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"Sonicmania" redirects here. Not to be confused with
Sonic Mania .
Summer Sonic (サマーソニック , Samā Sonikku ) , is an annual music festival held on one weekend in August simultaneously in both Chiba and Osaka , Japan. The festival features revolving lineups performing one day in Osaka then performing the next day in Chiba and vice-versa. The lineup often features major international acts in addition to Japanese artists from major and independent record companies.
The festival was first held in 2000 at Fuji-Q Highland resort in Yamanashi Prefecture . The festival moved to Chiba in 2001, just east of Tokyo , and has occurred in both Chiba and Osaka simultaneously since 2002. Since 2011 the festival has been preceded by the all-night event Sonic Mania , a separately ticketed event held in Chiba only featuring an EDM -centric lineup. The 2009 and 2011 editions of the festival were held over three-days while all other editions of the festival have been two-days. International versions of the festival have occasionally been held outside of Japan, including Shanghai in 2017 and Bangkok in 2024.[1] [2]
History
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Summer Sonic Festival was founded in 2000 in Japan, by Naoki Shimizu, CEO of Tokyo promotions company Creativeman Productions Ltd.[3] Addressing the ever-growing demand for western music, the festival drew established and emerging musical acts of most genres to become, by 2010, Japan's biggest music event.
The Chiba event takes place every August at the massive Makuhari Messe convention center, which overlooks Tokyo Bay , with the main stage located in nearby Zozo Marine Stadium . In Osaka, the venue is Maishima Sonic Park. At all venues, there is always a large arena main stage and several other smaller stages.
In 2011, the festival established Sonicmania , whose focus is on Electronic dance music (EDM). It is held at Makuhari Messe the day before the festival.[4] [5]
In 2012, Creativeman formed a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment .[6] In 2014, Live Nation bought full control of the festival.[7]
The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , but a truncated version, branded as 'Supersonic', took place in September 2021 with restrictions in place and a typhoon affecting day one. Possibly because of the logistics of moving people around during a pandemic, the 2021 line-up was mainly electronic. Controversy arose when some international DJs were allowed into Japan without having to quarantine despite the quarantine requirement for most other foreign arrivals.[8] [9]
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Line-ups for the festival in past years are as follows, the artists that in bold are the headlining acts for that year.
2000
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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
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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
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Andrew W.K.
The Avalanches
Aya (Tokyo only)
B-DASH (Osaka only)
Cave In
Cult of Personality (Tokyo only)
Disturbed
Dragon Ash (Osaka only)
Fake?
The Flaming Lips (Tokyo only)
GagagaSP (Osaka only)
Guns N' Roses
Hanoi Rocks
Haven
Hitomitoi (Osaka only)
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
Rise From The Dead (Osaka only)
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
Wrench (Tokyo only)
2003
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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
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The All-American Rejects
Amen
Avril Lavigne
Beastie Boys
Beat Crusaders
Blackmail
Bloc Party
Boom Boom Satellites
Borialis
Brides of Destruction
The Bronx
The Cribs
Damned
The Darkness (Cancelled)
The Dead 60's
Dirty Americans
Erskin
The Faint
Fountains of Wayne
The Go-Go's
Green Day
The Hives
Hoobastank
Hope of The Saints
IMA Robot
Jude
Junior Senior
Jurassic 5
Kasabian
Koshi Inaba
Lee Scratch Perry
Living Things
locofrank
Lordz of Brooklyn
Lostprophets
The Mad Capsule Markets
Mad Professor
Mando Diao
MC5 /d.k.t.
Midtown
The Music
My Chemical Romance
Nas
N.E.R.D
Oceanlane
Orange Range
The Ordinary Boys
Peaches
Pennywise
Phantom Planet
Razorlight
Rhymester
Secret Machines
Silvertide
Sketch Show
smorgas
Sum 41
TMG
Tommy Heavenly 6
The Veils
Whyte Seeds
Zebrahead
2005
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Afra & Incredible Beatbox Band
Ai
alexisonfire
Arcade Fire
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Attach Haus
Beat Crusaders
Be Your Own Pet
Billy Talent
The Black Crows
Bloc Party
Blue-Eyed Son
Boy
Buckcherry
Bullet for My Valentine
Caesars
Citizen Cope
Death Cab for Cutie
Deep Purple
Def Tech
The Departure
Detroit 7
DJ Akakabe
Doping Panda
Duck Rock
Duran Duran
Echo & the Bunnymen
Eighteen Visions
Ellegarden
Fightstar
Fire Ball with Jungle Roots Band
Flipsyde
Freenote
Great Adventure
HAL
Halfby
Her Space Holiday
HIM
Home Made
Ian Brown
I-DEP
Inme
Interpol
Johnny Panic
K-Switch
Kasabian
Kelson & Caravan
The La's
Little Barrie
The Little Flames
Louis XIV
The Mad Capsule Markets
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
MEW
M.I.A.
