As the summer festivals continue to end (boo) our eyes draw focus towards the ones which happen later in the year. There's a couple of fairly famous and renowned ones going on in December - both ATPs, but it's the Nightmare Before Christmas which we're concerned with at the moment, as a new raft of acts have been announced for the festival, curated by the re-united Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Joining the previously announced batch will be these:

Oneida presents The Ocropolis
Hanged with Tony Conrad
Thee Oh Sees
Matana Roberts
Land Of Kush
Philip Jeck
John Butcher

Investigate some of them if you will. They join:

Godspeed You! Bkack Emperor, Weird Al Yankovic, Neurosis, Bardo Pond, The Ex, Deerhoof, The Dead C, Black Dice, Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker, Mike Watt, Scout Niblett, Wolves In The Throne Room, Marissa Nadler, Growing, Rangda, Nomeansno, Josephine Foster, White Magic, Emeralds, Daniel Higgs, Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestra, Charlemagne Palestine, Country Teasers, Daniel Menche, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Borbetomagus, Flower, Corsano Duo, Keiji Haino, Bruce McClure, Mahjong, Cluster, Berg Sans Nipple, Sick Llama

The festival runs from December 3-5 at Butlins, Minehead. More information available here and on the banner below and above.