Rising Sun Rock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan. The two-day event is organized by WESS. The festival sells itself as "A True Rock Festival", referring to the fact that only Japanese artists perform at this event. This has led to speculation that this is an attack on rock festivals such as the Fuji Rock Festival, the Summer Sonic Festival, and even to some extent the Nano-Mugen Festival whose line-ups include foreign artists (and in the case of Fuji Rock Festival, has their line-up dominated by non-Japanese artists).
Rising Sun Rock Festival in EZO 2009 Started on August 14 at 15:00 JST (UTC +9), and Ended on August 16 05:40 JST (UTC +9).
Day 1
Ken YokoyamaPolysicsSTRAIGHTENERKoji KikkawaElephant KashimashiDay 2
BEAT CRUSADERSDragon AshBEGINUNICORNShibusashirazu OrchestraThe BirthdayAsai KenichiKATTENI-SHIYAGAREthe pillowsDay 1
HIGERIZEREDEMPTION 97 (ex. KEMURI ex. POTSHOT)9mm Parabellum BulletGuitar Wolf10-FEET^Maximum the Hormone (CANCELLED)^Due to Maximum the Hormone's cancellation, this allowed 10-FEET to perform an encore set
Day 2
The50KaitenzNothing's Carved in StoneYOUR SONG IS GOODDohatsutenMidoriLOUDNESSFLOWER TRAVELLIN' BANDeastern youth8ottodetroit7Day 1
SPECIAL OTHERSTHE BOOMbonobosHANAREGUMILITTLE TEMPOOKI DUB AINU BANDDay 2
SEKAIICHISakerockSION & The Cat Scratch ComboMitsuyoshi Azuma & The Swinging Boppers with Kiyoshi MatsutakeyaSOIL&"PIMP" SESSIONSCharaquasimodeKICELLDay 1
GOMA & The Jungle Rhythm SectionTHE HEAVYMANNERScro-magnonYoshirnori SunaharaDAISHI DANCE (DJ + Live Session: Mai / GOCOO / VJ WAKADEN)capsuleDay 2
WRENCHmi-gusakanactionTHE SUNPAOLOLOOPA NIGHT- agraph (live)- HIROSHI KAWANABE- KAGAMI-
TAKKYU ISHINO- DJ TASAKA- FUMIYA TANAKA- TOBY- EXTEND SESSION
Day 1
UNCHAINDischarming mantoeFRONTIER BACKYARDMAGOKORO BROTHERSSUGA SHIKAORISING STAR- Yoshiaki Sato- the takedagumi- matildamarch
Day 2
ohashiTrioROCK'A'TRENCHKYOKO KOIZUMIFLYING KIDSTHE BAWDIESPay money To my PainMO'SOME TONEBENDERBIGMAMALOST IN TIMEte'RAZORS EDGEMASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGSDay 1
YUKAWA SHIONEPascalsSyohei Muto (KATTENI-SHIYAGARE) with Koji Ueno (the HIATUS / Radio Caroline)NAKAIDO "CHAMBO" REICHI with KATAYAMA HIROAKIJunji InagawaDay 2
→Pia-no-jaC←Emerson KitamuraOkuda Tamio hitori-pokkuruDachamboTOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRASHOULD I STAY OR EZO? (a member from each of the bands listed made an appearance to jam together, and talk with the fans)-
BEAT CRUSADERS- SCOOBIE DO- SEKAIICHI- Dohatsuten- THE BEACHES-
bloodthirsty butchers- WRENCH- ...and many more band
THE BEACHESDay 1
Hinode Syokudousotsuki barbieblues.the-butcher-590213 with LeyonaLOSALIOS feat. Red SoulDay 2
CLUBKING ART SCHOOLnoanowaSCOOBIE DOGOOD LUCK HEIWAENTITY OF RUDERising Sun Rock Festival 2010 in EZO's website was launched on January 6, 2010, the top three acts from the RISING STAR section of the festival from 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 will all take place in a voting contest between March 15 and May 7, with the results to be in by mid-June. The winner will perform on the Green Oasis stage. Requests for bands are currently open, and the English mirror site will be launched on March 1, 2010. A Twitter page has been launched for the event as well.
AA=andymoriBlack Bottom Brass Bandbloodthirsty butchersCatsuomaticdeathCharCOCCOdustboxGRAPEVINEKREVALa-PpishLOOPA NIGHTLOVE PSYCHEDELICOMASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGSPlasticsPUFFYschool food punishmentThe Blue Herbthe pillowsThe PredatorsThe TelephonesTHEATRE BOOKTOKYO No. 1 Soul SetUAWagdug Futuristic UnityZazen Boysエレファントカシマシオオハタハラダナガヅミオリジナル・ラヴオーサカ=モノレールキノコホテルグループ魂スチャダラパーチャットモンチーホフディランムーンライダーズ向井秀徳アコースティック&エレクトリック奥田民生安藤裕子斉藤和義清 竜人片山ブレイカーズ&ザ☆ロケンローパーティ難波章浩-AKIHIRO NAMBA-