Summer Sonic Festival

Summer Sonic Festival
Genre	Rock and Alternative
Dates	Early August
Location(s)	Chiba Marine Stadium & Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan Maishima Sports Island, Osaka, Japan
Years active	2000-present
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Summer Sonic

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. Producer Creativeman formed a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment in 2012,^[1] and Live Nation bought full control of the venture in 2014.^[2]

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, an EDM focused main stage held at a different time, 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"^[3] in 2011.^[4]

Producer Creativeman formed a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment in 2012.^[1] Live Nation bought full control of the venture in 2014.^[2]

Performances

Lineups for the festival in past years are as follows:

2000

• 311
• Arrested Development
• At the Drive-In
• Ben Folds Five
• Coldplay
• Dragon Ash
• Eastern Youth
• Oblivion Dust
• Eels
• Glow
• Grandaddy
• Green Day
• G-Shock Winner
• James Brown
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• Mansun
• Muse
• Quruli
• Reef
• SBK
• Sigur Rós
• Snail Ramp
• Snug
• Supercar
• Tahiti 80
• Teenage Fanclub
• The Bluetones
• The Flaming Lips
• The Living End
• The Mad Capsule Markets
• Triceratops
• Ween
• Weezer

2001

• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
• Air
• Beck
• Bilal Oliver
• Cibo Matto
• Cosmic Rough Riders
• Eels
• Elbow
• Gloss
• Incubus
• Jet Black Crayon
• King Adora
• Love Psychedelico
• Marilyn Manson
• Matthew Sweet
• Mercury Rev
• MxPx
• My Vitriol
• Ocean Colour Scene
• Primal Scream
• Rancid
• Reel Big Fish
• Rize
• Russell Simins
• Seo Taiji
• Shea Seger
• Skrape
• Slipknot
• Soulwax
• Tahiti 80
• The Cult
• The Living End
• The Mad Capsule Markets
• The Moldy Peaches
• Zebrahead

2002

• A
• Andrew W.K.
• The Avalanches
• Cave In
• Disturbed
• Fake?
• Guns N' Roses
• Hanoi Rocks
• Haven
• hoobastank
• HY
• The Icarus Line
• The Libertines
• March 25
• Mongol800
• Millionaire
• Morrissey
• múm
• Murderdolls
• NANANINE
• No Doubt
• NOFX
• The Offspring
• Ozma
• Pleymo
• Puffy
• Quarashi
• Raging Speedhorn
• The Reindeer Section
• Relish
• Rival Schools
• Shaka Labbits loves 175R
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Ska Ska Club
• The Skylarks
• Soft Ballet
• The Streets
• Suede
• Vex Red
• Weezer
• The Wildhearts

Tokyo Only Aya Cult of Personality The Flaming Lips Wrench

Osaka Only B-DASH Dragon Ash GagagaSP Hitomitoi Rise From The Dead

2003

• AFI
• Air
• Alkaline Trio
• Army of Freshmen
• Asian Kung-Fu Generation
• B@by Soul
• Blink-182
• Blondie
• Blur
• Buck-Tick
• Cheap Trick
• The Datsuns
• Devo
• DMBQ
• The Doors
• Elephant Kashimashi
• GO!GO!7188
• Good Charlotte
• The Greenhornes
• Heesey with Dudes
• Hermann H. & The Pacemakers
• The High-Lows
• Hot Hot Heat
• HY
• InMe
• Interpol
• Jet-ki
• Blues Explosion
• Kick the Can Crew
• The Kills
• Kings of Leon
• The Living End
• Mando Diao
• The Mars Volta
• Mew
• My Morning Jacket
• New Found Glory
• Orange Range
• Original Love
• The Polyphonic Spree
• Polysics
• Puddle of Mudd
• Radiohead
• Rapture
• Razorlight
• The Rocket Summer
• Rooney
• Sons of All Pussys
• Soul'd Out
• Starsailor
• The Star Spangles
• The Strokes
• Stereophonics
• Sugarcult
• Sum 41
• Syrup16g
• Thmlues
• Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
• Travis
• YKZ
• Zebrahead

