Alternative rock music festival postponed due to recent events

  UCLA Performing Arts Sonic Youth’s festival, All
Tomorrow’s Parties, which was to be held at UCLA in October, has
been postponed due to the Sept.11 tragedies.

By Chris Moriates
Daily Bruin Senior Staff

All Tomorrow’s Parties, the alternative rock festival
scheduled to arrive at UCLA on Oct. 19, has been postponed,
according to Vice Chancellor Robert Naples’ office and Sonic
Youth’s official Web site.

The three-day concert, curated by American indie rock band Sonic
Youth, was to be headlined by such diverse acts as Stereolab, Eddie
Vedder, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Television and Sonic
Youth.

The concert has been postponed due to the events of Sept. 11 and
“the current volatile world climate,” according to the
Sonic Youth Web site. Sonic Youth’s studio is located a few
blocks from the now-collapsed World Trade Center.

There are plans to reschedule for early 2002, but it is unclear
whether the event will still be held at UCLA and what the new
lineup will be. UCLA Performing Arts could not be reached for
comment.

The festival was also to include cutting-edge art, film, music
and spoken-word performances, with events held throughout campus in
Royce Hall, Ackerman Grand Ballroom and Schoenberg and Moore
Halls.

“The event is currently up in the air,” UCLA program
events manager John Henson said Thursday. “We are facing many
of the same problems with artist transportation as we are with
Royce Hall programs … with 43 bands, it is a much bigger
scale.”

ATP was started in the United Kingdom by Barry Hogan as a way to
present a completely artist-curated alternative festival. The event
was brought to UCLA by new performing arts director David
Sefton.