Melvins 'Vs Mike Patton' to curate Xmas ATP Festival

[Idlehanz]

thanks so much to everyone that came, it was a total fucking pleasure having you all and we'd love to see
you all again at future atps. fucking hell what a weekend. ridiculous.
i was one of the people holding up monotonix man on the drum outside

thanks also to everyone for being so cool and understanding about the wristband stuff, you = all great. everyone
at atp loves you all

I didn't enjoy getting there or leaving there, but my time at the venue was absolutely awesome.  And I'm still wearing my wristbands   Might be time to cut em off.

[norecess]

thanks also to everyone for being so cool and understanding about the wristband stuff

I still don't fully understand that whole wristband system, and haven't met anyone who did, but most importantly, I managed to see all the bands I wanted to see, so I'm not complaining.

[Ministry Fiend]

Was there any bad-ass merch?

[Idlehanz]

Was there any bad-ass merch?

There was a ton of merch.  I'm not even going to try to list it all.

As far as Melvins merch, all they had were some of the Ipecac cd's and these new things called Dolbee's.  I'm still unsure as to what they even were, but I ordered some anyway   They didn't arrive in time and were going to have to be shipped to us.

[bathroom creep]

Melvins soundchecked with Mastadon before Mastadon's set.  The Bit.  Three drummers, 2 guitarist, one bass.

Then they played it at the end of Mastadon's set.  Heavy as hell and awesome.

Wow.    I'd love to see that.

I'll work on youtubing some stuff when I get home in a few days.

Great, looking forward to it.  Cheers again for the pics and everything, Idle and everyone else- much appreciated.

[the crybaby]

pics from the last melvins show at atp

[norecess]

That last one was taken while Buzz was singing a more quiet version of Okee, with Jared doing backup vocals, while he was sitting on that roadie. Then Dale came out to help Jared teasing him. The other one was either taken during Eye Flys or Boris, probably Boris. I think Jared got inspired by Monotonix earlier that day, I saw him watching the show with big interest.

[I am the Sun]

He did the same kinds of things at the Troubadour show. For eye flys he just walked around the audience playing the bass line and during boris he was putting his head on people's shoulders, hugging them, climbing on people, piggyback riding roadies etc.

[lovelessrapture]

glad y'all had an awesome time.

all you recored looks good.  hope you get the butts and melvins up soon.

Well I've got the melvins 1983 & the locust up on dime now, I'll be putting up the proper melvins set and some more soon I hope, my connection is really bad though so expect to be leeching for a while.

[Lunica]

The Dolbee thingies.. its the stuff that was in the artsy fartsy "shop" at the end of the merchandize stands.. they also sold the atp posters there. Its some kinda square (casette sized) vinyl toy. I thought the ones that were there didn't look too great - one with a mustache was kinda cool, but it was like 40 british pounds for it, so I didn't wanna buy the melvins one without seeing it first. If that made sense.

Here are the ATP ones, but no Melvins one..

http://blog.cluttermagazine.com/2008/11/atp-release-bats-and-dolbee-figures.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=close&toggle=YEARLY-1199145600000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1225497600000

[the crybaby]

there has been a print of the melvins dolbee art somewhere around