aaamusic | On 18, May 2011

9-11 December 2011 at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK

All Tomorrow’s Parties second festival weekend for December 2011 at Butlins, Minehead is the Nightmare Before Christmas – this year curated by three of the most stunning live acts on the planet – Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav. As previously announced each band will headline and choose a line-up of 14 artists for one day of the festival. Today we can confirm the third set of additions with more yet to be chosen by all three curators…

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE presents Intersteller Fugitives (bio)
FOUR TET (bio)
WILD FLAG (featuring members of Sleater Kinney) (bio)
OXES (bio)
TORO Y MOI (bio)
SURFER BLOOD (bio)
THEO PARRISH (4 Hour DJ Set) (bio)
TOTAL CONTROL (bio)
ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES (bio)

Wild Flag, Oxes, Surfer Blood and Total Control were picked by Les Savy Fav, Underground Resistance were picked by Battles, Four Tet, Theo Parrish, Orchestra Of Spheres and Toro Y Moi were picked by Caribou.

That means that the line-up so far now looks like this…

Les Savy Fav / Archers Of Loaf / Holy F**K / No Age / The Dodos / Marnie Stern / Wild Flag / Oxes / Surfer Blood / Total Control / Battles / Flying Lotus / Gary Numan / Bitch Magnet / Washed Out / The Psychic Paramount / Thank You / Nisennenmondai / Walls (Live) / Phil Manley’s Life Coach / Dead Rider / Underground Resistance Presents Intersteller Fugitives /Caribou / The Ex With Getatchew Mekurya / Junior Boys / Omar Souleyman / Factory Floor / Four Tet / Theo Parrish (4 Hour DJ Set) / Toro Y Moi / Orchestra Of Spheres
In total the line-up will feature 45 live acts playing across the weekend on three indoor stages with a total festival capacity of around 5500 people. The event also includes DJs, Cinema and much more. All tickets include accommodation in private apartments for you and your friends, see ‘About The Venue’ below for more details.

Tickets for Nightmare Before Christmas are priced at £170.00pp for room only & £180.00pp for self catering – on sale now via www.atpfestival.com

Our curators BATTLES release their ICE CREAM single this coming Monday 23rd May on 12″. You can check out the Ice Cream video now at HTTP://WARP.NET/-/WATCHBATTLESICECREAM. The track is taken from their stunning new LP GLOSS DROP out 6th June on Warp. Keep up to date with the band at http://bttls.com

The week before the Nightmare event from December 2nd-4th, ATP Weekend 1 curated by Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) will take place, with the line-up so far featuring Fleet Foxes, Superchunk, Scratch Acid and many more – new announcements for this event will follow next week! Full info at atpfestival.com