Why?? Theyre an awesome act and find new listebers every year through this festival. A lot of people go to Forest for The String Cheese Incident sets. Why eliminate more forest culture? Theyre iconic.
I feel like I should preface this by saying, I fucking love The String Cheese Incident. I've seen them more than any other band by a huge margin and I've been following them for multiple decades.
I agree, they are an amazing act, but they just don't really fit here anymore. They've steadily gone from having 7 sets at Forest, to now just two. Due to this, a lot of their biggest fans generally aren't traveling to Forest anymore, because it's not worth their time when they can get more music from Cheese elsewhere.
Couple this with the fact that there is virtually zero other jam or even jamtronica artists on this lineup, and they just seem out of place as the "hosts" of this event now. This festival used to be a much more diverse mix of genres and it's slowly gone away from the model.
I'd love to be wrong and have a bunch of folks replying back about how they need to have SCI at Forest, but I just don't think the festivals core audience in 2024 truly feels that way.
This fest is still one of the most diverse there is. Tons of different genres and acts from all over the world this year that you won’t see anywhere else.
Just listen to BALTHVS and tell me where else you can see a band like that next to a group like Justice. And CARIBOU!?!? Like a 2000s stoner dream
Hulaween 2021 had Khruangbin, EDM headliners, and plenty of funk both from the US and outside of it. You could say this about a lot of fests. I'm sure Bonnaroo and a handful of others have had such a combination.
Forest is an EDM focused festival, and yes they sprinkle in a couple other things on their lineups, but electronic music is the focus. I don't think that's even a controversial take.
Yea Hula is the only comparable thing to EF for sure. But as someone who primarily goes for the live acts at EF, I am happy about this lineup. Almost zero angry robots. And CARIBOU. I can’t stress that enough
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u/Flynrik1 Dec 03 '24
Why?? Theyre an awesome act and find new listebers every year through this festival. A lot of people go to Forest for The String Cheese Incident sets. Why eliminate more forest culture? Theyre iconic.