My Bloody Valentine: Best Festival Reunion of All?

Readers: Don't try this at home.

While the chatter was still pinging about the Portishead reunion at Coachella on Saturday night, the first round of tickets quietly sold out for what looks to be an even more elite event in September. Sorry, desert wanderers of the Left Coast, but that morsel of British good taste, the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, will hold its New York installment from September 19-21, and it will be curated by none other than the elusive My Bloody Valentine.

MBV. The most influential band that some people have never heard of, and the concert equivalent of spotting the Loch Ness Monster.

Find out why you'll need to pack clean underwear for ATP after the jump!

Those gorgeously distorted trailblazers of shoegazing will make their first American appearance in over a decade at ATP New York, where they also have hand-picked a bill that is going to include Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts, Built To Spill delivering Perfect From Now On, and the Meat Puppets serving up Meat Puppets II - all albums in their entirety!

Uh, what's an album?

Not only does a refined aesthetic define the ATP experience, but intimacy reigns, too. The three-day festival is a small affair held at Kutshers Country Resort in the Catskills of New York, with many attendees staying overnight in rooms that the organizers say look like this.

Expect competition to be keen for when the next round of tickets goes on sale, at some undetermined date in the near future. But having your credit card charged in pounds sterling is really a small price to pay for your own adult version of Dirty Dancing.