It was their fifth local concert in 12 months, an untenable pace, and it didn't sell out. Here, finally, it seemed like Tampa Bay might be suffering from Twenty One Pilots fatigue. 'They're making music that sounds really good in the contemporary mix of what's out there the lyrics are highly relatable for anyone, especially young people and they put on a really electric show,' said former 97X music director Joel Weiss. By this point, Twenty One Pilots had begun to master the formula that made them so unique. 'Checking Twitter and Facebook the following day revealed the group had won several new fans,' wrote a reviewer for USF's Oracle, 'with more than a few fans proclaiming they had outperformed Cobra Starship.' The duo acknowledged the love on Twitter, writing: 'USF is awesome and we can't wait to come back to Tampa.'Īnother Florida date, another sellout, this time opening for Fall Out Boy. But to some, the unknown openers stole the show. Twenty One Pilots barely warranted a mention in the build-up to the University of South Florida's annual spring concert, headlined by Jack's Mannequin and Cobra Starship. Let's flash back five years to see how they got there.

Their sold-out show Tuesday at Amalie Arena will be their 10th in Tampa Bay. But local fans were there from the beginning. So how did Twenty One Pilots get so huge, so fast? It's a long story. 'I've never picked up the phone to someone who's said, 'You're playing too much Twenty One Pilots.' It's never happened.' 'Nobody ever gets tired of it,' said 97X host Danielle McBroom. 1 spinner of the band in the country.' In one recent seven-day span, 97X played Twenty One Pilots 169 times - a pace of once an hour.

Over the past five years, the station has played hits like Stressed Out, Heathens and Ride some 15,000 times, said director of branding and programming Dan Connelly, making 97X 'the No. Thanks to early and ardent support from local alt-rock station 97X (WSUN-97.1 FM), this has long been one of Twenty One Pilots' strongest markets outside their home state.

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