FAP, Camber Sands?

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So, where we meeting up tonight? And are we arranging a FAP at Camber Sands or what?

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 3 April 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Heh, pick somewhere nice in town for tonight, pref. Sam Smiths as you know what we're like. John Snow? As for ATP you can do what you flipping well like, so nerr :P

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 3 April 2003 06:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right, Tonight = John Snow on Broadwick street, on the corner (aptly) of Hopkins Street. From - whenever you get there, I may be late as I've got a meeting I have to go to.

Tomorrow - Queen Vic, remwank corner, from sixish.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

you were joking about pienfox guitar, right? right?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does someone ATPing want to start a separate thread for all the Lahdahn types who have been (like me) completely ignoring this thread?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

get the pinefox to rap instead!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 April 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Attention any ILXOR ATPers who know what I look like -- ie Chris and Lixi only probably: I will be there too so be nice and say hello and forgive me if I am very drunk...

― alext (alext), Thursday, 3 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thoroughly disapprove of keeping a London FAP hidden on a thread about ATP at Camber Sands, and only telling me about it on the day! I shall endeavour to come anyway, and will be there before 6pm. For anyone who hasn't met me (Chris and Lixi are not always among the first there), there is a photo on my profile here. I'll be in a suit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

we only decided to really have it today Martin!

― chris (chris), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reporting Back...

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Music:

Good: The Fall, The Magic Band, the dub reggae played by the Rhythm & Sound DJ's before Andrea Parker & Mira Calix came on. The bloke wrapped in plastic who did his ironing so meticulously on stage during the last mentioneds set.

Interesting: Jim O'Rourke

It was an experience: Public Enemy

For the rest.

Nice chalet people. We upheld our corner of the pub for the fifth year. Starfish & building dams on the beach. A lot of booze. A lot more drugs being ingested around the site then I have seen before. A act on stage sounding like a box of angry bees. All the acts downstairs sounding the same as one another. Security very lax compared to previous years. I couldn't be bothered to buy the ATP CD this year. Someone asking for the P F to busk on the beach. A big ilXor announcement being made (can I start a thread, guys?) Bowling, darts, no trampolining or footie. A lot of food. One punter brought an ice cream-maker along. No nekkid sk8er boys. Exploding pandas. The seagulls are now as fat as mutants. Sunshine dazzling off the waves. Fun with Jelly Belly beans. Ally C dancing in his pants. Early nights.

Will that do for a start?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes David, you can.

I forgot about the bloke ironing, he was great, apart from the scary mask. And the dub slection from rythm and sound was the second best dj performance of the weekend (after the pub late on Monday morning)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

quite surprised that The Fall are still good. I've seen them twice, in 1991 and 1996, the latter occasion without Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley. 1991 was fantastic - amongst the top 5 gigs of my life. '96 was so-so. And I thought they'd got worse. I'm beginning to think that i prolly won't go to another ATP, as there seem to be fewer & fewer acts I've heard of, but at the same time I appreciate that someone's bound to say "duh! It's not about the music!" right?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

this year was so not about the music.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

In my experience and that of friends, you can pretty much roll a die to decide how good the Fall are liable to me on any given night, and this has been true for a very long time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

would've liked to have seen A Guy Called Gerald, but prolly not this year. around the time of "Voodoo Ray" maybe! There was a lot of good stuff on the "Automanikk" album, which I recall was not partcularly well-recieved at the time.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

But how do they know what you have thrown on your die? This is hocus pocus.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Next year will be lots better than this one, what with Mogwai, Tortoise & Shellac curating a day each. That's two bands I want to see play for a start!

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dr Sean said that watching A Guy Called Gerald play 'Voodoo Ray' a couple of nights ago lead to him having a transcendental experience.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

2001 was v. good, esp. Tortoise, Broadcast and Yo La Tengo. There was debate on Saturday (sinister bowling) abt the pronunciation of Shellac. Apparently, it is "shell ark".

