No matter your opinion of the new Jannus Live, you can’t deny this: They’re trying really, really hard to make you like them. Today’s evidence: [the] announcement of a free show April 25 by Rusted Root. A lot of people have bashed Jannus Live, even though ...
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Based on all the chatter I heard Thursday, [Jannus Live] is going to be a hit … The hardcore music fans who’ve been complaining about the Jannus Live upgrades (without seeing them first, I might add) need to go there and see the new venue for themselves. —Jay Cridlin, St. Petersburg Times/*tbt - Read Full Article»

This blurb ran in Sean Daly’s Pop Life column in the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday, June 27. Daly, you’re always welcome down JL way:

“Before the Fiddy Cent show a couple of weeks ago, Jannus Live’s Eric Snider gave me a tour of the rebooted venue. With the steroidal stage, sleek bars and celeb-stuffed VIP area where I plan on loitering “off the clock” — Hello, Jen Holloway, fancy meeting you here. Have you met my friend Gary Sheffield? — the joint offers hot bragging rights for downtown St. Petersburg. Capacity could grow to 2,000, which sho ...
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“The revamped Jannus Live continues to draw raves. Great, because we can’t take such venues for granted. Rock on. …” —part of Hooper’s column.

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From the St. Petersburg Times

From ABC Action News

Creative Loafing‘s Best of the Bay hit the streets and the web this week and we at Jannus Live are thrilled to have won not one, but two, Best of the Bays — one given by critics, the other as voted on by readers. Here they are:

READERS POLL:

BEST SMALL CONCERT VENUE

Jannus Live

Runners-up: Skipper’s Smokehouse, State Theatre, The Hideaway Café, Crowbar

CRITICS PICK:

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