IDOBI Radio Summer School is a concept similar to those pre-COVID festivals we miss, where several up-and-coming artists present what they’re up to. You’ll probably drive home with a new favorite band or artist, and in true high school fashion, tickets are only $35.
Ahead of the tour’s return to St. Petersburg, Patty Glover of Pennsylvania-based metalcore trio If Not For Me told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about the best gig he ever saw.
The first show I ever went to was in November of 2009. It was an all-local bill with Texas in July as the headliner at my small town’s local rec center. I was 15 years old, and didn’t really even know I liked music all that much yet. I was just going to hang out with my friends. But watching those bands give it all they had on a painted concrete floor right into the faces of a room full of kids rewired me forever. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with life from that point forward. -Patty Glover, If Not For MeTickets to IDOBI Radio Summer School at St. Pete’s Jannus Live on Sunday, Aug. 3 are still available for $47.37 (with fees, that is.)
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This article appears in Jul 24-30, 2025.