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Peter Guy discovered music late. Since then he's been making up for it. With a collection to rival a small record shop and a gig diary fit for any addled groupie, music is is his religion. Sometimes he dreams of having Liam, Prince and Jimmy Page round for tea but most of the time he can be found writing and designing the Daily Post's sports pages. Getintothis is his guide to music, which he hopes you’ll contribute to.

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ATP vs You: Choose your fantasy festival line-up

Posted by Peter Guy on May 14, 2008 11:21 PM | 


This weekend Getintothis undertakes our third outing to the holier-than-indie festival All Tomorrow's Parties - an event which picks one band to curate and choose the entire line-up. Well, imagine if you were given that honour... Who would be your selections? Choose wisely.

So, this weekend we're off to All Tomorrow's Parties - an alt-rock festival held at Butlins (wahey!) where one band - in this case Explosions in the Sky - curate the event and pick who plays.
Previous hosts have included Mogwai, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and even maverick film director Vincent Gallo.
But what if you were given the chance to pick your dream festival line-up.
Be imaginative. Think of a theme. Kinda like Fantasy Music Festivals.
Getintothis will review and post pics from this weekend's event when we return next week, but in the meantime here's our fantasy ATP, please include your own:

1. Oceansize: Maybe the best live band from Britain, bringing dark epic prog to the party.
Listen

2. !!!: Stole the show at Glastonbury 07, and they'd be ideal to keep things bouncing late into the morning. Twenty minute drum solos and plenty of nakedness - say no more.

3. Bear In Heaven: One of the LPs of the last couple of the years was served up by this Brooklyn collective. They've yet to tour the UK, so let's get em on.
Listen.

4. Boredoms: This lot started out playing gigs by strapping circular saws to their backs, cutting cats in half on stage and driving bulldozers into walls. Now while that's unlikely to happen at Butlins, something half as insane would be lovely.
Listen.

5. Kate Bush: We'd probably have to break the bank to get little miss nutcase out of her English country mansion, but it'd be way worth it. Preferably to do the whole of Hounds of Love from start to finish.

6. Ennio Morricone: This genius - and I use that word very rarely - would be just perfect to chill out to mid-afternoon, maybe while lunching it prior to a quick game of ten-pin bowling. And I bet once he played the theme to The Good The Bad & The Ugly everyone on site would be wondering round whistling it all weekend. Ace.

7. Sufjan Stevens: Another who could put on one hell of a show - with his pageant of musicians, ra-ra girls and good-time Yank singalongs, Stevens would be perfect for ATP.
Listen.

8. Minus The Bear: Another inspirational new(ish) stateside band. Think intricate guitars and polyrhythmic beats with an added Foo Fighters-anthemic stadia sound.
Listen

9. Robyn: Probably the best pop star on the planet right now. Feisty, edgy, great tunes. Nuff said.
Listen

10. Funkadelic/Parliament: How cool would it be to see George Clinton and his funk space cadets dock The Mothership at Butlins!

11. Yeasayer: Probably my favourite band right now.
Listen.

12. DJ Shadow: A favourite from my youth - Josh Davis could spin tunes into the early hours as we come down from some serious all-day partying.

13. Frightened Rabbit: Another great record in 08, this lot would induce lighters in the air and a jolly good sing song.
Listen.

14. AC/DC: WADDYA DO FOR MONEY, HONEY, HOW'D YA GET YOUR KICKS?

15. Do Make Say Think: I've seen most of the Kings of post-rock but these have passed me by.
Listen.

16. David Holmes I caught this cat while at Leicester and his mixes are incredible; old school soundtracks weaved seamlessly into Iggy and Percy Faith. Great one for the early hours while on the dancefloor.
Listen

17. Comets On Fire: This lot would be perfect at around 9pm to really ramp up proceedings - beers flowing, whatever else takes your fancy and guitars, horns and monolithic drums pounding like prehistoric mammoths reverberating round the Butlins ballroom.
Listen.

18. Beta Band: What a lost talent. One of only a handful of bands on the bill I've seen before, but oh what a joy it'd be to hear the likes of Inner Meet Me, The House Song and Dry The Rain again.

19. Sleater-Kinney: Another I'd pay through the nose to get em to reform. Plenty of nasty big riffs and carnage on stage.
Listen

20. Talk Talk: I'd throw loads of wonga in the direction of Mark Hollis and get this lot to reform and let them round off the festival at 3am blasting out the whole of Spirit of Eden with The Rainbow to finish. How incredible would that be?
Listen

What a whopper that'd be. Reet, now your turn.

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Comments (13)

Sedric A. Dragon wrote...

