AT3!

"Mudhoney, Explosions In The Sky, Melvins, Shellac, Fuck Buttons, The Drones, Sleepy Sun, Dirty Three, Tortoise, Bardo Pond, Deerhoof, Papa M and The For Carnation all playing at an ATP festival the week AFTER the one I'm going to? Noooooooooo..."

Or, rather, YESSSSSS!!!

Sod the expense, sod the inevitable liver damage, sod the lunacy of coming back from the MBV/Sonic Youth weekend for three days of work and then going back to Minehead again - it just had to be done.

Since the festival was first announced, the line-up has been swollen with the addition of even more amazing names: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (responsible for my favourite album of last year), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, J Mascis & The Fog, Apse, Battles, Modest Mouse, Lightning Bolt...

The bill for the weekend before doesn't look too shoddy either - J Mascis & The Fog, Dirty Three and Lightning Bolt are playing then too, along with Yo La Tengo, Fucked Up, Bob Mould, Witch, The Pastels, The Buzzcocks and Josh T Pearson.

Something tells me it's going to be quite a ten days...