ATMP

All The Mongo's Parties - a flat in Glasgow's West End, 19th-22nd April 2001

The Pendulums - keep swinging

Mud. Toilets. Muddy toilets. Yes, festival season approaches.Here's a crazy idea - have your rock festival in a comfortable location with all mod cons.
And then hold the thing on the south coast of England.
Rewind. Let's do the show right here - 'here' being a flat in Glasgow. In best festival traditions, hire a mix of eclectic and varied acts. Thus, ATMP's opening night blends the acoustic stylings of thisheartbeatsfortwo with the indiepop of Trundle Wheel and Dead Fly Buchowski's more full-on rock. Hector and friend

Lemons - lucky for some
Inevitably where one night's audience is the next night's star turn, over-indulgence sees Derbac M promoted to headliners and the bill is filled by some impromptu 'open-mic' sessions.
Day 3 opens with a climax of sorts. The Hector Collectors are by definition top of the bill, having featured on John Peel TWICE. Shambling, under-rehearsed, and pure entertainment.

The Pendulums, as is the pattern here, are doing their first gig after 2 rehearsals. Treading a fine line between the Bonzo Dog Band and Simon and Garfunkel, they have a bunch of tunes and twice as many ideas. Yay us! as their name suggests, endeavour to be your new favourite band, and resplendent in uniform of blue t-shirts they, as expected, produce punky 3-chord thrash. Yay!it's them!

curious Lifeforms Which is one chord more than Lifeform 281 - think the Stooges with Alex Harvey on vocals.Still highly entertaining, however, the singer even getting his shirt off. Leading us to the finale, which features something of a supergroup in Lemons Are Lucky. With as many onstage as in the audience, it's like The Fall doing post-rock for laughs as everyone chips in with sundry instrumentation.
And the toilet is still working. Some day all festivals will be like this.

Mud. Toilets. Muddy toilets. Yes, festival season approaches.Here's a crazy idea - have your rock festival in a comfortable location with all mod cons. And then hold the thing on the south coast of England. Rewind. Let's do the show right here - 'here' being a flat in Glasgow. In best festival traditions, hire a mix of eclectic and varied acts. Thus, ATMP's opening night blends the acoustic stylings of thisheartbeatsfortwo with the indiepop of Trundle Wheel and Dead Fly Buchowski's more full-on rock.	Hector and friend
Lemons - lucky for some	Inevitably where one night's audience is the next night's star turn, over-indulgence sees Derbac M promoted to headliners and the bill is filled by some impromptu 'open-mic' sessions. Day 3 opens with a climax of sorts. The Hector Collectors are by definition top of the bill, having featured on John Peel TWICE. Shambling, under-rehearsed, and pure entertainment.
The Pendulums, as is the pattern here, are doing their first gig after 2 rehearsals. Treading a fine line between the Bonzo Dog Band and Simon and Garfunkel, they have a bunch of tunes and twice as many ideas. Yay us! as their name suggests, endeavour to be your new favourite band, and resplendent in uniform of blue t-shirts they, as expected, produce punky 3-chord thrash.	Yay!it's them!
curious Lifeforms	Which is one chord more than Lifeform 281 - think the Stooges with Alex Harvey on vocals.Still highly entertaining, however, the singer even getting his shirt off. Leading us to the finale, which features something of a supergroup in Lemons Are Lucky. With as many onstage as in the audience, it's like The Fall doing post-rock for laughs as everyone chips in with sundry instrumentation. And the toilet is still working. Some day all festivals will be like this.