Still hurt over The Growlers’ last-minute cancelation of a sold-out October 2017 show at Orpheum in Ybor City? Here’s a chance to see the wildly-popular beach-goth band try and make it right.
The California outfit arrives supporting a 2018 album, Casual Acquaintances, and tickets go on sale Friday, April 26 at 10 a.m. EDT. Admission is $30 $35, which is totally worth it since the band hasn’t played a Bay area room as small as Crowbar since 2015 when Broncho played opener. The Growlers also played Ybor in 2012 as part of WMNF’s now-dormant Tropical Heatwave festival.
The Ybor gig is part of a Florida swing that also finds The Growlers playing a free September 21 show with Phosphorescent as part of St. Augustine’s Sing Out Loud Festival.
If you’re wondering why the show isn’t at a bigger room, then know that Orpheum already has a show booked on September 19 (Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) and that St. Petersburg’s State Theatre still hasn’t finished a renovation yet (although a July 2019 show with Long Beach Dub Allstars is on the books). This is the part where you offer up your own armchair venue suggestions, but the fact is that — in this case, with a band that should be in a 700-cap room — Tampa Bay is still a little short on a space that booking agents will give an OK to (booking shows is complicated, people).
More information on the sure to be sold-out show is available via aestheticized.com.
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This article appears in Apr 18-25, 2019.