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52-501: Inspired by the creative explosion of the 1960s, as well as by festivals such as ATP and Primavera Sound , they set out to create their vision of a music festival. Over the years, this independent festival has grown to an internationally acclaimed, full weekend event that attracts attendees from all over the world. The Reverberation Appreciation Society is a creative collective composed of Rob Fitzpatrick, Oswald James, and Christian Bland and Alex Maas of The Black Angels . In addition to

104-720: A documentary of the band's 2007 US tour, was unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival . Eventually, Strange House reached No. 37 on the UK Albums Chart . Following the " She Is the New Thing " single release in June 2007, the band recorded a cover of Suicide 's "Shadazz" for Blast First Petite as part of their tribute to Alan Vega in October 2008, their only release before their new material in 2009. At

156-572: A feature-length documentary about the festival named All Tomorrow's Parties . It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and then premiered in the UK at Edinburgh in June. In October 2009 the film was screened at a number of 'one night only' UK theatrical screenings also featuring live music from Les Savy Fav , who feature in the film and have long been mainstays of All Tomorrow's Parties line-ups. In 2010, ATP announced "I'll Be Your Mirror",

208-554: A new firm, Wilwall, but this also experienced difficulties, filing late accounts, incurring significant debts, and was subject to court judgements related to debt. A concert at Alexandra Palace from the rock band Grizzly Bear was cancelled, as was its urban festival, Jabberwocky, the latter only 3 days before the event was due to take place. A festival hosted by Drive Like Jehu was to be held in Prestatyn in Wales in 2016, but this

260-565: A new song after three years since their Lout EP , "The Silence That Remains". It was released as the lead single off their upcoming sixth album, Night Life . It is scheduled for release on 21 March 2025 via Fiction Records . The band's founding members Badwan, Hayward, and Webb were all involved in the making of the album, also featuring their new members Amelia Kidd on keyboards and backing vocals and Jordan Cook on drums. Rhys Webb and Tom Furse released an EP called Something Clockwork This Way Comes (2009) under their side project name Spider and

312-779: A number of concert films. I've Got Levitation documents the 50th anniversary reunion of The 13th Floor Elevators at the Levitation 2015 music festival, the band's first performance in 45 years. The documentary, directed by James Oswald and Jack Henry Robbins, offers an immersive glimpse into the festival with interviews and performances by The 13th Floor Elevators, The Flaming Lips , The Black Angels, Jesus And Mary Chain , The GOASTT ( Sean Lennon ), Thee Oh Sees , Fuzz ( Ty Segall ), Mac Demarco , Lightning Bolt , Night Beats , and others. The film premiered at Alamo Drafthouse on April 25, 2018. Austin Psych Fest: Beyond

364-470: A number of modern festivals, embraced a variety of artistic genres. Most festival events featured art exhibitions and cinema programmes (in the US, ATP collaborated with Criterion to present cinema highlighted by appearances from Paul Schrader and Jim Jarmusch), and others featured spoken word performances, stand-up comedy, and book clubs. In 2007 the curators allowed festival-goers to pick the line-up by organising

416-653: A series of events to take place in cities around the world named after the B-side to the original 1966 "All Tomorrow's Parties" single by the Velvet Underground. These events still involved a curator choosing all the music and films that play at the event, but without the holiday resort accommodation. The first event took place in Tokyo, Japan in February 2011. Significant past performances at ATP festivals include

468-623: A voting process for all ticketholders in the months running up to the event, and this was repeated in May 2009. The 2007 festival took place at Butlin's Minehead . In the years before 2013, when ATP announced they were ceasing to hold residential festivals in the UK, the festival took place up to three or four times a year in the UK (in May and then in December for the 'Nightmare Before Christmas'). UK festivals were planned to recommence in 2015, moving to Pontins Prestatyn. In 2009, Warp Films released

520-546: Is held annually at Le Chabada in Angers , France . The first Levitation France was held on September 20–21, 2013, hosting a 17-band lineup including The Black Angels, Dead Meadow , Night Beats , Wall of Death, and The UFO Club. The second Levitation France festival was held September 19–20, 2014 and included Loop , Moon Duo, Woods , Allah-Las , La Femme , and Al Lover. Levitation France 2015 took place September 18–19, 2015. The Reverberation Appreciation Society has released

