--- Joss <scilabs@thumped.com> wrote:

Evening All. My pal just called me to say that All Tomorrow's Parties has been cancelled. Seems it was announced on the Steve Lamacq programme...

Morning Popsicle lickers, So All Toronto�s Pasties has been cancelled then... Bugger! 12 reasons why: (according to Steve Lamacq, an impromptu interview with Aidan Moffet, and some other random music-bod): 1. She prefers the night to dayaa! Err, sorry, lets try again... 1. Generally poor tickets sales: Well what did they expect with a minimum of ticket purchase of a 4 person chalet at �420+. 2. Bad timing1: A festival at the arse-end of summer after people have already paid to go to their choice of the BIG festivals - "Wow that�s such a wacky idea it can never fail, the kidz will lap it up, oh yes!" 3. Bad timing2: Holding it just as virtually all the student population in the country are either in the process of returning to Uni, or are in the middle of the best time there (ie: the first few weeks where work is light and reunions flow with unlimited quantities of cheap phishy lager). 4. Bad timing3: Arse-end of summer => beginning of winter => eventful weather conditions down on the Sussex coast. Yeah I know everyone will be in chalets, but it would be a right pisser to have to be inside most of the time just to avoid hideous weather conditions, and that beautiful beach would be completely wasted which would be a crime and a crying-shame. And what about football, ARGH! what a nightmare scenario, we wouldn�t be able to judge the worthiness forthcoming bands on the knobbiliness and cleanliness of their knees during the five-aside. 5. Band line-up: The line-up is damned impressive, but most of them have only just done-the-rounds or are in the middle of a tour right now, so its not as if its an extremely rare event (unlike say, seeing Belle & Sebastian play live). 6. Location: The Camber sands site itself has just what you need for a festy like this but its in the middle of no-where, so not even avid fans would be likely to follow there favourite bands there (eg: imagine Gorky's, Arab Strap's, or Stereolab's large home-town troop of fans traipsing down to see them on the windswept Sussex coast) 7. Err, All the Rod Hull and Emu fans are boycoting it after they saw the twisted t-shirts sold at the last one making a mockery of their recently departed idols. 8. Reports of the locals eating stray revellers has gained popular opinion. 9. Fans aren't prepared for the shock of John Peel not showing up again. 10. "The bands on just don't have the hard-core obsessive following that Belle & Sebastian has" (Hey, that�s you! ;) 11. Something about an ancient curse, where the first person to dance in the second arena will turn into a potted seedling and spend the rest of eternity decorating a dingy nook of the Camber Sands restaurant. 12. And err, people are staying at home just in case that weirdo loner J Cocker is there again, trying to make friends with the kidz by offering them boiled sweets, piggy-back rides and invitations back to his chalet to pet his Labrador puppies (And I'm not falling for that one again, oh no <shudder> ). So that�s it, but looking on the bright-side: loads of us are suddenly gonna get a �105 refund, money which we have already missed (dearly) and adapted to the loss as necessary, so why don't we pool all our funds together and do something B I G ! Like our own replacement do (or enmasse mourning session) for the festival that never was. I avoid order and organisation like the plague (as can be seem in the dishevelled anarchic manner I keep my pants & sock drawer in ;) but if another bitter dejected fool would like to suggest, organise, be responsible for, and take the blame for fuck-ups for something we can go to them let the world know you�re thoughts (or not if they�re really scary!). Now I must work, with the burden of tears welling inside me and the acronym 'ATP' echoing eternal through my thoughts, swelling my heart in synchronicity with my subdued sobbing mews... < or some other Morrissey lyric ;> Take care my fragile children, unlimited love to each and everyone of you, paul. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+