Summer festivals - 1st lineups announced!
The first lineup announcements have been made for Fuji Rock Festival, Summersonic and Taico Festival. Of course more artists will be added in the coming months.
Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Röyksopp, Ben Harper, Basement Jaxx, M83, Animal Collective, Simian Mobile Disco, Patti Smith, Bad Brains, Melvins, Diplo, Justin Nozuka, The Higher, Gong, Gang Gang Dance, Polysics, The Gaslight Anthem, The Virgins, Crookers, The Bloody Beetroots, System 7, The Aggrolites, Longwave, Twisted Wheel, Fake Blood, The Japanese Popstars, Easy Star All Stars, Hayley Sales, Räfven, Jeff Lang, Rowland S. Howard, Comeback My Daughters, Funky Meters and Ben Harper & Relentless 7, clammbon, DISCO BISCUITS, 80kidz, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, hanaregumi, The Inspector Cluzo, Juana Molina, THE KILLERS, Kinniku Shoujotai, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, OASIS, PEACHES, PRISCILLA AHN, PUBLIC ENEMY, SAKEROCK, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, TheSkaFlames, SONNY J, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Tortoise, ZAZEN BOYS
Fuji Rock Festival will be held again at Naeba ski resort on July 24th, 25th and 26th. It will cost you a whopping 39,800yen for three days, or 16800yen for one. One day tickets are limited to 10,000 a day. If you'd like to camp or park, it'll cost you an extra 3000yen. You can get tickets from eplusPia or Ganban. Keep your eye on the Ganban English site or Festival's English site for info on buying the tickets in English or from overseas. Tickets are on sale from March 7th.
Tokyo Gig Guide Day One, Day Two, Day Three
August 7th:My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, Kasabian, Aphex Twin, The Enemy, Mogwai, Paramore, Phoenix, Soulwax, Tahiti 80, Boys Like Girls, The Big Pink, Datarock, Girl Talk, Ghostland Observatory, Kyte, Mercury Rev, Mew, Never Shout Never, Red Light COmpany, Saosin, School of 7 Bells, 2ManyDJs
August 8th:
Linkin Park, The Specials, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, CSS, Klaxons, Placebo, The Ting Tings, Tom Tom Club, The All-American Rejects, Hollywood Undead, Lenka, Little Boots, Mondo Diao, Metronomy, Matisyahu, Mutemath, Yuksek
August 9th:
Beyonce, The Flaming Lips, Mastodon, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Cancer Bats, Enter Shikari, Five Finger Death Punch, Gogol Bordello, Iglu&Hartly, Kid Sister, N.A.S.A.,The Qemists, Solange, Tame Impala, The Temper Trap, The Vaselines, The Veronicas, VV Brown, War
Tokyo Gig Guide Day One, Day Two, Day Three
Squarepusher, Ricardo Villalobos, TAKKYU ISHINO, Takeshi Kubota, Doseone & Jel (Themselves/Subtle from Anticon), SIS (Sei Es Drum/Cecille), Zazen Boys, Fumiya Tanaka, Daniel Wang, DE DE MOUSE, Matmos, DJ MITSU THE BEATS, world's end girlfriendTAICOCLUB will be held at Nagano Kisomura Kodama No Mori on June 6th and 7th. Keep your eyes here for ticket info. Tickets will probably soon become available from Pia, eplus and Lawson.
Tokyo Gig Guide Day One, Day Two
Labels: festival, fuji rock festival, lineup, summer, summer sonic, summersonic, taico club, tickets
posted by mr craig e at
3:06 pm
8 Comments:
wow, im gonna hope AFX plays some other show since he's bothering to come all the way out here...
More additions for Summer Sonic:
Kasabian, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Mastodon, Phoenix, Tahiti 80, The Ting Tings, Tom Tom Club, All American Rejects, The Big Pink, Gogol Bordello, Iglu&Hartly, Never Shout Never, The Qemists, School of Seven Bells, Tame Impala, The Temper Trap, The Veronicas
More additions for Fuji Rock:
Peaches, PRESET, The Muses Rapt, The Inspector Cluzo, BOIKOT
Are there usually sideshows in Tokyo? I only want to see Animal Collective, and that's a lot of money to pay to see them.
Summersonic bands sometimes play extra shows but they don't get announced until close to the date.
New Lineup:
July 24th:
OASIS, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, CAGE THE ELEPHANT, Chara, clammbon, Curly Giraffe, DIPLO, Ebony Bones!, GANG GANG DANCE, GONG, GUITAR WOLF, hanaregumi, Jeff Lang, THE KILLERS,LONG WAVE, LOW IQ & THE BEAT BREAKER, M83, The Neville Brothers, Orquesta de la Luz, Patti Smith, Peaches, Räfven, SAKEROCK, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, SYSTEM 7, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, tortoise, The Virgins, WHITE LIES, DJ TOWA TEI, KEN ISHII, YOJI (ex. YOJI-BIOMEHANIKA), more
July 25th:
Franz Ferdinand, The Aggrolites, Bad Brains, BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7, The Bloody Beetroots, BOOKER T., Comeback My Daughters, Cool Wise Men, CROOKERS, Easy Star All Stars, 80kidz, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, Fake Blood, a flood of circle, funky METERS, The Gaslight Anthem, Hayley Sales, The Higher, IDA MARIA, The Inspector Cluzo, Justin Nozuka, kinnikushoujotai, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, MELVINS, PRISCILLA AHN, PUBLIC ENEMY, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, THE SHOES, TheSkaFlames, SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS, TOM FREUND, TRASHCAN SINATRAS, UA, ZAZEN BOYS, more
July 26th:
Weezer, The Airborne Toxic Event, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Asai Kenichi, Basement Jaxx, COBRA STARSHIP, CRYING NUT, DISCO BISCUITS, Fall Out Boy, FRICTION, 髭(HiGE), The Japanese Popstars, JIMMY EAT WORLD, Juana Molina, mass of the fermenting dregs, MAXIMO PARK, POLYSICS, Rowland S. Howard, Röyksopp, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra, SONNY J, Steve Nieve Band featuring Joe Sumner, Sunny Day Service, Takkyu Ishino, TWISTED WHEEL, WILKO JOHNSON, Zunoukeisatsu, more
Please help!
How do I get Summer Sonic Tickets? The web pages have far too much kanji for me to navigate!
I'm after 3 day, Osaka tics.
Tickets from overseas available from Mosaico:
http://www.mosaicodiffusion.com/country_japan_tokyo.php?lang=2
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