Bowl haircut for Bowlie 2! ;-)

It's only 2days before Bowlie 2!!! (ATP festival curreted by Belle & Sebastian at Butlin's holiday camp, in Minehead, Somerset)

I'm so bloody excited and impatient and also stressed!
I never went to this kind of festival before. Cause believe me, this one is not the usual kind of festival we are used to go to! From everything I've seen or read or heard about it... I'm now expecting a special week-end!... a bit of an adventure ;-)

A festival happening in the middle of the winter but luckily, we won't be camping cause it's also happening in a holiday camp... and that's what is making it a bit magic, I think. I might export the concept to France and organise an alternative music festival at a Centre Parc holiday camp or in a Club Med, hahaha...
Imagine all these indie kids in a camp all together, playing a game of Bingo or two, or paticipating to a pushaton competition, in between 2 gigs, hahaha... well, if you can't visualise how it can look like, just have a look at the film trailer (cf end of this post), you'll have a better idea!

Anyway, it just promises to be a fun week-end! Perfect to forget all the christmas craziness!!

So yeah, I just can't wait to be there... I'm way too impatient!!!
9 months that we've bought our tickets, and now here we are, after waiting all this time, finaly... we're gonna invade this old Butlin's holiday camp for 3days of music and fun, wooh!
Don't know if everything would run as normal but I might even go to the huge "waterworld" swimmingpool if it's open, or go to play bowling, or go to the free funfair inside the camp, or just relax in our little challet, drinking wine and watching the atpTV, between 2 gigs :-)
(cf Butlins Minehead website here for more details about the camp!)
(cf All Tomorrow's Parties website here for complete line-up and see if they have a couple of last minute tickets left over if you wonna join the fun, but I think it's sold out)

And now here is a trailer for All Tomorrow's Parties - The movie
(a film made with footage of 10years of ATP + archives from Butlins in the 60's/70's)

I'm going christmas shopping, you're going christmas shopping, we're going...

Go hide yourself, Christmas is here!!!
Or as Allan said: it will be here soon!... Very soon indeed, before we know it...

Yes!!!! It's bloody annoying Christmas... Again!!!!! pfff...
Yes, as usual, we'll be soon rushing like a dog with his tail on fire, doing the last-minute shopping... And we'll finally get stressed and end up buying presents we'd promised ourself we'd avoid this year...
So I decided to relieve myself of all this usual painful waste of time and energy. I'm gonna follow Allan's advice and buy shitty presents now!! Thank you Allan! What would we do without you?!!! :-)

But really, I do believe it would make my christmas shopping more bearable if they stopped playing these horrible christmas carols and other Sinatra's style christmas songs in every single shops!!!!! (I've got sensible ears and this shit makes me want to puke!!!!!) urgh!!!!
Don't you think it'd be nice to hear... hmmm... I don't know... What about Sufjan Stevens (Get Behind Me Santa), or Belle&Sebastian (Twelve Days Of Christmas), or The Kinks (Father Christmas), or Snow Patrol (Just Like Christmas), or The White Stripes (Candy Cane Children), or The Waitresses (Christmas Wrapping), or The Beach Boys (Merry Christmas Baby), or Burt Bacharach (The Bell That Couldn't Jingle), etc. etc. etc.

Or even if I could hear more often Wonderful Christmastime (McCartney) instead of the usual War Is Over (Lennon) - not that it's not a great one but we'll hear it so many times at this period of the year that it will make me hate this beautiful song at the end!

Oh, and please, PLEASE, PLEEAASE, no more Jingle Bell Rock!!!! NO MORE, ok?!!!!!!

(What christmas song would YOU like to hear? La Companie Creole?... ooch!)