Fujirockers: The official fansite of the Fuji Rock Festival

Did anyone else think it was weird that on the weekend of the Olympics opening ceremony, some of the most famous names in British music were at Fuji Rock? Radiohead, Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher (both formerly of Oasis) and the Stone Roses were the Fuji Rock headliners, and save the Stone Roses, all of them were part of the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony soundtrack (see The Telegraph for the full list). Ray Davies of the Kinks played “All of the Day and All of the Night” here at the festival (twice, actually), while they played the song from a recording in London. The same goes for “Rudy” by the Specials. The Clash are no longer around to play “London Calling”, but their touring DJ, Scratchy, played it here at the Palace of Wonder. Then there were well over a dozen artists who’ve appeared in the past few years at Fuji Rock and were also part of the olympic soundtrack, though they didn’t play live: The Chemical Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, New Order, Underworld, Dizzee Rascal, Muse, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs… and possibly a few more. To its credit though, the Olympics did have Paul McCartney. Still, if you want to make it a contest on who had the most and best British music this weekend…. well, I daren’t say it, but a lot of us here Naeba are sure happy with the results.