・Here is the latest list of the line-up!

　Hi everyone! How are you doing? I, the ORG-master, am now in Rome just finished covering a tour of a band called Banda Bassotti, the most positive force in Italy, with King Prawn from the UK, Brahman from Japan, and Senza Secura from Italy. If you have never heard about Banda Bassotti, you'd better check 'em straight away as I witness that they are not just a band ,but a phenomenon like revolution here and in Spain as well. In Rome, they had over 10,000 people at Villaggio Globale, one of the almost 150 liberated areas or buildings called centro social. If you could not find a copy in shop, I guess that should be a case, check Gridalo Forte Records and find a way.

　The tour report probably will be uploaded to Smashing Mag shortly as I am running the site and you may check what the tour was like there.

　Now I got an e-mail from Taisho, the chief producer of the Fuji Rock Festival, asking me to upload the latest information on the line-up for this years festival. Here they are.

Alec Empire
Audio Active
Billy Bragg and The Blokes
BRAHMAN
Butthole Surfers
Char
The Chemical Brothers
The Cinematic Orchestra
CORNELIUS
Doves
Dry&Heavy
The Electric Soft Parade
The Get Up Kids
George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic
Gomez
Ian Brown
LOVE PSYCHEDELICO
MASTER LOW
Melissa Ferrick
Muse
The Parkinsons
Patti Smith
Pet Shop Boys
Prodigy
Rhymester
DJ Shadow
Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra
The Skatalites
Spiritualized
The String Cheese Incident
Yurayura Teikoku

　Well, what do you think? These are still less than the half of the full line-up, but I am happy enough with these. I know you wanted more, but lots more to come soon or later.

Reported by ORG-master  (April 9, 2002)