ATP Festival to take place for second successive year in Iceland


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The ATP Festival is to go ahead for a second successive year in Iceland despite the British-based events coming to an end later this month.

ATP will be held at a former NATO base in Keflavík, Iceland between July 10th-12th next year.

“Following our first ATP Iceland event earlier this year headlined by Nick Cave, we’re very happy to be returning in July 2014,” co-founder Barry Hogan remarks. “We are preparing an amazing line-up which will be announced very soon!”

Hogan released a statement back in April confirming the end of ATP in the UK, explaining that: “When we started all this 14 years ago, we had no idea how a festival curated by a single artist and based in a family holiday camp would play out. It was a mad idea that somehow came to fruition, helped by the fact that people were looking for something different from the overpriced conveyor belt corporate rock sponsor-fests that populate the British summer.”

“The support from the artists and festivalgoers alike has been incredible but it’s time to move on and look towards the future, it may also be time to let Camber Sands rest in peace!”


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