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PHOTOS + REVIEW — Dirty Heads 2024

Dirty Heads August 1, 2024 Daily’s Place- Jacksonville, FL Photos by Mia Sinno instagram.com/stupid.stoked
Dirty Heads – August 3, 2024 – The BayCare Sound – Clearwater, FL – Photos by Richie Williams – instagram.com/thesobergoat

Review

Slightly Dirty Summer Tour Live Review | Dirty Heads w/ Slightly Stoopid, Common Kings, and The Elovaters | The BayCare Sound, Clearwater, FL | August 3, 2024

The Slightly Dirty Summer Tour, featuring Dirty Heads and Slightly Stoopid along with Common Kings and The Elovaters, rolled through Florida last week and included a Saturday night stop at The BayCare Sound in Clearwater. The tour also stopped at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville on Thursday, August 1st and at iThink Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm on Friday, August 2nd.

The BayCare Sound is a new waterfront amphitheater situated along Clearwater Harbor. This amazing venue opened in Summer 2023 and features covered seating for 4,000 guests with room for 5,000 more in the lawn. The Baycare Sound is set in a stunning 19-acre park with walking trails, family-friendly features and many community events.

First up was The Elovaters. This Boston band has been on the rise for the past ten years. They released their fourth studio alum Endless Summer in July 2023. Of course, the first song title track was played and provided a great start to this summer tour. Others played from the new album included “Gimme Love,” “Red Wine” and “Sunlight.” I really like their island vibe sound with a dash of rock, and they’re a great opener to get things warmed up for this tour.

Common Kings followed and they brought the energy up a notch with their southern California style. These guys have been on the scene for over a decade they released their fifth album, Celebration, last summer. This fire set included a proper cover of Sublime’s “What I Got” as well as other cover samples spread throughout including a dub jam of “Outkast’s SpottieOttieDopaliscious” and Bob Marley’s “Punky Reggae Party,” as well as a nice tease of Dr. Dre’s “Next Episode.” A few songs played early in the set included “24/7” from their first album, 2013’s Summer Anthems, as well as “Mary Wanna” and the title track from 2017’s Lost In Paradise. And to cap it all off, a dance party cover of Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved.”

Up next was Slightly Stoopid, one of my all-time favorites and a band I’ve seen countless times since the late 90s. Though they haven’t released a new album since 2018, there’s no shortage of hits for them to play nor excitement for fans to feel. Before gracing the stage, the crowd gets pumped up as House of Pain’s “Jump Around” blasts through the speakers. Also, the giant LED screen at the back of the stage is now visible, lit up and ready to go. The band wasted no time getting things going as they began with old favorites “Bandelero” and “Officer.” Early in the set, Common Kings’ lead singer Sasualei “Jr. King” Maliga and guitarist Taumata “Mata” Grey were welcomed on stage for a song. Chali 2na later made an appearance and blessed us with his sweet baritone rhymes for “Higher Now” and “Hands High.” The set had a solid approach toward the ending with “No Cocaine,” “Collie Man,” and “Closer to the Sun.” The final song featured Chali 2na and all members of Common Kings joining Stoopid on stage for “If This World Were Mine.” The LED screen provided some very cool visuals of skulls and foliage and the like, mixed with on-stage video.

Slightly Stoopid Setlist

Bandelero

Officer

Good Life

If You See Me Smiling

Got Me on the Run

Waiting

2 AM

Hold It Down

Higher Now

Hands High (Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts cover)

Mona June

Sweet Honey

Up on a Plane

Train

No Cocaine

Collie Man

Closer to the Sun

If This World Were Mine

The time had come for Dirty Heads to get the place rockin’. The lights go down and we begin to be told a story. The LED screen at the back of the stage reads “Act I: Follow The Unicorn” and proceeds to tells us that the unicorn is only mythical and it’s a spiritual/mood mixture, and that we don’t know where we’re going or why we’re going.

Well… here we go! They start off with “Cloudlifter” (accompanied with cloud visuals on the LED Screen) from their 2019 release Super Moon followed by “My Sweet Summer” from 2014’s Sound of Change.” Next were two of my personal favorites, their rendition cover of Jow Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good” from their latest album, 2022’s Midnight Control, and “Neighborhood” from 2012’s Any Port in A Storm. The set featured over 20 tracks from their 8 albums spanning over 12 years. Dirty Heads always put on an amazing show with a good mix of reggae dub and acoustic tunes, and lyrical flows over contagious beats and anthem roars. “Constellation” dazzled fans with planetary and celestial galaxy visuals on the background LED screen and also featured vocals from Jackson Wetherbee of The Elovaters. A few other personal favorites included “Franco Eyed” and the set closer “Medusa.” I somehow missed the whole “Act II” announcement during the show, but WOW what a back half of the set! The encore provided a breath of fresh air from the heavy high energy back half of the set, giving fans two lighter tunes including “Goonies Never Say Day” and “Vacation.” The lights come up and I smile as the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin” blasts over the speakers providing me a proper walk away soundtrack before my drive back home to Orlando.

Dirty Heads Setlist

Cloudlifter

My Sweet Summer

That’s All I Need

Life’s Been Good (Joe Walsh cover)

Neighborhood

Bright Side

Mad at It

Lay Me Down

Day by Day

Constellation

Midnight Control