Concerts and FestivalsNano-Mugen Festival 2008 (updated 02/11/2008)After taking a year break from their annual festival, AKG has decided to hold Nano-Mugen again! This year, the festival will take place from July 20th to the 21st. This will be the fifth time AKG has held the festival. Guest artists have yet to be announced. In addition to the festival, AKG will be going on a nationwide tour starting late April to promote their soon to be released album. Their tour includes 30 performances, and more may be scheduled later. Stay tuned to akfgfan.com for more information as it is released! AKG Announces Participation in 2 New Festivals (updated 05/17/07)AKG has announced that they will be participating in two more festivals! The first is Space Shower’s Sweet Love Shower. The festival will take place on September 1st-2nd and feature bands like HY, Bump of Chicken, Dragon Ash, and Your Song is Good. In the past AKG has revealed new songs at this festival so it will be interesting to see what they play this time. To get more information on the festival, visit their Official Site. The second festival AKG will be participating in is the MONSTER baSH! This will be held on August 25th-26th in the Kagawa prefecture. AKG is set to play on the 25th with bands like Chara, Polysics, the band apart, and Dragon Ash. For more information, please visit MONSTER baSH’s official site. Incheon Pentaport and Rock in Japan Festivals (updated 05/4/07)AKG is going to perform in Korea at the Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival! This is the first time AKG has played outside of Japan. They will be playing with bands like Ash, Copy Machine, Muse, The Strickers, Vanilla Unity, Vodka Rain, and more! The festival will be on July 27th to the 29th. To get more information, check out Incheon Pentaport’s Official website: www.pentaportrock.com In other news, AKG is also planning to attend the Rock in Japan Festival again. This year AKG will be joined by bands like Ai, Zazen Boys, Yui, Polysics, Chara, MCU, and more! This year, the festival will take place on August 3rd through the 5th. AKG will be playing on the 4th, which leaves them little time to travel back to Japan from Korea. If you are interested in attending this festival, then visit their official site: www.rijfes.co.jp Nano-Mugen Festival and Rising Sun Rock Festival (updated 04/15/07)AKG has announced that their Nano-Mugen Festival is taking a break this year. Instead of holding the festival this year, AKG plans to record new songs and participate in other festivals such as the Rising Sun Rock Festival. In their press release, they thanked all of the bands that have participated and were anxious to come back. They also mentioned that they wanted to make this announcement asap so that their fans would be notified ahead of time. On that note, AKG has announced that they will play at the Rising Sun Rock Festival this year! The festival will take place on August 17th and 18th. Other bands like Beat Crusaders, Buck-Tick, DJ Krush, Ellegarden, and Bump of Chicken have also announced that they will perform at the festival as well. For more information on this festival, please visit: http://rsr.wess.co.jp/2007/index.html Arabaki Rock Festival 07 (updated 02/18/07)AKG has decided to attend the Arabaki Rock Festival! The festival will be held on April 28th and 29th and house a variety of rock bands. Bands like Chara, the pillows, 10-Feet, Eastern Youth, and MONGOL800 have also announced that they will be attending. Depending on the days that you attend, tickets can cost anything from $80 to $440. If you will be in Japan around this time, please check out Arabaki’s official site from more information! Arabaki’s Official Site Sui-Cup Pictures! (updated 12/20/06)AKG’s Sui-Cup Tour "The Start of a New Season" is starting to come to a close. On December 10th, Barks (a Japanese entertainment company) had a chance to see AKG perform live in the Yokohama Arena. According to their article the performance was spectacular. AKG played for about 2 hours with a very energized audience. Along with the article, Barks included 12 pictures. Below are the pictures for your enjoyment!
Tour’s Guest Bands are Announced! (updated 10/08/06)AKG has announced almost all of the guest bands that will perform during their Sui-Cup Tour "The Start of a New Season". The Japanese guest bands consists of Special Others, Odani Misako, Link, Sparta Locals, Polysics, and Beat Crusaders. A US band named OZMA will also play as a guest band for 3 performances! If you have bought tickets to this tour and would like to see which guest bands will be playing, simply visit AKG’s official tour site: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/AKG/tour/. Possible Concerts in Other Countries! (updated 08/05/06)AKG’s latest album, Fan Club, has now been released in several countries including South Korea, Japan, and areas of Europe. On the fourth of August, AKG met to discuss their schedule for the coming year. Since "Fan Club" has been released in so many countries, AKG is now thinking about doing some concerts in foreign countries! Gotoh stated in his diary that it is something he would like to do very much this next year. I believe this desire is also on set by all of the support AKG has recieved from fans around the world. Please continue to support AKG and keep an eye on this site for any updates on this development :D Sui-Cup Tour 2006-2007! (updated 08/05/06)AKG is going to hold their second annual Sui-Cup Tour. This tour’s logo is "The Start of a New Season". It consists of 9 performances during November through early January. The performances are being held at several large venues and tickets cost 5,300 yen each. You can reserve your tickets Monday the 7th through Monday the 14th of August. Tickets will then be shipped out October 27th. For more information, please visit AKG’s official site. Nano-Mugen Festival Report! (updated 07/17/06)The Nano-Mugen Festival started July 16th, 2006. At the welcoming ceremonies, AKG thanked their MC’s and fans for coming. The festival then kicked off with a variety of bands from the UK and Japan on two stages. Audience members who needed refreshments could stop at "Kiyoshi’s Bar". By 5’o clock, goods were starting to sell out. It wasn’t until 7:45 that AKG finally got the stage to their selves. They opened with "Angou no Waltz", and played other great hits like "World Apart", "Blackout", etc... They then ended the festival with a final encore!
