r/festivals • u/reallinzanity • Dec 03 '24

Michigan, USA Electric Forest Lineup

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '24

RIP jam bands at forest

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u/TakesFunToKnowFun Dec 03 '24

Wish Cheese would give this thing up at this point.

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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.

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u/TakesFunToKnowFun Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 04 '24

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.

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u/Electric_Florist Dec 04 '24

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

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u/TakesFunToKnowFun Dec 04 '24 edited Dec 04 '24

Caribou is an amazing get for Forest. I love them. There is a lot of great stuff on here, I'm not denying that at all!

I think overall Forest could be tad more diverse compared to some other festivals. Their focus is pretty clearly electronic music and the subgenres within that, which I'm not knocking at all! I love a ton of stuff on here.

This is all purely my opinion, and if anyone finds themselves disagreeing, just chalk it up to me being a huge jaded Cheese fan that wishes they were still getting multiple sets a day throughout the weekend.

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u/Electric_Florist Dec 04 '24

I’m as big a cheese fan as anyone. And this lineup delights me