With vaccinations on the rise, it’s safe to say that this Halloween won’t be as scary as last year, and downtown Clearwater’s 100-year-old theater is giving you a reason to celebrate when it welcomes Here Come to Mummies to town.
If you don’t know about the Nashville-based band, the members dress in mummy costumes and go by aliases like Mummy Cass, High Priest of Death, Motherlode, and K.W. Tut., all while playing blues and funk influenced-music. And if it wasn’t clear, Here Come the Mummies is not the punk band The Mummies.
Tickets to see Here Come the Mummies at Clearwater’s Bilheimer Capitol Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 23 start at $35 and are available on Ruth Eckerd Hall’s website.
The 20-year-old band has a long relationship with the “Bob and Tom” morning show—there are tons of videos showing the band packing into the radio studio, in costume, while performing songs like “Booty” and “Libido Knievel.”
Though it’s a big schtick, and my Dad loves them, the band is actually pretty talented. Who knows what the COVID-19 protocols will be in October, so check before you go. Let’s just hope the world is less spooky than it is now.
See a list of Tampa Bay’s “Safe & Sound” live music venues here.
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This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2021.