Melvins & Mike Patton Curate ATP Christmas Festival + Jello Biafra Turns 50!
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Artist:The Melvins
Mike Patton and The Melvins were picked to curate the next ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival in GB in December. So they gathered friends and Ipecac label-mates to bring the heavy. Looks like last year's lineup (with Sunn O))) and Earth) was just a warm-up for the veteran bass cab slayers that will play this year: The Melvins, Fantomas with Mike Patton, ISIS, Big Business, The Locust, Dalek and more!Fantomas will perform their 2001 LP The Director's Cut in addition to a regular set. Zu and Neil Hamburger are also confirmed.More deets at NME.comFantomas - "Cape Fear":In other Melvins news, the band will play its earliest works at Jello Biafra's b-day parties June 16 and 17. It takes place in SF at the Great American Music Hall where Biafra will also debut his new band. I don't know the name of the band yet, but I know it features ex-Faith No More bassist Billy Gould, plus Jon Weiss on drums and Ralph Spight on guitar...More info at Ipecac News page
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