The String Cheese Incident’s time may be drawing to a close, but keyboardist  Kyle Hollingsworth remains as busy as ever. In addition to preparing for String Cheese Incident’s final tour with Bill Nershi, Hollingsworth has co-founded a new band, soleside, with Arrested Development’s Speech and DJ Logic. Backed by a full band, the three musicians plan to mesh jazz/funk, hiphop and turntables into a series of new original songs.
 
”I saw in the paper that Arrested Development was playing at the Pearl Street Mall,” Hollingsworth tells Relix. “I’d always been a fan of Arrested Development. I went down there late one night. After the show, I walked up to Speech and said, ‘I’ve been a big fan for a long time. Would you ever consider doing some co-writing?” He said, ‘Yeah, definitely. I’ve heard of String Cheese.’ I was surprised because it was a totally different culture. I assumed he’d never heard of String Cheese, being that it is a jamband scene. I invited him to come down and sit in with us in Atlanta when String Cheese was down there.”
 
As of press time, soleside has three Colorado gigs scheduled: May 17 at Ft. Collins’ Aggie Theatre, May 18 at Denver’s Cervante’s Masterpiece Ballroom, and May 19 at Boulder’s Fox Theatre. At the gigs, the group plans to perform a range of covers, new originals and material from the three musicians’ back canons.
 
Hollingsworth is still in a String Cheese Incident mindset until his band’s final gig in August, though he says, “there are currently no plans for the String Cheese Incident beyond summer 2007.”
 
”I think String Cheese was and is a growing organism. We can take in a lot of information, a lot of music and make it part of our sound. I don't think the side projects took away [from SCI]. In some ways, it did the opposite.”
 
The String Cheese Incident will open its final tour at Bonnaroo in June. Also, be sure to check out this recent audio clip about String Cheese Incident by Arrested Development TV star David Cross.
 
Additional reporting by Randy Ray

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