Forest Fest 2025 - Emo , Co Laois 25-27 July.

Are you the person the little electric shuttle bus left behind?

I heard one of the women who drove it complain about the other driver that she left a man on crutches behind.

I saw plenty of young people ie teens and early 20s with chairs this year. In fact as a whole there were way more younger demo this year than 2023-24.

The chair thing didn't bother me as much this year as last. Last year was far worse with a million chairs all up at front of Village Stage when 5k people are trying to see McGowan tribute or Undertones, for most part people got message this year about chairs in the tent and stayed outside or just on edge

I even saw young kids in chairs. No need.

Fantastic weekend, very well organised, could do with a few improvements which they will hopefully take on board and put in place for next year. Weather was fantastic, goldilocks like!

I wonder could they attract a band like The National for next year?

yeah. It will be more 90’s early 2000’s nostalgia.
the national won’t go near nostalgia fests

On the topic of future FFs realistic performers...

I hope they bring back James and Suede because they deserve better than playing at 1am in the pissing rain and mud up to your knees.

Waterboys headlined first festival in 2022 and one of the few acts in that card not to return since.

Texas and Supergrass were strongly rumoured for this year before lineup was announced just like Travis were in 2024 and appeared a year later so very likely both will appear in 2026.

After that looking at likes of Faithless, Busted, Saw Doctors, Picturehouse, Lightning Seeds, Crowded House, Keane, Darkness, Mary Wallopers, Feeder, Blonde, Echo and the Bunnymen, Madness, Paul Heaton (basically anyone who wasn't a tippy top headliner at Isle of Wight since 2022).

Cast, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Elbow are bands very similar to headliners we saw this year.

And of course the acts who played Forever Young but haven't yet played FF ie Katrina and the Waves, Bonnie Tyler, Boomtown Rats, Bananarama

There were a few too many occasions when there was nobody on in multiple stages at once which made bar queues briefly quite bad; particularly the two non Heineken bars

Now, had the main stage run to time, that would have been much reduced.

Why would that be? Seen him loads and always superb.

All of that ^^^

Hook wanted New Order to stick to their Joy Division roots a bit more but Sumner wanted more dance, synth vibe to the band. Hook left. Sumner not happy with Hook's performance of New Order songs.

Yep, true, true.