Would you vote for Tenacious D to play? Of course not because it would be a bad joke. You guys can pretend to like Andrew WK all you like but I won't believe it. Party Hard was a pretty bad song that you only liked because at the time you were tired of The Strokes.
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I agree
it would ruin ATP. Although really it would be a crap idea because i'm not going.
You think AWK
is a joke band?
Why?
I thought it was all a joke by Dave Grohl?
He wrote all the songs on the first album...
Just like
Carter USM wrote all of 'Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not', you mean?
What is that album?
you do TOTALLY
give kurt russell a bad name
That was quite hurtful.
the truth hurts
That hurts even more.
I'm going.
YES
except I'm sure Carter USM would have done a better job than that
Exactly.
i.e. they're both bollocks rumours. i doubt Grohl could write something as majestic as 'I Get Wet'.
LOL
of course he did
I totally agree.
I agree lots and lots and lots.
Yes, I'm with Soup100
because she is cool!
here here
fuck awk up the arse
I just watched an episode of his TV programme
what a guy
How can you call this man a joke?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Z3nzq0thmM
Incredible.
i've
never seen a more beautiful act in the history of mankind
I hope he does play
It would make a change to all the post-rock bands playing to be honest, if he does play you can watch someone else anyway.
that video
has just made my day and its only 11.20. :-D
He's not joking though.
I mean, he is a bit, because he's mostly a noise musician, but he knows what makes a good dumb rock record.
Petitioning is fine and everything
but people should really be voting/petitioning for something that's actually good. As opposed to someone who will be really fun and exciting sandwiched in between a load of boring indie/post rock bands. If the fans were voting for stuff that was actually good we wouldn't need WK!
les savy fav
apples in stereo
aren't boring. so ner!
I really have no idea
what Apples In Stereo is, am I missing much?
sssshh
look he said les savy fav.
can't wait <--- i might sign all my atp post like this, beacuse it's so very true
That's two
out of seven!
neither are modest mouse
but i agree otherwise, too much postrock
But that's why you go to ATP, surely?
NO
Yes.
If you want Reading then you go there. ATP is for something a bit better than your normal festival beered up fodder.
oh, Theo
why does 'better'
equal 'post rock'?
I prefer it to Andrew WK
That's why.
But you're awful
Apparently so
:D
The point really
is that 'too much post-rock' isn't actually how I'd describe the ATP vs. Fans line up in any case so I can only assume that Jamie is lumping together everything that might conceiveably have the word 'post' infront of it, be they Battles, Shellac, Les Savy Fav or Explosions in the Sky.
But it's certainly a much better line up musically than most festivals because the bands are better.
i wouldnt
lump in les savy fav or shellac with the others, they've got songcraft and excitement and aceness, whereas if there are any more bands like explosions in the sky added to the lineup it would bore me to tears
Yeah but ATP routinely has lots of post rock bands
so given I can only spot maybe 3 post-rock acts in the current line up it's clearly got less than the normal quota.
To complain there's too much post-rock at ATP would be the same as complaining there's too much rock at Reading.
But
there IS too much rock at Reading.
the fan votes
have been awesome, in general. Yo La Tengo! Modest Mouse! Explosions In The Sky!
EITS really isn't up
to much. DULLLLLLL.
Totes.
Sadly I have been really disappointed so far with what's been coming out of this whole "fan" business. And having Andrew WK just smacks of a really shit idea.
I really don't get the Andrew WK thing
It's just a loud, bad noise.
You all sadden me
It's fun! Let some fun in!
To quote one bobbygeorge,
"I don't want fun, I like my music po-faced."
"Fun" is "Mr Blobby"
Yeah that's your "Fun".
Fun can fuck off.
Was this before or after
he played We Don't have To Take Our Clothes Off when he DJed?
DJedi?
H eplayed Djed
by Tortoise. All 21 minutes of it. He was thrown out soon after.
It might have been after that
but before he played Jon Secada.
I watched that YouTube on Jamie Summers' page
It was dismally uninteresting. The guy has energy and stuff but he seems to have forgotten to write any actual songs.
Mr WK knows how to party
anyone who tries to argue otherwise is just silly. a lot of excellent music seems to have been curated withot much to party to, having never been, a i don't know exactly what there is in terms of deejaying after the bands, but just one fun party act would be excellent. If that party act is Mr WK then that would be the best.
I Get Wet is a fantastic album
It's just fun rock n' roll. I went to see him 5 years ago in Liverpool and he put on a fantastic live show too.
This is the kind of music snobbery from a typical ATP fan.
pffft
Yeah. So what?
We like the festival the way it is. Toned down and slightly educational. If I wanted to gurn about and have lots of fun to something I already know about then I'd go to Reading.
It's not going to be educational if you pick who plays
Just me?
Well no, but I'd like to think that my fellow pals would have a different taste to mine which would not reflect the top 30 in anyway.