The festival continued the following day with some new and returning bands. The weather was rather gloomy and rained off and on. Luckily the festival was mainly an indoors event, so it wasn’t effected much by the weather. Straightener’s song, "The Novemberist" was a huge hit with the crowd, as was "Hit in the USA" by Beat Crusaders! AKG stole the stage again as the last act to a very successful festival. They began with "Mirai no Kakera" and then transitioned to "Siren". Like the previous day, they did another encore. Overall, the festival was the largest yet to be put on and extremely successful at that!
Awesome Graduation Celebration (updated 06/15/06)Some of you may remember that AKG held a contest a while back with a spectacular prize! The winner had to graduate this spring from a junior high or high school in Japan. The prize you may ask? Well, that graduate got a special concert by AKG at their school graduation! On March 8th, AKG delivered the prize to a lucky graduate from a junior high school in the Tochigi Prefecture. According to Oricon, the graduate did not even know that they had won until they saw AKG at their graduation! What an incredible way to celebrate a graduation, and thus one more reason to brag to your friends about why AKG rocks ;) More Bands Sign Up for Nano-Mugen Festival! (updated 05/24/06)Three accoustic bands/DJ’s have decided to play at the Nano-Mugen Festival! The Young Punx from the UK will be at the accoustic and DJ stage the 16th and 17th of July. Dream State, from the United States, will also join them on the 16th. On the 17th, Waking Ashland from the United States will also join Young Punx. Overall, the Nano-Mugen Festival is gaining overwhelming support with its 12 performing bands and artists! Nano-Mugen Festival is Set to Go! (updated 05/06/06)AKG has announced the dates for the Nano-Mugen Festival. Unlike past festivals, this one will take place over two days (July 16 and 17)! AKG, The Rentals, and Silver Sun will be playing on both days. In addition, on the 16th of July Ellegarden, Mo’Some Tonebender, and Chatmonchy will also perform. On July 17th, Beat Crusaders, Straightener, and HiGE will perform. This looks to be AKG’s biggest festival yet! One day passes to the festival cost 8,500 yen. If you would like to go both days, then the price is 16,000 yen. Tickets won’t go on sale until June 10th, but two lotteries are currently being held for free tickets. For more exciting information about this festival, please visit the official site! Official Nano-Mugen Fes. 2006 Tune in to School of Lock! (updated 04/17/06)Tomorrow, please try to tune in to AKG’s radio show called School of Lock. They will be announcing details about the Nano-Mugen Festival. In addition, there will be a special message from an band in England! If you can receive Japanese radio, then please visit asiankung-fu.com for a list of the thirty radio stations that will play the program. Nano-Mugen Festival 2006 x2! (updated 04/06/06)AKG will be holding its third annual Nano-Mugen Festival! The event will be taking place on July 2006. If you have bought a copy of "Fan Club", then you can use the code that was enclosed to reserve tickets for this performance starting April 20th! More information will also be posted on their site on the 20th about the event and other artists that will be participating! Stay tuned to akfgfan.com for the latest on this festival! Fuji Rock Festival 2006! (updated 04/06/06)AKG has announced that they will be attending the Fuji Rock Festival again! This is a huge festival that has several artists who perform over 3 days. The festival will take place from July 28th to July 30th. There will be 11 different stages at the event, along with other fun items like a "Kids Land", a shopping area, and camp site. Other bands like Straightner, The Hives, Johnny A, Mogwai, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mumm-Ra, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be attending the festival. For detailed information about the festival, please visit the following link: Fuji Rock Festival 2006 AKG Presents Rock’n Roll (updated 02/16/06)AKG and Space Shower are coming together once again to air the program "Rock ’n Roll". In the program, members of AKG will answer questions and also discuss their album "Fan Club"! The program will first air on Space Shower TV on March 25th from 23:00-24:00. They will also repeat the program on the 29th and 31st. You can find more information about this special program, by clicking the link below! AKG presents Rock ’n Roll Pearl Drums 60th Anniversary Super Live (updated 02/16/06)AKG will be participating in an event called the Pearl Drums. This event has been held since 1946 and focuses mainly on rock bands. AKG will be participating in it on the second of June along with Polysics! Other bands such as Janne da Arc, La’cryma Christi, Straightener, and Prism will also be participating in the event. You can go to Pearl Drums official page for the exclusive info, dates, time, schedules, and tickets! Pearl Drums 60th Anniversary Super Live Official Site Tour Update! (updated 02/05/06)The following is a quick update for the upcoming Count 4 My 8 Beat tour! Tickets will be going on sale to the public March 26th! Tickets will be selling for around 3800 yen plus tax! Count 4 My 8 Beat - Tour 2006 (updated 01/11/06)AKG has announced the dates for their next nation tour of Japan! The tour has been dubbed "Count 4 My 8 Beat". It starts April 25th and ends July 5th. There will be 37 performances, and tickets will be sold for about 3,800 yen each! There is no word yet as to when the tickets will go on sale. You can preview all of their concert locations, dates, and times though at the link below! Tour dates and times |
