Bumpin Uglies set a spring date at Beer City Music Hall

The road-tested punk-reggae band plays Oklahoma City on Tuesday, March 30, 2027, and tickets are already moving.

It's November, the patios are closing up, and Oklahoma City's reggae-and-punk crowd just got something to circle on next spring's calendar. Somewhere around the end of March, when the evenings stretch out again, a 500-capacity room on the Beer City Music Hall floor is going to be bouncing.

Bumpin Uglies play Beer City Music Hall on Tuesday, March 30, 2027, at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 27. Tickets run $23 to $75 through Prekindle, with the spread covering general admission up through the pricier options. It's a weeknight, but this is a band whose fans have never needed a Saturday to show up.

If you haven't caught them, Bumpin Uglies sit where punk energy meets reggae groove, part of the sprawling scene of touring bands that grew up on ska, dub and pop-punk and decided they didn't have to choose. They've built their following the old-fashioned way, by staying on the road. A Grateful Web report covered a 30-plus-date spring run, and The Pier wrote up a separate run billed as a Mid-Atlantic dub spring tour. That kind of mileage shows up on stage: tight, loud, and comfortable improvising with a crowd.

The catalog has range, too. Back in 2016 the band released the LP "Keep It Together," according to an announcement at the time, and toured that fall with Ballyhoo!. In 2023, they turned the volume down for "Underdog: The Acoustic Sessions," an acoustic LP they announced alongside fall dates with The Expendables, a pairing that tells you which corner of the reggae-rock map they call home. Their more recent studio record, "Lyrics Over Everything," came out in 2024 and gave its name to that year's tour, per the band's Wikipedia entry.

Why Beer City Music Hall? A room that holds 500 is right in the sweet spot for a band like this. It's big enough to feel like an event, with enough floor for the crowd to move when the tempo kicks up, but small enough that a singalong actually reaches the stage. Punk-reggae is a genre that lives or dies on the energy between the band and the first ten rows, and a mid-size hall keeps everybody in those ten rows.

On timing: the show is nearly five months out, which is good news if you like planning ahead and bad news if you tend to forget. Shows like this one have a habit of creeping toward sold out in the final weeks, and the lower-priced tickets in that $23-to-$75 range are usually the first to go. If you know you're in, it's worth buying while the cheap end is still on the board.

Put it in the phone now, tell the friend who still has your old ska compilation CD, and plan on a Tuesday in late March that feels a lot more like a Saturday.

Sources: Bumpin Uglies (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Bumpin Uglies Announce 30+ Date Spring Tour (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Bumpin Uglies Announce Mid-Atlantic Dub Spring Tour (The Pier) (thepier.org); Bumpin Uglies 'Keep It Together' Out Now; Band on Tour with Ballyhoo! This Fall (toddstarphotography.com); Bumpin Uglies announce Underdog: The Acoustic Sessions LP and fall tour dates w/ The Expendables (Icon vs. Icon) (iconvsicon.com); Bumpin Uglies tickets (Prekindle) (prekindle.com); Bumpin Uglies at Beer City Music Hall (JamBase) (jambase.com)