Australian guitar-pop sensations duo Royel Otis played a crowded Uptown Theater (after being brought indoors and upgraded from GrindersKC) in midtown Kansas City, in support of their second full-length, hickey, released in August (via Ourness/Capitol Records). Explaining the album title, the pair has said "…because love bites harder than any other emotion in the world."
Let’s take look at the Kansas City / Lawrence KS metro musical happenings for the first days of the month, October 1st-5th
Rocktober! Here are some shows in Minneapolis/St Paul on October 2, 2025.
• Frankie and the Witch Fingers at Turf Club (Oct 2, 2025)
• Ruston Kelly at Fine Line (Oct 2, 2025)
• Low Cut Connie at First Avenue (Oct 2, 2025)
• Royel Otis at Palace Theatre (Oct 2, 2025)
Downtown was quiet with no ravenous sports fans or torrential rain filling the streets. In fact, it was a perfect night to stroll to a venue. Even better was the casual scene at the velvet rope as the person in front of me and a Fine Line staffer shared a bonding moment for the patron wore a baseball cap with Snoopy donning headphones and the staffer sported a Snoopy flying ace tattoo on his left arm.
Snoopy has found much love with the Gen Z generation and it was a young crowd that waited for one of the hottest bands out of Chicago (Friko) to take the stage.