As the scene in India tries to gingerly move on from an year of online gigs and home-produced tracks, it will be retaining some aspects of 2020 for the future
NLSIU Bengaluru’s Strawberry Fields — one of the country’s first major music festivals of the year — will be held online this coming weekend. And because it is virtual, the headliners will include international names that, logistically, could not possibly have come down to the Bengaluru campus to perform, even in non-pandemic times. Their lineup includes not only Indian acts like Cinema of Excess and Haiku-like Imagination, but also Italian rock band Tangerine Stoned.
Convenor Rhea Paul admits as much, but reiterates that the next edition will definitely go back to being offline. She says, over phone from Bengaluru, “It will be our 25th one, and we plan to make it bigger and better. People love Strawberry Fields, they want to be here and enjoy it themselves.”
Rhea’s take reflects that of most festival-goers in…
