ATP Festival

Cult horror composers Claudio Simonetti & Fabio Frizzi join John Carpenter at ATP Iceland for a spectacular celebration of soundtrack mastery

New additions also include the influential, instrumental trio Dirty Three, experimentalists This Is Not This Heat, international icon Omar Souleyman, Montreal’s Suuns – as well as excellent Icelandic acts such as Valdimar, Kimono, and Muck. Check out the video announce here!

After a long career mainly marked by composing the soundtracks for Dario Argento’s movies such as Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, and Tenebrae, Claudio Simonetti and his band head to ATP Iceland to perform the most successful Goblin hits which made Italian progressive rock and horror movie soundtrack history.

Another undisputed master of Italian horror soundtracks, Fabio Frizzi is set to perform new compositions and celebrate his special partnership with the late ‘Godfather of Gore’, director Lucio Fulci. In addition, Fabio Frizzi will perform a live-score to horror masterpiece The Beyond, which celebrates 35 years since filming.

Playing “the hits and the ones that got away”, ATP favourites Dirty Three also head to Keflavík. We couldn’t agree more with Warren Ellis’ promise that, “on a good day, there's nothing quite like us on the stage”. Plus, This Heat founding members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward will join together under the banner of This Is Not This Heat to perform new interpretations of their influential music. After several years spent whipping the world into a dabke-induced frenzy, legendary Syrian singer and Arabic icon Omar Souleyman joins ATP Iceland as a full-blown, phenomenon of international music. Suuns tour new album Hold/Still, and Growing bring their hypnotic, rhythmic drone from Brooklyn, NY all the way to Iceland. Showcasing the very best in Icelandic music, we host pop band Valdimar, rock group Kimono, and uncompromising hardcore outfit Muck. Younghusband return to ATP Iceland for a second year, whilst Fuck Button’s Andrew Hung, USA Out Of Vietnam, Mario Batkovic, JC Flowers, Grimm Grimm and ADSL Camels head to Iceland for the first time to premiere their new music.

MARTIN REV of Suicide is featured today as our #ATPFYI artist!

Drive Like Jehu's ATP line-up e x p a n d s!

Welcoming new Drive Like Jehu additions... Claw Hammer, Wau Y Los Arrrghs, and Gary Wilson & The Blind Dates! They bolster an already impressive line-up of Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Diamanda Galás, Omar Souleyman, METZ, The Gories, Flamin' Groovies, Wire, The Ex, King Khan and The Shrines... the list goes on. Plus, there's still more to come!

Tickets for groups of 2,4,5,6 & 7 (which include weekend festival entry plus 3 nights accommodation) for All Tomorrow's Parties Curated by Drive Like Jehu are available HERE.

London’s, SHOPPING, are today’s #ATPFYI! Check out this video they did for East End Live Sessions for their song Long Way Home off their album “Consumer Complaints”.

Our first #ATPFYI is SHONEN KNIFE from Osaka, Japan! Listen here for their interpretation of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep”.

Happy Birthday Rough Trade from everyone at ATP!

Stewart Lee adds seminal experimentalists This Is Not This Heat, The Fall, Giant Sand, & a Pop Dungeon hosted by Welsh icon Charlotte Church - amongst others!

ATP are excited to present ‘Charlotte Church’s Late Night Pop Dungeon’: Down the dark, dark stairs, upon the bloody gallows of soft rock, through the oubliette of cheese, into the torture chamber of disco, you are welcomed to the Late Night Pop Dungeon. The Grand High Executionatrix, dungeon mistress Charlotte Church, will treat you to the greatest tunes that time forgot, and some that will forever haunt our collective memory. Bring dancing shoes.

Favourite Sleep album cover by far! Taken from their 1992′s album ‘Sleep’s Holy Mountain’.

Amazing Dr Seuss-style rendering of Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand” by Melbourne Artist DrFaustusAU

“No! We present the vibrations of the day, which are always changing", ICYMI FACT Magazine interviews Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra.