16, 17, 18 May is looking like one hell of a weekend! what are you going to choose? why?

1. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY ATP (three days, £150, shit venue, expensive beer) with broken social scene, iron & wine, dinosaur jr, trail of the dead, lots more dull bands...

2. CHINCHILLAFEST, LEEDS (three days, £15, great venue, cheap beer) with DJ Scotch Egg, Gay Against You, Cowtown, Mucky Sailor, Beards, Eats Tapes, Ex Models, That Fucking Tank, Action Beat, CHOPS, Please, Drinks, Stig Noise, Cissy, Chronicity, APATT, Quack Quack, Zukanican, Bilbao Syndrome, Ghost Fleet, Bronze

3. NASTYFEST, LEEDS (one day, £12, shit venue, cheap beer) with yeasayer, no age, mae shi, slow club, napoleon IIIrd, cutting pink with knives, soiled mattress & the springs...