572-413: Is treated well and the experience is a generally pleasant one." Since then, Shellac had a longstanding involvement with ATP and were often referred to as their 'House Band'. Shellac were the curators of ATP at Camber Sands , UK in 2002 and 2012, co-curated in 2004 and also played at several other editions of the festival including its final UK holiday camp event in 2013. Albini said; We didn't like

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624-587: The Bowlie Weekender , curated by Belle & Sebastian at Camber Sands in April 1999. Artists, usually musicians (but sometimes visual artists like Matt Groening , whose line-up featured in the Observer's list of the ten best festivals of the year, or Jake and Dinos Chapman ) were asked to curate the festival by inviting their favourite performers to play. The idea was that it was akin to dipping into

676-473: The Broken Glass EP and self-titled full-length album in 2011, the soundtrack to The Duke of Burgundy in 2015, and Treasure House in 2016. In 2015, Tom Furse announced the 28 August release of his debut solo EP, Child of a Shooting Star , through the official Lo Recordings website. That same year he also released the library music compilation album Tom Furse Digs . His album Interludes

728-654: The Colorado River (Texas) . The 2013 festival, the 6th annual festival, held April 26–28, was the first year for the festival to be held at a completely outdoor venue, as well as the first year to have 3 stages of music, camping, and a poster series featuring US and international artists. The seventh annual festival, held May 2–4, 2014, included 1960s legends The Zombies , as well as Panda Bear , The Horrors , Loop , The Brian Jonestown Massacre , of Montreal , The Dandy Warhols , The Black Angels and many more. In late 2014 The Reverberation Appreciation Society changed

780-788: The Radio 1 / NME stage), various Scandinavian festivals, the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and Splendour in the Grass in Australia. Their setlists throughout that summer included a cover of "No Love Lost" by Joy Division . In December 2007, they featured in the All Tomorrows Parties festival curated by Geoff Barrow of Portishead . The Horrors also appeared in the third series of The Mighty Boosh in December as

832-464: The 2016 festival were April 29 - May 1, 2016, and the lineup featured Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds, Ween, Animal Collective, Caribou, Flying Lotus, Slowdive, Courtney Barnett, Sleep, The Arcs, Brian Jonestown Massacre and many more. The 2016 festival at Carson Creek Ranch was cancelled due to severe weather which caused significant damage to the festival grounds and infrastructure. In response over 20 concerts were organized in downtown Austin hosting

884-662: The Flies, influenced by the experimental electronica of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . Badwan teamed up with ex- Ipso Facto member Cherish Kaya, calling themselves Lumina, to record a cover of the Black Lips song "I'll Be With You" (which appeared as a B-side on the Black Lips single "Drugs"). Badwan formed Cat's Eyes with multi-instrumentalist, composer and soprano vocalist Rachel Zeffira , releasing

936-635: The Third Sound features footage from Austin Psych Fest 2013 and includes performances and interviews with The Black Angels, Roky Erickson , Clinic , White Fence , Acid Mothers Temple , and Tinariwen , among others. Other concert films released include APF 2012, APF 2011 "Live at the Power Plant," and APF 3, which features footage from Austin Psych Fest 2010. All Tomorrow%27s Parties (music festival) All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP)

988-555: The UK Albums Chart. The single " Who Can Say " was released on 7" vinyl one week later. Primary Colours was nominated for the 2009 Mercury Prize . NME later awarded the album first place in the 50 Best Albums of 2009. After headlining London's Offset Festival and touring for Primary Colours , the Horrors indicated a desire to build their own studio to record at obscure hours. In April 2010, singer Badwan announced on

1040-643: The UK Top 40. In the early 2000s, the Horrors coalesced around shared interests in obscure vinyl and DJing. During trips to London and on the Southend circuit, Webb met Badwan (formerly of the Rotters ) and Furse through their mutual interest in 1960s garage rock as well as post-punk bands such as the Birthday Party and Bauhaus . In 2005, the three formed a band with Hayward and Spurgeon. The band

1092-724: The UK and Ireland leg of her Ceremonials Tour in March 2012. They also headlined the Word Arena tent of 2012's Latitude Festival . In December 2012, the Horrors released the remix vinyl box set Higher . The Horrors headlined the Truck Festival in Oxfordshire on 19 July 2013 and the Y Not Festival in Derbyshire on 4 August 2013. The band's fourth studio album, Luminous , was released on 5 May 2014. The record

