If you don't find them, they may find you first!

If you don't find them, they may find you!

Every year Fuji Rock has a band that will play as many gigs as they can find stages to play on and audiences to play for. For a huge festival like this, where contracts with headliners cover every last detail, photography is controlled on main stages and most bands need a little “extra sumpthin sumpthin” for any extra request, we’ve really come to love the musicians that just want to play.

This year, that band is Argentina’s Onda Vaga. On Thursday afternoon, they were already serenading young ladies in the campsite, and promising at least eight or nine shows by the time Fuji Rock winds up early next Monday morning. Was this their first gig? We’re not quite counting it as such, since it was just two or three songs a cappella with a small four-string guitar (or was it an oversized ukelele?) But they will play the opening night party in the Red Marquee at 9:50pm, and they hinted at an “illegal campsite gig” once all the official fun stops tonight.

The band says they just came off a month of touring in France and Spain, and are totally psyched to be in Japan for the first time ever. After Fuji Rock, they’ll stick around Tokyo and environs for a week, and then back to Argentina to take a breather. So keep an eye out. This is Onda Vaga.