More acts announced for All Tomorrow’s Parties May 2009

CSS, HEALTH, SUPERSUCKERS, SHEARWATER
and more announced for All Tomorrow’s Parties May 2009!

Today sees the addition of SIX new bands to the two ATP Festival weekends taking place in May 2009, both taking place at Butlins Holiday Resort, Minehead, England. Tickets are on sale now and are selling fast! Many chalet options are running low and small 2 and 3 berth chalets are expected to sell out within the next few days.

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From the 8th – 10th May, The Fans Strike Back weekend will see half of the festival line-up chosen by ATP and the other half voted for by everyone that buys a ticket. The latest additions to the ATP side of the line-up as of today are:

HEALTH
Shearwater
The Acorn
The Pink Mountaintops

That means that the full list of ATP curated bands so far is:

THE JESUS LIZARD / DEVO / SLEEP performing Holy Mountain, selections from Dopesmoker + more / SPIRITUALIZED / YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS perform Colossal Youth /
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM / GRAILS / SLEEPY SUN / THE CAVE SINGERS / RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR / HEALTH / SHEARWATER / THE ACORN / THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS

So far the Fans have picked BEIRUT, and offers to play have been sent to My Bloody Valentine, Flight Of The Conchords and Electric Wizard.

Tickets to the event are on sale NOW from: http://www.atpfestival.com/atp/Events/TheFansStrikeBack/Tickets.php

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From the 15th – 17th May, ATP will be curated by the legendary BREEDERS. The latest additions to their line-up as of today are:

CSS
Supersuckers

The full list of bands chosen by them so far:

THE BREEDERS / THROWING MUSES / BON IVER / FOALS / TEENAGE FANCLUB / HOLY FUCK / KIMYA DAWSON / PIT ER PAT / DEERHUNTER / GANG OF FOUR / SHELLAC (House Band) / ZACH HILL / THE SOFT PACK / THE HOLLOYS / STYROFOAM / CSS / SUPERSUCKERS

Tickets to the event are on sale today from http://www.atpfestival.com/atp/Events/ATPBreeders/Tickets.php

Electric Picnic 2008, a MySpace Tour - Sunday

Sunday’s line up explained, through a MySpace linkaggedon…. Let it be known that I abhor the use of labels, so this was a painful exercise.

[Previously - Friday's acts; Saturday's acts]

Sunday 31st

Absentee; James Ford-produced dark, melancholic indie-pop. Think The Magnetic Fields, only British.

Adrian Crowley; Irish singer-songwriter folk music stuff. Hot Press love him.

Black Lips; Flower punk. Or so their Myspace says. Rough around the edges, and all the better for it.

Candi Staton; She sang Young Hearts Run Free! And You Got The Love! Unmissable.

Céilí House Allstars; The name says it all really.

Chromeo; One half is A-Trak’s brother. The other dresses like Cee-Lo. They sound like Prince with a vocoder and a sense of humour. A bit Marmite, they’ll probably draw a HUGE crowd.

Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band; Basically a Bright Eyes project without producer Mike Mogis, this doesn’t deviate much from his folk-tronica template. Not a bad thing, mind.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYewptydkvE]

Cowboy X; An Irish take on indie-tronica.

CSS; Brazilian flavoured pop-rock turned generic indie whine. If you’ve seen them already (and no doubt you have, you can afford to miss them). If not, they can be good fun live.

Deadmau5; Tech-electro flavour of the month. Pronounced Dead Mouse.

Dengue Fever; Indie-rock with a Cambodian twist. Hence the name, I guess…

Dublin City Big Band; I can’t find a link for these guys, but I imagine they play Glenn Miller and Gershwin favourites. Fun for all the family then.

Dublin Gospel Choir; An Electric Picnic staple, expect these guys to rouse you out of your hangover on Sunday morning.

Emmy The Great; More folk-pop. Seems to be a lot in this vein on Sunday…

Farmer’s Market; Some noodly jazz for your inner beatnik. Don’t be fooled by Famer’s Market on the Picnic website, it’s a typo.

