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Pop: Hot Ticket
By GINA VIVINETTO and AMY ABBOTT
© St. Petersburg Times,
published August 30, 2001
High-tech twist
Q-Burns Abstract Message is a weird moniker for one guy, but Orlando DJ-producer Michael Donaldson makes music so delightfully askew it works. Q-Burns' electronica brims with bits of Latin percussion, funk and Krautrock, which he subtly and lovingly blends together.
Invisible Airline, his latest, invites studio musicians -- playing real instruments! -- and vocalist Lisa Shaw to do their thing over Q-Burns' sonic hodgepodge.
How to present all this high-tech tomfoolery in a live setting? Find out this weekend.
Openers the Boats are one of the bright lights of the Tampa Bay area music scene, playing a nervy brand of alt-rock filled with feeling and drive.
Q-Burns Abstract Message performs with DJ Boomerang and the Boats Sunday at the Lobby (in the Garden Restaurant), 217 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. (727) 896-3800.
-- GINA VIVINETTO, Times pop music critic
A real island party
Live on the Bay 2001 is a new Labor Day weekend music party that organizers hope to make a tradition. It will feature four live bands on a 52-foot stage, a cruise ship with food, refreshments and a sun deck -- and boats, boats, boats. Tons of boats since the party is on Super Test Island, known to hundreds of weekend Tampa Bay island partiers as Beer Can Island. Music comes from the bands Don Juceam, Bush Hogs, Groovy Tuesday and Outdrive and two DJ's.
Admission is free.
People without access to a boat can hitch a ride out of Apollo Beach Marina for a few dollars. The party is the brainchild of Jurgen Wochnik of Rockhaus Studios in Tampa. An avid boater, he decided the island would be a great place to throw the Labor Day bash.
Four months later, he had the sponsors and backing to put on a larger party than he intended and plans to give the proceeds to the Children's Cancer Center. Besides an enormous supply of beach sand, a moonwalk and the 29-foot Warlock National Factory One offshore racing boat will be there to keep the kiddies entertained. The party starts at 2 p.m. Saturday and kicks everyone out at 8 p.m. For info, call (813) 621-1412.
-- AMY ABBOTT, Times staff writer
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