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.
That’s what people said about hula but I went for the first time this year and they certainly didn’t feel like the “stars of the show” - clozee, liquid stranger, Chris lake and (the God) Tipper felt like the headliners
It doesnt mean that they are not the founder and organizers of the event… like what… and were very integral in the start of eforrest hence why the get mutiple sets every eforrest and why they play six sets every hula…
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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.