All Tomorrows Parties

APT AUSTRALIA 2009

Currated and Headlined by

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 17 and 18 January 2009

Cockatoo Island, Sydney

What IS APT?
Named after The Velvet Underground song, and conceived as a counterpoint to large commercial rock festivals, All Tomorrows Parties (ATP) is a music event unlike any other. Individual artists or bands are invited to draw together some of their favourite performers to play in unique and relatively intimate settings.

Sunday 18 January
Foundry Stage
~12:15 Hoss ~14:45 Laughing Clowns ~17:15 Spiritualized ~18:45 The Saints ~20:15 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~22:15 The Reels

Shipbuilder Stage
~11:45 Harmonia ~12:25 Robert Forster ~14:00 The Necks ~15:00 Fuck Buttons

Turbine Stage
~18:00 James Blood Ulmer ~22:00 Silver Apples ~23:00 Sounds of Seduction

2009

sees the rst ATP in Australia, curated by and starring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and performed twice in the centre of Sydney Harbour on the beautiful Cockatoo Island.

is your only chance to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints, Laughing Clowns and Robert Forster live in Sydney this summer.

ATP

Barracks Stage
~14:00 Michael Gira (Angels of Light / Swans) ~15:15 Psarandonis ~16:30 Rowland S. Howard

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Saturday 7th January

Foundry Stage
~12:15 Bridezilla ~14:45 Dead Meadow ~17:15 Spiritualized ~18:45 The Saints ~20:15 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~22:15 The Reels

Shipbuilder Stage
~12:45 The Stabs ~14:00 Beaches ~15:00 Afrirampo

Barracks Stage
~14:00 Hunter Dienna ~15:15 The Holy Sea ~16:30 Conway Savage

Each All Tomorrows Parties line-up has the feeling of a genuine one-off event, and The Bad Seeds ATP was put together with that in mind. To get the ball rolling, names were chosen while on a Bad Seeds tour of Europe in Spring 2008, then handed over to the organisers to deal with. Some have connections. Some dont. There were no hard and fast rules as to the choices other than that a majority of people wanted to see them on the bill. Efforts were made to keep the line-up as diverse as possible, in the hope that people will leave the island having seen something they may never have, were it not for the festival. In many cases, its the only way these acts have the possibility to play in Australia. It also provided the chance to invite some Australian groups to reform for the event.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

ATP AUSTRALIA SYDNEY PLAYING TIMES

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GETTING TO THE ISLAND

Harmonia

Your ATP ticket includes a return boat fare to Cockatoo Island. Boats depart from three locations:

Circular Quay, King Street Wharf Birkenhead Point) from 10am each day.

Harmonia is

1300 420 829

comprised of three of Germanys experimental music heavyweights, Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Formed from the crusts of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster, Harmonia make up something equally as tantalising as any of those three acts, inspired, according to Moebius, by Velvet Underground, Mozart, Coltrane, Brel, Arabic, Hindu the list goes on and on.

Over the years theyve turned the heads of anyone whos heard them, such as Brian Eno who once declared them the worlds most important rock band David Bowie and Aphex Twin. In their short time together (197376), the trio released two albums: 1974s strung-out Musik Von Harmonia and the friendlier electro-pop of Deluxe.

PRIVATE VESSELS

Private vessels are not permitted to dock at the island, however you may catch a water taxi (telephone 1300 420 829).

Michael Rother: I was driven by the wish to forget all the musical clichs I had grown up with and to create a new music that was as unique as possible.
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Silver Apples
Decades after their
brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop musics true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronicallygenerated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. played with the feet.

FERRY DEPARTING TIMES (BOTH DAYS) From Circular Quay

10:00 10:55 11:45 12:50 14:00 16:00 10:15 11:15 12:00 13:15 14:30 17:00 10:40 11:30 12:20 13:45 15:00 18:00

RETURN JOURNEY
Boats will be departing the island after Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds every 2030 minutes until 1am seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. There will also be public ferries (usual fares apply) departing from Cockatoo Island hourly during the afternoon.

WILL THERE BE FOOD AND DRINK ON THE ISLAND?

