Melvins 'Vs Mike Patton' to curate Xmas ATP Festival

black stallion · November 25, 2008, 07:26:14 AM

Andy · November 25, 2008, 07:27:36 AM

Deal. This is if I don't spot you at the airport cos my plane gets in at 9:55. In theory. I think with any luck that means Minehead at about 13:30.

norecess · November 25, 2008, 07:31:45 AM

Really? At Bristol? I think Idlehanz arrives around the same time, he'll be coming in from Amsterdam (and NJ and Portland before that

). We will go there on Thursday already because the early flights on Friday were too expensive. We're staying in a hotel nearby the airport so we will meet up with Idlehanz there. Around 13.30 at Minehead, I'd sign for that. We don't have tickets for the coach to Minehead but last time I used the local bus service and that went well, and I still remember from where they are leaving. Besides, you could only buy fixed time ticket... ugh.

norecess · November 25, 2008, 07:32:08 AM

Quote from: black stallion on November 25, 2008, 07:26:14 AM

I wish you could mosh along too

Andy · November 25, 2008, 07:36:22 AM

Quote from: norecess on November 25, 2008, 07:31:45 AM
Really? At Bristol? I think Idlehanz arrives around the same time, he'll be coming in from Amsterdam (and NJ and Portland before that ). We will go there on Thursday already because the early flights on Friday were too expensive. We're staying in a hotel nearby the airport so we will meet up with Idlehanz there. Around 13.30 at Minehead, I'd sign for that. We don't have tickets for the coach to Minehead but last time I used the local bus service and that went well, and I still remember from where they are leaving. Besides, you could only buy fixed time ticket... ugh.

Yeah, the last three times i've been the bus has been fine around that time, the longest I had to wait for a bus was about 20 mins. Every time I just put ZZ Top on and went to sleep for the hour long journey.

norecess · November 25, 2008, 07:48:29 AM

Which ZZ Top album? Tres Hombres, the one that starts off with Waitin' For The Bus?

That's good, it's nice have someone confirming that. Anyway we expect to start travelling around 10 ish I believe so maybe we'll see you then already, drink some beers and raise some hell?

Andy · November 25, 2008, 08:34:09 AM

Yeah, hell will be raised. I gotta go to the supermarket first though for the cheap beer

Tres Hombres yeah. I didn't even do it on purpose either.

Idlehanz · November 25, 2008, 08:36:11 AM

Please tell me we'll be there on time.....Shit, ariving at 10:00 am and having 6 hours to get to Minehead is more than enough no?

norecess · November 25, 2008, 08:43:57 AM

Hanzy, I promise we'll be in there with a beer in our hand when they kick off that set!

Andy · November 25, 2008, 09:06:20 AM

Yeah, should be about three and a half hours. That's me being conservative, it didn't take that long last year. Had enough time for a massive fry up in the town beforehand.

Idlehanz · November 25, 2008, 11:30:07 AM

Quote from: norecess on November 25, 2008, 08:43:57 AM
Hanzy, I promise we'll be in there with a beer in our hand when they kick off that set!

I'm holding ya to it

And don't think I forgot about the pizza and whiskey either!

norecess · November 25, 2008, 11:36:43 AM

Quote from: Idlehanz on November 25, 2008, 11:30:07 AM
Quote from: norecess on November 25, 2008, 08:43:57 AM
Hanzy, I promise we'll be in there with a beer in our hand when they kick off that set!

I'm holding ya to it And don't think I forgot about the pizza and whiskey either!

Don't worry, I'll make sure to buy a bottle of Jack's at arrival.

norecess · November 25, 2008, 01:51:35 PM

ATP Schedule, easier to read!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p4fVhgUetT-4-GCjs3Dkueg

I split it in two so I can print it on one A4 size paper, using both sides.

There's an option to export this as XLS so you can tweak it yourself.

Oh yeah, the orange background means the bands I want to see and the lighter background means bands I maybe want to see, but I'll probably in the chalet then, having a whisky, or if it's early in the day, a glass of wine, or a beer.

Insomnivore · November 25, 2008, 06:24:33 PM

This two stage deal is gonna suck big time, trust me. ATP will be issuing wristbands to people who can't get into the first of the 2 gigs by the bigger acts. They should issue wristbands on arrival for the 'big 4 acts' as they've described them. They did this for Portishead and it worked just fine.

Standing in a line that will guaranteed snake out past Crazy Horse and missing other bands just to get a pass to see them the next day!?!

You shouldn't have to feel lucky about getting things you've paid for.

Rant over.

Andy · November 25, 2008, 06:35:14 PM

That thing messed a few people up two years ago, but I would be lying if I said I had any problems at all with it myself. I walked straight into everything I wanted to see (including MC5 which was wristbanded) without a care. Given that the festival has been undersold on purpose this time around i'm going to guess it'll be fine.

Now i've been nice ATP people can you please get Tweak Bird to play an extra set that doesn't clash with Big Business?

edit: Or failing that get them to play someone's chalet? Does that sound possible? It's been done before.