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1144-713: The Vaccines , whose guitarist is Tom Furse's younger brother Freddie Cowan ; Tom Furse had also joined the Vaccines on stage earlier on the same day. They were also chosen to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival curated by ATP and Portishead in September 2011 in Asbury Park, New Jersey . In November 2011, The Horrors remixed Lady Gaga 's song " Bloody Mary " for the singer's compilation album, Born This Way: The Remix . The band joined Florence and The Machine on

1196-733: The attention of critics and the public with their debut single, " Sheena Is a Parasite ". Their second release, " Death at the Chapel ", a high-profile show at London's 100 Club in July 2006, and an appearance on the cover of NME that August greatly increased their profile. The band played the NME Awards Indie Rock Tour in early 2007 along with Mumm-Ra , the View and the Automatic , which helped garner further fame. After

1248-472: The band signed to XL Recordings . A number of songs from the new album were leaked a few weeks before the album's release. The album's first single, " Sea Within a Sea ", was released only as a digital download on 17 March 2009, together with a music video directed by Douglas Hart which was posted on the band's website on the same day. Their second album, Primary Colours , was officially released on 4 May 2009 to critical acclaim, and reached No. 25 on

1300-563: The band's official forum that the Horrors had already started working on their third album, to be called Skying , and had been in the studio for some months. A track from the album, "Endless Blue", was first unveiled at the Latitude Festival in July 2010, and later performed at Poland's Off Festival and Belgium's Lokerse Feesten in August 2010. In February 2011, after rumours that the album had been delayed, Badwan announced via

1352-507: The cattle call nature of unrelated artists playing in an un-curated fashion. We established the precedent that we weren't gonna play festivals...Most festivals, there's a competition to get the biggest names as headliners, then everybody else was whoever was on tour, and then the bottom rungs were filled with payola spots where labels would pay to get people added to a bill. ATP was entirely curated. Somebody chose every single one of those bands because they thought they were awesome. Also in 2001,

1404-402: The curator's record collection, or as founder Barry Hogan described it, "ATP is like an excellent mix tape ". In 2001 rock band Shellac was convinced by Mogwai to play in their line-up. Frontman Steve Albini praised the festival, saying "They completely changed the festival game. Now the whole world has to operate under the knowledge that there are these cool, curated festivals where everyone

1456-413: The end of 2007 ATP/R launched 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). Artists to release singles in this series were Australia's The Drones, Britain's Alexander Tucker and America's Deerhoof. In 2002,

1508-584: The end of 2007, the Horrors announced the forthcoming recording of a new album, which was produced by the band, Craig Silvey, Barrow and music video director Chris Cunningham . Recording took place in Bath during the summer of 2008. Barrow's influence brought the use of keyboards and electronics. The band were forced to pull out of their planned appearance at the Underage Festival due to recording schedule conflicts. After they left Loog Records in 2007,

1560-500: The festival changed venues 3 times before landing back at its originally intended location, The Seaholm Power Plant , and the festival would be the last concert held within the plant's walls. The 63 band bill was topped by Roky Erickson of The 13th Floor Elevators , Spacemen 3 offshoot Spectrum, Omar A Rodriguez group playing as The Mars Volta lineup, Crystal Stilts , the first performance from Black Moth Super Rainbow in several years, and The Black Angels. Austin Psych Fest 2012

1612-491: The festival exhibited a tendency towards post-rock , indie rock , avant-garde music , and underground hip hop , along with more traditional rock fare presented in smaller venues than typical stadium performances. It was at first a sponsorship-free festival where the organisers and artists stay in the same accommodation as the fans. It claimed to set itself apart from festivals like Reading or Glastonbury by staying intimate, non-corporate and fan-friendly. Another difference

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1664-621: The festival expanded to the US, and several events took place there in subsequent years. The organisation also became involved in booking stages at the Pitchfork Music Festival and the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona , Spain. In 2008, All Tomorrow's Parties ran their first East Coast USA festival, which took place at Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club , Monticello , New York . In January 2009,

1716-512: The festival in Austin, the group has branched out into other cities beginning in 2013 with Levitation France and in 2015 with Levitation Vancouver and Levitation Chicago . The group also runs The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label and has curated events at Austin's SXSW , The Netherlands' Le Guess Who? , NYC's CMJ and NRMAL in Mexico City . The inaugural Austin Psych Fest