From King Street Wharf

10:00 11:30 13:00 10:30 12:00 14:00 11:00 12:30 15:00

From Birkenhead Point

10:00 10:45 12:00 14:00 17:00 10:15 11:00 12:30 15:00 10:30 11:30 13:00 16:00

The Silver Apples

formed in New York in 1967 and comprised percussionist Danny Taylor and lead vocalist Simeon, a bizarre figure who played an instrument also dubbed the Simeon, which (according to notes on the duos selftitled 1968 debut LP) consisted of nine audio oscillators and eightysix manual manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are

Although the utterly uncommercial record an ingenious cacophony of beeps, buzzes and beats sold poorly, the Silver Apples resurfaced a year later with their sophomore effort, Contact, another far-flung outing which fared no better than its predecessor. After the records release, the duo seemingly vanished into thin air, perhaps returning to the alien world from whence they purportedly came;

in 1996 the Silver Apples mysteriously resurfaced

as Simeon and new partner Xian Hawkins released the single Fractal Flow. American and European tours followed, and a year later a new LP, Beacon, was released to wide acclaim.

There will be a number

of licensed indoor and outdoor bars and food outlets on the island including wine and cocktail bars plus tapas and global cuisine. The island is licensed but BYO alcohol is prohibited due to Responsible Service of Alcohol regulations. Intoxicated or drug affected people will not be allowed on the boats

or on to the island. You may bring unopened bottles of water (no glass) and small amounts of food on to the island but picnic baskets and eskys will not be allowed.

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WHAT IS ATP?

Parties is an organisation based in London that has been promoting festivals and concerts throughout the world for around ten years. It was founded by Barry Hogan in 1999 in preparation for the first All Tomorrows Parties festival, the line-up of which was curated by Mogwai and took place in the unusual setting of Pontins Holiday Camp, Camber Sands. the festival continues to set itself apart from festivals like Reading or Glastonbury by All Tomorrows Parties also sets itself apart from other festivals by embracing seemingly disparate artistic genres. Most festival events feature art exhibitions and cinema programmes (in New York ATP collaborated with Criterion to present a programme highlighted by an appearance from Paul Schrader), and others have featured spoken word performances and stand up comedy. In 2007 the curators allowed festival goers to pick the lineup by organising a voting process for all ticketholders in the

All Tomorrows

staying intimate, non-corporate and fanfriendly. Another vital difference is that the line-ups are chosen by significant bands or artists, resulting in unpredictable events which combine performances by legendary and influential acts .The All Tomorrows Parties festival has become more successful with every passing year, moving in 2006 to a larger holiday camp.

Bridezilla
One of 2007s most interesting and celebrated local records was Bridezillas self-titled debut EP. Compared to everyone from The Dirty Three through Catpower to PJ Harvey, the release of Bridezilla saw the band become staples on JJJ and Community Stations as well as share stages with the likes of Wilco, Architecture in Helsinki and Broken Social Scene.

Now, after a long examinduced hiatus, and having finally shed the schoolgirl tag, they are to return with a new single Forth and Fine; one side of a split 7 with heroes The Tren Brothers. Bridezillas saxophone and violinfronted attack, and twisted take on jazz, folk and pop sets them apart from any of their young Sydney contemporaries, and makes for a thrilling live show.

2007s most interesting acts Bridezilla return with a new single Forth and Fine;

UK, and the USA and has been curated by the following artists:

It has taken place in the

Mike Patton & Melvins, My Bloody Valentine, Explosions In The Sky, Pitchfork Media, Portishead, Dirty Three, Sonic Youth, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Dinosaur Jr., Devendra Banhart, Mudhoney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Vincent Gallo, Slint, Stephen Malkmus, Mogwai, Tortoise, Shellac, Autechre, Modest Mouse, and Simpsons creator Matt Groening.

months running up to the event.. The festival now takes place three times a year in the UK (twice in May and once in December for the Nightmare Before Christmas). In recent years ATPs involvement in festivals has spread further; including curating a yearly stage at Barcelonas acclaimed Primavera Sound Festival, also curating a stage at Pitchfork Magazines Music Festival in Chicago in 2007 and 2008.

