RIP Counterpoint
lets take a moment to appreciate this amazing lineup and festival, with the hopes of a lot of these artists making their way onto forests lineup this year
Posted Jan 18, 2016, 12:34 AM UTC
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shaky beats is pretty much the same weekend as CP last year, and also in Atlanta. so it's a good alternative.
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From what I have gathered from other festival threads. Counterpoint is in fact not happening this year. The company that holds Counterpoint is one of the ones involved in do Shaky Beats this year. While it looks like it is 99% likely not to happen next year it does not mean it will never happen again. This is not the first time that they have taken a year off. Plus it is a camping festival in a completely different venue. Kingston downs is legit. Counterpoint will rise again. (P.S. I was there last year and it was one of the best festivals I have ever been to.)
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Oh yeah, CP is definitely not happening. I went to CP last year, and pretty sure that's what caused my bronchitis. The dust was too much for me sadly but the line up was fire, good festival
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wear a bandanna or some type of face mask in the future
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Bandannas are great, people hate wearing them but come on, do you want to make a fashion statement or suffer later? Also doing a neti-pot / nasal irrigation is so necessary at high dust festivals even with a bandanna, the stuff that gets caught up there is insane. Its about knowing how to survive. Don't blame anyone but yourself for the aftermath of not taking care of yourself.
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Damn, that sucks. I went in 2014 and it was awesome. Kingston Downs is legit as fuck.
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damn thats sucks. CP was one of the best fests out there
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Hasn't been the first time they've taken a break. Hope they are back for 2017. Still a possibility that imagine fest adds camping, this year.
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if imagine is camping at kingston downs i might have to check it out, kingston downs is an awesome place for a festival
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Yep, being hopeful
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I think this is a good sign we will see Knife Party/Griz/G Jones and possible roots? to forest. I know they do their Jimmy thing buuuut! forest did tweet about "only the best" type of thing so sky is the limit
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I saw the roots last summer at waka! Shit was sooo good. However, I don't see how this is a good sign, or how this equates to having griz/knife party/griz at Electric Forest'16.
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They are touring near that time. (Check) They have been requested heavily the prior year (knife and griz) (Check Check) lettece is still touring and will be during forest possible PL (Check)
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oh this was last years...
I'll take my walk of shame now
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Hense the "rip counterpoint"... Were getting griz and PLM this year. They, plus knife party have been absent since 2013 with heavy requests.
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This was last year?
No activity on Facebook since September 11th, and nothing on Twitter since November 17th. Not really looking like it.
Though Bisco was late last year in terms of announcing their festival. So who knows!
Bisco had a rep and vets foaming at the mouth to return. Counterpoint couldn't pull that off in my opinion. Idk if any fest could pull that off honestly, especially with the venue switch at the last minute
Ohhh okay. Well that's a bummer, CP always had sick lineups.
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