Once upon a time (11 years ago, to be exact) Greg Gillis brought his then-revolutionary laptop mashup project to Jannus Landing for a sweaty show described by Creative Loafing critics as “an endorphin blast of uninhibited fun for anyone not living under a pop music rock for the past 40 years.” This time—on Friday, Dec. 9 when Girl Talk plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg—Gillis, once a biomedical engineer by day, arrives with his first-ever collaborative album, Full Court Press, where he melds together his love of acts like Three 6 Mafia, soul samples, high hats and big 808s, sometimes all in one song. The 41-year-old has described his current show as a mix of the old and new, plus remixes and mashups of past shows.
Once upon a time (11 years ago, to be exact) Greg Gillis brought his then-revolutionary laptop mashup project to Jannus Landing for a sweaty show described by Creative Loafing critics as “an endorphin blast of uninhibited fun for anyone not living under a pop music rock for the past 40 years.” This time—on Friday, Dec. 9 when Girl Talk plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg—Gillis, once a biomedical engineer by day, arrives with his first-ever collaborative album, Full Court Press, where he melds together his love of acts like Three 6 Mafia, soul samples, high hats and big 808s, sometimes all in one song. The 41-year-old has described his current show as a mix of the old and new, plus remixes and mashups of past shows.