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Terrible Bands

I’ll level with you: I really didn’t enjoy much of the music at TNBC. Most of it was hateful noise or incredibly boring or telling us how brilliant drugs are and how they hoped we were all on drugs. Dinosaur Jr. were awesome though, obviously, and I also liked the Melvins and Awesome Color and Deerhoof and maybe Wooden Wand although I might have them mixed up with somebody else because I wasn’t really paying attention. Flipper weren’t terrible — I enjoyed the one about laughing, for example — and Sonic Youth might have sounded like “Teenage Fanclub with a distortion pedal” but then, I like Teenage Fanclub. And distortion.

That would have been a pretty excellent set of bands, except we literally had to sit through hours of horrible music to be sure of seeing them. Never mind. Incidentally, be your own PET were absolutely the worst thing I heard all weekend, being both noisy and aggravating.

And yeah, I know how middle–aged I sound writing this.

ATP Rocks!

Going for a walk on a cold, windy, rocky beach in December might not be everybody’s idea of a brilliant time but it was one of my very favourite things of the weekend, even if we totally blew it by picking the wrong rocks to walk to the end of.

I also liked the way we all naïvely assumed the giant beach drawing of a shitting dog was a whale.

Causing Trouble

But obviously the absolute best thing about ATP is causing trouble with friends. High fives to: The Triforce; Team Jude; Team HOWELLS; Marky; James; James; Declan; Marie; etc; etc; etc.

And this, ultimately, is the worst thing about Butlins. It worked out this time, because none of us really cared if we missed the headliners, but ATP is all about seeing bands with your friends. And it’s really, really going to suck next time if everyone is split up across the, comparatively enormous, site every night according to ticket colour. I don’t know what ATP can do to fix that, since they obviously can’t fit 6,000 people into a venue that only holds 2,800 or whatever. But oh gosh! I hope they think of something.

Still: see you next year!