Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

Big in Japan

Socialist Resistance no9  |  page 22

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

Fuji Rock Festival, Naeba Ski Resort, Japan, 25th to 27th July. locie Head

Beat myself up for not getting a No Whaling' T-Shirt to sport here. Nevermind, that's soon forgotten when I see mountains from every angle. Clearly a lot of thought from right-minded people has gone into this set-up. Find me a better festival and the kimono gets eaten.

Any area with the Palestinian flag at the entrance should be looked into. On the Palace of Wonder stage a man is inserting an electrically-charged rod into his bum. Not sure this is the most effective way to alert generation-Jackass to Israeli state cruelty.

Asian Dub Foundation are coming good again after their change in vocalists. Thankfully we still don't have any tiptoe-ing diplomacy here..."America, the CIA, you reap what you sow, this is Blowback" and "Keep bangin' on the walls of Fortress Europe" proving the best of the new songs. Old favourites like 'Naxalite' (We will rise again, 'til the land is ours, again and again") are as thrilling as ever.

Once more, Primal Scream kick out the jams. Bobby G plants his mic stand down as if he'd just conquered Fuji-san.

Altogether now..."You got the money, we got the soul".

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