Bowling for Soup in Fort Lauderdale: Pop-Punk Nostalgia at Revolution Live Is a Singalong Date Night

If you're looking for date ideas in Fort Lauderdale this weekend, Sunday night just got loud — in the best way. Bowling for Soup brings the Hey! Let's Be Friends Tour to Revolution Live in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM, with Ballyhoo! and rosecoloredworld opening the night.

Bowling for Soup is the Texas pop-punk band couples of a certain age have been singing along with for three decades: frontman Jaret Reddick, a guitar, and choruses engineered to be shouted with somebody next to you. For couples hunting for things to do in Fort Lauderdale for couples that go louder than dinner and a movie, this is the nostalgia version of a live music date night.

What the Hey! Let's Be Friends Tour actually is

This is a full three-band pop-punk night, not a quick headline set. rosecoloredworld opens, Ballyhoo! — Maryland's reggae-rock road dogs — plays the middle slot, and Bowling for Soup closes with the catalog: “1985,” “Girl All the Bad Guys Want,” “High School Never Ends,” and “Almost,” the songs that turned every car ride in the 2000s into a two-person singalong.

A Bowling for Soup show is comedy as much as concert — Reddick riffs between songs, the band leans into the joke, and the room spends half the night laughing and the other half yelling every word. Revolution Live is a standing-room room, so there is no seat between you and your date: you stand close, you move together, and the chorus does the rest.

Why this is a great Fort Lauderdale date

Some concerts you watch politely. This one you participate in — and that's why it works as one of the most fun date ideas in Fort Lauderdale this weekend. Every couple in that room knows the words to “1985,” and singing a song about growing up, together, with the person you're growing up with, lands differently than it did at seventeen. It is romantic things to do in Fort Lauderdale, pop-punk edition: not candlelit, just genuinely joyful.

The setting helps, too. Revolution Live sits a block off Broward Boulevard in the middle of downtown, with the Himmarshee bar district right outside the doors — so the show is the center of a full night, not the whole logistics problem. Dinner before, the concert, a nightcap after: one neighborhood, one plan, and one of the best date spots in Fort Lauderdale this weekend because for one Sunday night, the date spot is wherever Bowling for Soup is playing.

The night itself: Sunday, November 15 in Fort Lauderdale

The show is at Revolution Live, 100 SW 3rd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, on Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM — the time on the official Ticketmaster listing and the venue's Bandsintown calendar, which is the time to plan around. Two openers means the night builds in layers: rosecoloredworld early, Ballyhoo! warming the room up, and Bowling for Soup closing it.

Our pick for couples: make downtown Fort Lauderdale the whole evening. Eat early on Las Olas Boulevard or in Himmarshee, be inside Revolution Live before Ballyhoo! starts, and let the Sunday timing work for you — a 6:30 PM show means the night ends at a reasonable hour with the work week intact, and you'll still spend the whole drive home trading favorite choruses.

Tickets, times, and the honest pricing note

We'll say this plainly, because the numbers move: the official listing for this show (JamBase, the ticket link on our events calendar) starts at about $46–$47, and that is the figure to budget from. Resale is a different, shifting market — listings checked on November 14 showed get-in prices scattered by seller, roughly $43 to $48 at the low end on the big resale sites, with average resale prices sitting in the $50s to $60s. Those figures can sit above or below face value and will change before showtime, so the checkout total is the final word.

One honest caution on timing, too: a few resale listings show a 7:30 PM start, but Ticketmaster — the official seller — and the venue listings checked on November 14 both say 6:30 PM. Plan for 6:30 PM; arriving an hour early for a concert is a much better mistake than arriving an hour late. The important good news: tickets were still available on the morning of November 14 — this show was not sold out. Book through the ticket page for Bowling for Soup at Revolution Live and confirm your exact seat — well, standing spot — price before you pay.

How to do this date right

Get there for Ballyhoo!. They're not a filler opener — they're a co-billed touring act with their own following, and their reggae-rock set is the warm-up this bill was built around. A 6:30 PM show with two openers rewards arriving at the start, not at headliner time.

Eat downtown first. Las Olas and Himmarshee fill up on show nights, and Revolution Live is standing room — dinner beforehand beats standing through three sets on an empty stomach. Early table, short walk, one parking stop.

Dress for standing, not sitting. It's a general-admission floor: comfortable shoes, no giant bag, and a spot near the middle of the room where the singalong is loudest and the two of you can actually move.

Stay for “1985.” The closer-era stretch is the reason this show works as a date — the whole room, arms up, singing about a decade neither of you is in anymore. Leaving early to beat the garage line trades the best five minutes of the date for five minutes of driving.

Getting there

Revolution Live, 100 SW 3rd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 — in the Himmarshee district of downtown Fort Lauderdale, a block off Broward Boulevard and an easy walk from Las Olas. Downtown garages and lots surround the venue; on a Sunday show night, arriving early is the difference between a relaxed start and a stressful one. More picks like this are on our events calendar.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: When is Bowling for Soup playing Fort Lauderdale, Florida? A: Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM, at Revolution Live, 100 SW 3rd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 — the time on the official Ticketmaster listing.

Q: Who is opening for Bowling for Soup in Fort Lauderdale? A: Ballyhoo! and rosecoloredworld, on the Hey! Let's Be Friends Tour.

Q: How much are Bowling for Soup tickets at Revolution Live? A: The official JamBase listing starts at about $46–$47. Resale listings checked November 14, 2026 ran from about $43–$48 at the get-in end, with averages in the $50s–$60s — seller-set prices that move by the hour, so confirm your exact total at checkout.

Q: Is Bowling for Soup in Fort Lauderdale sold out? A: No — tickets were still available when listings were checked on the morning of November 14, 2026.

Q: Is Bowling for Soup at Revolution Live a good date night? A: Yes — it's one of the best date night ideas in Fort Lauderdale this weekend: a 6:30 PM Sunday standing-room show built on pop-punk choruses couples already know by heart, with dinner in Himmarshee or on Las Olas before and the bar district outside after.

One Sunday night only — then the tour rolls on

The Hey! Let's Be Friends Tour plays Fort Lauderdale for exactly one night: Sunday, November 15, at 6:30 PM at Revolution Live, and then it moves on to Fayetteville and Texas. If this is your night, get your tickets on the ticket page while they're still available. Still filling out the weekend? Our events calendar has the rest of South Florida's best dates, and our guide to romantic date ideas in Fort Lauderdale covers the candlelit half of the weekend.