kaliha: (Serious Musicians // Cutouts)
2008-05-23 02:54 pm
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My massive ATP report

It's the start of festival season and where better to spend it than at a Butlins!

Well look at the advantages:
Instead of a tent – a chalet with actual walls, running water, indoor loo and cooking facilities
Instead of festival portaloos – indoor loos with loo roll
Having to sit through bands you don't like – crazy golf, a swimming pool, Minehead, the beach, arcades
Mouldy smelling sleeping bag – an actual BED with PILLOWS
Standing knee deep in mud in the rain – indoor stages with tables and chairs and staggered seating so you can SEE!

There really is no bad here.

a very long review )
kaliha: (Elbow // __kali__)
2008-05-15 08:53 pm
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I'm off to ATP tomorrow.

I'm off to my third ATP festival tomorrow. ([first], [second] But will anything top seeing The Shins and the Decemberists live during the first one and meeting Guy Garvey (!) at the second?

Looking forward to seeing Battles (who a lot of you will recognise from the Torchwood episode A Day in the Death or was it - when Owen was pottering around his house).

The only other band I know of on the line up is The National and I've seen Dinosaur Jr at pretty much every ATP I've been to.

In some ways this is a good thing because I don't have any preconceptions or any idea of what to expect, and sometimes that's a good thing.