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In a world increasingly influenced by algorithms, it was good to be surrounded by humanity last Thursday night.
Representatives for Benchmark International Arena told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that 19,900 packed into the venue to watch Tame Impala make its sold-out local debut. And those people—from parents of infants in Baby Bjorns, to boomers in Chuck Taylors, plus Gen-X-Y-and-Z—were everywhere, from the GA floor admission to standing room only spaces in the concourse. They came draped in their most coveted thrift store finds, with many ditching phones for point-and-shoots as they captured memories that’ll inevitably turn up in a photo dump captioned, “lately.”
Taking the stage at 8:45 p.m. after an opening set by Joe Keery’s American rock band Djo, Australian producer and songwriter Kevin Parker, flanked by five musicians, gave fans plenty of reasons to stay unplugged, too, running through 23 songs in just over two hours…