Credit: Brian Mahar

Credit: Brian Mahar

Pardon our French, but this is a f***ing steal.

CL Tampa's holiday auction benefiting The Children's Home  is in full force, and three Bay area promoters — No Clubs, Brokenmold Entertainment and Aestheticized Presents — have teamed up to put you and a friend on the guest list for virtually every single one of their 2017 shows.

CL HOLIDAY AUCTION: GUEST LIST +1 FOR SO MANY TAMPA BAY SHOWS

The only exceptions are shows co-promoted with outside promoters (like AEG or LiveNation), but what's up for grabs is a chance to spend all of 2017 walking into some of Tampa Bay's best rock clubs and telling the bouncer that you're on the list. A plus-one for every show means you're friends will be nice to you all year, too.

If you've been paying attention to our daily concert previews, then you know that these three promoters are responsible for scores of Tampa Bay's best concerts across literally all genres (including comedy). It's a little hard to put an estimated value on this, but consider that these three promoters, collectively, are easily responsible for, at minimum, five solid shows every week.

Five solid shows a week (x) 52 weeks in a year = 260 shows

260 shows (x) two tickets = 520 tickets

520 tickets (x) a conservative estimate of $15-$25/ticket = $7,800-$13,000

Right now the bids are at $152, so yeah, this thing is ridiculous.

Do the kids, and yourself a favor by bidding here at least five times a day. The auction ends Sunday, November 27 at 9 a.m. EST. 

Credit: Brian Mahar

Credit: Anthony Martino

Credit: Anthony Martino

Credit: Anthony Martino

Credit: Brian Mahar

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...