Beach Goth

Nadia Bent
Oct 27, 2016
2 min read

Leti, Alaina and I went to beach goth to try to meet Patti Smith. We've all been reading her books and we are absolutely in love. I was trying to save myself from listening to any of her music until I had finished Just Kids, but I made an exception because I might be addicted to music festivals. The observatory this year was so absurdly crowded. We came late, around 4 but got in at about 5. We watched some of the Violent Femmes when we walked in and then we pushed to the front for Patti. Everyone around us had done the same thing except for King Krule, whom would be performing 2 hours later. We watched Patti completely smothered but in complete awe. There were some tears, Leti tried to get her letters that I folded into cranes to the stage. I could swear she smiled at me three times and Alaina tried desperately to get a good Polaroid of her with several attempts. Right before the end of her set she held up her electric guitar and proclaimed "WE DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING GUNS, ALL WE NEED IS THIS!". It was so badass. After her performance we were submerged in a small form of hell, a body to body mosh put. Alaina had to pretend to faint as I screamed to get us the fuck out of there until a security guard pulled us both over the bar and we thanked him and walked on casually. After sweating all of our hydration away we were pretty tired and spent the next few hours people watching and catching small amounts of other performances. We left before the Growlers went on only because we decided we'd rather hang with our pals than hang around all the aggressively hazed people. Patti was so worth it.