Electric Forest aka "Cheesebury"

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/...f/2011/02/cheesebury_speculation_about_e.html

Cheesebury 2011? Electric Forest festival might not be Rothbury, but looks like good news for String Cheese Incident fans

Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 11:56 AM Updated: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 3:48 PM

Major news for Rothbury Festival fans broke monday as an event called Electric Forest was announced for June 30-July 3 at the Double JJ Resort.
It's not exactly an official verdict on the fate of Rothbury, which took place at the same site on Fourth of July weekend in 2008 and 2009 as a four-day camp-in music festival and was an instant success among fans of the jam-band genre. The event did not return in 2010 after organizers said they were unable to book the caliber of acts they wanted, but they hoped the festival would be back in 2011.

The Electric Forest Website offers scant information at this point (a full website and initial lineup will be unveiled Feb. 28), but if you happen to be gambling on Rothbury's future, or just trying to map out your summer, here are some safe bets to consider:

Safe bet No. 1: This is as close as we'll get to a 2011 Rothbury Festival. Electric Forest falls on the same weekend that a Rothbury revival likely would take place (Fourth of July is on a Monday this year), and is presumably booked by the team behind Rothbury, Madison House Publicity.

The only thing it's safe to say is that something will happen in the village of Rothbury during the weekend before the Fourth of July.

Safe bet No. 2: What kind of something? All signs point to String Cheese Incident.
The band, which is a client of Madison House and was a headliner at the last Rothbury Festival, posted a link to the Electric Forest website on its Facebook page Monday, under the message, "We've made our 4th of July plans...see you in the forest!"
Conceivably, that could mean the band's members just want to hang out in the woods and play hacky-sack all weekend, but cryptic and not-so-cryptic evidence suggests a very String Cheese-centric weekend awaits fans.
The band itself is responsible for speculation that dates to last fall. Guitarist Bill Nershi, in an October interview with Glide Magazine, said the band had summer plans that included a visit to the Double JJ:

We’re also planning on doing something next summer at the Rothbury site. That will be a weekend festival with a lot of String Cheese sets. It’ll be different from Rothbury in that it will be more like our thing at Horning’s (as in Horning's Hideout), where String Cheese plays every night, and it will include bands in our String Cheese family with art installations and that kind of thing.
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Various message-board commenters already have nicknamed Electric Forest "Cheesebury." Indeed, the band and Rothbury go way back. String Cheese Incident went on hiatus in 2007, but all of the band's members performed at the first Rothbury with other projects. Fond memories of the festival led the band to consider playing together again, and the eventual reunion was one of Rothbury 2009's marquee events.
Also, a "Cheesbury" event this year might be good news for fans of Rothbury's popular Sherwood Forest. The wooded space, filled with hammocks, trippy lighting, wandering performers and hidden stages, was created under the art direction of Andy Carroll, who happens to be String Cheese Incident's lighting designer.

Safe bet No. 3: Expect some familiar faces. The website Hot Like Sauce points out that, in addition to String Cheese Incident and Bassrush, Rothbury veteran Bassnectar is the only other music act listed in the "likes" section of Electric Forest's Facebook page. Coincidence?
Also, Kalamazoo's Greensky Bluegrass -- another Rothbury veteran -- had a June 30 performance at the Double JJ listed on the website of its management company, Crescendo Artists. The listing has since been removed, but that's what screen grabs are for.
See you in the forest this summer?

 

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http://www.electricforestfestival.com/

Three nights of String Cheese Incident
Lettus, Eoto, Stephan Marley, Toubab Krewe, Shpongle, Reo Speedwagon, The New Deal, JJ Grey and Mofro, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Railroad Earth, Big Gigantic, Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous String Dusters, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Kaskade, Laidback Luke, Excision, Emmitt-Nershi Band

 

As a fan of mostly electronic music, I am very dissapointed in this lineup. VibeSquad, maybe Emancipator, are really the only ones that get me excited. Not a single breakthrough artist on the lineup in terms of electronica. They do have a few gems in The Macpodz (Michigan world beat funk jam), and Toubab Krewe (asheville, NC playing some world beat jam stuff that is beautiful). But I am just so sick of Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, those guys. Now you throw in Tiesto( ) and a bunch of other trash, it just doesn't have the quality, but it does have quantity (tons of electronic)

plus its somewhat overpriced, but for any fest of this caliber you can expect to pay ~200 dollars, so that isn't even that big of an issue to me...

The electronic fests in Cali and Oregon just absolutely smash this one, and it's not even close. I'm talking about Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis Gathering, Shambhala in Canada, and ofcourse EMRG+N+SEE in Oregon. If I had to choose between all those, Electric Forest would be at the very bottom, but hey thats just one man's opinion..

should be a great time nontheless, every festival is

 

three nights of string cheese sounds cool, but i was really surprised to see so much electronic music.

eoto, tiesto, bassnectar, pretty lights, big gigantic, shpongle, bonobo, excision, skrillex. damn. not really my cup of tea for the core group of artists for a festival. especially since pretty lights and big gigantic are going to be at allgood anyway(the two i would most like to see out of those).

same in the southeast. ultra destroys this lineup for electronic music.

 

Yeah I was dissapointed with the line-up and how they are marketing the woods (sherwood forest) over the music. Hence, "electric forest"; They should have stuck with "Rothbury". Its way overpriced but it looks like it will be a sweet party.

Allgood's line-up blows this one out of the water and it is $40 cheaper.

 

Get your super vintage 80's garb for REO Speedwagon ready!!!