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ATP joins Songkick Detour London as Curators

• 11th Jan 2013

ATP are very pleased to announce a partnership with Songkick for their new Detour project.

Some words from them to introduce the concept:

“At the heart of Detour is a belief that true fans can help their favourite artists come to their city sooner. Right now as a fan if you want to see a new band live, say Merchandise, a great new act from Tampa, you have to wait till someone else (a combination of the band and the promoter) decide to take on the financial risk of confirming a show and traveling to a new place. Detour London gives fans a way to help the artists they love, by stepping up and committing to buy a ticket, telling the band “If you come, I’m in”.

Songkick launched Detour London before Christmas and within a matter of days over 50 fans, lead by Sean from Drownedinsound, had started a campaign to bring Desaparecidos to London. They reached out to the band’s management and on the back of that support confirmed a show. When we spoke to Desaparecidos they told us;

“We couldn’t be more excited to finally make it over to the UK- we are about a decade overdue and look forward to putting ten years of anticipation and excitement into our performances.“

“We at ATP are really excited about Detour London as a way to bring over more new acts so we have joined as one of their curators” say the festival brand “The first bands we would love to bring to London and have selected are:

– Superchunk
– Boredoms
– I Break Horses
– Merchandise
– Colin Stetson
– Merzbow
– Goat
– Divine Fits
– Widowspeak“

Detour Website – https://detour-ldn.songkick.com/