Girl Talk Credit: Photo by Joey Kennedy via Pitch Perfect PR
Once upon a time (11 years ago, to be exact) Greg Gillis brought his then-revolutionary laptop mashup project to Jannus Landing for a sweaty show described by Creative Loafing critics as “an endorphin blast of uninhibited fun for anyone not living under a pop music rock for the past 40 years.”

This time—on Friday, Dec. 9 when Girl Talk plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg—Gillis, once a biomedical engineer by day, arrives with his first-ever collaborative album, Full Court Press, where he melds together his love of acts like Three 6 Mafia, soul samples, high hats and big 808s, sometimes all in one song.

The 41-year-old has described his current show as a mix of the old and new, plus remixes and mashups of past shows. “A 2022 version of what I’ve been working on since 2005—giving people a fresh version of what they’ve been listening to for years,” he recently told The Pitch.

This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2022.

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...