St. Pete psych-rock band Pleasures returns from hiatus to play new album in full this weekend

The no-cover show is the band’s only show of the year.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 3:09 pm

Photo by Javi Ortiz c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

Pleasures, which plays The Bends in St. Petersburg, Florida on Aug. 25, 2023.

Katherine Kelly is a legend in St. Pete's indie-rock scene, and a lot of the lore is built around her band, Pleasures, which is still the standard other local psych-rock outfits try to live up to.

The group—which has been on a multi-year hiatus—plays a new album, Torture Triangle, in full at this free show, along with classics from the Pleasures catalog.

In an email to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Kelly called the passion project Pleasures’ most ambitious album yet and said that Torture Triangles was written, recorded and produced between 2020-2023. “In classic Pleasures style, attendees can expect a visual projection-heavy immersive experience,” Kelly wrote, adding that this is the band’s only show of the year.

There’s no cover to see Pleasures at The Bends in St. Petersburg on Friday, Aug. 25. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

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Ray Roa

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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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