Michael M. Sinclair
Florida Night Heat plays New World Brewery in Ybor City, Florida on September 23, 2017.
The once-stalwart anchor of the Bay area instrumental-rock scene only plays sporadically since two founding members—bassist Andre Jones, guitarist Jensen Kistler—relocated to New York City and Las Vegas, respectively, but will reconnect at the dive to cap-off the bar’s month-long 75th anniversary agenda.
Florida Night Heat was last onstage together for a Halloween show in 2020 to mark what we thought was the end of the pandemic, and drummer Chris Wood promises lots of fan favorites for the reunion, which Kistler described as the last piece of a trifecta of shows for the band.
“We got to play the old New World on its last night,” Kistler told CL. “I told Dre, and he agreed, that it’d be perfect to go down in a blaze of glory at The Hub.”
Raucous rock-and-roll trio Night Child opens this show, which is now a perfect bill with the recent addition of a reunion gig from Tampa bar band-gone-national The Beauvilles.
There's no cover to see Florida Night Heat play The Hub in Tampa on Thursday, Aug. 29.
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