BeachLife 2021: 5 things we’ll remember from the festival

The South Bay waited for this past play for much than a year.

The BeachLife Festival was much than a play of music. It was  play of returning to somewhat mean during the ongoing pandemic. It was a play erstwhile radical could excavation their toes successful the sand, dance, bent retired with friends and retrieve the heyday of their favourite bands.

After being canceled successful 2020 owed to the coronavirus pandemic, BeachLife returned for its sophomore twelvemonth astatine Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon Friday-Sunday with dozens of acts, including Los Angeles’ Jane’s Addiction,  Cage the Elephant, Counting Crows and Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley, the second of whom performed the songs of their precocious begetter Bob Marley to adjacent retired the festival Sunday night.

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Here’s what we’ll retrieve from the 2nd variation of the BeachLife festival:

1. COVID-19 wasn’t a headliner

The coronavirus pandemic is ongoing, but for amended oregon for worse astatine the BeachLife Festival it seemed arsenic if determination ne'er was a deadly microorganism floating successful the air. Proof of vaccination oregon a antagonistic coronavirus trial was required for introduction to the festival, which was nether the threshold of 10,000 radical and didn’t necessitate masks nether L.A. County guidelines. The effect was precise fewer masked radical successful sight, with the wide bulk of the assemblage sporting large smiles alternatively than microorganism blocking coverings. They stood enarthrosis to enarthrosis successful beforehand of stages, mingled intimately and chatted it up astatine bars and lined up close adjacent to each different astatine nutrient booths. There were adjacent respective handshakes alternatively than fist-bumps spotted passim the weekend.

2. A philharmonic clip capsule 

BeachLife isn’t the festival to spell to observe the adjacent large thing, it’s the festival to retrieve however large your euphony was and however you utilized to emotion to dance. There were plentifulness of nostalgic danceable moments acknowledgment to bands specified arsenic the English Beat connected Saturday playing hits including “Save it for Later” and “Mirror successful the Bathroom.” And portion “Tenderness” is technically a General Public song, it was the assemblage favourite that turned the soil successful beforehand of the Lowtide signifier into a formation disco. Men astatine Work past picked up the creation torch aboriginal successful the time arsenic they saved their biggest hits similar “Who tin it beryllium now?” for the last portion of their set, and yes, whether radical had bushed oregon not, the older assemblage was getting down conscionable similar they utilized to backmost successful the day.

3. Not a concealed Speakeasy 

This twelvemonth marked the debut of the Speakeasy Stage, wherever punk rockers and signing surfers and skaters unplugged their guitars and performed acoustic sets. The acceptable up was rather a astonishment due to the fact that it didn’t look similar a emblematic festival stage, but alternatively a beachside java store with immoderate large names performing astatine an unfastened mic night.

The tiny signifier was acceptable up nether a wood operation that felt similar an oversized surf shack. In beforehand of the signifier determination was patio furnishings with cushions wherever radical relaxed and listened to acts similar Trever Keith of Face to Face connected Friday.

However, by Saturday the connection astir the signifier was retired and the assemblage spilled retired of the hut and into the festival grounds by the clip Pennywise frontman and signifier curator Jim Lindberg performed.

4. Relaxation destination

The BeachLife Festival bills itself arsenic a solemnisation of the laid-back formation lifestyle, and it’s superior astir relaxation. It was hard not to find a spot to chill since determination were plentifulness of patio chairs each implicit the place, positive formation chairs nether umbrellas successful the sand. And for the pro-level chillers, determination was a spot with a fistful of hammocks acceptable up.

5. No tickets? No problem

The festival besides bills itself arsenic a festival for the neighborhood, and the neighbors came retired successful the thousands for the three-day event. And portion BeachLife was sold out, immoderate radical didn’t adjacent request tickets to bask the show. A mates of twelve radical simply stood successful beforehand of the fences on the streets lining the festival and listened to the euphony coming from the main stage. Some adjacent acceptable up formation chairs connected the sidewalk portion a fewer successful the adjacent residential buildings conscionable went retired to their balconies and got a bird’s-eye presumption of the concert.