Today is the first day of the 3rd annual Suwannee Hulaween festival. It’s hot. The sun is blaring down on us. I’m sweaty as Hell, but, it was a beautiful start to the weekend. First stop this afternoon was The Amphitheater stage. A St. Pete band called The Hip Abduction opened up the festival today and Setmine got to speak with a few members after their set.
Fresh off a tour and no stranger to playing events on Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, The Hip Abduction brought everything from content to tease their newly finished album, which is slated for Spring 2016, to a fantastic cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.”
The new album doesn’t have a name, but drummer Matt Poynter joked about “lots of fist fights and who has the better name” for the process of deciding on the perfect name.
The band also reminisced on the last couple tours and their biggest shows they’ve played. They’ve played up and down the East Coast, at Wanee Festival, Sunfest and definitely in St. Pete. These guys for sure know how to please a crowd and make movin’ and grovin’ music.
If you can’t wait until Spring to get your ears on some new goodies from The Hip Abduction, SiriusXM Radio Jam On Channel 29 will be playing their new song in their normal rotation from now on and it will available for purchase on Monday November 2, 2015.
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Happy Hulaween!
- Shelbi
Photo credits: Shelbi Hayes
