Japan's Summer Sonic music festival is coming to Shanghai
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Blog-Music/44749/Japans-Summer-Sonic-music-festival-is-coming-to-Shanghai.html
Major Japanese music festival Summer Sonic is set to launch a Shanghai spin-off event this summer.
Fuji Rock might be the first name in Japanese music festivals (their line-up this year is ridiculous incidentally),
but Summer Sonic isn't too far behind when it comes to big ticket events of this kind in Asia - and they're headed our way in August.
The festival has been cooperating with MAO Livehouse to take Chinese bands to Japan to appear on its stages for several years now,
in addition to hosting occasional 'warm-up' events here. A fully-fledged Summer Sonic Shanghai has long been rumoured,
but this is the first time they're attempting to do a proper festival in the city.
(Unless you count the disastrous Sonic Shanghai at Shanghai Stadium in 2013, which was initially linked with the Japanese brand.
After suggesting that the line-up for that would feature Aerosmith, MIA, Jake Bugg and John Legend, organisers instead booked Limp Bizkit as headliners.
Fred Durst and co ended up playing to a mostly empty arena, with the few audience members present divided by ticket price bracket
and asked to sit on white plastic lawn chairs if they were down on the main turf. It was weird.)
The plan for 2017 is for a host of acts to play at the Shendi Ecological Park beside Disneyland,
which seems to have become a home for music festivals in the last year or so, with Storm and others relocating there.
Dates are yet to be officially announced, but expect it to be held around the time of the Japan festivals in August.
