The mood was swinging, elbows that is, during a neck-breaking set from Grammy-nominated U.K. rock band Idles which is in America playing shows in support of a new album, Tangk released last February. D.C. purveyor of “mascara moshpit” jams Ekko Astral opened the show, and a little bit of Tampa made it to the House of Blues stage in Orlando, too.
“He made an Instagram post about his rig for this tour and I commented on it,” Tampa luthier Mike Ingold told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about Idles bassist Adam Devonshire. “We struck up a conversation and it ended with me making a bass for him.”
Ingold, an elder statesmen of the Tampa punk scene, hand-delivered his “Bruce” model bass (finished in British racing green by request) to Devonshire before the show and got to listen to it in action during soundcheck—and again on the last song of the set.
“It sounded huge in the empty venue. He said it was more articulate than his other basses. That he could hear his effects pedals more,” Ingold added. “It was surreal to see and hear him play one of my instruments.”
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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...
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