Summer Sonic 2010 - Smashing Pumpkins, Jay-Z, The Drums, Hurts

This weekend, the sun beat hard on another Summer Sonic – Japan’s coolest international music festival, held on 7 and 8 August. The event is held simultaneously in Chiba (near Tokyo) and in Osaka (the other side of Japan), in a sort of Reading/Leeds-type arrangement; NME attended the Chiba leg, which houses three huge arenas in a vast expo centre and, on the other side of a six-lane highway, the 30,000-capacity open-air Marine Stadium, the tented Island Stage and the seaside Beach Stage....

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