The early May bank holiday this year sees the third UK I’ll Be Your Mirror ATP weekend at the Great Hall of the Alexandra Palace. The same hall that played host to headliners Slayer, Mogwai and Afghan Whigs at last year’s IBYM, and Portishead the year before.
2013’s IBYM will be co-curated by New Yorkers Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear, both of whom are no stranger to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ strong ethos-led intimate festivals (Yeah Yeah Yeahs co-curated the United Sounds of ATP event back in 2006). Threats to ATP last year from financial problems were worrying but with a curators line-up this year consisting of Deerhunter, TV On The Radio (Camber Sands ATP Weekends) and now these two indie giants, it looks like Barry Hogan and his team took it all within their stride.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have the first day (4th May) bringing along with them Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Black Lips, Anika, The Field, Dirty Beaches, King Khan And The Shrines, and Mick Harvey performing Serge Gainsbourg. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who haven’t performed in London for 4 years, will undoubtedly be treating city slickers to new tracks off their forthcoming 4 th album ‘Mosquito’, which is due for release on 16th April. You can watch the ambiguous album teaser here:
Day two (5th May) Grizzly Bear take their first go at curating an ATP event; what has become an indie-rock right-of-passage for many. Confirmed to play so far are Van Dyke Parks, The Walkmen, Real Estate, I Break Horses, Cass McCombs, and past curators Tortoise.
Only 15 out of 35 acts have been announced so there’s more to come and are guaranteed to have ATP quality assurance stamped all over them but the line-up so far is pretty exciting and has helped edge Spring that little bit closer.
Tickets are on sale and priced at £110 for both days or £59 for day passes.
Read an interview Barry Hogan did for Clash (2009) here http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/atp-week-a-brief-history-with-barry-hogan
IBYM 2013 preview video
