This is where I would put the requisite pun that a story like this deserves, something along the lines of: “ATP just got more YOUTHful” or maybe I could do “Young Marble Giants announce GIANT show.” However I won’t bore you with puns and stupid plays on words, because I can write better than that.
Ah, the hell with it! I need to do at least one, right? Young Marble Giants made Colossal headlines today with the announcement that they will play the entirety of their only full-length album, 1980’s Colossal Youth, at next spring’s ATP UK Weekend 1: The Fans Strike Back. I was already psyched about the lineup -- Devo, Spiritualized, Grails, and stoner rock titans Sleep performing their album Holy Mountain, as well as selections from Dopesmoker -- and now this? (Side note: Now, I know that Holy Mountain and Dopesmoker are pretty fucking sweet, but I'd feel sad if I saw Sleep and they didn’t play a track from Jerusalem, too. Do them all!)
Young Marble Giants reunited early last year to play a show at last years’ Hay Festival in Wales, around the same time that Domino Records unveiled their plans to reissue Colossal Youth (this supposedly wasn't a coincidence, if you catch my drift). The trio has only one other show scheduled at the moment, and it happens to be this upcoming weekend, November 14-16, at the Swn Festival also in Wales. Jeez, you’d think that the guys in Young Marble Giants were from Wales or something, right?
In other reunited band/ATP festival news. The recently reunited experimental hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium have ALSO been added to the ATP vs. the Fans lineup. With all these bands getting back together lately, it can’t be long before Nirvana start making music again, right? Right? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Krist Novoselic is into politics these days, and you can’t have a Nirvana reunion without Novoselic.
