Echo Park Rising, Day 3: Crazed crowds for the Buttertones, Surf Curse
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Second of three posts on Saturday’s Echo Park Rising
Things got unhinged a couple times at Saturday’s sixth annual Echo Park Rising. And who knew the Buttertones could inspire such madness?
As the Buttertones played their Liberty Stage set, the crowd surge broke the metal barricade between the fans and the photographers’ area, sending it tumbling onto a couple of people working the pit. Despite the arrival of additional security and pleas from the band to calm down, the fans were relentless, some rushing the stage to crowd-surf. Even with singer-guitarist Richard Araiza pleading for the crowd to calm down, fans still challenged security officers, so the Buttertones cut short their set.
An hour later, things got similarly unruly at Surf Curse’s set at the Echoplex — it was as if the moshers and crowd-surfers migrated there from the Buttertones. By the end of the set, there were fans’ phones, keys and money all over the stage. “We are a band,” joked guitarist Jacob Rubeck, “but also a lost and found.”
There was plenty to see elsewhere on the west end of Saturday’s festival.
||| Photos: Saturday’s Buzz Bands LA Stage at Taix, with Sego, YIP YOPs, the Marias, Haunted Summer and more.
Wargirl and Brainstory played winning early sets on the main stage before Frankie and the Witch Fingers ratcheted up the energy. Fans gave Lauren Ruth Ward and Ramonda Hammer rousing receptions at the Echo, where those who were not previously familiar with Superet walked away buzzing.
Laetita Sadier (of Stereolab) wowed everybody earlier at the Echoplex, where the Henry Clay People and Ex Stains earlier dispensed smarter-than-your-average indie.
The fare at the main stage ended with the sophisticated jazz-soul of Miles Mosley and the West Coast Get Down — no crowd-surfing but plenty of fine waves.
Photos by Jessica Hanley
||| Also: Echo Park Rising, Thursday; Echo Park Rising, Friday
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