Summer festivals - 1st lineups announced!

by craig

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

Summersonic are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a special 3 day festival this year at Makuhari Messe and Chiba Marine Stadium on August 8th, 9th and 10th. You'll have to cough up 14,000yen per day or 39,000yen for the three days. Tickets from Pia, eplus and Lawson. Tickets from overseas available from Mosaico.

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 girlfriend

TAICOCLUB 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

Fuji Rock Lineup

Lots more artists have been announced for Fuji Rock.

Some friends are coming over from Australia for it so I'm going to go too.
Want to join the TGG cohort?

ASPARAGUS, BEAT CRUSADERS, BEN FOLDS, BETTYE LAVETTE, Bill Laswell presents Method of Defiance, BLACKMARKET, Bootsy Collins Tribute to the Godfather of Soul, THE BREEDERS, THE CRIBS, CSS, DatA, THE DEATH SET, DOBERMAN, eastern youth, ELLEGARDEN, FEEDER, FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND, FreeTEMPO, GALACTIC featuring Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5) and Boots Riley (of The Coup), THE GO!TEAM, GOGOL BORDELLO, GOSSIP, GOTYE, HARD-FI, IAN BROWN, KIYOSHIRO IMAWANO & NICE MIDDLE with NEW BLUE DAY HORNS plus NAKAIDO "CHABO" REICHI, JANET KLEIN, JASON FALKNER, JASON MRAZ, KASABIAN, KATE NASH, Kicell, LETTUCE, M!NK, MELEE, MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD, THE MUSIC, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, MYSTERY JETS, NARUYOSHI KIKUCHI DUB SEXTET, ONE NIGHT ONLY, OZOMATLI, PRIMAL SCREAM, PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, QURULI, THE RASCALS, Riddim Saunter, RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, ROGER JOSEPH MANNING JR., RYUKYUDISKO, SEASICK STEVE, SHERBETS, SPECIAL OTHERS, SPOON, SWITCH, Tomobe Masato, TRAVIS, UNDERWORLD, WHITE LIES

Fuji Rock & Summersonic lineups

by craig


Some of the artists have been announced for Fuji Rock Festival `08:

NEW (April): ASPARAGUS, BEAT CRUSADERS, BEN FOLDS, BETTYE LAVETTE, Bill Laswell presents Method of Defiance, BLACKMARKET, Bootsy Collins Tribute to the Godfather of Soul, THE BREEDERS, THE CRIBS, CSS, DatA, THE DEATH SET, DOBERMAN, eastern youth, ELLEGARDEN, FEEDER, FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND, FreeTEMPO, GALACTIC featuring Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5) and Boots Riley (of The Coup), THE GO!TEAM, GOGOL BORDELLO, GOSSIP, GOTYE, HARD-FI, IAN BROWN, KIYOSHIRO IMAWANO & NICE MIDDLE with NEW BLUE DAY HORNS plus NAKAIDO "CHABO" REICHI, JANET KLEIN, JASON FALKNER, JASON MRAZ, KASABIAN, KATE NASH, Kicell, LETTUCE, M!NK, MELEE, MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD, THE MUSIC, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, MYSTERY JETS, NARUYOSHI KIKUCHI DUB SEXTET, ONE NIGHT ONLY, OZOMATLI, PRIMAL SCREAM, PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, QURULI, THE RASCALS, Riddim Saunter, RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, ROGER JOSEPH MANNING JR., RYUKYUDISKO, SEASICK STEVE, SHERBETS, SPECIAL OTHERS, SPOON, SWITCH, Tomobe Masato, TRAVIS, UNDERWORLD, WHITE LIES

Of course more artists will be announced but it looks like it might have potential. My Bloody Valentine? Yes!


Most of Summersonic `08's artists have been announced:

COLDPLAY / THE VERVE / SEX PISTOLS / THE PRODIGY / ALICIA KEYS / FATBOY SLIM / PAUL WELLER / DEVO / SPIRITUALIZED / THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN / PANIC AT THE DISCO / MAXIMUM THE HORMONE / ZEBRAHEAD / AGAINST ME! / BEAT UNION / BAND OF HORSES / BEDOUIN / SOUNDCLASH / CAJUN DANCE PARTY / CRYSTAL CASTLES / FRIENDLY FIRES / JACK'S MANEQUIN / JUNKIE XL / LATE OF THE PIER / THE METROS / MUTEMATH / NEW FOUND GLORY / NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB / OLD MAN RIVER / POLYSICS / SILVERSUN PICKUPS / SKINDRED / SOUTH CENTRAL / THE SUBWAYS / THE TING TINGS / WE SMOKE FAGS / XAVIER RUDD

NEW (March 15th): 311, Lostprophets, The Fratellis, Justice, Hadouken!, The Hoosiers, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, MGMT, Onerepublic, The Wombats, Trivium, Vampire Weekend.

NEW (March 21st): Death Cab For Cutie, The Kooks, Cafe Tacvba, These New Puritans, The Teenagers

A few goodies but mostly fairly yawnable.

FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL '08 is on July 25th (Fri), 26th (Sat) and 27th (Sun) 2008 at Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata.
3-day tickets are ¥39,800. 1-day tickets are ¥16,800 but limited to 10,000 tickets a day. A car park pass costs ¥3,000 a car per day and a campsite ticket is ¥3,000 valid for the festival period. Pre-booking on sale now until 6/6 from Pia, eplus, and Ganban (English)

SUMMER SONIC '08 is on August 9th (Saturday) and 10th (Sunday) at Chiba Marine Stadium & Makuhari Messe.
A 1-day ticket is ¥15,500 and a 2-day ticket is ¥28,500.
Tickets will be on sale from May 24th from:
Pia (The Pia code is 287-355 for 1 day and 782-024 for both),
Lawson (The Lawson code is 77770),
eplus and CN Playguide