Summer Sonic 2011 - Review

After all the stress of post-quake (and post-meltdown) Japan life, this weekend’s Summer Sonic festival proved a welcome celebration of the brighter side. At one point it had seemed that it may not go ahead: The site of the festival’s Chiba leg (near Tokyo; it also takes place in Osaka the same weekend, like Reading and Leeds) had been damaged badly in March’s mega-quake; and some Western bands were cancelling Japan tours for fears that radioactive fallout might leave them glowing in the...

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