Home
sign up| features / music feature |
 content by: editor |
 atp 2005: the nightmare before xmas
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.May all your nightmares come true. Welcome to The Nightmare Before Christmas - an annual celebration of the wilder excesses of the avant-garde with the neat conceit of a guest curator (this year it’s The Mars Volta). Held on a winter weekend in an out-of-season Pontin’s, by Sunday it’s less Hi-De-Hi and more Heart Of Darkness. Quintron and Miss Pussycat; Battles Throughout the weekend, artists and punters alike co-mingle with both ranging sartorially from hoodie-bland to glam, like extras from a John Waters flick. The consensus being that it’s “wet” but “not a rip-off”. Everyone comes home with a new favourite band - ours being The Locust – four dudes in evil Spider-Man costumes pummelling precision electronic thrash.  Les Savy Fav (before); Les Savy Fav (after) Elsewhere there’s a heads-up for NY quartet, Battles (expect their album next year), swamp-rock cabaret from Quintron & Miss Pussycat, hip-hop freestyling from Madlib and the Stones Throw crew, panoramic jazz from Cinematic Orchestra and rambling monologues/hep retro-rock from Weird War. Not to mention a transformative performance from Les Savy Fav. There's also a solo acoustic exclusive from Dungen’s Gustav Estjes, who performs Festival from their year-beating album of psych-rock, Ta Det Lugnt. Didn't make it? No matter. Watch the sessions and tell us what you think.
James Cowdery
The United Sounds Of ATP - Weekend Two: 19, 20, 21 May: The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Ween.  comments
Read members' comments related to this music.
comment by outmoder
Jan 31, 2006
good report though shame you don't have footage up of leS (with an S) savy fav. jaga and battles were awesome too.
comment by shrinkwrapped
Jan 11, 2006
Well you could always just bookmark the page, Dom!Battles were jolly good. Sadly I don't think Collective caught their best performance (they played again on the smaller stage that night), but hey, it's still a pleasure.
comment by domchinchilla
Jan 11, 2006
I didn't make it to this ATP; lack of funds. These videos should be available to download, I don't want to go to the website every time I want to watch the Battles video!
comment by james editor
Dec 13, 2005
Hey boiledsausageandegg,We chose bands we thought people might not have heard before (Battles) or those who gave brilliant, individual performances (The Locust, Weird War etc.). The Battles track was chosen for Ty's great beatboxing. We've covered The Kills, CocoRosie, Cinematic Orchestra et al fairly comprehensively, so we thought we'd bring you something a bit different - like the Dungen acoustic track. Oh - there's a brief Cinematic clip in the report.
comment by rowan
Dec 13, 2005
Voila - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/search?searcht...
comment by boiledsausageandegg
Dec 13, 2005
jaga jazzist made my weekend. battles came a close second.the video didn't do many favours for the locust. pretentious. i'm curious as to whether the bbc deliberately chose the most unaccessible bands to show? and in many cases the most inaccessible songs (read: battles). are we selling the image of a "wierd" festival now? c'mon bbc, give us some cinematic orchestra. 
comment by lonely_minotaur
Dec 11, 2005
really! the best one i have been to by far! acid mothers temple made it all worthwhilewow!
comment by fingerchimp
Dec 9, 2005
i believe davandra banhart is curator for a day at aprils event in camber sands...its definitely crayola'd in my diary. i bet mars volta was amazing huh? im still stinging from missing sonic youth.
comment by figurativepineapple
Dec 9, 2005
It's odd. I've been to a few ATPs now, and every time I feel a little bit naughty (not in a kinky sex kinda way though, sadly). It's probably the fact that you're staying in a holiday camp usually occupied by nice, normal families. But you're watching bands that shake the very foundations of the Pontins. Plus, you're getting out of your skull on whatever you can lay your hands on. The bizarre juxtaposition of the giant bingo rules sign hanging at the back of the stage while a band like The Mars Volta give it their all just sums up the weekend for me. Naughty naughty naughty. But probably one of the best festivals in the world...
|
 |
related info
 useful linkswww.subliminalsounds.se www.dragcity.com www.stonesthrow.com/madlib www.thekills.tv quintron & miss pussycat www.thelocust.com antony & the johnsons www.cinematicorchestra.com
note: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
see also
 atp 2004feature  dungenalbum review  ynqalbum review  quasimotoalbum review  stones throwlabel profile  madvillainalbum review  cinematic orchestrapreview also at atp2005  cocorosiealbum review  antony & thejohnsons review  the killssession music  music archive Watch music sessions and interviews from 2002 to 2008. books  books and comics archive Author interviews and reviews from 2002 to 2008. |
send to a friend
access 1000s of articles