'Tropical Meatswave,' a musical celebration of life for Owen Meats, returns to Tampa Heights this weekend

Holy Terror, Rototiller and Same Day Delivery are just some of the band's taking the stage.

By Ray Roa on Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 12:34 pm

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Owen Meats, who died on Dec. 29, 2021.

A year after his passing, there’s still a giant, Owen Meats-sized hole in the hearts of the Tampa music community. Friends and collaborators—including the eccentric Holy Terror, rocking Rototiller and dynamic Same Day Delivery Orchestra—take to Tampa Heights's Shuffle on Saturday, Dec. 3 for this second installment of an annual, day-long celebration of Meats’ life and spirit.

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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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