Spiritualized
With the demise of his first band, the hugely influential Spaceman 3, singer guitarist J Spaceman A/K/A Jason Pierce opted to go it alone under the moniker of Spiritualized, producing space age music for far out people best exemplified on their classic 1997 album Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. The albums that have followed; Amazing Grace, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Let it Come Down and the new one Songs in A&E, have continued the ever present themes of alienation and loss supported by a psychedelic soundscape imitated by many but mastered by only one.

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Robert Forster

As one half of the songwriting partnership of seminal Australian group the Go-Betweens, Robert Forster helped define a national identity and a sound indie. As solo artist, Robert Forster carries the torch for flamboyant and eccentric songwriters everywhere. But having spent large portions of his adult life in Europe, Forster, these days, calls Brisbane home. His most recent release and fifth solo album, The Evangelist, is his first post-the death of his former GOB songwriting partner Grant McLennan.

Performing songs from The Evangelist as well as some Go-Betweens favourites.

Not a tribute as such it is never-the-less infected with his former partners spirit mixing melancholy with wry humour. More recently Forster has been performing a touching tribute to his mate.

In 2008 ATP organised

their first east coast U.S. festival at Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, New York. It was called an unforgettable end to the summer festival season by Spin magazine, and Pitchfork stated that it was: the most enjoyable festival experience of our reporters life. ATP plans to return to Kutshers in September 2009 with guest curators The Flaming Lips, and tickets are

now on sale. Significant past performances at ATP festivals include the reformations of The Magic Band, Television and Slint amongst others. All Tomorrows Parties were also proud to present the return of My Bloody Valentine with a series of worldwide live performances throughout 2008, the London concerts of which were named Time Outs Gig Of The Year.

End of 2007 ATP/R announced plans to release a new series of double 7 singles

ATP Recordings

James Blood Ulmer

South Carolina born musician James Blood Ulmer has a pedigree others could only dream of. A soul jazz guitarist initially, Blood would go on to record with Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers in an outfit that included Rashied Ali and Larry Young before moving on to the become the first electric guitarist to record with free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, a result that proved to

be both innovative and inspired. Throughout the eighties and nineties, Blood would lead various big bands including the Music Revelation Ensemble (with Ronald Shannon Jackson) and Phalanx before stripping back to a three-piece drums, guitar and violin outfit once described as avant gut-bucket named Odyssey. In more recent years, Ulmer has gone back to his roots; the blues, and has found even more success, most evident on his recent release In the City.

James Blood Ulmer is a major 21st Century blues artist who transcends category, and this disc is a major work.

In 2001 the organisation spawned ATP/Recordings, a record label originally created to bring out compilation albums related to its festivals. However the label eventually moved on from just doing compilations for the festival to sign and release singles and albums from artists including Threnody Ensemble, The Magic Band, Deerhoof, White Out, Death Vessel, The Drones, Fursaxa, The Scientists, Apse, Fuck Buttons, Alexander Tucker and most recently Sleepy Sun.

At the end of 2007 ATP/R announced plans to release a new series of double 7 singles called Custom Made, which would feature bands choosing four songs; one something old, one something new, one something borrowed (a cover version) and one something blue (artists were free to interpret this as they feel). The first two artists to release singles in this series are Australias The Drones and Britains Alexander Tucker.Other ATP/R projects during 2008 included the release of Street Horrrsing from Fuck

Buttons, which received an 8.6 rating from Pitchfork, a re-release of the album Spirit by Connecticuts Apse, a third full-length release from Alexander Tucker named Portal, a UK release of Deerhoofs Offend Maggie, and a new album from The Drones: Havilah.

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ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES AUSTRALIA

Australian concert promoters Feel Presents and UK promoters All Tomorrows Parties joined forces to bring the classic albums concept, Dont Look Back, to Australia. A UK originated concept, Dont Look Back asks artists to perform a work from their catalogue that has proven itself timeless years after its inception. In its first season, Dont Look Back presented seminal works from Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation), Died Pretty (Doughboy Hollow) and Low (Things We Lost in the Fire) among others for what was a hugely successful debut enterprise. Later in 2008 Feel Presents and All Tomorrows Paries formed a new company; ATP Australia Pty Ltd, with a view to bringing the All Tomorrows Parties Festival to Australia.

