Sat 10/11 @ 9PM
The Floyd Band, led by confrontational, snot-nosed (literally) vocalist Floyd Longworth, blazed a trail through northeast Ohio venues in from the mid 80s to the late 90s, playing loud music while Floyd drunkenly hectored people about why WMMS wasn’t playing punk rock. The band released one album in 1990 called I Burped and Puke Came Out my Nose (told you it was literal!) as well as some compilation tracks. Then he dropped out of sight, for a good reason: he moved out of state to raise his daughter as single dad.
Several years ago, he returned to town, entering a new phase in his life. Now he’s a regular at makers’ markets where he sells the magnets he paints with the faces of musicians and other pop culture heroes.
Now he says, he’s having “one last Floyd Band blowout celebrating 40 years of the Floyd Band and my 70th birthday.” Unsurprisingly it’s at the Maple Grove Tavern, owned by Nick Summa who played bass in the Floyd Band. Opening the show is one of the current bands in Cleveland’s loud/fast scene, the Public Squares.
Floyd says “It will be an early show Because let’s face it You’re old and so am I. The show will begin at Ninish. Birthday party goes all night.”