History - 2005

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What happened?

The first day the green stage hosted two billboard No 1 artists - Coldplay who enjoyed huge worldwide acclaim in 2005 and the Foo Fighters.

Many Japanese artists such as ROSSO and Crazy Ken Band performed for the first time in the Festival.

Beck, who hadn't performed at the Festival since his legendary 98 show, headlined the second day jointly with world No1 DJ Fat Boy Slim. Tickets were sold out for the first time since the day when Bjork played in 2003. Many artists played including a reunion of Dinosaur Jr. and Ryan Adams’ first performance in Japan.

Two headliners, New Order on Green stage and Sigur Ross on White, made who to see a difficult choice for the audience. Beach Boys at sunset was totally memorable, as were surprise special guest Primal Scream.

A new energy saving campaign 'NEW POWER GEAR' incorporating bio diesel and solar power was introduced and in partnership with the fashion brand Master Mind Japan, 'Fuji Rock Collection' started.

The Fuji Rock Yukata (Japanese summertime kimono) contributed to festival holiday vibe.

Timetable 2005

GREEN STAGE
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
MASTER LOW Los Lobos The Knack
Simple Plan SHERBETS KEMURI
Cake MAXIMO PARK EGO-WRAPPIN'
THE HIGH-LOWS Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Quruli
The Music Asian Dub Foundation The Beach Boys
Coldplay Beck Moby
Foo Fighters Fatboy Slim New Order
--- --- Very Special Guest:PRIMAL SCREAM
 
WHITE STAGE
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
Your Song Is Good Juliette & the Licks featuring Juliette Lewis. afrirampo
SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS SAFARI The Go! Team
BANDA BASSOTTI HAWAIIAN6 SOUL FLOWER UNION
THE SKA-FLAMES Sambomaster Athlete
Prefuse 73 Feeder Doves
Steel Pulse GANG OF FOUR BOOM BOOM SATELLITES
The Pogues Dinosaur Jr. The Mars Volta
Kiyoshiro Imawano & NICE MIDDLE with NEW BLUE DAY HORNS BRAHMAN Sigur Ros
 
RED MARQUEE
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
Levi's Friday Review Levi's Saturday Review Levi's Sunday Review
ANALOGFISH O'Brothers ( from Korea ) Tizzy Bac ( from Taiwan )
Night Snipers(from Russia) The Dresden Dolls Juliette & the Licks featuring Juliette Lewis.
The Longcut The Black Velvets OCEANLANE
ACIDMAN PRAXIS The Magic Numbers
Kaiser Chiefs The Bravery Aqualung
Charlotte Hatherley PEALOUT The Futureheads
ROSSO Clammbon Royksopp
--- Mercury Rev The Coral
PLANET GROOVE TRIBAL CIRCUS SUNDAY SESSION
DJ Peanut Butter Wolf United State of Electronica Zuco 103
Crown City Rockers TOWA TEI SUGIURUMN
DJ MADLIB Cagedbaby Mylo
DJ KENTARO VITALIC PETER HOOK(NEW ORDER)
EVIL NINE Laurent Garnier DJ TAKAYUKI SERINO
--- --- KODAMA AND THE DUB STATION BAND
 
FIELD OF HEAVEN
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
bobin and the mantra copa salvo SPECIAL OTHERS
FUMIDO Dachambo bonobos
TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET CHRIS MURRAY COMBO MAMALAID RAG
The beautiful girls Amp Fiddler The John Butler Trio
PE'Z My Morning Jacket Yonder Mountain String Band
ROVO Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Soulive
 
ORANGE COURT
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
SKA CUBANO Leyona THE PEACE IN LOVE PERCUSSIONS
Eddi Reader 100s (Hyaku-Shiki ) WEST ROAD BLUES BAND
Lisa Loeb The California Guitar Trio Koutaro Oshio
The Kingtones Lightning Blues Guitar Sessions Hiromi Uehara
Crazy Ken Band Adrian Belew GONTITI
--- LOSALIOS Strange Love Psychedelico
--- --- Los Lobos
ALL NIGHT FUJI
AGERO (a.k.a.BRYAN & DJ TASAKA & DJ AYASHIGE)
RYUKYUDISKO
TAKKYU ISHINO
YOUTH
DIMITRI D.K.N (SOLSTICE MUSIC)
UKAWA NAOHIRO
 
Gypsy Avalon
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
POKASUKAJAN - BAN BAN BAZAR (BANBANJAN) Eddi Reader sanch (Shiro Sano, Jun Hashimoto, GRACE, Emerson Kitamura)
TAKAKO SHIRAI Matsusen Yuichi Ohata
KOH-TAO SKA CUBANO Mari Nakamura
Komainu Kathie & Keni Inoue THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
HB THE PEACE IN LOVE PERCUSSIONS Osamu Koganei
DOUBLE FAMOUS 7 YOUTH Sayoko Otonara
Big Willie's Burlesque Yonder Mountain String Band ACOUSTICS GO GO (Shinya Oe, Hiroyuki Hanada, Tomio Inoue)
--- The Kamadouma Inushiki a.k.a.Dogggystyl
 
THE PALACE OF WONDER
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
ROOKIE A GO-GO
watusi zombie Herish ROSSANNA
The Cherry Coke$ MOTOR MUSTANG QUATTRO
Lucky13 understatements KAMABOIRA
McArthur a Contti pocketLife STAN
dub'n'rush the CHICKEN masters JAZZNEKO
TENT
CLUB SKA LONDON NITE Last Dance with You
Kid Carpet LONDON NITE DJ's M.A.G.M.A
CLUB SKA DJs Kid Carpet The Hump DJs
THE BOLDIES Big Willie's Burlesque Big Willie's Burlesque
SKA CUBANO --- Mamezuka
Big Willie's Burlesque --- Kid Carpet
--- --- Gideon Benger
--- --- Tokyo Ca Bunny with JVC FORCE TYO
--- --- POW DJ TEAM(Sim Cass,Jason Mayall and friends)
PALACE ARENA
Jean Monti - Highwire and Sway Pole Show
 
NAEBA SHOKUDO
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
Golden Loafers SAKE ROCK Big Willie's Burlesque
Kazumi Nikaido THE PEACE IN LOVE PERCUSSIONS K.P.M.
Akainu Takashi Nagai & the Blue Power Mayumi & Mineko (from afrirampo)
THE BIG HIP (ex The Blue Hearts & THE HIGH-LOWS ) Natsuki Nakamura Akainu
--- --- Takako Shirai
 
DAY DREAMING AND SILENT BEEZE
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
DAY DREAMING
TIME K Live & DJ TOSHI DJ SAL DJ
CHUB DU LIVE AYA-SHIGE DJ BALESOUND LIVE
YODA DJ MUTHERFUNKA DJ MASA DJ
Cinnabon Live KIHIRA NAOKI DJ SINE 6 LIVE
--- --- SEINO & MATSUSAKA DJ
SILENT BREEZE
Story Telling, Skipping Rope, Unplugged Music Live, etc.
 
MOKU-DO-TEI
7/29 (fri) 7/30 (sat) 7/31 (sun)
Double Famous7 Double Famous7 Los Lobos