BBMak, which plays Bayboro Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida on Nov. 23, 2024. Credit: Photo via bbmak.com

Twenty-five years after its single “Back Here” became a Total Request Live staple, U.K. boy band BBMak, is, well, back, and here in the Bay area with up updated version of the tune.

Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally split up in 2003, but reunited for a new album 15 years later. Is it weird that the song has been repurposed for a Bumble Bee tuna snack meal jingle? Yes, but that won’t stop boy band obsessives with disposable income from packing St. Pete’s best listening room for this one.

Tickets to see BBMak play Bayboro Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Nov. 23 are still available and start at $35.

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This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2024.

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...