All Yesterday's Parties: Matt Lukin strikes back

[FartLips]

awesome review, maar! and you brought up the joe preston work thing, you cunning stunt!

[Andy]

Yeah, if Joe Preston joins Torche now we know who to blame! I had such a great weekend and it was great to meet everyone and survive that awful bus journey! I'll write a bit about it later but here's a link to the small number of photos I took, feel free to 'tag' yourself and 'be my facebook friend' if you're in em!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65155&id=507195068&ref=share
Digging the Double Negative cd too, cheers Maarten!

edit: that's a lot of exclamation marks but it actually was that exciting.

[norecess]

Thanks for uploading those pictures, Andy! I remember someone took a photo of me and Buzz two years ago and I'm still waiting for that one, knowing that I'll never see it! Steve is no Buzz but at least Steve has a cowboy hat.

[Andy]

I think i've missed another picture of us and Steve actually, i'll put that on later tonight. He's pulling the same face.

[Stone Prophet]

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[Lunica]

Cool, I'm probably in that one too I guess I should write a short review to fill in the stuff Maarten left out. First of all, we had a great time, both Floris and Ryan were nice guys, and it was nice to meet Andy, Maffymaff and MacBastard (who we already knew from last time)

Luckily, we had no transport problems this time - (Except issues with my passport - the picture page is falling out because of a production mistake, so the people weren't sure if they could let me through) it all went pretty smooth, all the way from Amsterdam - Schiphol airport - Bristol airport - Bristol Temple Meads train station - train to Taunton - Bus to Minehead.

The first day, I wasn't really "crazy" about a lot of the shows. Melvins 83 was cool to have seen, but they played early, and the sound just wasn't loud enough. European sound people tend to turn up the sound later in the evening when the headliners (were there any?) play. So yeah, it was fun to hear/see it, and they all played good. Especially Matt Lukin.

Same thing with big business. They played great like always, but the volume just wasn't loud enough.

I thought Torche was cool, but I didn't see anything, except for a cowboy hat once in a while, and a bold head on the other side of the stage once or twice, which is probably why I didn't get as into it as I think I would if I could see everything. The sounds was GREAT though. It was the first band I saw there that really had a great sound setup, and from what I could see, it seemed like they had a lot of fun on stage, and the crowd really liked it.

Fantomas was good with Dale, he got the job done, although I do prefer to see them with Lombardo. It was nice and tight, and cool after seeing the directors cut movies on tv.


The second (the first normal) melvins show was better than the 83 one. The sound was great this time around. And Buzz's vocal harmonies were great, but the choice of songs didn't really satisfy me - probably because I've seen them too many times on the last few tours with BB. It was mostly (I think more than half actually) newer songs, and not many surprises. The second show was also good, but I got too annoyed by some stupid guy with a dirty mohawk who was jumping into people, so I didn't get into the show at all. I know this isn't the bands fault, because they did play all the songs really good, its just that there is a limit to how many times seeing the same songs being played will entertain me. I was also hoping for more special appearances and collaborations. Mike Patton only did TWO shows on the whole festival, and only with Fantomas. When I first heard he was gonna be curating it with the Melvins, I was sure the bigband were gonna play (not that its the band i would want to see the most, but still), and I thought maybe tomahawk or peeping tom, kaada, or some other collaborations would take place - maybe even with Rahzel or D

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[Lunica]

This one is for Idlehanz.

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[FartLips]

now lun, what happens at atp stays at atp.

[Stone Prophet]

hahaha 

[norecess]

Yeah, it almost stayed there, but we brought it with us. We'll make sure to send it to you though, Hanzy.

[Idlehanz]

This one is for Idlehanz.

I wasn't going to bring that up

[linoleum blownapart]

did anyone catch junior brown?

[Idlehanz]

did anyone catch junior brown?

I know Dillard did.  I asked him about it and he sai it was really cool.  That's about all I got

[bathroom creep]

GREAT reviews. Very visual.  Sounds like an awesome weekend with lots of awesome bands and more awesomness.

[norecess]

That grey Butthole Surfers shirt is one of the coolest shirts ive seen in a while, I really need that.. What the hell is zwarte piet doing at ATP?

Hehe, it's a Golliwog, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog.