Vampire Weekend at Summer Sonic

This trip to Tokyo's Summer Sonic 08 festival was made of pure awesome and fueled by gallons of Sake:



Highlight of the weekend for me was Vampire Weekend.



Other great acts we caught:

The Subways
The Sex Pistols
Death Cab for Cutie
The Fratellis
Pendulum
Cajun Dance Party
Crystal Castles
The Hoosiers
The Kooks
Radwimps
Alicia Keys
Coldplay

Bands I missed ... such an amazing line up this year:
The Verve, The Prodigy, Panic at the Disco, Zebraheads, The Kills, Paul Weller, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, The Wombats, Late of the Pier, The Ting Tings, Spiritualized, Super Fury Animals.

Coldplay at Summer Sonic

Watching Chris Martin cover Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana by SMAP.



The payoff for standing for six hours on end - being yards from the front of the stage, with 60,000 Japanese reveling in an energetic act. I don't feel bad about never having seen U2 live.

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