2004

• Green Day
• Avril Lavigne
• Sum 41
• Koshi Inaba
• The Darkness (Cancelled)
• Pennywise
• All American Rejects
• Mando Diao
• Fountains of Wayne
• Damned
• Jude
• Razorlight
• Hope of The Saints
• Blackmail
• The Cribs
• MC5/d.k.t.
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Mad Professor
• Lordz of Brooklyn
• Peaches
• Bloc Party
• The Dead 60's
• Beat Crusaders
• Erskin
• Oceanlane
• TMG
• Brides of Destruction
• The Go-Go's
• Tommy Heavenly 6
• Orange Range
• Silvertide
• Dirty Americans
• Beastie Boys
• The Mad Capsule Markets
• Nas
• N.E.R.D
• Lostprophets
• Jurassic 5
• Borialis
• Rhymester
• The Music
• The Hives
• Phantom Planet
• The Ordinary Boys
• 10-Feet
• The Veils
• Whyte Seeds
• smorgas
• Sketch Show
• Junior Senior
• Boom Boom Satellites
• The Faint
• Secret Machines
• Kasabian
• IMA Robot
• Zebrahead
• Hoobastank
• Midtown
• Amen
• My Chemical Romance
• Living Things
• The Bronx
• locofrank

2005

• Nine Inch Nails
• Slipknot
• Deep Purple
• The Mad Capsule Markets
• Buckcherry
• Orange Range
• Rooster
• Towers of London
• Duran Duran
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• Interpol
• TV on the Radio
• The Departure
• Louis XIV
• The Subways
• Ian Brown
• The Tears
• MEW
• The Arcade Fire
• BOY
• HAL
• The Little Flames
• Straightener
• Q-Tip
• The Roots
• Flipsyde
• M.I.A.
• Fire Ball with Jungle Roots Band
• Ai
• Rhymester
• RIZE
• Slightly Stoopid
• Blue-Eyed Son
• Steph Pockets
• Def Tech
• Kelson & Caravan
• Attach Haus
• Beat Crusaders
• Doping Panda
• Johnny Panic
• Polysics
• Zazen Boys
• Halfby
• Her Space Holiday
• I-DEP
• K-Switch
• Ramrider
• Ryukyudisko
• Oasis
• Weezer
• Kasabian
• Asian Kung-Fu Generation
• The Ordinary Boys
• Yellowcard
• Rip Slyme
• The Others
• The Black Crows
• Public Enemy
• Rammstein (Cancelled)
• HIM
• Inme
• No Warning
• Bullet for My Valentine
• Fightstar
• The La's
• Teenage Fanclub
• Bloc Party
• Roddy Frame
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Little Barrie
• Caesars
• Be Your Own Pet
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• The Special Beat
• Ellegarden
• Puffy AmiYumi
• Eighteen Visions
• alexisonfire
• Billy Talent
• Tommy Guerrero
• Citizen Cope
• The Micteeth
• orange pekoe
• Sakerock
• Tuff Session
• detroit 7
• freenote
• great adventure
• Mo'Some Tonebenders
• Natsumen
• Radwimps
• The Rakes
• Afra & Incredible Beatbox Band
• DJ Akakabe
• Duck Rock
• Home Made
• The Phanky Okstra
• Shin Nishimura
• Sugiramn

2006

10 Years 65daysofstatic AFI The All-American Rejects Amusement Parks on Fire Avenged Sevenfold Blindspott The Cardigans The Cat Empire The Charlatans Daft Punk Daniel Powter Deftones DJ Shadow Editors

Ellegarden El Presidente Fall Out Boy The Feeling The Flaming Lips Fort Minor Hawthorne Heights Hoobastank The Kooks Linkin Park Lostprophets Massive Attack Matisyahu Metallica

Muse My Chemical Romance Phoenix The Polyphonic Spree Polysics Puffy AmiYumi The Rapture Scritti Politti She Wants Revenge Stone Sour Taking Back Sunday Tool We Are Scientists Whirlwind Heat Zebrahead

2007

Avenged Sevenfold 120 Days Thirty Seconds to Mars The Academy Is... Arctic Monkeys Avril Lavigne B'z The Black Eyed Peas Bloc Party Blue King Brown Bonde do Rolê Cansei de Ser Sexy Cobra Starship Cornelius Cyndi Lauper Digitalism Dinosaur Jr Does It Offend You, Yeah? Ellegarden The Enemy

Enter Shikari Fall Out Boy The Fratellis The Goo Goo Dolls Gwen Stefani Gym Class Heroes Hadouken! Hinder The Horrors Interpol José González Kasabian Klaxons LCD Soundsystem Locksley The Long Blondes Madina Lake Manic Street Preachers Maxïmo Park

