even when walking back through oxford just now i swear i could still see j mascis and people wearing HEALTH tshirts.
so yeah, isn't everything great?
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Drowned in Sound Event sponsored tours and events.
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ Leeds The Packhorse, 4/07
- * Club Fandango @ London The Wilmington, 4/07
- * Wild Beasts @ Leeds Cockpit, 4/07
- * Jaguar Love @ Brighton Audio, 5/07
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ York City Screen Basement Bar, 5/07
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ Birmingham Concrete, 6/07
- * Brainlove Alldayer @ Brighton Westhill Community Centre, 6/07
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ Newcastle upon Tyne Head of Steam, 7/07
- * White Denim @ Nottingham Bodega Social Club, 7/07
- * Ladytron, Interpol @ Manchester Apollo, 8/07
- * Jaguar Love @ London 100 Club, 8/07
- * The National @ Belfast Mandela Hall at Belfast University, 8/07
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ London The Enterprise, 8/07
- * Cryptacize @ Nottingham Bunkers Hill Inn, 8/07
- * Frightened Rabbit @ London Madame Jo Jo's, 8/07
NO
cos i didnt go
^
My HEALTH t-shirt got ruined by red wine in my bag :(
I mean its fixable with bleach, but still.
How was the Sunday?
hey, at least that's some variation from almost every other person ever
sunday was ace, i had a lie down to beach house, tried to force david berman to marry me from about 40 metres away using the medium of applause, got bored watching animal collective, grinned at de la soul, grinned harder at broken social scene, then went to bed at a sensiblish hour. rockandroll. how was the exam?
About an hour of a vague attempt at scraping a pass
Ah well. Such a fun weekend anyway.
Ooh did J Mascis play with Broken Social Scene during their proper set as well? And if so, was everyone just a bit like: "OK this is getting silly now, he's literally everywhere."
yep!
eits and the constantines joined in as well for backed out on the...
just walking from animal collective -> chalet -> de la soul i saw him twice more in different places. i'm yet to be convinced that he's acting alone.
Oh pipe down and move on please
hey! fuck off.
Can I butt in here?
Is it known fact that that BSS song is really called Backed Out on the Cunts. Or is it only me who thinks that?
Kevin Drew?
I thought it was 'cocks'
cocks
isnt it?
HEALTH T-Shits
seem to be the cool thing right now...
YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER
I kinda want one and a No Age one and a Mae Shi one and yeah what ever I didnt go to ATP who was the stand out for ya?
i've had that shirt for like 5 months
i'm totally ahead of the curve 8)
hehe
yep you are well COOL!
it all sounds a bit rimmy to me.
IM HOME
Man i miss atp so much already. Portsmouth is so un-hairy in comparison, not to mention the lack of j mascis round ever corner.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Animal Collective........ wow
Broken Social Scene ATP Orgy
Ducks
Rolling on the floor with Kid_A and MelesMeles to The National
High fiving to Battles with MelesMeles
Jens Lekman's Sunday Twee-fest
A+++++++ would go again
I saw the ducks too
They were cool ass mofos
i saw
3 adult geese or swans or something and six of theior little ones walking down the road. since when did birds walk down roads?
new government initiative
the national!
envy!
de la!
silver jews!
:D
jamie
i know i spoke to you last night but cant remember much else.sorry if i was a dickwad
highlights:
envy
worlds end girlfriend
raekwon dropping an 'n-bomb' on me
neutral milk hotel singing at five am
de la soul
lowlights:
not remembering friday night, and being horrible to a couple people and texting several people the same thing about 20 times
I have a blank on friday night
and to be honest, from the stuff Simon has told me, it's for the best.
