Shellac to curate ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas in December

And yet another ATP festival in London to get excited about. As stated this morning on ATP’s website, Shellac will curate the upcoming annual Nightmare Before Christmas festival (Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav curated last year’s). Read more info below…

ATP Concerts, who last month announced our return to the festival's original home - the recently refurbished Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands - now announce a second festival weekend for this December to precede the now sold out weekend curated by The National. Following that event's sell out, Pontins have offered ATP a second weekend and after receiving many emails enquiring about whether we would run one of our traditional Nightmare Before Christmas events, we are very happy to announce the return of SHELLAC OF NORTH AMERICA to headline and curate from the 30th November-2nd December 2012 to help celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band.

SHELLAC curated one of ATP's earliest events 10 years ago this year, at which they introduced the Camber Sands audience to bands including Bonnie Prince Billy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Smog and Low. As one of the most incendiary live rock bands on the planet, having released four stellar albums and having stunned crowds on every hemisphere, Shellac and ATP's long relationship has often seen them called the festival's House Band, and it gives us great pleasure to bring them back as curators for what is set to be a very exciting line-up, the first artists of which will be announced soon. Shellac Of North America are Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer.

We will undoubtedly have coverage of the festival so stay tuned for that. No lineup has been announced yet, but tickets go on sale tomorrow 10am London time.

Download/Stream Battles' New ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Mix

Check out more shots of Battles @ ATP I'll Be Your Mirror NJ, Day 2!

And the circle is complete. Like their ATP Nightmare Before Christmas co-curators Les Savy Fav and Caribou before them, intense math rockers Battles have today unveiled their new Festival mix. Mixed by DJ EMZ, the compilation features cuts from Washed Out, The Field, Flying Lotus, and more, and you can stream and download the hell out of that after the jump below.

Tickets are still onsale for this weekend's Minehead festivities, so you slackers can make that happen. You can check out more details about final confirmations around the film schedule and associated events over here as well.

Download/Stream: Les Savy Fav's ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Playlist

Check out more (and freakier) photos of Les Savy Fav @ MHOW over here!

As we continue to be jealous of everyone in the UK for all of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival goodness they've got coming up between now and summer 2012 ('sup Wiglet Bill), we've got another tasty bit of news to report on the most imminent of said festivals: ATP's annual Nightmare Before Christmas Festival, taking place from December 9-11 at Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead.

Following up on Dan Snaith's Caribou Mix, another of the Festival's co-headliners, the eternally weird Les Savy Fav, have put together one of their own featuring cuts from themselves and other great Festival acts like Archers of Loaf, Wild Flag, Marnie Stern, and No Age. Stream it in full after the jump (peep the tracklist as well), and pick up tickets and learn more about Matt Griffith's cool- (and very Fucking Nostalgic) sounding Big Pretentious Mix CD Swap at the event over at the ATP website.