NOVEMBER
19 Whiskey Store (Tab Benoit & Jimmy Thackery) Skipper's Smokehouse
19 Finger Eleven/Local H State Theatre
19 Spider John Koerner University of South Florida
19 The Legendary Shack Shakers w/TBA Orpheum
19 Alter Bridge Jannus LandingMAKEUP SHOW
19 Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown St. Bart's Island House
20 The Killers w/Now It's Overhead/The Zutons Masquerade
20 Marcia Ball Skipper's Smokehouse
20 My American Heart/Greeley Estates/For Felix and The Q 688 Skatepark
21 Josh Martinez & Sleep/Adeem & DQDJ/ Astronautalis Masquerade
23 Cannibal Corpse/Napalm Death/Goatwhore/ Kataklysm/Vada Masquerade
23 George Clinton & P-Funk Jannus Landing
24 Anarchy in the FLA: A Benefit for Tampa Bay Food Bank & Tampa Bay SXSW Showcase 2005 The Bank
24 Tony Touch w/Baby Face Club Empire
24 Bill Hamel w/Tony Faline/DJ Santana/Jason Perez/Daveaux Floyd's
26 Killswitch Engage/The Absence/Trivium/All Hell Breaks Loose Masquerade
26 Albert & Gage Catherine A. Hickman Theater
26 Anthony Gomes w/Damon Fowler Skipper's Smokehouse
27 Melissa Ferrick Skipper's Smokehouse
27 Bond Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
28 The Oak Ridge Boys Ruth Eckerd Hall
28 Saturday Looks Good To Me/Entrance/Terror at The Opera Orpheum
28 Four Shillings Short Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
29 Boys Night Out/Emery/From First to Last State Theatre
30 Dave Koz & Friends Ruth Eckerd Hall
30 Ben Scales & Will Straughan Skipper's Smokehouse
DECEMBER
1 Travis Tritt Ruth Eckerd Hall
2 Most Precious Blood/Remembering Never/It Dies Today/Dead to Fall State Theatre
3 Jake Armerding Octagon Arts Center
3 Voodoo Glow Skulls w/Big D & The Kids Table/ Go Betty Go/The F-Ups Masquerade
4 Candye Kane w/Patty Sanphy Group Skipper's Smokehouse
4 Travis Morrison/Battles/Beauty Pill Orpheum
5 Journey Ruth Eckerd Hall
7 Gove Scrivenor/Richard Gilewitz Skipper's Smokehouse
7 98Rock Nutcracker Ball Feat. Korn/Sevendust/ Chevelle Ford Amphitheatre
8 E-Town Concrete/Diecast/12 Tribes/Devil Inside State Theatre
8 The Lot Six/New Bruises Orpheum
8 The Smothers Brothers Ruth Eckerd Hall
10 Christine Kane Catherine A. Hickman Theater
10 Isis/These Arms Are Snakes State Theatre
11 Trout Fishing in America/Steve Forbert Skipper's Smokehouse
11 Scott Holt Bourbon Street
11 Rita Coolidge Largo Cultural Center
11 The Spill Canvas/This Day and Age/The Last Broadcast 688 Skatepark
11 Me Without You/Owen/TBA State Theatre
11 Charlie-Palooza Feat. The Charlie Daniels Band Ford Amphitheatre
12 The New Left (feat. Matchbox Twenty's Kyle Cook) Boomerz Boiler Room
12 Bury Your Dead/Scars of Tomorrow/The Acacia Strain Orpheum
15 Clay Aiken Ruth Eckerd Hall
16 Cher w/The B-52s St. Pete Times ForumMAKEUP DATE
17 Cigar Store Indians Skipper's Smokehouse
17 KC & The Sunshine Band/The Village People Ruth Eckerd Hall
18 Vanessa Williams Ruth Eckerd Hall
19 All That Remains/Gwar/Dying Fetus Masquerade
19 Jose Feliciano Lakeland Center Youkey Theater (Lakeland)
19 Ricky Skaggs Ruth Eckerd Hall
30 The B.B. King Music Fest Feat. B.B. King/Dr. John/ Shemekia Copeland/The Muddy Waters Blues Band USF Sun DomeMAKEUP SHOW
31 Donna The Buffalo Coliseum
JANUARY
8 VNV Nation/Code R-23 (Feat. Members of Front 242) Masquerade
9 Bobby Vinton Ruth Eckerd Hall
17 Joe Cocker & Dave Mason Ruth Eckerd Hall
21 An Albatross/The Cinema Eye/Aqui Orpheum
21 Tommy Castro Skipper's Smokehouse
22 Mad Agnes Octagon Arts Center
23 CEX/Aloha/Weather Orpheum
27 Bernadette Peters Ruth Eckerd Hall
28 Bill Gaither & Friends St. Pete Times Forum
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2004.