And so it came to be...the final wave of bands were announced for the Pavement-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. It was met not with a fanfare, but with a polite smattering of applause, mostly from those who had seen it mature to something of relative beauty, but pale in comparison to its younger, prettier sibling.
ONE MORE TIME! This round we have:
Terry Reid featuring Matt Sweeney
Times New Viking
Surfer Blood
Avi Buffalo
Who join this rabble of people who call themselves 'artists':
Pavement
The Fall
Faust
Quasi
Endless Boogie
Enablers
Broken Social Scene
Mission of Burma
Calexico
The Raincoats
Fiery Furnaces
The Walkmen
Omar Souleyman
Atlas Sound
Grail
The Drones
Saccharine Trust
The Clean
Wooden Shjips
Sic Alps
Pierced Arrows
Spiral Stairs
Blitzen Trapper
The 3Ds
Marble Valley
The Authorities
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Boris
Boris performing Feedbacker
Camera Obscura
Mark Eitzel
Monotonix
The Dodos
Venom P. Stinger
Wax Fang
Tim Chad & Sherry
Horse Guards Parade
Still Flyin'
Interested?!
The festival takes place at Butlins, Minehead from May 10 to May 13. Tickets are PRETTY MUCH already sold out so, unless you want to engage in some kind of unofficial ticket buying, you might find it difficult to gain entrance lawfully. More information can be found here. Remember there's still plenty of tickets left for the spectacular Matt Groening-curated ATP. Well worth a look.
Main photo by Simon Fernandez