Buskerfest + Cold War Kids streets of LB

Downtown Long Beach’s art district shut down its streets to vehicles and opened it up to some music craving residents and neighbors.

Buskerfest is a miniature musical festival with a number of bands participating to open for the headlining Cold War Kids.

Each person that attends gets 9 wooden nickles, each nickle is one vote and the band that recieves the most wooden nickles opens for the headlining band.

I put my wooden nickles on “Matt Death and the new intellectuals” They are amazing musicians and Matt Wignall (lead singer) is one of my favorite people in the world. Unfortunately they didn’t have enough votes and a band called “Pawn Shop Kings” ended up opening for the Cold War Kids for a great show. Here are some images from the whole night.

Highlights include: Shooting from the roof,biking with the guys, The Pike afterwards, Seeing E&H Trine,Dave Hill,Scott Henning,David Tosti,Matt Wignall, Colin, Alex Minjares ,Steve Sheldon, Nicoel and Tim, Caitlin Cutt and the rest of the Grace Brethren crew. I hope DTLB and the art district put on another one of these shows. Huge props to CWK’s for playing a free show.

(Matt Death and the New Intellectuals- Keslie and Bek blowing the cazoo’s)

(Evan Trine and his pretty girl – Matt Wignall rocking the megafone)

(Nathan Willet snaps an iPhone picture of the youngest Matt Death Member)

(The montage set: The Willett’s, a pair of legs,Crowd shot from the roof and Lindsey Jaggers along with Colin Dobrin.)

(Nicoel,Tim and the wooden Nickles)

(The faces of Long Beach- (Clockwise) Desiree Giatan, David Maust (& son) Danny Simon, Scott Henning all attended the festival.)

(Cold War Kids from the roof and on stage shot of Drummer Matt Aveiro)

(Crowd shot I think I might blow up huge, since I can see some familiar faces. Nathan Willett in Action, Pedals from the show.)

(LB Hipsters, Nathan Huesmann, Sam & Crystal, Alex at
The Pike)

See my Column on LBpost.com >HERE<

(Can you see Mike and Russell from LB post in the background of that shot? Coincidence!)

Tags: Alex Minjares, Art District, Cold War Kids, concert, Dave Hill, Eric Trine, Evan Trine, Heather Trine, Jonnie Russell, Long Beach, Matt Averio, Matt Maust, Matt Wignall, Nathan Huesmann, Nathan Willett, Samuel Lippke, Scott Henning, steve sheldon