Early in 2008,

Named after the Velvet Underground song and described as the ultimate mix tape, All Tomorrows Parties is a boutique festival that goes against the grain of the larger, more commercial music festivals. Each new All Tomorrows Parties invites an artist or band to headline and then handpick their favourite performers to play at the festival. For the inaugural Australian series of ATP events we are pleased to announce that arguably the most significant Australian export of the last twenty years Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, are to make their curating debut. The Bad Seeds intimate knowledge of all things Australian (music and otherwise) coupled with their innate sense of the weird and wonderful will we are sure make for a series of very unique events.

Performers already chosen to appear at All Tomorrows Parties 2009 include seminal Australian punk band, The Saints featuring original members Ed Kuepper, Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay performing their first Australian shows (outside Brisbane) since 1977; British transcendentalists, Spiritualized; avantblues artist, James Blood Ulmer (US); krautrock supergroup, Harmonia (Germany); electro-terrorists, Fuck Buttons (UK); pioneering synthminimalists, Silver Apples (UK); psychotic space rockers, Afrirampo (Japan); ExSwan M. Gira (USA), former Go-Between Robert Forster (Aust), the synth-punk of Primitive Calculators: former Birthday Party guitarist, Rowland S. Howard (Aust), postgrunge/noise devotees, The Stabs (Aust), classical-rock teenagers Bridezilla (Aust) & the sublime ambience of The Necks (Aust).

Released in April 1977, The Saints (Im) Stranded regularly appears in any poll nominating Australias greatest ever albums. In recent times this included; Melbourne newspaper The Age based on a survey of Melbournes music and journalistic elite, a poll of the Australian music industry by AIR (Australian Independent Record Industry) and Australian on-line fanzine Mess & Noise. But its not just here in Australia that the plaudits for this groundbreaking album have appeared. UK fashion bible GQ nominated (Im) Stranded as the no.3 Australian album of all time behind AC/ DCs Back in Black and the Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever. Now theres some good company...

In addition to the regular poll positions, (Im) Stranded was also the first album included in new Australian TV and DVD series Great Australian Albums appearing alongside Crowded House, Silverchair and The Triffids. Not bad for an album that on release was as good as ignored, received no commercial radio play and did not chart. Further proof that great art is often initially misunderstood only to be fully appreciated by later generations. To celebrate this fact along with their inclusion in the inaugural Australian All Tomorrows Parties Festival series The Saints (including original members Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay as well as long time Saint Archie Larizza on bass).

The Saints have graciously agreed to recreate the album (all 32 minutes of white noise, punk snarl and songwriting smarts) in its entirety via two very special Dont Look Back performances.

Original members
Ivor Hay Ed Kuepper Chris Bailey Archie Larizza

Acts Includes: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints, Harmonia, The Necks and more....
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The Saints
If Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Australias most significant musical export of the last twenty years, then arguably the group that did the most in aiding that rise are The Saints. The very same group who released their seminal debut single (Im) Stranded in October 1976 (predating the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned) and who were promptly signed at the urging of EMI UK to a three album deal that saw them leave Australian shores for the UK in May 1977, never again to return as a group. Along
the way, The Saints released three classic albums (Im) Stranded, Eternally Yours and Prehistoric Sounds, but broke up acrimoniously in late 1978 denying at least two generations of Australian music lovers the chance to see them live.

