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MORE SKA?!?! KING COLUMBIA WILL DUKE IT OUT WITH OTHER YOUNGBLOODS @ ROOKIE-A-GO-GO
A few days ago while eating a late night sandwich, I was assured by the guitarist in a Taiwanese post-rock band, Su, who was DJing at the time, that the “Taiwanese bands” at Fuji Rock would be announced on July 1. So I stayed up late, thinking “Taiwanese bands?” Is there really a plural there? There’s never been more than one Taiwanese group at Fuji Rock before, and now, on the freshly released web page of the Japanese site, there are three: Sheng Xiang & the Band, Sugar Plum Ferry and Silverbus. All are playing at Gypsy Avalon, where post-rock at noontime will definitely be an experiment.
The bigger news is that band lists for Fuji Rock’s seven smaller stages are now out and more or less finalized. These are the lineups for the little hippie field (Gypsy Avalon), the competition stage for young bands (Rookie-A-Go-Go), the little performance area in the middle of the woods on the boardwalk between the White Stage and Orange Court (Boardwalk Stage), the food court area stage (Naeba Shudoku), a daytime cabaret in a cleverly converted shed (Cabaret de Paris – last year it was called Cabaret Fiesta), and the Pyramid Garden (a rather mysterious stage that, like the evil fortress in Krull, disappears at sunset and appears in a new location each dawn). There are also a few additions to Daydreaming, which is a late morning/early afternoon DJ stage at the top of a mountain a 20-minute gondola ride from the rest of Fuji Rock (and there is definitely a pretty good reason for why it’s so far away).
Check the additions here: http://www.fujirockfestival.com/artist/
Friends since elementary school, Roy (vocals and bass), Taxman (guitar), Jim (guitar), and Marcy (drums) decided to start playing together as The Bawdies on January 1, 2004. It didn’t take long for them to begin garnering attention for their infectious mix of vintage R&B-accented rock ‘n’ roll and especially for Roy’s fantastic, soulful vocals. Since then the group have toured Australia twice and have played a number of large Japanese festivals including an appearance on the Rookie A Go-Go stage at FRF ’07.
