During 1994, Credit to the Nation would also make high-profile British festival appearances at The Glastonbury NME stage, the Reading Festival Melody Maker Stage and the Phoenix Festival (to which they would also return in 1995). While he continued to receive plenty of attention from the indie rock press, Hanson was less fortunate in achieving a mainstream breakthrough in the hip hop world. His trenchant criticisms of the sexism, materialism and fetishisation of violence expressed by hardcore hip hop by acts such as Onyx and Ice-T led to backlash and rejection and his own youth and talent level were subject to attack. Even the indie-rock press sometimes questioned Hanson's position. One memorable critical assault from reviewer Neil Kulkarni (in the usually supportive "Melody Maker") directly accused him of selling out to the expectations and tastes of white audiences.