ATP: the eventful year

I always look forward to All Tomorrow's Parties and this year was no exception. However, there were a few things set to try us: we were ill, I drove my car into a wall, I was burgled. These events will probably make it one of the most memorable years, but really, it should be remembered by the music.

Here are the bands I saw:

Friday

• De La Soul - Used to love them when I was younger but on the day I hadn't had enough to drink yet
• Primal Scream - Not as good as I thought they would be. Bit serious musio rather than fun 'god is this Primal Scream as well!'
• Josh T Pearson - I like him, a bit Nick Cave/Seasick Steve
• Buzzcocks - Fantabulous jumping around music
• Television Personalities - Good fun, another blast from the past, featuring the violinist from Le Volume Courbe

Saturday

• The Tyde - Looked like a seventies porn star, very happy chappy
• Sun Ra Arkestra - I recognise they are fab but not for me
• The Horrors - Have had a makeover since we last saw them. Not so much black and leather, pretty good.
• J Mascus and the Fog - Far to serious musio project by Dinosaur Jr blokey
• Spectrum - I came, I saw, I can't remember!
• Fucked up - Jolly Canadian Punk
• Le Volume Courbe - I really liked these, French with cute violinist
• That Petrol Emotion - Back to the old school, much better than I thought they would be, and so loving it.
• Lightening Bolt - The highlight, WOW really
• Ariel Pink - We had about a 30 min discussion on whether the lead singer was a boy or a girl. Also a strange man turned up in a raincoat who turned out to be the lead singer from the Lily's

Sunday

• Lily's - His camp chirpy pop amused me for a while but then he began to get on my wick
• Th' Faith Healers - Quite grew on us after a while.
• Dirty Three - fabulous druggie violins
• Swervedriver - a little disappointing
• Bob Mould - bless! Dull, dull, dull
• My Bloody Valentine - Good music but couldn't hear the vocals
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Good fun, we didn't stay for it all though because it was a fight between them or the Dirty Three, and the Dirty Three one