The show—Bazan’s first in Ybor City since a 2016 gig in the same room—finds Pedro the Lion’s leading the band as it plays not just every song on Control, but also every cut from its landmark 1998 debut album It’s Hard To Find A Friend which turns 25 years old in November.
While Bazan played most of the instruments himself on the records, drummer Terence Ankeny and guitarist Erik Walters.
Walters—former guitarist for Silver Torches, past member of Perfume Genius’ touring band and co-owner of Seattle taco spot Comal—opens the Tampa show in support of his own solo full-length, which celebrated its first birthday this month.
Other Florida dates on the show include April 22 in Orlando and April 23 in Jacksonville.
The show is also Banzan’s first since going public with the end of his 20-year marriage, which is eerie since Control is a loose concept album about the dissolution of a marriage.
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2023.