The ATP series of festivals has announced some additions to their upcoming Nightmare Before Christmas festival set for December 8th, 2006 in Somerset, England. The Winter show is curated by Sonic Youth ringleader Thurston Moore and will include performances by the reunited Iggy and the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Melvins, Negative Approach, and DKT/MC5 (featuring surviving MC5 members Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer and Thompson) with vocalist Mark Arm of Mudhoney.

The event is the latest in a series of music festivals going back to ATP's founding in 1999. Taking its name from a a song by The Velvet Underground, it was founded by Barry Hogan and Helen Cottage in 1999 as an alternative to the other festivals like Reading or Glastonbury and presented in an environment more intimate than a giant stadium or huge country field. T

Artists and musicians are asked to "curate" the festival (a two-day or three-day event) and inviite their favorite ats to perform, a notion which Moore described as "the ultimate mix tape".

Previous curators included Mogwai, Matt Groening, Modest Mouse, Slint, The Mars Volta, Dinosaur Jr/Sleater-Kinney and performers have included Converge, Public Enemy, The Blood Brothers, !!!, Mission of Burma, Boredoms, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, Built to Spill and many others.