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

did any of you see serious carl craig? if so how was he?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Tortoise = Tort 'waas according to some.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

torr-toyce

I said I'll go to next year's.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

The funniest thing about Public Enemy was Chuck D getting everyone to join hands in solidarity against the war, "but this ain't no gay shit". Also, were the S1s really wearing bullet proof vests? To fend off marauding seagulls, maybe? They went off the boil right when they decided to introduce the band (I'll allow them every audience participation cliche in the book apart from this). Fight the Power wasn't too great, partly because the band introduction thing came in the middle of it. It all went off the boil after that, although mad Flav moments kept me there until the end.

Has anyone mentioned that we were evacuated from the building? And there was a chopper with a searchlight too. Gangsta!

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reportette Back (just remembered some more, having looked through photos):

Banana sculptures

Lixi beatific in a blanket

One-eyed doll, hanging

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

The funniest thing about Public Enemy was Chuck D getting everyone to join hands in solidarity against the war, "but this ain't no gay shit".

Chuck D's homophobia has always bugged the fuck out of me...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought ally said it was griff that said that, haha.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Was it Griff? They all looked the same to me (due to DISTANCE AND DARKNESS OF AUDITORIUM, this ain't no racist shit)

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

i thought it was fantastic when flavor flav was escorted off stage muttering about ladies meeting up with him later, because he likes that kinda shit...no, i thought PE was the best act of the weekend.

i'm also thinking that next year's lineup is bound to be great. and i could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure that 'tortoise' isn't said 'torr-toyce,' that's the english version. as a chicago band, i assume they say it the american way, which is 'torr-tos'. (when i heard it the english way first,a few months ago, i couldn't stop giggling. sorry about that)

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Another memory that's just come back to me: Somebody finds a mobile phone under a seat in the Queen Vic. Somebody goes through the phone book and sees the name David Gedge. "Hey," shouts somebody, "let's phone David Gedge!" Somebody passes the phone to Ally C, who presses the Call button. Fortunately, there is no reception.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah, no reception. You're making me homesick.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

No No Colette. We don't say tor-toyce. Unless we're trying to be funny. It's more taught'ss.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

and the US pronumciation is more "tordus", shurely?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe it was scottish people saying it that way? they seemed honestly baffled when i said it like an american...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I say taw toyce sometimes, it may be a northern thing

― chris (chris), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...

this year, week 2?

― cozen¡ (Cozen), Monday, 5 January 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link

I very much want to go to week 2, still trying to get 2 more peeps.

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

B-but Boredoms are only playing the first w/end

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 5 January 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link

Yay. I think a FAP around 4am in the pub might be fun. I'm going to week 2.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 5 January 2004 08:50 (twenty years ago) link

we've had tickets for week 1 since before they announced the lineup...so hopefully it'll be a good one!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

don't bother unless you're really into the bands. last year they made no effort at putting on a 'rest of festival' after all. i worked out that for the same money (possibly cheaper) i could have gone to benicassim and seen lots of bands i actually LIKED.

that said: cat power; fiery furnaces; stephen malkmus - it has potential..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

last year, the "rest of the festival" was the best bit!!!

That said, Barry whatshisface didn't actually organise me proposing to Vicky. Best music last year was in the bar on the Monday morning at 3am - it was fantastic.

― chris (chris), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

yes, you're right about that actually - but for me, most of that was the fun we made ourselves, seeing friends, going to the beach, getting drunk in chalets - that sort of thing. i may be getting all dewy-eyed and nostalgic, but i seem to remember that even in the couple of years before last they had at least made SOME effort to put something else besides the bands on. none last year. if i have to make my own entertainment, i can probably do that at home while nobody is looking..

i remember walking into the queen vic on the sunday night and they were playing amy stewart's 'knock on wood'. to me, after everything else i had listened to that weekend, it sounded like the best thing i had EVER heard.

actually, it is quite a nice song.

i think someone said it was northern soul monday morning 3 a.m.? i had given up by that point.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

it was, and it was great, me and Jonnie danced our arses off.

― chris (chris), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

i had so much fun last year, and a lot of it was just close-quarters hanging with my friends, kind of going on first dates with my now boyfriend, and doing little field trips (to the lighthouse, the mini train, that famous guy's house, pubs in rye) etc.

i'm sure this year can't possibly live up to it, but i'm even more excited about the bands. and trans am will be there. and maybe i can hang out with them. which i've wanted to do for about 6 years or something.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 5 January 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

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