Modest Mouse MSTRKRFT MxPx The Offspring OK Go Pet Shop Boys The Pipettes The Polyphonic Spree Remioromen Sean Lennon Sugar Ray Sum 41 The Sunshine Underground Tilly and the Wall Travis The Twang Unkle Vitalic The Young Punx

2008

311 The Academy Is... Adele Against Me! Alicia Keys Band of Horses Becca (Singer) Bedouin Soundclash Blood Red Shoes Boom Boom Satellites Cajun Dance Party Coldplay Crystal Castles Café Tacuba Death Cab for Cutie Devo Fatboy Slim The Fratellis Friendly Fires Hadouken! The Hoosiers Hot Chip The Jesus and Mary Chain

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong Junkie XL Justice The Kills The Kooks Late of the Pier The Living End Los Campesinos! Lostprophets Maximum the Hormone MAJESTYS The Metros MGMT Mutemath Nell New Found Glory New Young Pony Club OneRepublic Panic at the Disco Paolo Nutini Paul Weller Pendulum Perfume

The Prodigy Radwimps Sex Pistols Silversun Pickups Spiritualized The Subways Super Furry Animals Skindred South Central These New Puritans The Ting Tings Tokyo Police Club Trivium The Troubadours Vampire Weekend VAMPS The Verve The Wombats Xavier Rudd Yelle Zebrahead

2009

• 65daysofstatic
• Acidman
• The All-American Rejects
• Aloha from Hell
• Aphex Twin
• B'z
• Beat Crusaders
• Beyoncé
• The Big Pink
• Birdy Nam Nam
• Boom Boom Satellites
• Boys Like Girls
• Bring Me the Horizon
• Cancer Bats
• Cavalera Conspiracy
• Coldrain
• CSS
• Datarock
• Delphic
• Dragon Ash
• Elephant Kashimashi
• Elvis Costello
• The Enemy
• Enter Shikari
• Five Finger Death Punch
• The Flaming Lips
• Ghostland Observatory
• Gogol Bordello
• Golden Silvers
• Grizzly Bear
• The Hiatus
• Hollywood Undead
• Hoobastank
• The Horrors
• Iglu & Hartly
• In Case of Fire
• Jack Peñate
• Jenny Lewis
• Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
• Kasabian
• Katy Perry (Cancelled)
• Keane
• Kid Sister
• Klaxons
• Kylee
• Kyte
• Lady Gaga
• Lenka
• Linkin Park
• Limp Bizkit
• Little Boots
• Mando Diao
• Marié Digby
• Masayoshi Furukawa
• Mastodon
• Matisyahu
• Mercury Rev
• Metronomy
• Mew
• Mogwai
• Mutemath
• My Chemical Romance
• N.A.S.A.
• Never Shout Never
• Ne-Yo
• Nine Inch Nails
• Ore Ska Band
• Paolo Nutini
• Paramore
• Patrick Watson
• Phoenix (Cancelled Osaka)
• Placebo
• The Qemists
• Razorlight
• Red Light Company
• Rin Toshite Shigure
• Saosin
• School of Seven Bells
• Scott Murphy
• Solange Knowles
• Sonic Youth
• Soulwax
• The Specials
• Tahiti 80
• Tame Impala
• The Temper Trap
• Teenage Fanclub
• The Ting Tings
• Tom Tom Club
• Tricky
• Unicorn
• The Vaselines
• The Veronicas
• V V Brown
• War
• Yuksek

2010

August 7 (Chiba)/August 8 (Osaka)

August 8 (Chiba)/August 7 (Osaka)

Jay-Z The Offspring Nickelback Passion Pit A-HA Nas Eikichi Yazawa Kreva All Time Low 3OH!3 Thirty Seconds to Mars FACT The Smashing Pumpkins Richard Ashcroft The Hiatus Biffy Clyro The Courteeners The Maccabees General Fiasco Calvin Harris Keri Hilson Eve Uffie K-OS Jasmine Eels Tahiti 80 Girls Clammbon Tamurapan (Canceled) Fireball with Home Grown ET-King Big Mama Beat Crusaders Elliot Minor Nada Surf Broadway Calls Rock'A'Trench Totalfat Northern19 The Young Punx Freebass Atari Teenage Riot (Chiba only) Pavement Steve Aoki Pedro Winter (Known as Busy-P) Gildas Brodinski Yes Giantess Kylee

