Talking Light ATP Festival UK (All Tomorrow's Parties Festival United Kingdom) is a digital live album by The Residents.
It is the tenth release in The Residents' second series of Talking Light downloads. It's also the twenty-sixth of sixty-seven digital live albums of The Residents' Talking Light world tour.
The show was recorded at All Tomorrow's Parties 2010, a UK festival with a line-up organized by long-time Residents fan Matt Groening. The album's title is also the most specific of the albums, which usually only comprises the country or city The Residents recorded the show. Since this was performed at a festival with a strict time slot, 'Talking Light ATP Festival UK' is the shortest of any of the Talking Light live albums, removing roughly 50 minutes from the show's typical length. While other shows are usually made up of three half hour tracks, this is only made up of two.
The Cryptic Corporation had issued a warning that the show would be 'Talking Lite' on March 10th, 2010.
Uniquely, the show also features Randy performing live vocals on The Unseen Sister throughout the second half of the song, as well as a performance of Demons Dance Alone, usually reserved as the rare second encore.
Songs cut for time[]
The show cuts out some songs from the first half of the show, but the middle half is cut down the most.
- Sleepwalker
- Talking Light
- They Are The Meat
- The Service
- 1/5 Monologue
- Night Train to Nowhere song
- Lillie (Replaced with Demons Dance Alone)
Cryptic Statement[]
Talking Light will literally become Talking “Lite” for the only UK show (on the spring tour) as the show will have to be pared down to 60 minutes from its usual 110. This is because seven acts will be crammed onto the stage that day in the usual chaotic festival format. A suspected victim could even be the iconic piece, “Talking Light” which sets the mood for the show’s outlook on aging and death. Festival goers are likely to not really care so I suppose it doesn’t matter.[1]
Track Listing[]
- Atpuk1 (37:28)
- Intro / Smelly Tongues (2:50)
- Monologue #1 (1:48)
- Six More Miles (7:54)
- Monologue #2 (1:35)
- Semolina (3:44)
- My Window (4:13)
- Death in Barstow (3:43)
- Monologue #3 (1:18)
- The Unseen Sister (10:19)
- Atpuk2 (27:15)
- The Old Woman (6:22)
- Demons Dance Alone (4:33)
- Monologue #4 (3:32)
- Bury Me Not (7:33)
- Die-Stay-Go (4:11)
- Outro (1:02)
See Also[]
Further Reading[]
- The Residents' Concert Setlist at All Tomorrow's Parties 2010 on May 8th, 2010 | Setlist.fm
- Robot Selling Device (May 16th 2010)
