On Sunday, July 31, 2011, the Chemical Brothers closed the Japanese Fuji Rock festival. To record this memorable event in a venerable way, they took a twenty-man camera crew with them that was not only positioned on the stage, but also among the 50,000-strong audience and on the festival site. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons of course realized that you cannot come up with two laptops for such a large
… audience and spared no effort to put on one of the greatest psychedelic shows ever. Don't Think shows that this has worked out quite well. Even the Japanese present - a people that are used to a few things anyway - are at times with wide-open eyes in amazement. Meter-high dancing figures, clown heads with bad teeth, origami horses and tsunamis are fired at the wildly enthusiastic audience that cannot stand still for a second, while all this is accompanied by the greatest hits of this trendsetting pair. (AD)more
