous artists and that there's only so many people you can fit into a room (where the floor is apparently constructed with rubber - it was bouncing I tells ya!), but the organisers should have been more realistic about how many tickets they sold to begin with to prevent people from missing out.
I left the Sun City Girls to catch a bit of Chris Corsano, only to find that re-entry to the main stage to see SCG was out of the question. In fact, the queue went from being one for re-entry to see SCG to entry for Gang Of Four to entry for Dinosaur Jr while I was stood in it. Not one member of staff thought to tell the people queuing that they didn't really stand much of a chance of seeing these bands unless they'd been queuing three bands from the ones they wanted to watch. The generosity of the bands that played two, maybe even three times to compensate for ATP mismanagement deserves rich appreciation - THEY rescued the event from all out chaos.
I didn't get to see half the bands I wanted to thanks to this amusement-park queuing bullshit.
Well, despite all that (and I suppose complaining about queuing is a supremely British thing to do anyway) I had a great fucking time, and I'm sad that it's over now. Thurston Moore curated a great fucking weekend, and I just hope that with future ATPs they learn from the mistakes of this one.
There really weren't many bands (that I actually managed to see - see below) that missed the mark this weekend.
However, my one (major) gripe is that the whole event was really poorly managed. That people had to queue for up to THREE hours (myself included) to watch a band play really fucking sucked. Sure, sure, I realise that the bill contained a handful of enormous artists and that there's only so many people you can fit into a room (where the floor is apparently constructed with rubber - it was bouncing I tells ya!), but the organisers should have been more realistic about how many tickets they sold to begin with to prevent people from missing out.
I left the Sun City Girls to catch a bit of Chris Corsano, only to find that re-entry to the main stage to see SCG was out of the question. In fact, the queue went from being one for re-entry to see SCG to entry for Gang Of Four to entry for Dinosaur Jr while I was stood in it. Not one member of staff thought to tell the people queuing that they didn't really stand much of a chance of seeing these bands unless they'd been queuing three bands from the ones they wanted to watch. The generosity of the bands that played two, maybe even three times to compensate for ATP mismanagement deserves rich appreciation - THEY rescued the event from all out chaos.
I didn't get to see half the bands I wanted to thanks to this amusement-park queuing bullshit.
Well, despite all that (and I suppose complaining about queuing is a supremely British thing to do anyway) I had a great fucking time, and I'm sad that it's over now. Thurston Moore curated a great fucking weekend, and I just hope that with future ATPs they learn from the mistakes of this one.
how was ATP?
9I am very happy that the band people seem to have enjoyed the most is a classic hardcore band. I'm wondering what this means.
how was ATP?
10this whole event was awesome...
the melvins were amazing. the two drummer thing worked realy well, as did the matching hair.
stooges ripped, although i wasnt too impressed with what i heard of the new songs.
wolf eyes were a suprise for me. not having hearing them and being told they were going to be noise, i thought i was going to hate them. they were so funny when they spoke to the crowd... "we havent had any sleep since we got all up in this bitch". genius. music wise also i was impressed... loved some of the ambient moments.
negative aproach were something else. that singer is one of the meanest looking dudes in the world. a brilliant front man. it was so funny watching all the guys from wolf eyes going nuts at the side of the stage. did that chair in the air get anyone?
comets on fire destroyed my soul. cant say much more than that realy.
was i right in thinking that the drummer that came on at the end was the same guy from six organs?
mc5 bored me.
my brain is frazled now. had about 5 hours sleep all weekend and drank enough to kill a horse.
p.s
can i please ask the lovely people who were banging on pots and pans (not so anoying), ripping up the bins, breaking windows , and just generally being utter pricks... please go to reading festival next year and get it out your systems with all the other dicks who cant seem to handle their booze.
with love the bomb funk mc.
the melvins were amazing. the two drummer thing worked realy well, as did the matching hair.
stooges ripped, although i wasnt too impressed with what i heard of the new songs.
wolf eyes were a suprise for me. not having hearing them and being told they were going to be noise, i thought i was going to hate them. they were so funny when they spoke to the crowd... "we havent had any sleep since we got all up in this bitch". genius. music wise also i was impressed... loved some of the ambient moments.
negative aproach were something else. that singer is one of the meanest looking dudes in the world. a brilliant front man. it was so funny watching all the guys from wolf eyes going nuts at the side of the stage. did that chair in the air get anyone?
comets on fire destroyed my soul. cant say much more than that realy.
was i right in thinking that the drummer that came on at the end was the same guy from six organs?
mc5 bored me.
my brain is frazled now. had about 5 hours sleep all weekend and drank enough to kill a horse.
p.s
can i please ask the lovely people who were banging on pots and pans (not so anoying), ripping up the bins, breaking windows , and just generally being utter pricks... please go to reading festival next year and get it out your systems with all the other dicks who cant seem to handle their booze.
with love the bomb funk mc.