Ten Years Of ATP: Day 3 Review

So. This, Day 3 of ATP's 10th Anniversary, was one of the better days ever. Ever, ever.  Although it's been a process, we've gotten over ATP 10's more "enthusiastic" (read: wasted) crowds, and have even come to enjoy a little more company at all of the shows - as much as we hate to admit it, this out-and-out embrace is what the bands deserve.

ATP house band Shellac stews onstage in hurt and hatred, and it perversely fills our hearts with love for festivals - we'd take a scalding mug of Shellac, strong and bitter, over the finest espresso to wake us up any day.

An all-time first for us, we successfully make it to the cinema and thoroughly enjoy Crispin Glover's ethereally filmed It is Fine! Everything is Fine. Deerhoof play what we consider to be a near-perfect set for the weekend, and it is fine! Everything is fine. So fine, in fact, that we want to make good on our promise to bake ATP birthday cake. And it's a long story, but we also want to make good on a promise to make Jewish potato pancakes (yes, latkes) for Attila from Sunn 0))).

Satisfied with having already seen the astonishing Lightning Bolt three times in four days, we are content to send in other delegates of Team Strangeglue and ourselves stake out the closing Pavilion, attempting to assist Glass Rock aka Tall Firs hawk their merch after taking Dave and Kathy on in a three-way (!) crab fight. It is ATP's job to fill the weekend with bands. It is our job to fill the weekend with awesome. Surrounding ourselves with music, cake, latkes, goodnatured acts of aggression, and friends old and new, we can congratulate all on jobs well done.

And now, we'd like to commemorate our survival of two ATP weekends and the week in between with a seasonal song.  Yeah, watch out for it as the Christmas number 1, it is that good:

On my 10^th day at Butlins, ATP gave to me:

10 years of festies

9 (x2) crab fight battles

8 liquor bottles

7 (x4) latkes frying (Happy Hanukkah!)

6 hoarded keycards (my bad)

5 hours of sleep!

4 handmade cakes

3 chalets

2 weekends gone

and a notebook of crazy sto-riiiies.

Well, it's been emotional. And it's been weird. But overall, it's been amazing, and an absolute privilege. Thanks, ATP. You're still the best. Happy anniversary, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

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