Japan - Summer Sonic Music Festival 2009

This last weekend was the Summer Sonic Music Festival. Like Fuji Rock, it's a three day music festival with many great bands playing on a bunch of different stages. The Summer Sonic Festival takes place just outside of Tokyo in Chiba at the Makuhari Messe Convention Center and Chiba Marine Baseball Stadium, plus several stages around the area. To get to the festival was about a 30 minute train ride from Tokyo Station, so it's a more convenient festival to get to. Like any other big event in Japan there were an amazing number of people and sometimes long lines, but not as bad as the lines at Fuji Rock.

Unfortunately my memory card in my camera died and I lost the photos I had taken on the first two days. But here's some shots from the last day.

Poring rain in the afternoon at the Marine Stadium.
In the evenings for the bigger bands this stadium was packed to bursting.

At one of the side stages the Japanese crowd was going nuts over a Japanese Beyonce

The Makuhari Messe Convention Hall is monstrous, this is just a tiny area of it.
Inside were vender booths several small stages and three large stages.

Limp Bizkit back together

Flaming Lips

Bonus! Strippers at the Jose Cuervo Booth

Not much privacy in the bathrooms at the Marine Stadium