Heartland

So, finally confirmed from the promoter, although I cannot see a set date yet.

http://www.smash-uk.com/frf11/lineup.html



Edit: f**king hell, what a ticket price (39000 yen = around 350 euros...)

GETTING FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL'11 TICKETS FROM OUTSIDE JAPAN

Tickets purchased during the below dates will be discounted to 39,000yen or 800yen cheaper. Be sure to sign up early!

March 6th to 9:00PM Japan time on May 13th, 2011.

http://www.smash-uk.com/frf11/ticket_overseas.html

so, festival then

you have got to be fuckin kidding me.

nice price indeed
band's list there i see

I'll skip this one ...

That's an expensive ticket...

we'll see about this one...

we nearly went at the last minute to see the cure in kyoto a couple of years ago

could we not organise a bus and go cross land????
we could set off now to get there on time

sam1 wrote:could we not organise a bus and go cross land????
we could set off now to get there on time

Depends whose driving!

As much as I want to go to Japan, I think I shall have to pass. I'd need to know a year in advance!

Vision wrote:

sam1 wrote:could we not organise a bus and go cross land????
we could set off now to get there on time

Depends whose driving!

As much as I want to go to Japan, I think I shall have to pass. I'd need to know a year in advance!

Do I Drive? Or Am I Driven?? That is the question!!
(see what I did there?)

Far East, Far Out, Nae Chance!

paul wrote:I'll skip this one ...

Yeah, same!

Hmm. July, eh?

Please note:
Lineup is subject to change.
Tickets cannot be refunded due to artist change/cancellation

caveat emptor

that's nothing new on big festivals. one band doesn't impact that much to festival.

yeah but if you're going to a festival just to see one band, it changes a lot. especially if coldplay is also on the lineup

So do something to not let Coldplay play their rather intellectual cold music for shopping malls and make sure that your band gonna play there. Like close someone in the bubble to protect him (them?) from any diseases, bacterial and viruses, build some teleport machine (yea know only statistically plane are safer that cars), check it first if it works and then send them to Japan. Oh, I was almost forgot, talk to mother earth to not dance or eat beans to make sure that there will be no earthquakes and hurricanes.

Is it plausible that they'd go that far for just one gig?

The Cure did it a few years ago, but they were headlining and presumably were paid a fortune for their time. The Sisters couldn't be headlining, unless there's a lesser hard rock stage or something like that.

So I'd hope there might be one or two other gigs around this time.

Arrrgh! wrote:Is it plausible that they'd go that far for just one gig?

Maybe a stop over on the way to Australia? Just guessing. It doesn't sound very smart to play an indoor gig in Japan very close to a gig at the festival.

Taiwan or China were cool - and they're close to Japan!!!
Blixa of Einstürzende Neubauten lives in Beijing and I hear he DJs sometimes. The "official" music scene there is so boring slick and 120% perfect, many people are tired of that, so there is a beginning alternative music scene...
(no harm in daydraming right? )

I saw The Cure in 2007 for the Asia Tour and it was :

- Difficult for to have a day ticket.
- This place is far away from Tokyo and expensive.
- The Japanese audience was CRAP.
- Naeba or Niigita, not too many hotels and expensive.


Waiting for another dates in Asia...

Druide wrote:I saw The Cure in 2007 for the Asia Tour and it was :

- Difficult for to have a day ticket.
- This place is far away from Tokyo and expensive.
- The Japanese audience was CRAP.
- Naeba or Niigita, not too many hotels and expensive.


Waiting for another dates in Asia...

ah, that's a shame

thanks for the info though

euphoria wrote:

Arrrgh! wrote:Is it plausible that they'd go that far for just one gig?

Maybe a stop over on the way to Australia? Just guessing. It doesn't sound very smart to play an indoor gig in Japan very close to a gig at the festival.

three in Oz & two in NZ is what i'm hearing. timing etc tbc...

paint it black wrote:three in Oz & two in NZ is what i'm hearing. timing etc tbc...

i remember a person from here who was always hoping the Sisters would get to that part of the world! Hope he gets to see them finally...

paint it black wrote: three in Oz & two in NZ is what i'm hearing. timing etc tbc...

Sounds great, let's hope for it! I assume they would sell out quite fast, English-speaking countries that never had the Sisters before.

Heard anything about South Africa?