Sunday, August 13th. The 528th show of Shonen Knife was at Summer Sonic Festival in Osaka 2006.
The venue, Nanko Intex Osaka is the place where I know well because it is the same area with the tennis courts I often play. Our drummer Etsuko came to my house and we left home at 10:20 a.m. Rituko, the bassist, had already at the venue to see shows. After we arrived there, we went to the dressing room. There are dressing rooms for every band. There were sofa, table, drinks, mirror and so on inside. It’s confortable. The next room of us were the Charlatans’. I didn’t know the member’s face, though.
We checked up our stage and merchant area then we ate lunch at catering area. I ate meat sauce spaghetti, salad, grilled vegetables and onion rings. There were candies. I ate candies, chocolate bars and cookies.
Our show time was 2:00 p.m. but I was thinking it was 2:40. I had to round back the minute hand of the clock in my brain 40 minutes. Anyway, playing early is good for me. I can enjoy other bands.
So many audience gathered to our stage called Aqua Stage!!! It was most crowded at our show time. I was so happy to play in front of great number of people. On stage, the low sound was too loud but there was no problem and I did ROCK!!! Etsuko and Ritsuko did their best on stage.
After the show, we were interviewed by Asahi broadcasting TV (channel 6) and FM 802. Then I tried to go to Open Air Stage but I lost the way. I was walking in grass ground. Finally I could reach the stage but it was too hot and I watched the show only 3 minutes. Then went back to the dressing room.
I ate dinner at catering area and went to see Flaming Lips and Daft Punk a little. Then I saw Metalica at the monitor TV at dressing room area. The stage of Flaming Lips were great. It was a fantasy. They used a lot of balloons, dancers, Santa Claus, alien and big hands. Every show was over and we loaded out. Now I can take a few days off.
Anyway, summer music festivals are fun. It’s a season. Ah, I wish it were a fine weather when I went to see Udo Music Festival.
