All Together Now 2024

I'd take Slayer!!

Folks, a question. Anyone know Beach Fossils? So, I'd checked them out beforehand. They sounded ok - slightly jangly, guitar-pop. Nearly didn't go see them, but so glad I did! I wondered was I listening to the same band! They were severely 'rocked up' live! There were 3 guitars. They made a helluva lot of good noise. It is almost as if their album stuff is very sanitised. Live was awesome! Might of course also have been fuelled by Guinness (they played at Lovely Days stage, & the black stuff seemed to flow freely for the artists!) as well as sleep deprivation (they'd had a tough journey to get there, they said).

So, I'm listening back to them again, now, and still wondering if it is the same band! For example, there's a 2017 album called Somersault, with a song called Saint Ivy. There's a darned flute playing, for God's sake!

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In fact, they sound a bit like Pond!!

Same band. I've never seen them live simply because they were too lightweight, poppy and jangly for me on record. Nowt wrong with flutes btw; Spiritualized, Bardo Pond, early Mercury Rev, Ozric Tentacles and a plethora of Funk all utilise the ol' flute to fine effect!

Anyone at the Floating Points gig, did you hear the moment he dropped Aphex Twin's Polymonial C, it fitted in lovely with his own stuff. I managed to catch a short snippet of it till he changed the track.

Was a bloody brilliant weekend, so happy I went with this and dropped EP this year. Hak Baker was my absolute highlight closely followed by a toddler in his dad's shoulders giving it absolute socks to Kabin Krew. Also there was a girl in Hidden sounds on Friday night that sang The parting glass in Irish, mesmeric.

Met loads of sound people and didn't see 1 bit of trouble, only gripe was the security around entrance was a bit lax, could have just bought a campervan ticket and still make it into the main area on Friday, bit better on Saturday.

FP was one of the highlights for me. Got in nice and early to get a perfect centre spot and it was a joy from start to finish. Such a great set and the crowd were brilliant too. And the sound…I will never get tired of a good kick drum in techno.

Most likely a case of couldn't be arsed id guess.

They were at Carl Cox in Kildare looking at Carls instagram so they might of wanted to finish early to see his set

I’m not sure what clarity this provides but they have been doing this for ages.
For example since they started touring again in 2022 they play a short encore of 3-4 songs and finish with about 90 seconds worth of out of space. I’m a massive fan and would prefer longer versions of my favourite songs but I also realise it means they can vary the set list a small bit and also get in more songs , even if that means only a couple minutes of some of them.

Seen other comments about the interludes between songs. Firstly they’be been at that since the 90s and secondly in fairness the drummer and guitar player at least need a bit of a break between playing such intense songs live.

Finally, I’m not sure the Prodigy would consider they finished 15mins early unless they specifically were asked to do 90mins. They might have been on the ATN schedule for 90mins but again they have been doing sets of 1:15 /1:20 for ages now including this summer. So while disappointing it’s hardly surprising or sneaky.
My only personal little gripe was that they didn’t play the Climbatize/Everybody in the Place remix. When they played that in Leeds when I went to see them in 2022 (in a much smaller 3000 capacity venue indoors) the roof nearly came off the place

cause having a dozen tribute bands on the line up is tacky/lowest common denominator and probably not the type of vibe the organisers want from their festival. They usually 3 or 4 tributes every year between sing along social, glasshouse themed set and various ping pong disco performers.
I just don’t see ATN booking nirvana/foo fighter tribute bands. It’s giving too much local boozer tribute band.
they want something more dynamic, camp or left of centre with the tribute shows at ATN.

Jaysus, Fanirish. The notion that ATN is too good for tribute acts. What a load of cobblers. God knows EP has got a lot wrong over the last few years but as Serenity Delightful Soul and Optogirl have said, those sunny mornings at Trailerpark in front of the Beach Boys guys or Harvest Moon, the mass singalongs at the Salty Dog for the Roadhouse Doors or TCM are among my absolute happiest festival memories. Tacky my hole.

Yes ravers are more acceptable than you crusty f*ckers.

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they wasn’t any stages empty, nearly all of them were programmed between 8-12 hour days.
Now there was some bad programming in the sense that key stages were directly clashing on times and both were turning around for the next act in the same 30/45 minute window.
the bandstand was booked solid from lunchtime till 1am and whenever I walked by there was either someone on it or setting up.
Your request was the more and more traditional rock band tribute acts should be booked.
As evidenced by previous years ATN wants its tribute acts to be “different” and only books a handful of them.
I just don’t see ATN booking a door tribute or a Kurt cobain lookalike show.
and personally if they add 4 or 5 of those rock tribute bands it’s lowest common denominator rubbish. Guys dressing up as Kurt cobain or Jim Morrison.