How can I be so blind?
So today I found out about a music festival called All Tomorrow’s Parties. I’ve heard of it before, but today I found out a little more about it. Only to discover that the damn thing has been taking place right under my nose for the past six years. Anyone who knows me will have heard my rants about how where I live is a cultural wasteland, devoid of anything remotely interesting without a trip to London. Yet since 2000, there has been a musical festival occuring a mere 90 minutes away that I was entirely oblivious to.
Just to beat myself up a little more about this, I had a look at some of the artists that have played it in the past few years. Arab Strap, Yo La Tengo, The Fall, Enon, Modest Mouse, Malkmus, The Shins, The Violent Femmes, Spoon, I Am Kloot and most intriguingly of all, Vincent Gallo. All of these were playing just down the road. Granted it’s a pretty long road, but there they were. Oh, and if anyone has any idea exactly what Vincent Gallo does at a music festival, I’d be delighted to hear it.
So with great haste I scrambled through the website looking for details of the 2006 event, and was pleasantly surprised to find the best line up so far: The Shins, The New Pornographers, The Decemberists, Spoon, Teenage Fanclub, Broken Social Scene and a ton of others. And of course the bloody thing is sold out already, isn’t it?
So here’s to All Tomorrow’s Parties 2007. Which knowing my luck probably won’t happen for one reason or another.
Oh right, you’re here for mp3s. Here, in celebration of this wonderful discovery, are a few mp3s of bands that Eddie won’t be seeing at ATP 2006:
MP3 The Shins – So Says I
MP3 The Decemberists – Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
MP3 The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Cheap CDs ahoy!
UK readers may be interested to know that Virgin Megastores have one hell of a sale on right now. It’s in store only, but involves them selling off thousands of CDs at a bargaintastic
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