CENTRAL is the latest music festival born in Yokohama, Japan. It is a music festival where you will find top artists who are widely recognized in the global market and have the appeal to connect with many fans. We created CENTRAL to deliver endless Japanese entertainment to the world. To make this dream a reality, we are taking on the challenge of bringing the festival to Kuala Lumpur for the first time. We hope you will encounter the potential, style, and message of Japan's leading artists and love the latest J-POP. Bringing the sounds of Japan to the world. CENTRAL will be launching in the spring of 2025. We look forward to meeting you all.
CENTRAL is the latest music festival born in Yokohama, Japan. It is a music festival where you will find top artists who are widely recognized in the global market and have the appeal to connect with many fans. We created CENTRAL to deliver endless Japanese entertainment to the world. To make this dream a reality, we are taking on the challenge of bringing the festival to Kuala Lumpur for the first time. We hope you will encounter the potential, style, and message of Japan's leading artists and love the latest J-POP. Bringing the sounds of Japan to the world. CENTRAL will be launching in the spring of 2025. We look forward to meeting you all.
OPEN 17:00- START 18:00- (Local Time)
Self-proclaimed "Youth Representative of Japan," they’ve captured attention with their powerful dance performances and live shows, where every piece of choreography is created by the members themselves. Debuting globally in 2021 under 88rising, a label that promotes Asian culture worldwide, their track "Otona Blue" went viral on TikTok, amassing over 3.3 billion views and 15 million+ followers across social media. In 2023, they performed at NHK’s Kouhaku Uta Gassen, and in 2024, they headlined the Gobi Stage at Coachella for two consecutive weeks. Additionally, they successfully completed a world tour, drawing a total of 110,000 fans across 26 cities worldwide and 7 cities in Japan, continuing to make waves both domestically and internationally.
From 2014, he started posting songs on the internet. In 2023, he released “Where Our Blue Is”, the opening theme for the TV anime “Jyujutsu Kaisen, and participated in the 74th Kohaku Uta Gassen on NHK (Red and White Singing Contest). In May 2024, to mark 10 years since he first posted his music on the Internet, he held celebrate concert at the Budokan, and the tickets were sold out on the day they went on sale. In the same year, as a special unit “GEMN” with Kento Nakajima, and they sang the opening theme for the TV anime “[Oshi No Ko]”. In addition to performing under his own name, he has provided songs to numerous artists and continues to be active across genres.
Creepy Nuts, a hip hop unit formed by the consecutive three-time UMB winning rapper “R-Shitei”, and the DMC World DJ Championships winner “DJ Matsunaga.” In 2017, Creepy Nuts made their major debut under Sony Music. In 2020, “To Us Former Prodigies” was released, generating significant buzz. In 2021, the album “Case” was released with one of its tracks “Nobishiro” surpassing 100 million streams, marking Creepy Nuts’s first-ever achievement in streaming numbers. In September 2022, the latest album “Ensemble Play” was released. In January 2024, the single “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” was released, sweeping across the local and international rankings with over 700 million streams. Creepy Nuts is invited to music festivals not only domestically but also internationally and is set to hold a concert at Tokyo Dome in February 2025.
Ticket sales start:
28 February 2025 (FRI), 2pm onwards.(Local Time)
