All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)

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All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place in England at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset.

Named after a song by The Velvet Underground, it was founded by Barry Hogan in 1999 as an alternative to larger, more corporate festivals like Reading or Glastonbury, with a tendency towards post-rock, avant-garde, and underground hip hop, along with more traditional rock fare, but presented in an environment more intimate than a giant stadium or huge country field. ATP is a sponsorship free festival where the organisers and artists stay in the same accommodation as the fans.

The festival has its origins in the Bowlie Weekender, curated by Belle & Sebastian at Camber Sands in April 1999. Artists, usually musicians (but sometimes visual artists like Matt Groening or Jake and Dinos Chapman) are asked to curate the festival by inviting their favourite performers to play. The idea is that it is akin to dipping into the curator's record collection, or as Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth described it, "It's the ultimate mix tape". Steve Albini, a curator in 2002, has been quoted as stating that "There are three things in the world that I endorse: Abbey Road ... Nutter Butter Sandwich Cookies; and All Tomorrow's Parties."

In 2002 the festival expanded to the USA, and several events have taken place there in subsequent years. In recent years the ATP organisation has also been involved in booking stages at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. In 2008 ATP ran their first East-Coast US. festival, which took place at the Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, New York on September 19-21 and was a huge success. Tickets for a followup event taking place at the same location in September 2009 are on sale now from the ATP site. In January 2009 the festival took place for the first time in Australia, with events in Brisbane, Sydney and Mt Buller (in Victoria) all curated by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

The small organisation that puts on these festivals also promote concerts in London and the rest of the United Kingdom, curate the yearly Don't Look Back concert series and run the record label ATP Recordings.

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[edit] Forthcoming UK ATP Festivals

[edit] UK 2009 Weekend One - The Fans Strike Back!

8-10/05/2009. This event will be held at All Tomorrow's Parties second home: Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Half of the lineup will be chosen by ATP and the other half by votes cast by everyone who buys a ticket. For the first round of votes people cannot vote for any bands that have ever played a UK ATP Festival before. Line-up so far:

Curated by ATP:

Devo, Grails, Sleep perform Holy Mountain, selections from Dopesmoker and more, Spiritualized, Young Marble Giants perform Colossal Youth, Antipop Consortium, Sleepy Sun, The Jesus Lizard, The Cave Singers, Retribution Gospel Choir, HEALTH, Shearwater, Pink Mountaintops, The Acorn, Qui, Liam Finn, Hush Arbors, This Will Destroy You, Grouper, Nico Muhly and Sian Alice Group with many more to be announced.

Curated by The Fans:

Killing Joke, Beirut, Electric Wizard, M83, Marnie Stern, Future Of The Left, Errors, Parts & Labor, Jeffrey Lewis, The Mae Shi, School of Seven Bells, Harvey Milk, Jesu, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Lords and !!! with many more to be announced.

Curated by Lydia Lunch - Spoken Word Stage:

Lydia Lunch, Martyn Waites, Jake Arnott, Cathi Unsworth, John Tottenham

[edit] UK 2009 Weekend Two - curated by The Breeders

15-17/05/2009. This event will be held at All Tomorrow's Parties second home: Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Line-up so far:

The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Bon Iver, Holy Fuck, Teenage Fanclub, Kimya Dawson, Pit Er Pat, Deerhunter, Gang Of Four, Shellac (House band), Foals, Zach Hill, The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims), The Holloys, Styrofoam, CSS, Supersuckers, Yann Tiersen, X, The Whispertown 2000, Tricky, Mr Lif, J-Zone, Blood Red Shoes, Melt Banana, Giant Sand, Th' Faith Healers, Madlib & J-Rocc, Juan Son and Heartless Bastards with many more to be announced.

[edit] Forthcoming USA ATP Festivals

[edit] USA ATP New York 2009 - curated by The Flaming Lips/ATP

11-13/09/2008. This event will be held at Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, New York in September 2009. It will follow the same format as 2008's event with Friday featuring Don't Look Back sets and a comedy curated stage. Saturday will be once again curated by ATP and Sunday will be curated by guests The Flaming Lips. Criterion will once again host the cinema. Tickets for the festival and rooms at Kutshers are currently on sale from the ATP website. Limited day tickets are also on sale.

Line-up so far, with many more to be announced:

Friday 11 September - Don't Look Back/Comedy:

The Jesus Lizard, Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs, Suicide performing Suicide, The Feelies performing Crazy Rhythms, The Drones performing Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By and David Cross (curating comedy) with more to be confirmed

Saturday 12 September - Curated by ATP:

Animal Collective, Antipop Consortium, Atlas Sound, Panda Bear, Autolux, Black Dice, Melvins, El-P, Dead Meadow, Akron Family and Sleepy Sun with more to be confirmed

Sunday 13 September - Curated by The Flaming Lips:

The Flaming Lips. Full line-up for this day to be confirmed.

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