1768-642: The festival took place for the first time in Australia, with events in Brisbane, Sydney and Mount Buller (in Victoria) all curated by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. The organisation that put on these festivals also promoted concerts in London and the rest of the United Kingdom, curated the yearly Don't Look Back concert series and ran the record label ATP Recordings . All Tomorrow's Parties, as with

1820-438: The festival's name from Austin Psych Fest to Levitation, titled after a track by Austin psychedelic legends The 13th Floor Elevators . The 2015 festival was held May 8–10 at Carson Creek Ranch. The lineup included The Flaming Lips , The Jesus and Mary Chain , Primal Scream , Spiritualized , Tame Impala as well as a reunion performance by The 13th Floor Elevators , the band's first performance in 45 years. The dates for

1872-663: The fictional band "the Black Tubes", and supported the Arctic Monkeys on their short sellout tour of the UK, receiving a mixed reception. The band played an NME Awards show in 2008 with Crystal Castles , Ulterior and These New Puritans , and supported the Sonics on 23 March. Another London show followed at Bethnal Green's Rich Mix Cultural Foundation on 23 May of the following year. On 18 January 2008, Counting in Fives ,

1924-548: The founding members bar Furse and Spurgeon, who have been inactive performing live since 2021 and 2024, respectively. In early October 2024, it was announced that the band were now joined by Amelia Kidd (of the Ninth Wave ) on keyboards and backing vocals, as well as Jordan Cook (of Telegram) on drums. The band have released five studio albums: Strange House (2007), Primary Colours (2009), Skying (2011), Luminous (2014) and V (2017) all of which charted within

1976-401: The latter's Global Spirit Tour . On 13 June, they announced the release of a new single, "Machine". It premiered via BBC 6 Music . On 28 June, they announced the release of their fifth album, titled V , which was released on 22 September. The band previewed the album's release with a small show at London's Omeara on 11 July, while a full UK tour had been announced for October in support of

2028-536: The lineup and attendees. In November 2016, festival organizers announced that the festival would not be held in 2017, but would return in 2018. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic , the festival went on hiatus in 2020. The next year saw the hiatus extended by a year. Levitation resumed with its anticipated 2022 lineup. [1] Levitation hosted Kikagaku Moyo for their last tour in the USA. Created in 2013, Levitation France

2080-457: The new album. On 12 March 2021, the band released their third EP, Lout and released their fourth EP, Against the Blade , on 5 November 2021. The band announced on 16 November 2021 that keyboardist Tom Furse would not be performing live with the Horrors "for the foreseeable future," with Furse clarifying he would still contribute to their studio recordings. On 2 October 2024, the band shared

2132-558: The official forum that the album would be released in July. The first single, " Still Life ", premiered on 24 May on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. The full album was made available for streaming from the band's website on 4 July and officially released on 11 July 2011. The band were announced as headliners on the Festival Republic Stage at the Reading and Leeds festivals in August 2011. They were joined on stage by

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2184-534: 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, Bardo Pond, The Magic Band, Deerhoof, White Out, Death Vessel, The Drones, Fursaxa, The Scientists, Apse, Fuck Buttons, Alexander Tucker, Sleepy Sun, Spiritualized, Built To Spill, Autolux and most recently Tall Firs and Tennis. At

2236-502: The reformations of The Magic Band, Television, The Jesus Lizard, Sleep, and Slint amongst others. All Tomorrow's Parties also presented the return of My Bloody Valentine with a series of worldwide live performances throughout 2008, the London concerts of which were named Time Out London 's Gig of the Year. In 2012, the company running the events was put into liquidation , owing £2.6 million to its creditors. The company's directors set up

2288-605: The release of Strange House in March 2007, the Horrors embarked on an 18-month promotional world tour. A slot supporting Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in the United States in summer 2007 was cancelled because of lack of funds, but the band instead headlined a US tour that June. They made a number of festival appearances throughout 2007, including the Glastonbury Festival , the Carling Weekend (on

