Summer Sonic 2011

Summer Sonic is an annual Japanese festival taking place on Saurday 13th and Sunday 14th August at the twin sites of Chiba Marine Stadium& Makuhari Messe, Tokyo and Maishima Sports Island, Osaka.

Line-up

August 13 (Tokyo)/August 14 (Osaka): The Strokes, Beady Eye, The Ting Tings, Brother, The Bawdies, One Night Only, Sharks, Avril Lavigne, Rip Slyme, Tinie Tempah, Perfume, BoA, The Pretty Reckless, The Downtown Fiction, The Mars Volta, Simple Plan, Death From Above 1979, Mutemath, Nico Touches the Walls, Cage The Elephant, OFWGKTA, Cerebral Ballzy, OverTheDogs, KoRn, The Horrors, These New Puritans, Black Mountain, Esben and the Witch, Feadz, Breakbot, Carte Blanche, Busy Pictionary, SebastiAn, the GazettE, The Mirraz, Miles Kane, andymori, Gush, Champagne, Beta Wolf, Ziggy Marley, Arrested Development, Village People, Clementine, Def Tech, One Draft, Galaxy Express, Idiotape, and more local acts.

August 14 (Tokyo)/August 13 (Osaka): Red Hot Chilli Peppers, X Japan, Panic! At The Disco, Zebrahead, Hollywood Undead, Mona, Neon Trees, P.i.L., The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, House of Pain, Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club, Yelle, The telephones, Gypsy & the Cat, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Suede, James Blunt, The Pop Group, Bow Wow Wow, Metronomy, Deerhunter, The Morning Benders, Smith Westerns, Fact, Rival Sons, Pay money To my Pain, Mucc, One Ok Rock, Tribes, Puro Instinct, Totalfat, Crossfaith, Village People, Bootsy Collins and The Funk U Band, Little Barrie, yanokami, The Ghost Spardac, Queen Sea Big Shark, Muma & Third Party, Perdel, Black New-new, and more local acts.

Tickets

Tickets for Tokyo have sold out. Osaka tickets are priced at 12,500 yen for the weekend. To buy tickets, click here.

The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Chiba (Tokyo) the following day and vice versa. The line-up is a mix of international acts alongside local ones from both major and indie record companies.

More information will be here when available.

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