Rising Sun Rock Festival

Rising Sun Rock Festival
Genre Rock
Dates August (2 days + All night)
Location(s) Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Years active 1999 - present
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 14 at 15:00 JST (UTC +9), and Ended on August 16 05:40 JST (UTC +9).

Sun Stage

Day 1
Day 2

Earth Tent

Day 1

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

Day 2

Red Star Field

Day 1
Day 2

Moon Circus

Day 1
Day 2
- agraph (live)
- HIROSHI KAWANABE
- KAGAMI
- TAKKYU ISHINO
- DJ TASAKA
- FUMIYA TANAKA
- TOBY
- EXTEND SESSION

Green Oasis

Day 1
- Yoshiaki Sato
- the takedagumi
- matildamarch
Day 2

Bohemian Garden

Day 1
Day 2
- BEAT CRUSADERS
- SCOOBIE DO
- SEKAIICHI
- Dohatsuten
- THE BEACHES
- bloodthirsty butchers
- WRENCH
- ...and many more band

Crystal Palace

Day 1
Day 2

2010

Rising Sun Rock Festival 2010 in EZO's website was launched on January 6, 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 15 and May 7, 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 1, 2010. A Twitter page has been launched for the event as well.

Scheduled Acts

External links