The Micteeth
Mo'Some Tonebenders
Natsumen
Nine Inch Nails
No Warning
Oasis
Orange Pekoe
Orange Range
The Ordinary Boys
The Others
The Phanky Okstra
Polysics
Public Enemy
Puffy AmiYumi
Q-Tip
Radwimps
The Rakes
Rammstein (Cancelled)
Ramrider
Rhymester
Rip Slyme
RIZE
Roddy Frame
Rooster
The Roots
Ryukyudisko
Sakerock
Shin Nishimura
Slightly Stoopid
Slipknot
The Special Beat
Steph Pockets
Straightener
Sugiramn
Teenage Fanclub
The Subways
The Tears
Tommy Guerrero
Towers of London
Tuff Session
TV on the Radio
Weezer
Yellowcard
Zazen Boys
2006
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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
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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
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The Academy Is...
Adele
Against Me!
Alicia Keys
Band of Horses
Becca
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
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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
Oreskaband
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
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August 7 Chiba / August 8 Osaka
August 7 Osaka / August 8 Chiba
2011
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August 13 Chiba / August 14 Osaka
August 13 Osaka / August 14 Chiba
2012
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August 18 (Chiba)/August 19 (Osaka)
August 19 (Chiba)/August 18 (Osaka)
2013
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August 10 Chiba / August 11 Osaka
August 10 Osaka / August 11 Chiba
2014
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August 16 Chiba / August 17 Osaka
August 16 Osaka / August 17 Chiba
2015
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August 15 Chiba / August 16 Osaka
August 15 Osaka / August 16 Chiba
2016
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August 20 Chiba / August 21 Osaka
August 20 Osaka / August 21 Chiba
2017
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August 19 Chiba / August 20 Osaka
August 19 Osaka / August 20 Chiba
August 26 Shanghai / August 27 Shanghai
2018
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August 18 Chiba / August 19 Osaka
August 18 Osaka) / August 19 Chiba
2019
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August 16 Chiba / August 18 Osaka
August 17 Chiba / August 16 Osaka
August 18 Chiba / August 17 Osaka
2020
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Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
2021
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September 18 Chiba / Osaka Cancelled
September 19 Chiba / Osaka Cancelled
2022
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August 20 Chiba / August 21 Osaka
August 21 Chiba / August 20 Osaka
2023
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August 19 Chiba / August 20 Osaka
August 20 Chiba / August 19 Osaka
See also
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Notes
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^ The last Dream Theater show with Mike Portnoy on Drums.
References
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^ Hoban, Alex (25 August 2009). "Turning Japanese: Tokyo's promotional powerhouse, Aug 2009" . The Guardian . Retrieved 1 April 2022 .
^ "Sonicmania 2014 | Music in Tokyo" . 22 July 2015.
^ "SONICMANIA ステージ別ラインアップ発表! | CREATIVEMAN PRODUCTIONS - Part 2011" . 5 April 2018.
^ "Live Nation Continues Expansion In Asia Through Creation Of Joint Venture With Leading Japanese Promoter Creativeman" . Bloomberg (Press release). 2012-02-23. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2014-06-21 .
^ Ingham, Tim (2014-04-23). "Live Nation takes control of Japan business" . Music Week . Retrieved 2014-06-21 .
^ "Summer Sonic 2022" . tokyocheapo.com . Tokyo Cheapo. Retrieved 2 April 2022 .
^ Ashcraft, Bryan (17 September 2021). "Zedd Just Showed The Unfairness Of Japan's Travel Ban, Sept 2021" . kotaku.com . Kotaku. Retrieved 2 April 2022 .
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