As if this year’s Forecastle Festival in Louisville couldn’t have gotten any better – what, with acts like the Flaming Lips, Widespread Panic, Spoon and Bassnectar, not to mention a move just a few blocks down the Ohio River to the Waterfront Park – the festival just got a whole helluva lot better.
Organizers today announced a ton of additional artists, most notably big names like Devo, Cake and She & Him, and also released a daily lineup (not the actual stage schedule). One quick look at this year’s lineup and you’ll see how much promise a once-smaller festival now holds when stacked up next to the big dawgs like Bonnaroo, Lolla, Coachella and ACL.
Not only is this festival a steal for the price you pay to get in and the talent the promoters are bringing in, but the location is just as equally as important as all of the other factors. Lousiville is probably the perfect midwestern spot for an event like this – it’s just within hours of pretty much every major city in the midwest and the Waterfront Park sits comfortably within just minutes of one of the major highways in the midwest.
But what excites me the most about this festival, is that they are involving some of my favorite Cincinnati bands, which could possibly be thanks to Ian Bolender of Newport’s Southgate House and the band Ellison. Ian does most of the booking for the acts who perform at the Southgate House and also has some involvement with Forecastle, although I’m not sure how big of a role he plays. Never in my life would I have thought that I’d get to see some of my favorite local bands like Foxy Shazam, 500 Miles to Memphis, The Tillers and Pop Empire, alongside acts like the Flaming Lips, Devo, Widespread Panic and Cake.
Stay tuned for more news and updates on the 2010 Forecastle Festival. Here’s the daily lineup:
Friday, July 9
Widespread Panic
Drive-By Truckers
Manchester Orchestra
Cirque Berzerk (LA Circus)
The New Deal
Lucero
Dead Confederate
Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s
Treasure Fingers
Ana Sia
Big Gigantic
All The Day Holiday
Light Pollution
Frontier Ruckus
Kinetix
Savoy
Garganta
Tony Desaro
Andy B
Arnett Hollow
Adventue
Dangerbird
The Tillers
Yardsale
23 String Band
Saturday, July 10
DEVO
Cake
Bassnectar
Umphrey’s McGee
Cirque Berzerk (LA Circus)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Cap’n Jazz (reunion)
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Cloud Cult
EOTO
Break Science
Mimosa
Foxy Shazam
Mucca Pazza
Two Fresh
That One Guy
Bear Hands
Civil Twilight
Wax Fang
Frontier(s)
The Tillers
Black Diamond Heavies
Lucky Pineapple
Booty Sweat
Amtrak
The Disco Aliens
Willy Joy
Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue
The Doloreans
The Broken Spurs
Scanners
Madien Radio
Straight A’s
Bad Blood
Scott Mertz
Sunday, July 11
The Flaming Lips
Spoon
She & Him
Minus The Bear
Cirque Berzerk (LA Circus)
Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek
Dar Williams
Joe Purdy
Against Me!
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Boombox
Papadosio
Company Of Thieves
Paper Route
Heavyweight Dub Champion
Jukebox The Ghost
Morning Teleportation
Greenskeepers
Death On Two Wheels
500 Miles To Memphis
Dawn Landes & The Hounds
Vandaveer
Pop Empire
The Ravenna Colt
John Napier
Quantum 38
Sam Gracie
Paul K and The Weathermen
Parlour
The Fervor
The Pass
Whistle Peak
Lamis
The Commenwealth
Six White Horses
Quinn Erwin