Fuji Rock Festival

[Electric_Eels]

The Japanese dont do a bad job, in organising a 3 day festival.
http://www.smash-uk.com/frf06/line-up.html
Line-up


7/28 Fri


AFRA & INCREDIBLE BEATBOX BAND
AKIKO YANO
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
ATMOSPHERE
BLACKALICIOUS
BLACK BOTTOM BRASS BAND
THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE
THE CRIBS
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
DONAVON FRANKENREITER
FIRE BALL with JUNGLE ROOTS
FLOGGING MOLLY
GANGA ZUMBA
GNARLS BARKLEY
A HUNDRED BIRDS ORCHESTRA
JET
MADNESS
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
NATSUMEN
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS
OOIOO
OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND
ROGER JOSEPH MANNING JR.
SAKEROCK
Sandii
SCRATCH PERVERTS
Shang Shang Typhoon
THE SPINTO BAND
THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT
10-FEET
THE TERRY ADAMS & STEVE FERGUSON QUARTET
TOKIKO KATO
TOMMY GUERRERO
TUCKER
THE ZUTONS
and more artist to be announced...

7/29 Sat


BACK DROP BOMB
THE BENEVENTO/RUSSO DUO
BIG WILLIE'S BURLESQUE
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
cutman-booche
eastern youth
FIELDS
THE HIVES
HYPER - DJ SET
JOHNNY A
JUNIOR SENIOR
JUNKIE XL
KEN YOKOYAMA
THE KINGTONES featuring JIMMY IRIEDA & NANCY
KULA SHAKER
THE LIKE
locofrank
MARINES BIG BAND
MITSUKI KIMURA with SHINJI MIYAKE FRF ALL STARS
MO'SOME TONEBENDER
MYSTERY JETS
RADIOSOULWAX PRESENTS NITEVERSIONS LIVE, 2MANYDJS
THE RIFLES
ROCK'N'ROLL GYPSIES
RYUKYUDISKO
SCISSOR SISTERS
SONIC YOUTH
STRAIGHTENER
THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT
TRASHCAN SINATRAS
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN
UA × NARUYOSHI KIKUCHI
WOLFMOTHER
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
and more artist to be announced...

7/30 Sun


THE AUTOMATIC
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
DIGITALISM
Double Famous
FISHMANS
ISIS
JASON MRAZ
KILLING JOKE
KODO
KT TUNSTALL
Likkle Mai
LISA ONO
Magnolia
MILBURN
MOGWAI
MUMM-RA
NIGHTMARES ON WAX SOUND SYSTEM
ORSON
THE RACONTEURS
RAZOKU
THE REFUGEE ALL STARS OF SIERRA LEONE
rinôçérôse
SNOW PATROL
SHINYA OE
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
TOBY FOYEH AND ORCHESTRA AFRICA
TRANSIT KINGS
YURA YURA TEIKOKU
and more artist to be announced...

 

[Godz Illa]

ffs! What are Tokyo real estate prices like? I'm in the market.

 

[carcharias]

killing Joke!!!!

Hmmm interesting.

Kurt Cobain/Nirvana still owes them royalties for ripping off "Eighties" with "come as you are".

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Bloody heck...what a line-up

 

[Apple Blossom]

OMG, why don't we have somthing equivalent to that??

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Some mates of ours went a few years back, they reckoned it was great, although the crowd was pretty different, the japanese are all about the music and they don't spend the entire festival getting sh*tfaced the way a lot of people here would. Apparently they all have super-high tech camping gear too!

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Kurt Cobain/Nirvana still owes them royalties for ripping off "Eighties" with "come as you are".

Agreed. Same goes for the Pixies 'Velouria' in regards to 'Teen Spirit'...

 

[LESStar58]

I was sold at Flogging Molly, Blackalicious and Dirty Pretty Things!

I've always wanted a festival like this to come to Australia!

 

[Alex28]

The tickets cost a FORTUNE and the thing is massive. We would never get the crowds required to get it to work out.

However I heard a rumour that the organisers of V Festival that runs in England were planning a summer festival out here...

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

The tickets cost a FORTUNE and the thing is massive. We would never get the crowds required to get it to work out.

However I heard a rumour that the organisers of V Festival that runs in England were planning a summer festival out here...

We need a good autumn festival or somthing out here - all our festivals are always around the same point; splendour in winter, BDO/Homebake in summer, etc - why not somthing around April/May?* :?

*Note: In saying that, someone will point out that there is some kinda good festival in that time frame...

 

[Alex28]

April/May - Byron has Bluesfest, Sydney has Great Escape, Perth has West Coast Blues.

The thing you have to remember is that April/May is the US festival season (Coachella). Then that flows on to the European festival season. Summer is successful here because nowhere else has festivals up against it, and because they want to spend the summer out here.

The one difference is Splendour in Byron - the only reason why it attracts the lineup is because they are coming out for Fuji the weekend after any way...

What we need is a bigger festival to get more of those acts here before Fuji - that would mean a bigger venue and destroying the soul of Splendour...

 

[Red Bear]

We need a good autumn festival or somthing out here - all our festivals are always around the same point; splendour in winter, BDO/Homebake in summer, etc - why not somthing around April/May?* :?

*Note: In saying that, someone will point out that there is some kinda good festival in that time frame...

there used to be Offshore, even if it wasin bloody victoria.

Wish Livid would comeback, that usually had awesome lineups.

 

[Apple Blossom]

I wish Livid would come back too

 

[LESStar58]

Me too! Loved both the events that came to Melbourne...

Hopefully one of these days I'll be able to realise my dream and organise Luke-apolooza

 

[Apple Blossom]

LOL @ Luke-apolooza

I'd come!