Black Lips + Jacuzzi Boys – Orlando – 3/31/24
Heroes Live Entertainment presents Black Lips + Jacuzzi Boys + DJ Smilin’ Dan on Sunday, March 31, 2024 @ The Abbey in Orlando. One of the Peach State’s wildest bands returns to Central Florida with Miami garage rockers Jacuzzi Boys.
7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+
Playing garage-flavored punk rock with a Southern accent, a messed-up and bluesy undertow, and the gleefully destructive impact of a 15-year-old with a bag of firecrackers, the Black Lips are a combo who, after their debut in 1999, soon developed a reputation as one of the Peach State’s wildest bands.
Garage punk saviors the Black Lips transform from austere country pioneers into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of 21st Century rock ‘n’ roll. Their new album ‘Apocalypse Love’ cryogenically mutates all recognized musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor, certified destruction and the creative use of quicksand, all set against a black setting sun.
Support:
Jacuzzi Boys
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Jy8DN56YeZwPFUjdPa0QB
Facebook: https://facebook.com/jacuzziboys
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacuzziboys
Bandcamp: https://jacuzziboys.bandcamp.com
The year, 2007. The Boys, Jacuzzi. Hatched inside a vulture’s nest, Jacuzzi Boys emerged from deep within the Florida wilds, three radioactive chicks cawing for their piece of electric rock pie. Since then, they’ve released four full-length LPs, multiple singles, and most recently, two EPs Dipped and Glue via their own imprint MAG MAG. And it’s with this bag of tunes in tow, that they’ve toured the world, and Europe and even the United States, with some of the most infamous names in rock like King Khan and the Shrines, Man or Astroman?, Vampire Weekend, the Raconteurs and their adopted uncle Iggy Pop. So the next time they’re in your town, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
DJ Smilin’Dan (The Independent Bar, Orlando)
Instagram: https://instagram.com/djsmilindan
Twin Tribes + Bootblacks + Blood Orchid + DJ Smilin’Dan – Orlando – 10/31/23
Heroes Live Entertainment presents Twin Tribes with special guests Bootblacks, Blood Orchid, and DJ Smilin’ Dan (The Independent Bar) on Tuesday, October 31, 2023 @ The Abbey in Orlando.
Happy Halloween! Join us for Twin Tribes’ first headlining show in Central Florida.
NYE! Strangelove-The DEPECHE MODE Experience + Electric Duke (tribute to David Bowie from UK) – Orlando – 12/31/22
Ring in the New Year with the ultimate ’80s party! Heroes Live Entertainment presents Strangelove–The DEPECHE MODE Experience with special guests: Electric Duke (tribute to David Bowie from UK) and DJ Smilin’Dan (resident DJ at The Independent Bar for 15 years) at The Abbey in Orlando, Florida. Grab your tickets now!
Ring in the New Year with the ultimate ’80s party! Strangelove–The DEPECHE MODE Experience + Electric Duke (tribute to David Bowie from UK) at The Abbey in Orlando. 8:00PM (Doors) | 9:00PM (Show) | 18+
- Bottle service will be available. Contact [email protected] for details.
- Ticket purchase is required and separate from any bottle service.
Los Angeles based Strangelove-The DEPECHE MODE Experience delivers a career-spanning, pitch-perfect “best of” concert that transports the listener through time and touches on several key points in Depeche Mode’s 40+ year career. Songs from throughout the Depeche canon are lovingly recreated; from favorites on DM’s debut Speak and Spell to the newest fare from ‘Mode’s latest- 2017’s “Spirit”. No detail of STRANGELOVE’s presentation has been overlooked. The visual presentation with stage set pieces and in-show costume changes reflect different eras of Depeche Mode’s story.
DEPECHE MODE’S MARTIN GORE ON STRANGELOVE-THE DEPECHE MODE EXPERIENCE:
“They do it to such fine detail that’s it’s scary. They play to very big crowds. They have videos that they’ve made, screens behind them, it’s like a full on production. I think they are fulfilling a fan’s needs by being there when we are not on tour. Keeping the fans satiated while we’re taking a break.”
Special Guest: Electric Duke
(tribute to David Bowie from UK)
https://facebook.com/electricduke
Electric Duke frontman Julian Shah-Tayler, from UK, has collaborated with several David Bowie musicians (on original albums and Bowie material) and effortlessly channels the zeitgeist of Ziggy Stardust.
DJ SMILIN’DAN
Website: https://mixcloud.com/djsmilindan
Facebook: https://facebook.com/djsmilindan
Instagram: https://instagram.com/djsmilindan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJSmilinDan
The Ocean Blue: Exclusive Florida Show + Conversation Piece – Orlando – 11/5/22
Heroes Live Entertainment presents The Ocean Blue **Exclusive Florida Show** @ The Abbey in Orlando. Special guests: Conversation Piece + DJ Smilin’Dan (resident DJ at The Independent Bar for 15 years)
Join us as we welcome the indie-pop band on Saturday, November 5, 2022, to The Abbey in Downtown Orlando for their ONLY FLORIDA SHOW.
8:00PM (GA Doors) | 8:30PM (Show) | 6:30 (VIP Doors) | 18+
The Ocean Blue arrived as the 1980s drew to close, and their debut record on the famed Sire Records label in 1989 seemed to summarize the best of the musical decade. The band of four teenagers from Hershey, Pennsylvania quickly achieved widespread acclaim and radio & MTV airplay, with top 10 Modern Rock/College Radio hits like Between Something and Nothing and Drifting, Falling. They followed their debut release with the subtle and atmospheric Cerulean, which included perhaps their most beloved song, Ballerina Out of Control, and followed that with their highest charting pop album Beneath the Rhythm and Sound and the single Sublime, featuring a video of the band in the sublime landscape of Iceland. The band’s fourth record for Mercury/PolyGram, See The Ocean Blue, was a departure to a more guitar rock sound of the 60s and 70s, but with the band’s 80s DNA peeking through. After a busy decade of recording and touring, the band left the majors in the late 90s. Several independent releases and related touring followed in the 2000s, including 2000’s Davy Jones Locker and 2004’s Waterworks EP, and some wider international touring. In 2013, after much anticipation, the band released their first full length record in over 10 years, Ultramarine, on Korda Records, a Minneapolis-based label cooperative label the band helped launch that same year. The record was a welcome return for fans of the band and a younger generation of fans, and garnered widespread praise as one of their very best albums. In 2015, the band worked with Sire and Rhino Records to reissue their first 3 Sire albums on vinyl. The band marked the occasion by performing the first 2 albums in their entirety at limited concerts throughout the U.S. In 2016, the band did a full South American Tour where some of their most passionate fans reside.
The band has now returned with their signature dream pop sound on the beautifully powerful Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves. Out now on Korda Records. See the band on tour in 2019-2021.
