REVIEW: BeachLife Festival brought the best vibe to the coastal City of Redondo Beach rocking the shoreline the weekend of May 13-15, 2022
BeachLife Festival returns to the coastal City of Redondo Beach bringing magical memories to last a lifetime. The oceanfront three-day festival featured a lineup of music with artists from several music genres. The legendary SeaSide Lagoon set the backdrop. of the festival with the ocean, sunny skies, and warmth of the California sun. The lineup was amazing with over fifty artists across four stages.
Jim Lindberg (Pennywise) kicked off the festival on day one opening up their set on the Lowtide stage. Alternative rock band Velvet Starlings and alternative Los Angeles DREAMERS held it down on their stages. The Los Angeles Dreamers played the following setlist:
-Dreamer’s Set List
-screws
-Drugs
-L$D
-misfits
-all washed outto
-palm reader
-body language
-heat seeker
–someway somehow
-wolves
-die happy
-black confetti
-painkiller
-sweet disaster
DAY ONE
Alternative rock band Dreamers, rock band Milky Chance, Grammy winner soul-based Black Pumas, and alternative indie American rock band Weezer played the Hightide stage on Friday. The acoustics of each stage were all on point. They all sounded really good.
Nothing but chillin and good vibes with ten thousand plus concert attendees all grooving to the beat of a variety of drums. American punk rock band Jim Lindberg (Pennywise), American Indie pop Cannons, American Alternative indie rock band Cold War Kids, and alternative funk-rock band 311 all performed on the Lowtide stage. American reggae-rock band Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds from Hermosa Beach, punk rock Yotam Ben Horin (Useless Id) and punk rock Joey Cape (Lagwagon) all performed on the Speakeasy stage.
The Riptide stage featured Indie rock and roll Velvet Starlings, punk folk-rock Hoist the Colors, American dub/ska/rock Long Beach Dub All-Stars, and jazz ska band The Aggrolites.
DAY TWO
The lineup was just as impressive. Reggae fusion pop-reggae band Majic opened up the day on the Lowtide stage with Hermosa Beach’s The Charities jam band performing on the Riptide stage. Sugar Rae came out hot on the Hightide stage to some of his fans relaxing and enjoying the vibe from the green grass while dancing on their blankets and enjoying the show. American artist Donovan Frankenreiter, Alternative indie Michael Franti & Spearhead, American rock band Stone Temple Pilots from San Diego, and the American alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins all performed on the Hightide stage.
Reggae fusion pop band Majic, Rock band “The Record Company”, Alternative rock and reggae artist Matisyahu, Los Angeles-based American pop Capitol Cities band, and indie pop and indie-folk artist Vance Joy all performed on the Lowtide stage oceanfront with the Palos Verdes Península backdrop of the Pacific Ocean.
Jamison Jarvis, Hip Hop’s Too Rude, Art Alexakis, and Charlotte Sabina all performed on the Speakeasy stage.
The Charities, Jeremy Buck, American singer Rita Wilson, Country band Feed the Kitty from Los Angeles and alternative rock band Phantom Planet all performed on the Riptide stage.
The closing headliner The Smashing Pumpkins closed the festival down day two with a cover of Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” song. The Smashing Pumpkin set list included:
-The Smashing Pumpkin’s Set List:
-The Colour of Love
-Bullet
-With Butterfly Wings
-Today
-Ugly
-Drown
-Quiet
-Cyr
-Once in a Lifetime
DAY THREE
Sunday started with cooler temperatures, and it warmed up hot about midday. After Saturday’s sold-out show of an estimated ten thousand plus attendees. The bands began to play on the last day of the festival slow and steady and the beach goers started to arrive. Rock band Alo performed on the Hightide stage kicking off the show while The Altons had an acoustic set on The Speakeasy stage. Next in the lineup was Karl Denson Tiny Universe playing on the Lowtide stage while Wall of Sound played the Riptide stage.
-Wall of Sound Set List:
-HELL IN A BUCKET
-BERTHA
-BROTHER ESAU
-HELP ON THE WAY>SLIP KNOT
-SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCES
-DEAL
-SAMSON AND DELIA
-RAMBLE ON ROSE
Alo, Ozomatli, UB40 (feat Ali Cambell, Lord Huron and The Steve Miller band performed on the Hightide Stage.
UB 40 Set List:
-HERE I AM
-THE WAY YOU DO THE THING YOU DO
-HOMELY GIRL
-GROOVING
-CHERRY O BABY
-ONE IN TEN
-PURPLE RAIN
-BABY COME BACK
-I’LL BE THERE
-MANY RIVERS
-KINGSTON TOWN
-CAN’T HELP ALLING IN LOVE
-RED RED WINE
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Devon Allman Project, Joe Russos Almost Dead and Sheryl Crow shred on the Lowtide stage. The Altons, Latch Key Kid, Lily Meola, and Dan Kelly from Fortunate Youth played on the SpeakEasy stage. Wall of Sound, Cubensis, Landon McNamara and The Hip Abduction performed on the Riptide stage.
BeachLife Festival will be presenting BeachLIfe Ranch. “Stay tuned” for more information.