Pitchfork

Last weekend, what seemed like the entire noise-rock universe gathered in Somerset, England for All Tomorrow's Parties' Nightmare Before Christmas festival, curated by scene godfather Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. We are so jealous of everybody who went.

And Thurston didn't take his curatorial role lightly, oh no. Dude was everywhere. Not only did he play two sets with Sonic Youth and one with side project Bark Haze, but he also jumped onstage with Be Your Own Pet and sang backup for Negative Approach.

Andrew Kesin, General Manager of Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, was kind enough to share a small slice of the thousands of photos he took at the event. Pix of performances from Sonic Youth, the Stooges, Gang of Four, Flipper (with Krist Novoselic!), Be Your Own Pet, the Melvins, Negative Approach, Six Organs of Admittance, Wooden Wand, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wolf Eyes, Comets on Fire, Dead Machines, Hair Police, Awesome Color, Bark Haze, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Monotract, and MV + EE are below.

For a lot more, including performance photos from Nurse With Wound, Dinosaur Jr., No Neck Blues Band, Prurient, Sun City Girls, and many, many others, as well as off-stage goofing, check out Kesin's extensive photo gallery on the Ecstatic Peace site.

Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Iggy Pop

Gang of Four

Flipper

Be Your Own Pet

Be Your Own Pet with Thurston Moore

The Melvins

John Brannon of Negative Approach

Negative Approach with Thurston Moore and Wolf Eyes' John Olson

Six Organs of Admittance with Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls

Wooden Wand

Sunburned Hand of the Man

Nate Young of Wolf Eyes

Comets on Fire with Chris Corsano, Derek Stanton of Awesome Color, C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core, and Robert Beatty

Dead Machines

Hair Police

Awesome Color

Bark Haze (Thurston Moore and Andrew MacGregor aka Gown)

16 Bitch Pile-Up

Roger Rimada of Monotract

Matt Valentine, Erika Elder, and Chris Corsano