mr. Blunderbuss got mine, a while ago.

I haven't received mine either. Apparently they don't send them out until the week before in some cases...

For Thurston's I think it was a case of taking your booking confirmation, and that then got exchanged for the wristbands. Although I think I got my tickets from wegottickets that time - I used Seetickets this time, and they never send their tickets out until about 20 seconds before the event starts.

Final confirmations made. Television Personalities, Gemma Hayes, and The Tyde. My reactions respectively were HELL YEAH!, who? and who?...

fuck what?
they must be kidding.

Shit line-up... now let's see if they can come up with a shit time schedule to match it.


It's going to be fun though, ATP always is.

8 quid each way to taunton from London waterloo. Seems like the cheapest way too me.

but Stu is not a Londoner, is he?

Look, I'm sorry, maybe my expectations are way of for a festival, but this seems a long fucking way from a "shit lineup". I mean sure, it's no ATP New York 2008, but as someone who's only seen SY live once, never seen MBV, never seen Yo La Tengo, never seen Lightning Bolt, ETC, this looks like a damn amazing weekend to me. Even though, sure, there aren't that many "OMG AMAZING" bands there, pretty much all the acts will be enjoyable to see I'm sure, and hell, it's still 3 days of at least decent loud rocking music, in Butlins, which to me is a recipe for awesome under any circumstance. Quit yer bellyaching!

i thought my ears were burning, i'm not a Londoner no, i'm a Suffolker which is about an hour or so from London on train or in a car. 8 quid from London to Taunton does sound very cheap but my friend has had his car fixed and serviced now so we should be ok to drive. Plus all my friends are heavy smokers and i don't think they'd last the train journey without a smoke.

Sorry, I'm just really looking forward to this and I got a bit sick of so many people moaning about the lineup, which to me is pretty damn fantastic.

On an unrelated note, is the cinema usually awesome?

are you coming as well Nefeli?

looks like there's going to be a massive SYG party taking place in one of the chalets.
I can bring a life-size carton statue of crypto to give the party a proper kick.

oh men, Lightning Bolt live is something amazing, especially if they play in small club. I've seen them twice, second time they played like open air and on stage for like many people, which lost a bit on their live spirit, but it was still cool. first time I've seen them, that was in the small club and it was just blast. I'm so looking forward to see them again, coz it will be rather in small place and indoor. I wonder in which venue of them three they'll be playing. by the way I hope they are not scheduled to play on Sunday. I have to leave on Sunday morning, so I can catch Sonic Youth in Dublin that evening....fingers cross. it would be nice to see time schedule already. I can see ringing in my ears for a few days after this festival. imagine MBV on that main stage, it's not that big, I've seen them in bigger place and they were really loud....uff.

hehehe.

I haven't been in non sonic gossip section for ages. how is he? still old good crypto?

TRAITOR !

c'mon! SY playing their own gig in proper venue (not festival) in my "hometown"? it's been few years since they did it here. that would not be a good idea to miss it. I'd know I'd regret it. ehrmmm, bit of bribery....I might have one spare ticket for a gig....fancy a drink in Ireland on Sunday?

that'd cost me a London-Dublin and Dublin-Bratislava airline ticket as well, wouldn't?
well, unless you don't have a private jet, of course :)

my bloody valentine Rehearsal show + Early fest check-in!

my bloody valentine will perform a special warm up rehearsal show at ATP Centre Stage on Thursday 3rd December.

We are allowing fans who have bought tickets to the my bloody valentine curated ATP weekend the special option to check in early from 5pm on Thursday 3rd December to see the warm up show. This means they will get to stay in their chalet that night and wake up at the festival on the morning of the 4th.

The cost is a special deal of £11 per head including booking fee. See Tickets will be selling the tickets tomorrow from 12midday.

Tickets are only available on a full chalet basis - so if you have a 2 berth chalet it will cost £22, if a 6 berth chalet £66. Single tickets unavailable; tickets only available to mbv weekend ticketholders. Please note you can still buy tickets even if you didn't buy your weekend chalet through Seetickets. Tickets will be available on will call- they will not be mailed out.

A very limited amount of tickets will be available from Midday tomorrow - this will be an intimate rehearsal performance; the band may even restart songs and there will be gaps but it will be a full performance, the bar will be open from 7.30am – 2am in Centre stage and BP Fallon will DJ after. There will be no other bands.

fuckers. booked the cartrain already...