Bands Doing Battle, Reax Music Magazine and (Club Bourbon Street have announced a St. Petersburg Warped Tour After Party concert, silent auction, and blood drive to be held Friday June 23rd, 2006 at 7:30pm at Club Bourbon Street in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Proceeds will help Close to Home's bassist, Brad Andress's defray medical expenses, who battles cancer as his band and After Drama play the Miami and Orlando Warped Tour on 6/24/2006 and 6/25/2006.
Sponsors include Sun Toyota, Sam Ash Music, Verizon FiOS TV, Shell's Seafood, The Grill Smith, Grand Prix Car Wash, Ernie Ball, DC North, Warped Tour and and Take Action Tour.
New Port Richey, Florida June 18th, 2006 â Press Release Update. Bands Doing Battle(http://www.myspace.com/bandsdoingbattle), Reax Music Magazine(http://www.reaxmusic.com) and Club Bourbon Street(http://www.clubbourbonstreet.com) are sponsoring a St. Petersburg Warped Tour After Party concert, silent auction, and blood drive to be held Friday 6/23/2006 at 7:30pm at Club Bourbon Street, 4331 US Highway 19, New Port Richey 34652, one of the greater Tampa Bay's premier live music venues.
Proceeds will help Close to Home's> bassist, Brad Andress's defray medical expenses, who battles cancer as his band and After Drama play the Miami and Orlando Warped Tour on 6/24/2006 and 6/25/2006.
Miami and Orlando Hot Topic/Kevin Says stage band and Grass Roots Tour headliner, After Drama (Pittsburgh, PA) joins Tampa's Live at Paintball headliner and Bands Doing Battle alum, DC North (Dade City, FL) and 98Rock's Livestock 2006 local headliner, Clenchfist) (Spring Hill, FL) for this benefit concert.
Club Bourbon Street owner, Gregory Serio, is accepting silent auction items, donated by Tampa Bay area businesses and the music industry such as: Sun Toyota, Sam Ash Music, Verizon FiOS TV, Shell's Seafood, The Grill Smith, Grand Prix Car Wash and others for the silent auction.
Ernie Ball, sponsors of the 10th Warped Tour Battle of the Bands and Hopeless Records, the Warped Tour Take Action Tent and Take Action Tour sponsor, have donated gift baskets.
DC North has purchased a steeply discounted Battle of the Bands sponsored, OLP MM-2 Bass Guitar at the recently opened Clearwater, FL Guitar Center another Ernie Ball BOB sponsor, for the silent auction.
Zack Faza, DC North's bassist, will solicit Warped Tour artists at Vinoy Park on 6/23 to sign it. Epitaph's Warped Tour headliner Motion City Soundtrack has committed to signing it.
A Florida Blood Services blood mobile will be outside Club Bourbon Street between 4pm and 9pm on Friday 6/23. Blood donors will receive free entry to the concert.
Advance $10 tickets for this event will be available at the Reax Music Magazine booth and under the Take Action Tent at the Bands Doing Battle table at the St. Petersburg Warped Tour at Vinoy Park on 6/23.
For additional information, contact: Gregory Serio or John Reisinger A news video about Brad from Close to Home Show Flyer Hyperlinked PDF
Club Bourbon Street will also host the Tampa Bay area stop of the Grass Roots Tour on Friday, July 7th, 2006, which features Side One Dummy Record's American Eyes, Isadora, Ivoryline and Sonicbids selected DC North.
(Source: Press Release - John Reisinger, Bands Doing Battle)