All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)

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All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex, England[1] (formerly - at Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England[2]).

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, 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. All Tomorrow's Parties is a sponsorship-free festival where the organisers and artists stay in the same accommodation as the fans.[3]

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History [edit]

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, whose line-up featured in the Observer's list of the ten best festivals of the year,[4] 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 founder Barry Hogan described it, "ATP is like an excellent mix tape".[5]

In 2002, the festival expanded to the USA, and several events have taken place there in subsequent years. In recent years the All Tomorrow's Parties organisation has also been involved in booking stages at the Pitchfork Music Festival[6] and the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain. In 2008, All Tomorrow's Parties ran their first East Coast USA festival, which took place at Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, Monticello, New York and was a huge success – this event occurred again in 2009 and 2010.[7] In January 2009, the festival took place for the first time in Australia, with events in Brisbane, Sydney and Mount Buller (in Victoria) all curated by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.[8]

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 released a long-awaited feature length documentary about the festival named All Tomorrow's Parties. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and then premiered in the UK at Edinburgh in June. In October 2009 the film was screened at a number of 'one night only' UK theatrical screenings also featuring live music from Les Savy Fav, who feature in the film and have long been mainstays of All Tomorrow's Parties line-ups.[9]

I'll Be Your Mirror [edit]

In 2010, ATP announced I'll Be Your Mirror, a series of events taking place in cities around the world. I'll Be Your Mirror is named as such as it is a sister event to ATP, still involving a curator choosing all the music and films that play at the event, but without the holiday resort accommodation. "I'll Be Your Mirror" is the B-side to the original 1966 "All Tomorrow's Parties" single by the Velvet Underground. ATP announced the first event to take place in Tokyo, Japan in February 2011. A UK IBYM weekend has been confirmed for 23/24 July with Portishead installed as headline act and curators.[10] Portishead also co-curated and headlined ATP's first U.S. I'll Be Your Mirror in September 2011 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The 2013 UK edition of I'll Be Your Mirror is to be held at Alexandra Palace in London, and will be curated/headlined by Yeah Yeah Yeahs on 4 May and Grizzly Bear on 5 May.

Past UK and US lineups [edit]

Main article: All Tomorrow's Parties Festival lineups

United Kingdom Forthcoming UK All Tomorrow's Parties Festivals [edit]

UK 2013 Weekend 1 ATP Curated by TV On The Radio [edit]

10–12 May 2013. This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex. The line-up features: TV On The Radio, Spank Rock, El-P, Tinariwen, Shabazz Palaces, Thee Oh Sees, CSS, Saul Williams, Celebration, Talibam!, North America, Daniel Higgs (Lungfish), De La Soul, MF Doom, Doseone, Dark Dark Dark, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Dragons Of Zynth, Lone Wolf And Cub, Death Grips, Why?, Antibalas, Bouquet, Light Asylum, Marques Toliver, Mykki Blanco, Iran, The Juggs and Rain Machine.

UK 2013 Weekend 2 ATP Curated by Deerhunter [edit]

21–23 June 2013. This event will be held at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands, East Sussex. The line-up features: Deerhunter performing Crypotograms, Microcastle & Halcyon Digest in full, Atlas Sound, The Breeders performing Last Splash, Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Pere Ubu, Dan Deacon, Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier, Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori, No Age, Black Lips, Tom Tom Club, Rhys Chatham with Oneida, William Basinski, Roj & Julian (Broadcast and Ghost Box), Ex Models with Kid Millions, Samara Lubelski, Blues Control with Laraaji, DJ Set/Spoken Word by Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records founder), Steve Reich with The London Sinfonietta, Robyn Hitchcock and Black Dice with more to be confirmed.

Australia Forthcoming Australia All Tomorrow's Parties Festivals [edit]

ATP Release The Bats Melbourne [edit]

26 October 2013. This event will be held at Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception, Altona, Melbourne. The line-up will be:

The Breeders (performing Last Splash), Television (performing Marquee Moon), The Jesus Lizard, The Scientists, Fuck Buttons, Lightning Bolt, Sleep, Rowland S. Howard tribute, Forest Swords, Total Control, Balam Acab, Hoss, The UV Race, White Walls and The Spinning Rooms with more to be confirmed

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "ATP festival curated by The National changes location" Rekwired, 06/05/2012
  2. ^ "ATP: The Nightmare Before Christmas" The Guardian, 12/11/2007
  3. ^ ".Flouting the Mainstream, Forgoing a Corporate Stamp" The New York Times, 09/02/2010
  4. ^ 2010 "The 10 best music festivals" The Guardian, 05/09/2010
  5. ^ "All Tomorrow’s Parties & Book Club" The New York Times, 09/01/2010
  6. ^ "Pitchfork Hosts a Perma-Rock Festival" The New York Sun, 07/22/2008
  7. ^ (see above) The New York Times, 09/02/2010
  8. ^ "Veterans rock for Cave the curator" The Australian, 01/12/2009
  9. ^ "Warp's Return to Sheffield" news.bbc.co.uk, 09/18/2009
  10. ^ http://www.atpfestival.com/events/ibymportishead/news/1011241500.php

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