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dtreez

Electric Forest -> Counterpoint

Yooo electric Forest was my first festival and basically 2nd concert of my entire life last year and I completely fell in love with the entire atmosphere. I didn't go in with any interest of jam bands or electronic music and found a taste for both now, i went 100% for the experience and i sure got it. I went to north coast festival for a day last summer and it was no where near what i expected it to be. However, i purchased tickets to counterpoint 2015 and wanted to know what people think about it in comparison to electric forest or other festivals overall. Security? Vibes? Weather? Will I be able to put up my hammock anywhere? Hoping the lineups don't share much similarity besides nectar and odesza at both. Thanks forest fam! See you all on the ranch soon

Posted Jan 14, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

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balgarath'13, '14, '15•

Counterpoint is a blast! They've had a great lineup the past 2 festivals. Lineup comes out tomorrow morning. Its not gonna have Sherwood Forest to go get lost in, but they have some great laser shows(lasers even going over the campgrounds all night, looks awesome!). Great production going on there. Security probably similar to EF. No Car Camping, good vibes but you are near ATL so there will be some shady people there as well.

I'm a moderator over at r/counterpointfestival feel free to join us there!

Not many places to hammock @ counterpoint I think - if you want to hammock @ your campsite, I sell/rent Geodesic Domes for that:

http://imgur.com/a/Tyhgv

feel free to checkout my website www.EdgeDomes.com - I'll be putting options up for Counterpoint Dome rental in the next couple days

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dtreezOP'14, '15•

Yeah from what I saw the past two years the lineup were stacked! So no doubting they will have a good one this year. Thanks for the reply man, I am probably going to end up renting one of those domes for my camp now at e-forest! Never knew you could rent them like that, looks dope man!

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balgarath'13, '14, '15•

Thanks! I just started doing the domes about a year and a half ago - have dome-camped at over 20 festivals now, and have had a lot of people asking me about getting one.

So I just got the business going the past couple of months...when I started mentioning doing rentals, a lot of people were interested.

I got an art grant from Wakarusa last year to do the big dome, and had a blast out there. I'm looking into doing more art installation domes at other festivals, and have started experimenting with programmed LEDs(like what futurehoops use). Got some really cool ideas

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dtreezOP'14, '15•

Just talked to my group and we are deff going to want one for the forest. How difficult will it be to actually put up though, will it come with instructions and tools or will we have to bring our own. Also, the 250$ is for the entire weekend right? and is that the flat rate with no additional charges or fees?

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balgarath'13, '14, '15•

How many people/cars in your group? I recommend doing Group Camping @ EF, which costs $35 extra per person

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basiljohnson'12, '13, '14, '15 GL•

I did car camping last year, it was like a $50 pass

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honestoliveThe Fram•

I went last year. Great Vibes just like EF, Hammocks are not really popular cause not a lot of trees in the venue, you can hang them on the sides of the GA campground though, which I saw people do.

When they had it last year, April, it was cold at night, down to the 40s. I am assuming why they probably moved the festival to memorial weekend. Rained 2 times, once fairly hard and they closed the venue for a couple ours and cancelled some shows during the day on the last day

Security was fairly light in GA, had no issues bringing in glow sticks, light/no pat downs, the usual backpack search is there but light.

I loved this festival last year, all the stages are loaded with high end production/lasers and it was on the smaller side. I have been to 10 festivals, including EF and Rothbury multiple times and I loved counterpoint. Hopefully they will have a loaded line up like last year.

But you know its impossible to get on EF's level.

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dtreezOP'14, '15•

Understandable, the forest is the forest and that will be the highlight of my summer it literally changed my life forever last year. But good to know hear what you think of the festival. All good things so far, but the hammock situation is a small bummer. I saw that they will be having a few of them throughout the festival though.

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TossedRightOut'15•

Can confirm everything said here. CP was super chill and security was very lax. Definitely on the smaller side of festivals, but that gave it a really great vibe in my opinion.

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Heatherhef712•

Im a local to Counterpoint and have been to both CP and Forest. While Counterpoint is pretty epic it just isn't even on the same plane as Forest.

Forest is tailored to your experience, whatever that may be! You create your own! You may not necessarily know all of the artists on the line up, but when you are there, they fit perfectly. The art and interactive installations are what make Electric Forest so magical. Forest also has 3 days of Cheese which is always a story in and of itself.

Counterpoint has more main stream artists mixed in with some up and comers. The venue, in my opinion, has a lot more sound bleeding than Forest. The vibes just aren't the same to me. But there again, its two totally different scales of festival.

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dtreezOP'14, '15•

I feel you. I would never expect any festival to ever come close to what forest has to offer. Besides maybe Shambhala and I've heard good things about wakarusa. I enjoy edm a lot so scamp really just wasn't the choice over this.

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Crayonnoyarc•

I went last year and loved it, great vibes, well rounded lineup, beautiful venue, great weather, really lax security

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notable-_-shibboleth•

https://www.facebook.com/groups/452401958269146/

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Andressherwood•

Counterpoint rules it's no forest though, few things are also almost nowhere to put your hammock

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