Tag: Music Festival

ELECTRIC FOREST, OH HOW I MISS YOU.
It sucks and breaks my heart that they had to cancel Forest this year, but the well being of everyone else definitely is more important. It just passed the 2020 dates and my social media memories are all forest, so let’s go back to Electric Forest 2019. Relive my first year at forest!

HAPPY FOREST! I will never forget how warming and welcoming everyone is at Electric Forest. By far it’s my favorite music festival. It’s truly something you should experience, even if it’s just one day. It’s truly magical. I wasn’t able to go all days because of work, but I live about 45 to an hour away so once I was done working for the week I was blessed to be able to just drive there. I got to Forest on the Saturday night right before Bassnectar went on and I was in awe the moment I drove into the festival. Seeing the camp ground made me flashback to Gridlife (boy that’s another story LOL) and it just felt so unreal that I was actually there. I got my car parked and quickly set up my stuff at the tents and into the actual forest we went.
Walking towards the forest, I could hear bass coming from all around me and I could feel the vibrations go through my body. Everyone we passed was just super happy, vibing with their friends, and just so nice. I was told “Happy Forest” at least 20 times before I got to the rest of my group and so many people complimented on my last minute forest outfit. Talk about a confidence booster. It was after midnight so walking to my friends was just really dark. I didn’t see the setup that well at all. Got to the rest of my friends and heard their stories from the past couple of days, then Bassnectar came on. I was super excited cause that was my first time seeing him perform live. I will never forget his lasers beaming through all the trees. Lasers in a forest hit differently than lasers in the middle of a city. One thing I noticed too was glow sticks being thrown on the drops and it wouldn’t be a couple, but literally hundreds. I thought and still think to this day that it’s so awesome and it’s so much fun. I went into the crowd with one of my friends and we just collected a whole bunch of glow sticks from the ground to bring back to the group. I felt like a kid again and that’s literally the forest magic.
After I believe we walked to Tokimonsta’s set, then the queen of them all, Alison Wonderland. I’m a huge fan already and her set at Electric Forest started off with God is a Woman and I fell in love with her even more. It was the last set of the night and I’m pretty sure it ended around 3 am, but I was just getting started with Forest. I went back to the camp and walked around going to different RV sets until about 6 am. I saw the sunrise behind the ferris wheel and what a beauty that was. I knew I was home.

My first full day at Forest was also the last festival day, but it was well spent. I pretty much went everywhere and experienced everything on the Sunday. I made sure I wasn’t going to miss out on anything! I slept for only 4 hours, but woke up to someone jamming to Slander and I LOVE SLANDER so my day started off perfect.
WOW. Seeing the forest during the day made my heart so happy. Walking into Sherwood Forest, seeing all the art in real life that you usually see in pictures while Seven Lions playing a secret set? Once in a lifetime. It was beautiful. I’m probably going to describe everything with that, but it really is just beautiful there.

I went exploring in the morning to the chapel, the Jubilee and the Hangar. None of the past music festivals that I’ve gone too has ever been so interactive. It was so cool to see that. Forest really is an experience and not just a music festival. There’s so many things to go in to look at, so many activities set up for you to do and really I can’t express this enough THE PEOPLE. Everyone is just so welcoming and nice. I love that people set up their hammocks or moon mats and just nap through out the day and every respects their space. That could never happen at Spring Awakening. Also, two words… Island Noodles. Food at forest was really good too and they had a lot of different culture foods.
Time went by so fast, next thing I knew I was finding all of these fairy houses and swapping kandi and stickers and the sun was already setting. We watched sets in between exploring, but one set that will have my heart on that day would be Seven Lions. It was the last set of the night and I cried so much and got so emotional because not only do I love his music, but I was sad that I would be getting ready to leaving this little fantasy land when the sun came up. I didn’t want to leave at all.
The next morning came and we packed up our things and left. I enjoyed a nice shower right when I got home and spent the rest of the day with my friends just sharing our Electric Forest stories. Really had the time of my life and I can’t wait to be back.

Hope you had a happy Forest weekend!

SALLY ♡ T

ADDED o7/04/2020: With the recent events coming out about Bassnectar, I would like to make it clear that what he did is not okay. How he is handling the situation is not okay. Sexual abuse and rape IS NOT OKAY. There is evidence out there to prove his wrong doing and sick behavior. For him to “apologize” (if you can call it that) the way that he did does not give his victims, his fans or any victims for that matter any closure. It just raises further questions.