History - 2002

Fuji Rock Festival 02 picture

What happened?

This saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers return to the Festival 5 years after their historic performance in the typhoon, which ended the first Fuji Rock in Tenjin-yama. Along with the headline artists this year saw new up-and-coming bands break through such as Music, BRMC, The White Stripes and Chitoshi Hajime.

The Palace of Wonder, unique midnight summer area of the Festival, was created. Art installations by Joe ‘Mutoid Waste' Rush, Karaoke campsite produced by Joe Strummer, and 'The Globe of Death' with a few motor bikes running inside a small metal globe all contributed to create this area unique space.

Recycled paper plates and participation in 'Carbon neutral movement' started this year as did the Naeba independence boardwalk - a barrier free natural walking trail across the wooded areas of the site.

Timetable 2002

GREEN STAGE
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
American Hi-Fi Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra Yura Yura Teikoku
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra LOVE PSYCHEDELICO Queens Of The Stone Age
The Jeevas TRIK TURNER THE HIGH-LOWS
Alec Empire Kiyoshiro Imawano & Akiko Yano Char
VooREDOMS Yosui Inoue BRAHMAN
Muse PET SHOP BOYS Jane's Addiction
PRODIGY The Chemical Brothers RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
BANDA BASSOTTI
 
WHITE STAGE
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
YKZ MO'SOME TONEBENDER Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
SHINGO2&The Heavy Manners Midtown Yonin Bayashi
Fidel Nadel MASTER LOW SUPERCAR
Blackalicious The Dillinger Escape Plan The Cooper Temple Clause
The Skatalites Jude (Asai Kenichi) Gomez
Rhymester The Get Up Kids CORNELIUS
Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System Butthole Surfers Spiritualized
GeorgeClinton & Parliament/Funkadelic Sonic Youth
 
RED MARQUEE
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
POCARI SWEAT FRIDAY REVIEW POCARI SWEAT SATURDAY REVIEW POCARI SWEAT SUNDAY REVIEW
THE BACK HORN Shonen Knife Going Steady
The Parkinsons Hundred Reasons Lazy Bone
KING BROTHERS The Music The Electric Soft Parade
PEALOUT Buffalo Daughter LITTLE CREATURES
ROCK'N' ROLL GYPSIES Billy Bragg and The Blokes Doves
TELEVISION The White Stripes IAN BROWN
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club PATTI SMITH -
TRIBAL CIRCUS PLANET GROOVE SUNDAYSESSION
Junkie XL (JXL) The Cinematic Orchestra Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
X-PRESS 2 KAORU INOUE (chari chari) Perry Farrell
KO KIMURA DJ Shadow LOVE JETS
- DJ KENSEI SHIN-ICHIRO HIRATA
- THA BLUE HERB REBEL FAMILIA
- TAKAYUKI SHIRAISHI Gaz Mayall
 
FIELD OF HEAVEN
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
ASA-CHANG & JUNREI DETERMINATIONS Polaris
In the Soup Ska Flames the sonic youth experimental noise improvisational
HARRY Rico Rodriguez and his band Hajime Chitose
Imawano-Izumiya-Spice Market The Skatalites Sogabe Keiichi
Hiroki Okano with Tenkoo Orchestra EGO-WRAPPIN' Galactic
STROBO Dry&Heavy The String Cheese Incident
PATTI SMITH The String Cheese Incident -
 
Midnight M-stage music ROOKIE A GO-GO
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
JET MARIE GO-AROUND MERENGUE SPARTA LOCALS
Bivattchee ART-SCHOOL Wakusei
DOPING PANDA Spinna B-ill & The Cavemans inbishiburumanzu desubeddo
 
AVALON FIELD
7/26 (fri) 7/27 (sat) 7/28 (sun)
Yuki Aki Shinya Arai gofolkalone
CROWN SAKU Tsuyoshi Yamashita Masaki Abe
Hajimeni Kiyoshi Tsuyoshi Ishiguro & Ichiro Yaguchi Masahiko Tachizono
Tsuyoshi Ishiguro & Ichiro Yaguchi CROWN SAKU CROWN SAKU
Harukaze Hajimeni Kiyoshi Hajimeni Kiyoshi
PATTI SMITH ASA-CHANG & JUNREI ASA-CHANG & JUNREI
--- Chihuahua Punk Yakozen
--- Yakozen Team Ganatts
--- Team Ganatts ---
--- SHIBUSA SHIRAZU ORCHESTRA ---