A black-and-white promotional group photograph showing Nora's Breakfast Club. Captured in a medium shot against a bright, plain studio background, four band members stand side-by-side looking directly forward: on the far left, a man in a short-sleeved polo shirt; second from left, a man wearing a long-sleeved quarter-zip sweater with hands tucked into his pockets; second from right, a man wearing a dark baseball cap, glasses, and a zip-up hoodie; and on the far right, a man in a denim jacket worn open over an unbuttoned plaid shirt and white t-shirt with hands in his pockets.
Nora’s Breakfast Club Credit: norasbreakfastclub / Facebook

Lakeland means a lot to Florida emo kids, and bands like Nora’s Breakfast Club are part of that history.

Formed by Christian school kids, the shoegaze quartet recorded its debut, Soliloquy, at Morrisound Recording in Tampa, and released it at the Lakeland Civic Center. Quite the leap from the Unity Club.

It reunited in 2012 and is back again, two years after recording new music at Omnipop (stylized in all-caps), a music studio founded by Aaron Marsh. Marsh, the principal of another famed Swan City outfit (Copeland), plays support on this show celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Club’s debut and a new single, “Even If You Don’t Want Me To.”

Tickets to see Nora’s Breakfast Club and Aaron Marsh at Union Hall in Lakeland on Saturday, Oct. 17 are still available and start at $19.10.

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This article appears in Oct. 15 – 21, 2026.

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...