Faust; 70s Krautrock. Important.

Florence & the Machine; Mournful, slightly distorted indie-rock.

Foals; Their Myspace says that they are SNOTTY ART SCHOOL DROPOUTS HUNGRY FOR THE DOLLAR, so who am I to say any different?

Gemma Hayes; Husky-voiced Irish indie-pop darling.

Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly; British acoustic guitarist. Recently covered Justice’s DANCE, with surprisingly good results.

Grinderman; Nick Cave minus The Bad Seeds plus some other guys led Bad Seeds side project. Not my thing, but I think I’m in the minority.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshpJbeNF4U]

Hadouken!; Their album title, Music For An Accelerated Culture, says it all. Comparisons to Mike Skinner aren’t that valid; think less Streets, more Street Fighter.

Ham Sandwich; Kells-based indie-pop.

Hayseed Dixie: Bar fight music. The sort of thing you’d expect to hear in the bar where The Blue Brothers do Rawhide.

Hercules & Love Affair; DFA-based future-disco. Sexy as hell. Antony (of the Johnsons) won’t be around, but don’t let that put you off. This will be great.

Iarla O’Lionaird’s Invisible Fields; Irish music. I don’t profess to know much about this kind of thing, so I won’t say any more than that.

Ibrahim Electric; Meandering Danish jazz-funk. In a good way.

Jah Wobble’s Chinese Dub; An experimental foray charting what happens when dub collides with Chinese folk music. This could be very interesting.

Johnny Flynn; The blues and country end of the singer-songwriter spectrum.

Leila; Moulin Rouge era-sounding nightmare-pop on Warp. Looks like a definite highlight to me.

Lou Rhodes; Delicate, heart-on-the-sleeve style folk music.

Mahmoud Fadl’s United Nubians; Master Drummer from the Nile. Gives world music a good name.

Martina Topley-Bird; Super-collaborator turned solo artist. One to see if you like your intelligent female pop like that of Santogold.

Mark Geary; Token Irish-American singer-songwriter nonsense. Don’t we have enough of these guys?

Micah P Hinson; Deep-voiced country warblings.

Michael Franti & Spearhead; Revolutionary Californian reggae-soul.

My Bloody Valentine; What can one say? The reason a lot of people are going I’d wager. Your friends will probably mock you if you miss this.

Pivot; Noisy, Australian post-rock-tronica. Nothing like the other Aussie acts in town for the weekend (ie Midnight Juggernauts and Cut Copy), but a little variety never hurt anyone. Worth a look.

School Of Language; Bizarre vocal experimentalists.

Sex Pistols; Probably only worth seeing if you want to tick them off the list of acts you’ve seen. Unlike MBV, I can’t see any valid reason for them to re/perform.

Sinead O Connor; Again, not much one can say on this front. She’s a bit nuts, she courts controversy, but she also recorded this.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8JWbG6bVw]

Stephen Malkmus; He was in Pavement. Lots of people like him. Karl talked to him recently, so have a read to see where he’s at these days.

The Congos; More reggae, coming from some guys who worked with Lee “Scratch” Perry and Max Romeo in the 70s. Old school.

The Dodos; Slightly twee indie-pop tempered with a heavy dose of live percussion.

The Gossip; Apparently these guys have been around since the 90s, but only hit big with a certain anthem two years ago. Go for Standing In The Way of control. Then see what else is on.

The Roots; Hip-hop with real instruments and “music”. Drummer/producer ?uestlove is an arrogant nutter, but that hardly matters when he helps to put on such a show with this crew. All rappers should aspire to be like this.

The Urges; Dublin-based psychedlic garage music. Sounds like something you’d hear on a Tarantino soundtrack.

These New Puritans; An English indie/nu-rave/noise band who wrote a song about Elvis. But apparently not that one.

Turin Brakes; Yawn. This one is for the Franz Ferdinand fans out there.

Wolfgang Haffner; Funky nu-jazz. That’s not always a bad thing!

Yacht; Experimental noise from Portland, Oregon. Sounds like fun.