I sincerely doubt
you'll have not heard most of the bands.
Is that...
the royal 'we'?
Yes.
*nonchalant wave*
Snobbery?
I'm fairly sure the voting thing actually says something like "Don't vote for shit bands".
SO WHO VOTED FOR HOT CHIP, HUH?
shitlivebandLOL?
WHATEVS. I'll be happy if he does a set, as I enjoy him. Other than that, whatever.
I'm going to say whatever again, as I like it. Whatever.
I DON'T KNOW WHO VOTED FOR THEM, GODDAMMIT!!
Shall I set up a petition on the Downing Street site to find out?
Whatever.
Yeah, it's good. Whatever.
I know
I'm joking. I'm just trying to have fun. I feel like people hate me now. Don't hate me. I'm a very fragile chap :'(
Dunno. I was just having fun too
I'm not even going to be there...
Arr
I don't mind him playing at all, I'll just head to the pub and watch people do bad karaoke. That's the beauty of ATP!
ZACTLY
I mind
Because I hate fun
LOL
AREN'T I FUN!?
Hmmmm
I'm hungover. I don't know what I'm on about. The lineup actually looks pretty impressive.
Here's an idea though, if you don't want to see Andrew WK, I'm sure that there will be something else on at the same time. I doubt his presence will really make any difference to the festival. GET OVER IT!
Personally speaking
it just seems like Andrew WK is as out of place at ATP as he would be at a folk festival.
Well, he's there anyway
playing bass with Current 93. So he might as well play just a little set for me. Just for me. As a treat. As he's already there. For me.
Whatever.
Or, insert 'YOU'RE out of place at ATP' response. Depending on how you feel.
He seems pretty amiable
You could probably make him do an improv set if he doesn't get an official one.
He's all about the party.
That's true.
I like that aspect of him, I think he's probably fun to be around.
You should get him to play a party in your cabin
I reckon he'd be up for that.
Go on Bamos ask him nicely.
That's Plan B
if he doesn't do an official set. I reckon he'd be well up for it.
Yeah you know it
he seems a fun time kinda guy.
I bet he's all about the cabin party.
i disagree
he's very much a cult act, and he doesn't tour the UK much. isn't that what most of the ATP lineups are built on?
mm
he's a classically trained musician who has been in tons of noise acts including Wolf Eyes, performing a sort of post-modern yet deadly serious ultra stylised party rock which isn't really particularly 'normal' at all.
plus his band includes the drummer from OBITUARY!
I think the anti-WKs are aware of the fact that we don't have to watch him
and if that was the point people of my disposition were trying to make then you'd be right to call us simple-minded oafs. However what I was, in particular, trying to say very badly is that I like the way ATP is in that it is not packed with more mainstream acts because that means that it either in some small way influences the clientele into being not of the mainstream type (not that I have anything against them, we just differ in our passions) or creates a more responsive and quiet crowd because it's hard to get all blibbery sometimes about a day full of bands you don't know. NOT THAT I AM SAYING the entire line-up should be full of utterly obscure bands, I am just saying that I don't like the way the line-up is going. Or hinting at going. Or whatever.
Also I think Andrew WK is shit.
andrew wk
isn't mainstream. his albums sold diddly squat.
HURRAH THE PEDANT ARRIVES
I didn't say he was mainstream. My initial point was about my opinion over the bands that are being selected by the fans. I then added to this point and introduced some relevance with "I think Andrew WK is shit"
yes
but it's to be expected.
and i dunno, if it is the standard ATP crowd (which i suspect it isn't entirely), then i find it quite heartwarming that while they may have 'mainstream' tastes (oh noes!) they're also quite prepared to go to a festival that mostly consists of bands they've never heard of.
hell, that's certainly the reason i go.
are you saying you don't like the way the line-up is going
because you think it's 'mainstream'?! That's bizarre. Do a poll in your office and see how many bands your colleages have heard of! I think the line-up is brilliant at the moment, is better than a lot of ATP line-ups have been, and can only get better.
i can kindof see the point
she's making - the 'fans' choice is very big-act-top-heavy, which doesn't seem very logical, as if people don't really understand ATP. all of the smaller bands so far are coming from the ATP selections, and that does seem to be causing them some problems (hence putting offers out to 50/75/100 bands).
although i'm not really sure why barry hogan et al expected anything different.
i don't think we'll be seeing another Vs The Fans ATP..
well, yes
and Barry's new system is a good idea. But don't most of us like those 'big' bands? And that's why we're voting for them? They're all ATP type bands anyway.
I have just lost
any respect for him that I did have 5 minutes ago....
"Also, Andrew will soon be writing songs with band Hanson for the third annual "Fool's Banquet" songwriting retreat."
Which was quite
a bit.
hanson + andrew wk
could create the catchiest pop rock song of all time.
Let's get Hanson to join the chalet party
the girl who plays the drums is hott.
:D
this needed credit.