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ATP Shellac of North America

Just on the train on the way home from another great ATP. Well, great from the perspective of bands at any rate. The venue (Pontins at Camber Sands) took a bit of adjustment after the relative luxury of previous years — a severely limited choice of food and a bordering-on-the-suicidal bar management policy (running out of three of the four frankly below-par draught beers mid-way through the second day, and chronic understaffing the bars) being the most obvious areas of want. Then there was the frankly baffling security policy — randomly closing exits for no apparent reason, very rigid application of apparently arbitrary traffic control — very rum.

However, rant over, there were some excellent bands on offer — with no real duffers, but here are my highlights...

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