All Together Now 2023

Boutique Camping has its own showers. We did a bell tent for the first time last year, fantastic experience. From the Friday it's a really short walk down the hill from the campsite to the Main Stage/Food Courts area.

In fairness the campsites at ATN are an entire universe away from the lunacy at EP. There's way less walking at ATN from general camping to anywhere else really. The only issue I found for getting around is that the site itself is a bit hilly and can be tough on the knees. I remember stopping at supermacs on the way home and barely able to get out of the car. 😂

Yipee are located in the boutique campsite as far as I remember. We normally go with podpads, its expensive enough but worth it in my opinion if you like your comfort. Boutique campsite is private with good showers and a pamper parlour for the ladies with hairdryers and hair straighteners (I would nearly say it's worth it for this alone!). A couple of vendors as well selling teas coffees and brekkie rolls. Also, a 2 min walk to the main arena which we found very handy for popping back to get cans etc

The walk from the carpark to the boutique campsite this year was hellish though so be warned, hopefully they will change that for 2023

Hmm not sure what to make of that lineup. 3 headliners will be good, a lot of names below that I recognise without knowing much about them. Sugababes a real random one that I never would have guessed for this festival, but might go and see them all the same. My only complaint about ATN as a festival has been a lot of the electronic music on at night feel a bit samey - feel that could be repeated with Tourist, Daniel Avery, Overmono, Kelly Lee Owens. Although all OK in their own right.

Who would you like to see?

it’s a 25k festival so it needs to go with established names who sell tickets.

iggy pop first Irish show in 15 years. Jamie xx first Irish show in 6 years.

max richter with rte orchestra all stand as interesting bookings who haven’t played here in years or before

Billy will be great, always good value for money. Has the charisma and class to handle most stages, I'd imagine.

Never mind, got the email and tickets for ATN 23 in the bag 😃

Check out Tourist too, very good ambient drum n bass, at least that's what he was playing in 2013, might have changed his style since.

I'd imagine there will be plenty of that stuff to come: Gurriers and Enola Gay (thanks to this thread) were brilliant last year, plus you had King Gizz etc

The initial announcement for ATN is always going to be established name heavy (as they need to generate desire to attend in the masses).

Now there's a band I can vouch for. Saw Gurriers at ATN this year and they were excellent. My Christmas party is on that night for work.

You've reminded me of a few years back...me and the bro were at our Christmas party then, and the Murder Capital were playing in Workman's that night. So we phecked off for a couple of hours from the party, with one ticket between us. Met James outside and asked him would he let the bro in--sound man--he did, put him on the guest list 😉 Great raw gig back then. Then we returned back to the party afterwards 😀 and no one was the wiser...

Loyle Carner is class, haven't seen him in years. Saw Jamie XX & Caribou on the same day at Primavera this year & both were great. Jamie XX's current show is absolutely immense. Max Richter will be well worth a watch. Picked up a ticket today, enough there & they really nailed everything last year so reckon its worth the investment.

I have absolutely no idea who is or isn't touring next summer and i'm not going to trawl the internet to find out. I'm also not going to worry about who is tied in with which promoter/festival. However, i thought Leftfield would be a shoo-in for ATN, especially with a new album released yesterday. As for other electronic acts? I'm actually struggling tbh. Blawan/Karenn maybe. I dislike as much of their material as i like though.

I'll put up a list of acts that i think would go down well at any festival, aren't a difficult listen and would be affordable. Rather than name tons of acts i'd like to see no matter what their musical fit/cost. I realise these are more lower-mid tier acts though:

Oh Sees, Slift, Moon Duo/Wooden Shjips/Rose City Band, 10000 Russos, Gnoomes, Julie's Haircut, Josefhin Orn & The Liberation, Lay Llamas, Snapped Ankles, Vanishing Twin, The Liminanas, Goat, Kamasi Washington, The Comet Is Coming, Mdou Moctar, WITCH, Antibalas, The Budos Band, Left Lane Cruiser, Shawn James & The Shapeshifters, Tess Parks, Minami Deutsch, Bodega, Pom Poko, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, The Bug, Bob Vylan, Steve Mason (ex Beta Band, new album in March), Tau & The Drones Of Praise (the closest i get to Trad/Folk), The Jesus & Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Stereolab (last 3 acts for the oldies!).

I reckon any of them would attract passers by or anyone who did some research beforehand and are not at all challenging to the ears (with the exception of The Bug perhaps, who i could see not being everyone's cuppa but he pulled a good crowd at B&S).

As for Iggy? I'm aware of his keeping up to date with music. I was just trying to stress that you won't get the same impact from an Iggy solo set as a Stooges one. He'll play some Stooges songs sure, but there'll be a lot of his own material which just isn't as good. I'm sure he'll be fun, just don't expect the same visceral impact as a Stooges gig is all i'm saying.