Stevie Wonder Taylor Swift A Tribe Called Quest Sum 41 F.T. Island Big Bang Orianthi Jason Derulo K'Naan Monkey Majik Dream Theater Slash Hole Michael Monroe Coheed and Cambria Bigelf My Passion The Devil Wears Prada Pixies Jonsi Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Band of Horses The Drums Fanfarlo Surfer Blood Sakanaction deadmau5 (Canceled) Die Antwoord Hudson Mohawke Surkin Darwin Deez AA= androp Funky Monkey Babys Hilcrhyme Everlast Steve Appleton Free Energy Jay'ed lecca Low IQ 01 & Masterlow The Pillows Blood Red Shoes Everything Everything Band of Skulls One OK Rock 'te Shinsei Kamattechan Ai Kago Jazz -The First Door-

2011

August 13 (Chiba)/August 14 (Osaka)

August 14 (Chiba)/August 13 (Osaka)

The Strokes Beady Eye Kaela Kimura The Ting Tings Brother The Bawdies One Night Only Sharks Avril Lavigne Rip Slyme Tinie Tempah Perfume BoA The Pretty Reckless The Downtown Fiction The Mars Volta Death From Above 1979 Mutemath Nico Touches the Walls Cage The Elephant OFWGKTA Wreckin Squadd Cerebral Ballzy OverTheDogs Korn The Horrors These New Puritans Black Mountain Esben and the Witch Feadz Breakbot Carte Blanche Busy Pictionary SebastiAn the GazettE The Mirraz Miles Kane andymori Gush Champagne Taro Kobayashi Beta Wolf Oz Ziggy Marley Arrested Development Village People Clementine Def Tech One Draft The Love Ningen Galaxy Express Idiotape

Red Hot Chili Peppers X Japan Maximum the Hormone Panic! At The Disco Zebrahead Hollywood Undead Mona Neon Trees Primal Scream (Osaka only) P.i.L. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion House of Pain Friendly Fires Two Door Cinema Club Yelle the telephones Gypsy & the Cat Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Girls' Generation (Special guest) Suede James Blunt The Pop Group Bow Wow Wow Metronomy Deerhunter The Morning Benders Smith Westerns Negoto Fact Rival Sons Pay money To my Pain Mucc One Ok Rock Tribes Puro Instinct Totalfat Crossfaith Village People Bootsy Collins and The Funk U Band Little Barrie yanokami Shibusashirazu Orchestra Johnny Saito The Ghost Spardac Queen Sea Big Shark Muma & Third Party Perdel Black New-new

2012

August 18 (Chiba)/August 19 (Osaka)	August 19 (Chiba)/August 18 (Osaka)
Green Day Franz Ferdinand Sigur Rós Lostprophets Death Cab For Cutie Passion Pit Adam Lambert Crystal Castles Gotye Nelly Furtado Alexandra Stan The Vaccines One Ok Rock Kazuya Yoshii Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Totalfat coldrain Hyro Da Hero Begin Jun Sky Walkers Tavito Nanao	Rihanna Garbage Jamiroquai New Order Kesha Pitbull The Cardigans Gym Class Heroes Hoobastank Foster The People Calvin Harris Vintage Trouble Cast Azealia Banks Tears For Fears Mayday Momoiro Clover Z Perfume Mao Abe Anna Tsuchiya Miliyah Kato Fact lecca Pay money To my Pain

2013

August 10 (Chiba)/August 11 (Osaka)

August 10 (Osaka)/August 11 (Chiba)

Marine Stage (Chiba)/Ocean Stage (Osaka) Metallica Linkin Park Fall Out Boy Bullet for My Valentine Maximum the Hormone One Ok Rock Volbeat Mountain Stage Beady Eye Cheap Trick Stereophonics The Hiatus Jake Bugg Alt-J Sonic Stage Nas M.I.A. Mew Kodaline Bastille The Church Rainbow Stage F.T. Island CNBlue Coldrain Fidlar Beach Stage Living Colour Jagwar Ma