Damn... I know I'd get Nurse With Wound to play, and if I'm getting the Nurse I should get Current 93 too. Is being dead an issue here? It's a fantasy festival after all. Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Damo-era Can, early Kraftwerk back when they were mentalist hippies, Fela Kuti, James Brown (maybe even get them together?), Funkadelic I agree with entirely, Sunn O))), Fripp and Eno, Throbbing Gristle, Grace Jones (maybe have Daniel Miller join her as The Normal for the definitive rendition of "Warm Leatherette"), Josh Pearson (and since there's so many dead men and so many pairings on here already, how about getting him to do a number with Johnny Cash eh?), Sonic Youth, the Stooges with a restraining order against playing anything off 'The Weirdness', Magma, The Sugarbabes, Derek Bailey...

I need to work out how I'd organise this lot huh?

Posted by: Sedric A. Dragon  | May 15, 2008 12:59 AM

Pedro wrote...

Now that really is Fantasy Festivities... It's like Dawn of the Dead!

Iggy and The Sugababes on one stage would be ace.

Posted by: Pedro  | May 15, 2008 1:07 AM

Pete wrote...

Damn I left off Beck.. he'd be there too shaking his beeehind to Deborah.

Posted by: Pete  | May 15, 2008 1:14 AM

Britney's mum wrote...

I'd have Britney Spears playing back-to-back for three days solid.

Beautiful.

Posted by: Britney's mum  | May 15, 2008 1:44 AM

Mikey wrote...

If i was the curate a stage i'd love to see:

1. The Smashing Pumpkins (James, Darcy, Jimmy and Billy)- End with Silverfuck
2. Beirut
3. Silverchair
4. Brian Wilson
5. The Game ft Aftermath Artists
6. The Rumble Strips
7. Cancer Bats
8. Antony & The Johnsons
9. Death Cab For Cutie
10.Deftones - Start the day with 'Be Quiet And Drive'

With Jay Leno as the person introducing the bands.

Haha perfect.

Posted by: Mikey  | May 15, 2008 2:11 AM

Sedric A. Dragon wrote...

"Now that really is Fantasy Festivities... It's like Dawn of the Dead!"

Yeah. I'm hoping they'd be a bit more lively and a bit less braineating though

Posted by: Sedric A. Dragon  | May 15, 2008 6:23 AM

Amanda wrote...

ATP, Curated by Amanda G.

1. The Constantines
2. Miracle Fortress
3. The Rapture
4. N.E.R.D.
5. Of Montreal
6. The Wooden Sky
7. Jim Guthrie
8. Ninja High School
9. Cursive
10. Melt Banana
11. Black Keys
12. The Shins
13. Jurassic 5
14. Tom Waits
15. MSTRKRFT
16. Do Make Say Think
17. Erase Errata
18. Faraquet
19. Final Fantasy
20. Joel Plaskett
21. Spitfires & Mayflowers
22. The Hidden Cameras

Posted by: Amanda  | May 15, 2008 8:53 AM

Chris Anderson wrote...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Labradford, Tim Hecker, Autechre, Battles, Machinefabriek, Glenn Branca, Sunn O))), Isis, Pelican, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Dirty Three, Joanna Newsom, Stars Of The Lid, Tortoise, Four Tet, Fennesz, Eluvium, Alexander Tucker, Earth, Nurse With Wound, MONO / World's End Girlfriend, Krono Quartet, Magik Markers, Holy Fuck, William Basinski

Posted by: Chris Anderson  | May 15, 2008 10:52 AM

Josh Hom wrote...

Amanda's is amazing.

I'd have Black Sabbath for sure.

Posted by: Josh Hom  | May 15, 2008 11:54 AM

Silver Surfer wrote...

How's about Oasis, Stone Roses & Elvis headlining.

Posted by: Silver Surfer  | May 15, 2008 12:34 PM

KatieKate wrote...

Godspeed you! Black emperor
Animal Collective
Joanna Newsom
Cat Stevens
Sufjan stevens
Xiu Xiu
Beirut
Mono
Sunset Rubdown
Joy Division
Tortoise
Grizzly Bear
Midlake
Q and not U
The Sea and Cake
Pinback
Sigur Ros
and
Mogwai (of course)


I know some of these aren't entirely possible but does say fantasy

Posted by: KatieKate  | May 15, 2008 4:57 PM

dreamy tracy wrote...

atp vs dreamy :)

1. pavement
2. elliott smith (oh, how i wish...)
3. neutral milk hotel
4. sonic youth
5. santa sprees
6. bright eyes
7. clap your hands say yeah
8. m ward
9. galaxie 500 (oh, how i wish...)
10. andrew bird
11. camper van beethoven
12. starlings (is chris starling still alive?)
13. her space holiday
14. bob mould
15. lilys
16. ninan hawick
17. beck
18. the real tuesday weld
19. sebadoh
20. digable planets
21. the shins
22. breeders
23. shelby bryant
24. the clean
25. the delgados

DON'T LOOK BACK:
David Bowie - Hunky Dory


Posted by: dreamy tracy  | May 15, 2008 11:57 PM

The Boot wrote...

The Wurzles

Posted by: The Boot  | May 16, 2008 2:54 PM

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