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 the song "All Tomorrow's Parties" 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," while Mike Patton stated it was his favourite gig of all time.

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.

In 2009, Warp Films announced that a long awaited feature length documentary about the festival named All Tomorrow's Parties would be released. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and the UK premiere is set to take place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.

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[edit] Forthcoming UK ATP Festivals

[edit] UK 2009 Nightmare Before Christmas - curated by My Bloody Valentine

04-06/12/2009. This event will be held at Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Line-up so far:

My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, De La Soul, EPMD, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Horrors, Buzzcocks, Spectrum, Fucked Up, Le Volume Courbe, Wounded Knees, The Pastels, Witch, Lilys, A Place To Bury Strangers, J Mascis and the Fog, Bob Mould, Swervedriver and Dirty Three with more to be confirmed.

[edit] UK 2009 Tenth Birthday Party

11-13/12/2009. This event will be held at Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset. Line-up so far:

Battles, Explosions In The Sky, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, J Mascis And The Fog, Sunn O))), Tortoise, Shellac, Dirty Three, Melvins, Mudhoney, Papa M, The For Carnation, Deerhoof, The Drones, Sleepy Sun, Bardo Pond, Fuck Buttons, Apse, Alexander Tucker And Decomposed Orchestra, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Breeders and Modest Mouse with more to be confirmed.

[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, Iron and Wine, 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)

Saturday 12 September - Curated by ATP:

Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Deerhunter, Melvins, Boss Hog, El-P, Dead Meadow, Akron/Family, Sleepy Sun, Black Dice, Antipop Consortium, Autolux, Atlas Sound, Bridezilla, Sufjan Stevens, Shellac, Grouper and Circulatory System.

Sunday 13 September - Curated by The Flaming Lips:

The Flaming Lips, Boredoms performing 9 drummer BOADRUM, No Age performing Hüsker Dü, Caribou Vibration Ensemble, Deerhoof with Martha Colburn, Crystal Castles, Super Furry Animals, Boris, The Lows Lows and Oneida presents The Ocropolis, with more to be confirmed.

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