Ocean Stage (Osaka)/Marine Stage (Chiba) Muse Mr. Children The Smashing Pumpkins John Legend Imagine Dragons Zebrahead Man with a Mission Mountain Stage Pet Shop Boys Earth, Wind, & Fire Cyndi Lauper Carly Rae Jepsen Hot Chelle Rae Willy Moon Sonic Stage Two Door Cinema Club Johnny Marr Palma Violets Peace The Royal Concept Capital Cities Rainbow Stage Scott & Rivers TOTALFAT Big Mama Hunter Valentine Beach Stage The Pillows Knock Out Monkey

2014

August 16 (Chiba)/August 17 (Osaka)

August 16 (Osaka)/August 17 (Chiba)

Marine Stage (Chiba)/Ocean Stage (Osaka) Arctic Monkeys Robert Plant Superfly The 1975 Krewella Vintage Trouble Reignwolf Mountain Stage Avenged Sevenfold Megadeth Ghost Suicidal Tendencies Babymetal Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Coldrain The Bots Sonic Stage Phoenix Cibo Matto Twenty One Pilots Jamaica White Lies Sky Ferreira Telegram Childhood

Ocean Stage (Osaka)/Marine Stage (Chiba) Queen + Adam Lambert Avril Lavigne Richie Sambora Dreams Come True Kimura Kaela Little Mix A Great Big World Timeflies Mountain Stage Kraftwerk 3-D Sekai no Owari Ellie Goulding Banks Robert Glasper Experiment Azealia Banks Mayday The Bawdies Sonic Stage Pixies The Horrors Ben Watt with Bernard Butler Metronomy Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Charli XCX Circa Waves The Orwells

2015

August 15 (Chiba)/August 16 (Osaka)

August 15 (Osaka)/August 16 (Chiba)

Marine Stage (Chiba)/Ocean Stage (Osaka) The Chemical Brothers Ariana Grande Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Madeon Cody Simpson Echosmith Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Exile Shokichi (Osaka only) Mountain Stage The Prodigy (Osaka only) Marilyn Manson Radwimps Monoeyes Babymetal All Time Low Marmozets Androp Dinosaur Pile-Up Tempura Kidz (Chiba only) Sonic Stage Manic Street Preachers Kodaline Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Kazuyoshi Saito (Osaka only) Best Coast (Chiba only) Palma Violets Circa Waves Slaves Wolf Alice Dats (Chiba only)

Ocean Stage (Osaka)/Marine Stage (Chiba) Pharrell Williams Imagine Dragons Zedd The Script Magic! Nico & Vinz Golden Bomber (Osaka only) Kana-Boon (Chiba only) Mountain Stage D'Angelo and the Vanguard Olly Murs Carly Rae Jepsen Clean Bandit Modestep Walk the Moon Naoto Inti Raymi (Osaka only) Man with a Mission (Chiba only) Nothing But Thieves Generations from Exile Tribe (Chiba only) Ayumikurikamaki (Chiba only) Sonic Stage Mew Passion Pit Bleachers Char (Osaka only) Best Coast (Chiba Only) Cast Sheppard Keytalk My First Story (Osaka only) Smallpools Bangtan Boys

2016

August 20 (Chiba)/August 21 (Osaka)	August 21 (Chiba)/August 20 (Osaka)
Underworld Fergie Alesso The Offspring Weezer Pentatonix At the Drive-In Bullet for My Valentine Panic! at the Disco Gen Hoshino Gesu no Kiwami Otome (Osaka only) The Trio Project feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips Babymetal (Osaka only) Andy Black Billy Talent Charlie Puth Coldrain (Osaka only) Digitalism MONOEYES PVRIS R5 Rat Boy Suiyōbi no Campanella (Chiba only)	Radiohead Sakanaction The 1975 Flo Rida Alexandros James Bay Mark Ronson The Jacksons Suede Two Door Cinema Club Blossoms Elle King Cashmere Cat METAFIVE The Mirror Trap (Chiba only) Mayer Hawthorne MØ Nothing But Thieves POP ETC Run River North Kenshi Yonezu Sunflower Bean Indigo la End (Chiba only)

See also

• List of historic rock festivals
• List of music festivals

References

1. "Live Nation Continues Expansion In Asia Through Creation Of Joint Venture With Leading Japanese Promoter Creativeman". Bloomberg (Press release). 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
2. Ingham, Tim (2014-04-23). "Live Nation takes control of Japan business". Music Week. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
3. http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/event/11134
4. http://www.creativeman.co.jp/sonicmania/2011/

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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