Fuji Rock - last festival standing?

[AssKissinger]

Some more reviews of Fuji Rock

http://www.gethiroshima.com/en/gethiroshima/Hype/2004/08/25/frf04_review

Slide Show http://www.gethiroshima.com/Hype/2004/08/25/frf04_review/4/

I still thinks it's a load of shit. Rock'n'roll just shouldn't be so fucking expensive.

[Cobra]

Some more reviews of Fuji Rock

http://www.gethiroshima.com/en/gethiroshima/Hype/2004/08/25/frf04_review

Slide Show http://www.gethiroshima.com/Hype/2004/08/25/frf04_review/4/

I still thinks it's a load of shit. Rock'n'roll just shouldn't be so fucking expensive.

totally! its not like the woodstock days man!

[Mulboyne]

you all should check out Bonnaroo, it just happened in Tennessee for the third year. Now there's a festival for you.

Pitchforkmedia: Bonnaroo Festival Announces Lineup
The event will once again take place in Manchester, Tenn., with June 10-12 confirmed as the dates for this year's gathering...More bands will be finalized in the coming weeks, but the current lineup looks a bit like this: Modest Mouse, the Secret Machines, the Mars Volta, My Morning Jacket, Mouse On Mars, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Joanna Newsom, Rilo Kiley, Trey Anastasio, Benevento / Russo Duo feat. Mike Gordon, Old Crow Medicine Show, Tea Leaf Green, Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews Band, the Allman Brothers Band, Jack Johnson, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Gov't Mule, Bela Fleck Acoustic Trio, John Prine, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, STS9, Earl Scruggs & Friends, Joss Stone, O.A.R., Toots and the Maytals, Umphrey's McGee, Ozomatli, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Drive-By Truckers, Particle, Xavier Rudd, Ray Lamontagne, the Gourds, Donna the Buffalo, John Butler, Trio, Ollabelle, Citizen Cope, Brazilian Girls, and Madeleine Peyroux.
http://www.bonnaroo.com/2005/

[Mulboyne]

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]No mud at 'Japan's Glastonbury'[/SIZE]

Clean toilets, polite fans and even hot showers - can this really be a music festival?

Japan's version of Glastonbury - the Fuji Rock Festival - finished on Sunday night at Naeba, about 75 minutes from Tokyo by bullet train.

But for people familiar with the UK's music festivals, it was a completely different experience.

As you would expect, a long list of international artists performed, ranging from The Cure to The Chemical Brothers.

But while Fuji Rock is unashamedly based on Glastonbury, it has taken on a decidedly Japanese flavour.

For example, how many UK festival-goers would happily leave their valuables lying on picnic rugs while they popped off to buy lunch?

And where else would queues for recycling bins be longer than those for beer?

Smokers even diligently pop their butts into portable ashtrays.

The queue for official merchandise was endless, day and night

This Japanese fixation on tidiness and recycling creates a pleasant and enjoyable space for watching music - enhancing a site which is already breathtaking.

The various stages are dotted along the Naeba valley (a ski resort in the winter) and everything is interconnected by winding paths, picturesque boardwalks and meandering streams.

Stages are dwarfed by a green wall of mountains and one performance space is reached only by a 5.4km cable car ride.

Japanese music fans move between stages and watch performances in a polite and friendly manner, perhaps perplexed by the small pockets of westerners more willing to express their emotions.

. . . It seems they will queue for hours in searing heat to buy the latest band T-shirts, with queues for other commodities (such as beer) being non-existent.

. . . Campers overlooked the site, pitching their tents on a golf course
Fittingly for a country obsessed with golf, the campsite sits on a mountainside golf course.

Campers stake claims to the flattest piece of fairway or pitch tents in sandy bunkers, with the only prohibited areas being the roped-off putting greens.

Queues for toilets and the limited showers are inevitably long at peak times, though toilet hygiene levels are usually better than anything you will see in the UK.

'Paradise' And for those willing to wait a bit longer, there is even a hot spa loaded with posh soap and shampoos.

. . . And British artist Jarvis Cocker enthusiastically told revellers how lucky they were to have so much sunshine.

After describing the misery of muddy British festivals, he pointed to the blue sky and dramatic green mountain backdrop, telling the fans: "This is paradise." . . . more

[DrP]

Well - obviously the writer has not been to FRF 1,3,4 ... And in any case, SMASH will be lucky to pull any kind of profit out of this one. They were more than 30% short of target with increased costs due to safety, band guarantees and facilities management. Not to mention slack ticket sales. The ass-tail of the bubble is affecting even the japanese rnr fan. By the way here's a facitious quiz for anyone - Can you name ANY Japanese Band that has made the Billboard (non-Japan) Hot 100?

[Iraira]

By the way here's a facitious quiz for anyone - Can you name ANY Japanese Band that has made the Billboard (non-Japan) Hot 100?

Does anything by a Yoko Ono infected John Lennon count?