Rising Sun Rock Festival

Rising Sun Rock Festival

Location(s)	Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Years active	1999 - present
Date(s)	August (2 days + All night)
Genre	Rock
Website	Official site

Rising Sun Rock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan. The two-day event is organized by WESS. The festival sells itself as "A True Rock Festival", referring to the fact that only Japanese artists perform at this event. This has led to speculation that this is an attack on rock festivals such as the Fuji Rock Festival, the Summer Sonic Festival, and even to some extent the Nano-Mugen Festival whose line-ups include foreign artists (and in the case of Fuji Rock Festival, has their line-up dominated by non-Japanese artists).

Performances

2009

Rising Sun Rock Festival in EZO 2009 Started on August 14th at 15:00 JST (UTC +9), and Ended on August 16th 05:40 JST (UTC +9).

Sun Stage

Day 1

• Ken Yokoyama
• Polysics
• STRAIGHTENER
• Koji Kikkawa
• Elephant Kashimashi

Day 2

• BEAT CRUSADERS
• Dragon Ash
• BEGIN
• UNICORN
• Shibusashirazu Orchestra
• The Birthday
• Asai Kenichi
• KATTENI-SHIYAGARE
• the pillows

Earth Tent

Day 1

• HIGE
• RIZE
• REDEMPTION 97 (ex. KEMURI ex. POTSHOT)
• 9mm Parabellum Bullet
• Guitar Wolf
• 10-FEET^
• Maximum the Hormone (CANCELLED)

^Due to Maximum the Hormone's cancellation, this allowed 10-FEET to perform an encore set

Day 2

• The50Kaitenz
• Nothing's Carved in Stone
• YOUR SONG IS GOOD
• Dohatsuten
• Midori
• LOUDNESS
• FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND
• eastern youth
• 8otto
• detroit7

Red Star Field

Day 1

• SPECIAL OTHERS
• THE BOOM
• bonobos
• HANAREGUMI
• LITTLE TEMPO
• OKI DUB AINU BAND

Day 2

• SEKAIICHI
• Sakerock
• SION & The Cat Scratch Combo
• Mitsuyoshi Azuma & The Swinging Boppers with Kiyoshi Matsutakeya
• SOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONS
• Chara
• quasimode
• KICELL

Moon Circus

Day 1

• GOMA & The Jungle Rhythm Section
• THE HEAVYMANNERS
• cro-magnon
• Yoshirnori Sunahara
• DAISHI DANCE (DJ + Live Session: Mai / GOCOO / VJ WAKADEN)
• capsule

Day 2

• WRENCH
• mi-gu
• sakanaction
• THE SUNPAOLO
• LOOPA NIGHT

- agraph (live)
- HIROSHI KAWANABE
- KAGAMI
- TAKKYU ISHINO
- DJ TASAKA
- FUMIYA TANAKA
- TOBY
- EXTEND SESSION

Green Oasis

Day 1

• UNCHAIN
• Discharming man
• toe
• FRONTIER BACKYARD
• MAGOKORO BROTHERS
• SUGA SHIKAO
• RISING STAR

- Yoshiaki Sato
- the takedagumi
- matildamarch

Day 2

• ohashiTrio
• ROCK'A'TRENCH
• KYOKO KOIZUMI
• FLYING KIDS
• THE BAWDIES
• Pay money To my Pain
• MO'SOME TONEBENDER
• BIGMAMA
• LOST IN TIME
• te'
• RAZORS EDGE
• MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS

Bohemian Garden

Day 1

• YUKAWA SHIONE
• Pascals
• Syohei Muto (KATTENI-SHIYAGARE) with Koji Ueno (the HIATUS / Radio Caroline)
• NAKAIDO "CHAMBO" REICHI with KATAYAMA HIROAKI
• Junji Inagawa

Day 2

• →Pia-no-jaC←
• Emerson Kitamura
• Okuda Tamio hitori-pokkuru
• Dachambo
• TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA
• SHOULD I STAY OR EZO? (a member from each of the bands listed made an appearance to jam together, and talk with the fans)

- BEAT CRUSADERS
- SCOOBIE DO
- SEKAIICHI
- Dohatsuten
- THE BEACHES
- bloodthirsty butchers
- WRENCH
- ...and many more band

• THE BEACHES

Crystal Palace

Day 1

• Hinode Syokudo
• usotsuki barbie
• blues.the-butcher-590213 with Leyona
• LOSALIOS feat. Red Soul

Day 2

• CLUBKING ART SCHOOL
• noanowa
• SCOOBIE DO
• GOOD LUCK HEIWA
• ENTITY OF RUDE

2010

Rising Sun Rock Festival 2010 in EZO's website was launched on January 6th, 2010, the top three acts from the RISING STAR section of the festival from 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 will all take place in a voting contest between March 15th and May 7th, with the results to be in by mid-June. The winner will perform on the Green Oasis stage. Requests for bands are currently open, and the English mirror site will be launched on March 1st, 2010. A Twitter page has been launched for the event as well.

Scheduled Acts

• AA=
• andymori
• Black Bottom Brass Band
• bloodthirsty butchers
• Catsuomaticdeath
• Char
• COCCO
• dustbox
• GRAPEVINE
• KREVA
• La-Ppish
• LOOPA NIGHT
• LOVE PSYCHEDELICO
• MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
• Plastics
• PUFFY
• school food punishment
• The Blue Herb
• the pillows
• The Predators
• The Telephones
• THEATRE BOOK
• TOKYO No. 1 Soul Set
• UA
• Wagdug Futuristic Unity
• Zazen Boys
• エレファントカシマシ
• オオハタハラダナガヅミ
• オリジナル・ラヴ
• オーサカ=モノレール
• キノコホテル
• グループ魂
• スチャダラパー
• チャットモンチー
• ホフディラン
• ムーンライダーズ
• 向井秀徳アコースティック＆エレクトリック
• 奥田民生
• 安藤裕子
• 斉藤和義
• 清 竜人
• 片山ブレイカーズ＆ザ☆ロケンローパーティ
• 難波章浩-AKIHIRO NAMBA-

External links

• Official website