“My level of excitement is absolutely through the roof! Quicksand is probably my favorite band in the world and I’ve never had a chance to book them or host them at The Orpheum in Tampa,” the venue owner, Jerry Lazy Dufrain, writes on Facebook.
Tickets for this highly-anticipated, all-ages gig go on sale this Friday, July 22 at 10 a.m. EST. They start at $25 and can be purchased on eventbrite.com, but attendees can also buy $30 tickets at The Orpheum on the day of the show.
Quicksand rose to fame in the 1990s after its debut self-titled EP put them on the map, and subsequently released its follow up albums “Slip” in 1993 and “Manic Compression” in 1995. The quartet split up after those albums, but reunited in 2017 and has been playing shows and releasing new music for the past 5 years.
The band dropped its most recent LP titled “Distant Populations” through Epitaph Records last year, and will soon depart on a nationwide tour in promotion of it. According to the band’s website, its latest release “has an emotional resonance that is only amplified by the events of the past stressed-out, locked-down year.” Orlando-based metalcore band Bloodlet will support Quicksand at its upcoming Tampa gig, as more openers will be announced as the show nears closer.
Quicksand’s Tampa show takes place at The Orpheum’s new location, at 14802 N. Nebraska Ave. in North Tampa, right down the road from Skipper’s Smokehouse.
One of the new location’s first shows happened just this weekend, as Alabama-based metalcore band Erra was one of the first band’s to play on the new Orpheum stage.
This article appears in Jul 14-20, 2022.