Back in 2010, the Beetkeepers lone album was reissued by Old 3C and the band got together to play a show, per this Columbus Alive article:
In the winter of 1988, J.P. Olsen, Steve Perakis and John Messersmith gathered in what Olsen calls “a crappy, cold apartment off North High” and became The Beetkeepers, concocting a thoughtful, jangly brand of college rock reminiscent of what R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven were doing in those days.
The band practiced almost daily for a couple of months. Then they started playing shows and quit practicing altogether. After releasing an album the following spring, The Beetkeepers called it quits a few months later when Olsen moved to New York for a reporting job
Time-wise, the band was little more than a blip in Columbus music history, but they made a deep impression on Ohio music archivist Paul Nini -- enough that he reissued their self-titled album this year on his Old 3C label. And just in time for a new generation to discover the recordings, The Beetkeepers will take the stage for the first time in two decades Saturday at Rumba.
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