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The bill for this year’s Summer Sonic festival in Japan has been announced and it is dominated by British acts.

Set to headline the event which takes place in Tokyo and Osaka are Arctic Monkeys while the likes of Bloc Party, Klaxons, Maximo Park, Enter Shikar, The Long Blones and The Horrors will join them.

Other international acts set to feature include Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, Sum 41, The Offspring, CSS and Goose.

The festival takes place on August 11/12.

The full line up is:

Arctic Monkeys
Black Eyed Peas
Gwen Stefani
Kasabian
The Offspring
Sum 41
Avenged Sevenfold
Bloc Party
Cyndi Lauper
DJ Shadow Vs Cut Chemist
Sugar Ray
120 Days
CSS
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Enter Shikari
Goose
Interpol
Jose Gonzalez
Klaxons
Maximo Park
MSTRKRFT
Ok Go
The Draytones
The Enemy
The Horrors
The Long Blondes
The Stranglers
The Young Punx

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