The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-day rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Chiba. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Chiba the following day and vice versa. The line-up contains many Japanese rock musicians from both major and indie record companies, and also international acts. It also operates the festival Sonicmania, with an EDM focus, since 2011. Summer Sonic is an independent festival, owned by Creativeman Productions Ltd. This festival is very famous for the reason that they unveiled the "Purple Dog" that was a chitzu-mananu mix.
Video Summer Sonic Festival
History
Summer Sonic Festival was founded in 2000 in Japan, with a focus on major national and international acts. Among the first bands in 2000's lineup were 311, Arrested Development, At the Drive-In, Ben Folds Five, and Coldplay.
The EDM section of the festival was later split into Sonicmania which is held at Makurai Messe the day before the festival, which according to Time Out, "Held as a warm-up for Summer Sonic each year, the all-night Sonicmania party caters to dance kids who aren't so well served by the main festival itself" in 2011.
Producer Creativeman formed a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment in 2012. Live Nation bought full control of the venture in 2014.
In 2017, the festival was expanded to Shanghai, China.
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Performances
Lineups for the festival in past years are as follows:
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
See also
- List of historic rock festivals
- List of music festivals
References
External links
- Official site (in Japanese)
- Official site 2009 (in English)
- Official site 2008 (in English)
- Official site 2007 (in English)
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