The other unique

At the request of the Brisbane Festival, though, The original Saints reformed last year to headline to over 5000 people at Pig City, a celebration of Brisbane music, initiated and sponsored by Brisbane Festival. Grown men were seen

to weep as The Saints , complete with a threepiece brass section ripped through a set of those first three album classics. This summer Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne get to witness these bonafide music legends for real.

aspect of All Tomorrows Parties is the location. There will be no football fields or sport stadiums here. Instead, ATP has taken the time to present the festival goer a whole new experience. In Victoria, All Tomorrows Parties is to be held over two days January 9th & 10th in the remote yet easily accessible location of Mt.Buller Ski Resort, some 3 hrs drive from Melbourne City. Punters will have the option to either stay on the mountain in a selection of ski-chalets, lodges or hotels, or down the mountain in nearby Mansfield. Both on-site and offsite fans alike will have the opportunity to enjoy all that Buller offers: a fully serviced township complete with bars, cafes, restaurants, walking trails, bike trails, ski-lifts and a gymnasium plus ATPs trademark rock n roll trivia, cinema and 30+ bands performing over 3 stages.

In NSW, All Tomorrows Parties is to be held in conjunction with Sydney Festival on Cockatoo Island over the weekend of January 17th & 18th. In its former life, Cockatoo Island has been a prison, a reformatory for wayward girls, and a shipbuilding yard. The industrial and maritime landscape together with the picturesque backdrop of Sydney Harbour make this urban island the perfect setting for this unique event. For 2009, All Tomorrows Parties (and Sydney Festival) will present a one day program on Saturday January 17th, which will then be repeated on January 18th. There will be three stages - all with amazing views of the harbour and surrounds - a food court (thats real food - not regular festival mush), undercover bars, outside bars, a Bad Seeds video display, green chill out areas, a free ride across the harbour to and from the show plus 20+ Bad Seeds hand picked acts.

In Queensland, All Tomorrows Parties will present a series of one stands between January 12th - 16th at Brisbane arts & culture venue, The Powerhouse. Featured acts will include Fuck Buttons, Afrirampo and Harmonia with more to be announced. In addition to this, ATP will also present a larger afternoon/ evening show on January 15th at the picturesque Brisbane Riverstage .

APT is Headlined by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and featuring Spiritualized, Robert Forster, James Blood Ulmer and others.

The most important Australian album ever made. Nick Cave on The Saints (Im) Stranded.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Arguably Australias most successful cultural export of the last twenty years, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - both collectively and individually - are also the most prolific. In the last eighteen months alone, Nick Cave, alongside fellow Bad Seeds; Warren Ellis (violin, mandocaster) Martyn Casey (bass) and Jim Sclavunus (drums), have released an album and toured under the name Grinderman a bump and grind exaggeration of the Bad Seeds groove.
Warren Ellis and Nick Cave have also written and released the soundtrack to the Brad Pitt produced movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; bassist Martyn Casey has revived his former role in the reunited Triffids performing at last years Sydney Festival; and the longest serving Bad Seed, Mick Harvey (guitar and organ), has released a solo album (his fourth) entitled Two of Diamonds. Harvey has also performed as guest musician at the Triffids reunion shows and most recently has been remixing the entire Bad Seeds back catalogue in 5.1 surround sound.

With a set list that

SELECTED LINE UP

Its when The Bad Seeds are all together though, that the magic really shines, as anyone who has seen them at any time during the last twenty years can attest to.

tilted heavily toward old favorites from his inimitable catalog, Cave won the crowd early and never let go, barnstorming through the rockers, casting a spell during the ballads, and effectively mixing camp with creepiness on sinister tales like Red Right Hand and the spectacularly vulgar Stagger Lee the latter putting a decisive exclamation point on the nights proceedings. Hollywood Bowl 2008. On record too, the Bad Seeds continue to revitalise with each release, a statement backed by their success of this years album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! which received the winners gong for the 2008 Album of the Year award in the prestigious MOJO magazine. Dig was also The Bad Seeds highest placed US release to date charting at no. 68, whilst back in Australia, Dig was to be the first nomination in the Triple J Album of the Year awards, and has also been

nominated for three Aria Awards. The back catalogue continues to impress also with a national newspaper survey voting The Ship Song from 1990s Tender Prey being voted the #3 Australian song of the last twenty years while their 1996 album, Murder Ballads was the subject of a recent TV and DVD documentary Classic Albums.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds perform at ATP Mt.Buller and Sydney and also at the Brisbane Riverstage on January 15th.

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