Selected ATP photos finally up

Hi. I am extremely lazy. Here are the ATP photos I considered posting four days ago, but was too lethargic to actually do. I have like 20 pictures of Portishead on my camera, but the screen is so small that I was fooled into believing most of them turned out better than they did. Alas, I forgot I even had my camera for the entire first day, so there's no Silver Apples or Thurston or Horrors or anything like that, but what do you care, try google imaging them if it's such a big deal! OK, here's the handful of pictures I took that don't consist of blurry silhouettes and people's heads and 100% complete inside jokes. And 4 realz, if anyone finds/posts that "Sexy High Hat" video, or has an explanation as to why this was the chosen chant of the post-Aphex Twin party crew, I really, really really need to know. Thanks!



Hey! It's Portishead! SWOON.





Post Portishead "OMG guys, I am in AWE" face. If you look closely, you can see where I had to get cavities removed!



After Aphex Twin got out on Sunday morning, there was nothing to do. So we danced. Around an arcade machine called the Lighthouse. And then we terrorized the holiday camp grounds by chanting "Sexy High Hat" and pounding on things. Get wild!!!






For more ATP coverage (of a sort), read Portishead Week: the magic countdown begins! or Portishead ATP: The Aftermath.

OK, fine, this next thing is kind of an inside joke, but only because no one else is willing to admit that it's funny!!! It is!!! Actually, it's probably not at all entertaining to anyone else, but IT SHOULD BE.

Backstory:At the Crazy Horse bar, we wandered into this open door marked "Chuckwagon," which turned out to be like the ATP arcade game graveyard. We found one of those claw things that you're supposed to be able to pick up stuffed animals with, but which never actually work, and liberated it. It became our pet for the weekend, and forever. It's name is Ee-k-er, based on the noise it makes, the sound that you can see in the video. It lives on our table now, and that's where it's going to live forever, because us and the Ee-k-er are FRIENDS 4EVA. Hey, you know what? FUCK OFF! It is TOO funny.

Portishead ATP: The Aftermath

I wanted to post some of my own pictures from the Portishead-curated ATP festival, but at the moment, my camera is on the table, my card reader is in my bedroom, and I am on the couch. Also I am cold. So I cannot move and complete the camera-to-computer photo process. Maybe tomorrow!


I saw Silver Apples on Friday night. I am also convinced that I saw SA's Simeon hanging out on several different occasions during the festival. Possibly this desire to spot Simeon is a direct result of me being so out of it during his set that I can't really remember it all that well--although I can tell you that it was 100% hands down AWESOME! Every time he started a new song I would get really excited and yell "YEAHHHHHH! "A POX ON YOU!!!!!!" Whether he ever played the song I don't exactly recall for sure, but the sheer joy of repeatedly thinking every song in the set was "A Pox on You" had me feeling pretty good by the end.

Portishead and Aphex Twin both played two different nights to satisfy demand. And great news: Portishead were awesome! And so so nice! They seemed genuinely pleased to be performing, and towards the end Beth jumped down and started shaking hands with people in the crowd. I know--OMG, right? You know what this means, right? Yes--BETH SHOOK MY HAND GUYS OMG!!! "Sour Times" and "Cowboys" were both particularly awesome live, but alas I haven't been able to find any footage of them on YouTube yet. I did dig around and find some good quality footage of some of the new songs they played, and the links are below.

From the Saturday performance at ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas 2007:

Machine Gun

Wicca

Peaches

Mystic

Ahhh, swoon! The person who shot these is a hero.


What else to say? There were lots of drone rock bands, there were lots of sludge rock bands. There was a mad-out-of-it sea gull doing a little tap dance at 10am on a Monday morning! We discovered and then got locked into an arcade game machine graveyard! After Aphex Twin got out, we joined a mob of people dancing to the music emanating from a game called the Lighthouse, then paraded through the holiday camp grounds at 4am while repeatedly chanting "Sexy High Hat!" (No, I do not know why. Probably something the Lighthouse said.) And all kinds of assorted other moments that will seem absolutely uninteresting to other people, but which I will be sure to talk about if you see me at the bar.

Surprisingly I feel significantly less awful than I did after Electric Picnic, but there's still time for that to kick in, and I'm nervous! So, fingers crossed, because I really don't want to end up feeling like that seagull. RIP, little guy, RIP.