2340-411: Was a UK organisation based in London that promoted music festivals , concerts and records throughout the world for over 10 years. It was founded by Barry Hogan in 2001 in preparation for the first All Tomorrow's Parties Festival , the line-up of which was picked by Mogwai and took place at Pontins , Camber Sands , England. Named after the song " All Tomorrow's Parties " by the Velvet Underground ,

2392-735: Was centred around Junkclub, an underground club founded by Webb and Oliver Abbott. Their first rehearsal consisted of two covers: the Sonics ' "The Witch" and Screaming Lord Sutch 's "Jack the Ripper" (interpreted in the tradition of previous garage covers such as those by the Fuzztones , One-Way Streets and the Gruesomes ). The latter rendition was later rerecorded as the opening track of their debut album, Strange House . The Horrors made their first live performance at The Spread Eagle on Kingsland Road in London on 16 August 2005. The Horrors drew

2444-510: Was held April 27–29 at the east-side location of legendary music venue Emo's in conjunction with the Beauty Ballroom. The 5th annual festival featured a 61 band lineup including The Brian Jonestown Massacre , The Black Angels, and the Black Lips along with Meat Puppets , The Olivia Tremor Control , Thee Oh Sees , and Bombino , among others. The 2013 and 2014 festivals were held at Carson Creek Ranch in Austin, Texas, located on

2496-503: Was held April 23–25, 2010 at The Mohawk, a multi-stage venue on Red River. 41 acts performed, among them, The Raveonettes , Warpaint , The Gaslamp Killer , The Black Angels and 1960s legends Silver Apples . The 2011 festival was held on April 29-May 1 at the 1950s art deco Seaholm Power Plant , a decommissioned steam power plant on the banks of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin that had been made temporarily available for events. Due to changes in city ordinances and construction plans,

2548-718: Was held on Saturday 8 March 2008 at The Red Barn in north Austin , featuring performances by The Black Angels, Ringo Deathstarr Horse + Donkey among others. In 2009, the festival was extended to three days and was held from March 13–15 at the Radio Room, a short lived venue on Sixth Street . The Seeds ' Sky Saxon performed with Shapes Have Fangs as his backing band and Austin psychedelic legends The Golden Dawn performed their 1968 album "Power Plant" in its entirety. The lineup included modern psychedelic heavies Dead Meadow , A Place to Bury Strangers , Wooden Shjips , The Warlocks , and The Black Angels. The third Austin Psych Fest

2600-782: Was moved to Manchester in England, before being cancelled. A few months later the company went in administration , and its scheduled festival in Iceland was cancelled. The Horrors The Horrors are an English rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005 by lead vocalist Faris Badwan , guitarist Joshua Hayward, keyboardist and synthesizer player Tom Furse, bassist Rhys Webb, and drummer and percussionist Joe Spurgeon. Their music has been classified as garage rock , garage punk , gothic rock , shoegaze and post-punk revival . The band's current lineup includes all of

2652-725: Was self-produced and recorded in their own studio in Hackney , London. It was described as being "fun and danceable". In June 2015, Badwan said that the band were working on an album with producer Paul Epworth , and were aiming to release it before the end of 2015. They supported New Order in November 2015, and played several festivals in 2016, including the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth , UK on 28 August. In June 2017, they supported Depeche Mode for part of

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2704-1157: Was the line-ups being chosen by significant bands or artists, resulting in unorthodox events which often combined acts of all sizes, eras, and genres. The festival took place in the UK, US, Japan, Iceland and Australia, and was curated by the following artists: Deerhunter , TV On The Radio , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , The National , The Drones , Greg Dulli ( Afghan Whigs ), Jeff Mangum ( Neutral Milk Hotel ), Battles , Caribou , Les Savy Fav , Amos , Animal Collective , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , Jim Jarmusch , Pavement , The Flaming Lips , The Breeders , Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , Mike Patton , Melvins , My Bloody Valentine , Explosions In The Sky , Pitchfork Media , Portishead , Psarantonis , Fennesz , Dirty Three , Thurston Moore , The Shins , Sleater-Kinney , Dinosaur Jr. , Devendra Banhart , Mudhoney , The Mars Volta , Vincent Gallo , Slint , Jake & Dinos Chapman , Stephen Malkmus , Mogwai , Tortoise , Shellac , Stewart Lee , Sonic Youth , Boards of Canada , Autechre , Modest Mouse , Cowboy Junkies , and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening . The festival had its origins in

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