Wire, Mission Of Burma, Scrawl, The Ex for restructured ATP

The first acts have been announced joining Shellac of North America at their Nightmare Before Christmas curated festival weekend planned from All Tomorrows Parties happening from Friday 30th November until Sunday 2nd December 2012 at Pontins, in Camber Sands.

Shellac have chosen Wire, Mission of Burma, The Ex + Brass Unbound (Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Roy Paci/Wolter Wierbos), Shannon Wright, Arcwelder, Scrawl, Red Fang, Alix, Bear Claw, The Membranes, Helen Money, and Dead Rider.

The event's curators celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band this year and will headline and choose the rest of the 35 band bill playing across the event on the venue's excellent indoor stages featuring award winning sound, also featuring DJs until late, Cinema and more with the bands chosen by the curators to be announced in the coming weeks and months leading up to the event.

Recently ATP restructured their business, with some media outlets falsely reporting the event was in trouble. A statement from organisers last week said,

"We have now completed a restructuring of the business of ATP Concerts Limited. This involved the Voluntary Liquidation of ATP Concerts Limited and transfer of its assets (including the rights to the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, label, and shows) to a new company called Willwal Limited. We will also be dividing the business into three different companies; ATP Festivals, ATP Recordings and ATP Shows.

The team however, remain the same, having been transferred over to Willwal Limited - and the festival is still called All Tomorrow's Parties. All future events will continue as scheduled on the dates advertised and all tickets for those events are still valid.

ATP remains unwaveringly committed to hosting world class events. Since our inception it has been our mission to provide quality concerts for discerning music lovers around the world - our number one priority has always been the bands and the fans and we work hard, sometimes under difficult circumstances, to achieve the highest standards possible. It is a tough climate out there, but this restructuring will ensure that ATP is around for many more years to come. We thank the fans who have stood by us over the years and especially during this recent time of reorganisation.

...We will be continuing the work we have done over the past 13 years and would like to thank everyone for their kind support over the past week - we apologise that this statement has taken longer than anticipated to be released (due to needing certain legal clearances) - we thank you again for your patience and apologise for any unnecessary worry caused."

Two thirds of Nightmare Before Xmas's tickets have been sold. Self Catering accommodation is available in 2-8 berth apartments and offers either double, single or bunk beds with private bathroom and TV, with kitchen and are priced at £180 per person.

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