The National
Envy
Okkervil River
Let down: Battles
can someone tell me
how were polvo? and people better had watched phosphorescent.
pretty dull. :(
polvo were disappointing
My first ATP
Good stuff:
De La Soul
Ghostface
The National (WOW)
Broken Social Scene (I cried I was so happy)
Battles
Envy starting in Reds while Battles played Atlas and everyone thinking there was an earthquake
Jens Lekman
Trail of Dead
Crazy Horse on Saturday night, amazing scenes
Jamie and I asking "the fit girl" who got on stage with Ghostface if she "squirted" on him
The Paper Chase
Having a lightswitch rave
Completing Time Crisis 2
Bad stuff:
I thought Sunset Rubdown were crap
Taking my jeans off on Sunday morning to discover a 4 inch hole in them
Falling over into a puddle having just pwned some Kiwi guy in a 2 man scrum
Finding some prescription sunglasses on the floor and wearing them all night and then being unable to see properly when I took them off
Hitting Abandon Reply the first time I wrote this
Missing Silver Jews because I was watching Back To The Future
The bus back to Taunton, it stopped every two seconds and a load of old moaning cunts kept getting on, pissed me right off
That was pretty good when Atlas finished
and the floorboards stopped bouncing for a second and then Envy thundering up from Reds.
Also:
Bad things = Koppaberg. Was a nightmare getting it there, and I have the worst heart burn ever and it's turned my wee gelatinous and pear scented. I'm never drinking it again as long as I live
nu metal dancing to pAper chAse=
pretty winny
Sarah's got some ace photos of it
How were
The Field
Sunset Rubdown
Stars of the lid
thanks
I was really disappointed by Sunset Rubdown
But I seem to be in the minority
When Sunset Rubdown went from
'Shut Up I Am Dreaming' to 'Taming Of The Hands' straight off it was erotically powerful.
stars of the lid
were absolutely mindblowing. review coming soon!
The Field = great
one of my highlights, along with..
Battles x 2
The Broken Social Scene/J Mascis/EITS collaboration type thing
Animal Collective
Worlds End Girlfriend whilst lying down, terrified
Okkervil River
Talking to Patrick Pestorius after he'd just come up on acid (I think)
Thinking an angry Japanese guy was in Mono, and drunkenly running away
Pizza Hut playing 'Mirrored' all the way through
I could go on forever, but my brain doesn't work at the moment.
i'm home
no thanks to klaire.
best bands:
....AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD » just stupid fun moshtimes. new songs sound good
THE NATIONAL » fucking awesome band. made me feel like what it must be to be a retard at a U2 concert
BATTLES » sicksicksick obviously
PAPIER TIGRE » great band. chastised people all weekend for missing them
ENVY » not quite a brutal as i was hoping, but their postrockiness almost redeems postrock. almost.
otherwise good bands:
POLVO »
THE PAPER CHASE »
FOUR TET »
SILVER JEWS »
SAUL WILLIAMS »
THE FIELD »
WORLD'S END GIRLFRIEND »
other highlights:
jamie giving me meal tokens and me having the most nutritionally rich weekend of my life
werk and his chaletpeople just generally being messy, messy people
writing and recording MY AIDS, YOUR FACE with Kid_A
that sort of thing
oh and
dancing on my knees with heartbrokenstar. cant even remember what to. it was special tho.
bad things:
my phone running out after a day, and me being far too much of a dickhead to have brought my charger
It was The National
I have picz
you got home at the same time as me
what are you moaning about?
Did you get my message?
which message
where?
I sent Jo a text
Never mind. You'll get it eventually.
Hi!
I left my phone battery at home (don't ask). I will go and find it in a minute and charge it. Is it Lost spoilers?
It's actually me saying
"I'm going to wait until you get back to watch Lost". Amongst other stuff.
that you ditched me?
after we'd made plans and i went to quite some lengths to stick to them? and that i just got your txt and it was sent about an hour before we were supposed to meet up?
i told lovely canadian girl from the train home last weekend what happened and she told me i should spit on my hand and slap you. i won't do that.
you "went to quite some lengths to stick to them"?
jesus christ chris. i didn't ditch you, i had forgotten that i had already made plans. i apologised to you for my forgetfulness but it really isn't as big an issue as you seem to be making it out to be, we're both home now aren't we!
yeah i went to sleep
outside of your chalet so that i could meet you on time
well that's just silly
i didnt have an alarm clock
but yeah i could have just ditched you and got an early bus and been happy and lived longly and prosperously. but then you had to do this. betray me
some kind of new DiS fight brewing here i feel.
Is this drama a cover up
for post-mdma depression?
i was just very, very tired
have i met you?
hi!
i liked
battles!!
jens lekman <3<3<3
broken social scene, of what i saw
de la soooulll
the fact that portsmouth won the fa cup
the fact that this was my attire last night: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2504457565_f083bda81f_b.jpg
i disliked
animal collective YAWN
some butlins worker asking me if i was "smacked off my face, fucking mental" to which i replied "you work at butlins"
oh and the fact that my knickers were visible for the entirety of last night
can you upload the picture of me
in the costume plwwwease. I NEED it in my life <3
Your ass don't quit in that pickchure.
zzz
bss, tod, and explosions were good.
fairly gutted about missing most of mono (door-nazi), all of adem (asleep), and battles (queue)
not a bad weekend
i met you
ok so maybe it WAS a bad weekend
You lost
Just after you guys went to the sports bar the queue flew by and Sarah and I watched them in acres of space with an unobscured view!
they were better on saturday anyway
longer better set.
Only by 15 minutes
which in Battles terms is one song
one AWESOME song
All their songs are awesome
Can this fuck off to festival board?
WHY DON'T YOU
haven't got much to say about any festivals
yet you have so much hate to spread here
a great use of your time!
where's the hate board though?
Where's the hate?
I just play by the rules.
life is fucking brilliant.
why is this on the social board? i just posted this on a music board thread, but whatevs:
i hurt less that after last week's. broken social scene made me feel amazing. okkervil river ("this is a song about MURDER!" "wooooO!") were on fine form. animal collective... OH THE DRUMS! dinosaur jr were great. battles were incredible. so were the octopus project. ...trail of dead slayed my face and if they don't make another great record i will cry. the drumming game in the arcades has destroyed my thumbs. i now have a user account on the golf game in the sports bar. i don't suck at bowling as much as i thought i did, although i do still suck. chalet raves are fucking hilarious, as is the sight of jamie summers losing it after two ciders and some andrew wk and running around with a box on his head. not having both ATP channels blows. drinking baileys and watching baseball until 4am is definitely the way to end a festival. david whathisfacesilverjews is like a drugged up college professor. did i mention broken social scene? leaving ATP makes me sad.
go on, say it
Pitchfork was better!
pitchfork was better
apart from the whole me being dressed as a pokémon thing. and the fact that even though camber is more intimate, minehead doesn't feel like i'm walking around in a really filthy council estate.
i preferred this one
but that's because i really dislike the camber site.
WHAT?
50s!? Quads!? Awesome beach!?
What is there to dislike!?
i just don't like it
as claire said, it looks like a depressing council estate. the chalets are unpleasant (why are the 8 person the same size as 4 person?) and unsuitable for parties. ours was infested with ants, and i've heard similar from others. i found the place really unfriendly compared to minehead - chalets in camber come with a price list for breakages, chalets in minehead come with a note telling you to speak to housekeeping if something is missing and you need it. the squares are nice touch during the day but make it really hard to sleep because there's always some cunt playing music outside and the security don't seem to care. the downstairs venue gets really uncomfortable because it's always too crowded, and the upstairs room has no atmosphere if you're not right near the front, and it was unbearably warm in both. there's only one evening social spot. there's fuck all to do that doesn't involve band watching, and everything closes at night.
blah blah blag. i'd really much rather go to minehead.
You raise some very good points.
However, the last song played all weekend this time round in the Queen Vic was Butthole Surfers. So it wins.
And they played Whitesnake on Friday night
true
that disco was a total win.
Was that Sweet Loaf?
MAN, I so wanted to get up and dance to that, but couldn't really. At all.
SATAAAAAAAAAN.
Yeah
I was trying to work out how to dance to it while grinning like a prize chump and working out air guitar routintes with a cider in one hand and a Corky's in the other. It was messy.
Faded seaside glamour
and the prison block-like setup absolutely made ATP for me.
I have not been to Minehead, but the Camber chalets really are, I think, one of the most beautiful things in the world :)
"the chalets are unpleasant"
Hang on, when I made this comment last year you proceeded to go on about how that didn't really matter as you only went there to sleep or something...
holy shit
i forgot the national and klaire dressed as pikachu.
no more ATP for six months :(
has ANYONE, EVER had both atp channels
functioning properly?