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33: 572:. In the years before 2013, when ATP announced they were ceasing to hold residential festivals in the UK, the festival took place up to three or four times a year in the UK (in May and then in December for the 'Nightmare Before Christmas'). UK festivals were planned to recommence in 2015, moving to Pontins Prestatyn. 513:
At the end of 2007 ATP/R launched series of double 7" singles called Custom Made, which would feature bands choosing four songs; one something old, one something new, one something borrowed (a cover version) and one something blue (artists were free to interpret this as they feel). Artists to release
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Also in 2001, the organisation spawned ATP/Recordings, a record label originally created to bring out compilation albums related to its festivals. However the label eventually moved on from just doing compilations for the festival to sign and release singles and albums from artists including Threnody
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All Tomorrow's Parties, as with a number of modern festivals, embraced a variety of artistic genres. Most festival events featured art exhibitions and cinema programmes (in the US, ATP collaborated with Criterion to present cinema highlighted by appearances from Paul Schrader and Jim Jarmusch), and
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In 2010, ATP announced "I'll Be Your Mirror", a series of events to take place in cities around the world named after the B-side to the original 1966 "All Tomorrow's Parties" single by the Velvet Underground. These events still involved a curator choosing all the music and films that play at the
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We didn't like the cattle call nature of unrelated artists playing in an un-curated fashion. We established the precedent that we weren't gonna play festivals...Most festivals, there's a competition to get the biggest names as headliners, then everybody else was whoever was on tour, and then the
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praised the festival, saying "They completely changed the festival game. Now the whole world has to operate under the knowledge that there are these cool, curated festivals where everyone is treated well and the experience is a generally pleasant one." Since then, Shellac had a longstanding
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Ensemble, Bardo Pond, The Magic Band, Deerhoof, White Out, Death Vessel, The Drones, Fursaxa, The Scientists, Apse, Fuck Buttons, Alexander Tucker, Sleepy Sun, Spiritualized, Built To Spill, Autolux and most recently Tall Firs and Tennis.
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by staying intimate, non-corporate and fan-friendly. Another difference was the line-ups being chosen by significant bands or artists, resulting in unorthodox events which often combined acts of all sizes, eras, and genres.
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In 2007 the curators allowed festival-goers to pick the line-up by organising a voting process for all ticketholders in the months running up to the event, and this was repeated in May 2009. The 2007 festival took place at
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bottom rungs were filled with payola spots where labels would pay to get people added to a bill. ATP was entirely curated. Somebody chose every single one of those bands because they thought they were awesome.
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Significant past performances at ATP festivals include the reformations of The Magic Band, Television, The Jesus Lizard, Sleep, and Slint amongst others. All Tomorrow's Parties also presented the return of
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Film Festival, and then premiered in the UK at Edinburgh in June. In October 2009 the film was screened at a number of 'one night only' UK theatrical screenings also featuring live music from
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In 2002, the festival expanded to the US, and several events took place there in subsequent years. The organisation also became involved in booking stages at the
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was cancelled, as was its urban festival, Jabberwocky, the latter only 3 days before the event was due to take place. A festival hosted by
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The organisation that put on these festivals also promoted concerts in London and the rest of the United Kingdom, curated the yearly
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event, but without the holiday resort accommodation. The first event took place in Tokyo, Japan in February 2011.
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The festival took place in the UK, US, Japan, Iceland and Australia, and was curated by the following artists:
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involvement with ATP and were often referred to as their 'House Band'. Shellac were the curators of ATP at
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singles in this series were Australia's The Drones, Britain's Alexander Tucker and America's Deerhoof.
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with a series of worldwide live performances throughout 2008, the London concerts of which were named
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In 2001 rock band Shellac was convinced by Mogwai to play in their line-up. frontman
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in April 1999. Artists, usually musicians (but sometimes visual artists like
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in England, before being cancelled. A few months later the company went in
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others featured spoken word performances, stand-up comedy, and book clubs.
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released a feature-length documentary about the festival named
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ran their first East Coast USA festival, which took place at
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In 2012, the company running the events was put into
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