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Mihali & Zdenek

Savoulidis  ·  Gubb

You are invited Waldoboro  ·  Maine  ·  March 7, 2026
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Chapter I

Born on
Orientation Day

Castleton State University, Vermont. September 2004. Two freshmen — Mihali Savoulidis and Ryan Dempsey — look at the official orientation schedule, look at each other, and walk away from it to go jam in a dorm room instead. Some bands are made. Some are inevitable.

Mihali came from New Jersey, carrying a Bob Marley flag and a reggae compilation from Camden Market London — a record containing Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin, whose sound Mihali described as "like a bumblebee exploded." That explosion never left his fingers.

I went to college to start a band. That was the whole plan.

— Mihali Savoulidis

Drummer Brook Jordan joined through a pit band in a college play. Then came the pivotal move: a MySpace message to a kid still in high school — bassist Zdenek Gubb. He replied: "Awesome." He was already a fan. By 2007, Zdenek stepped in and, as Mihali later said, that was when Twiddle truly began.

Chapter II

Two Voices,
One Current

Every great band has a center of gravity. For Twiddle it was always the axis between guitar and bass — between Mihali's soaring melodic architecture and Zdenek's deep, Earth Wind & Fire-schooled groove. They didn't play off each other. They thought off each other.

Guitar · Vocals · Vision

Mihali Savoulidis

Half-Greek, New Jersey born. Came to Vermont with a reggae tape and left a legend. His guitar sings — lyrical, searching, never the same solo twice. Dropped out after one semester. Best decision he ever made.

Bass · Vocals · Soul

Zdenek Gubb

Vermont native. Got the MySpace message while still in high school. Grew up on Earth, Wind & Fire and The Bee Gees. His bass doesn't follow — it leads from beneath, the pulse everything dances on top of.

Gubbulidis
n.   The duo that forms when two halves of Twiddle's soul return to first principles — Gubb + Savoulidis, stripped to guitar and bass. A compound of surnames. An uncomposite of music.

Chapter III

Eighteen Years
on the Road

They built it the old way: van, rehearsal, show, repeat. First at Nectar's for 100 people. Then sold out. Then Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, their own festival on the Burlington waterfront. 100M+ streams. 1,300+ documented live performances. A fanbase — the Twiddiots — who sustained it all.

2004
Castleton Dorm Room, Vermont
Mihali and Ryan skip orientation to jam. The name from a dictionary: "a fast series of musical notes." Also: jump, jigglewiggle, ramble, fumble.
2007
The MySpace Message — Zdenek Joins
A high schooler gets a message from the band he already loves. Zdenek says "awesome." Mihali calls this the real beginning — when they started taking it seriously enough to go somewhere.
2007
The Natural Evolution of Consciousness
Debut album. The title alone tells you everything about where they were always going to end up.
2011
Somewhere on the Mountain
The record that built the army. "Amydst the Myst." "When It Rains It Pours." "The Catapillar." The Twiddiots are born.
2017
PLUMP (Chapters 1 & 2)
The double-disc peak. Full power, no apology — funk, jazz, rock, reggae, bluegrass all breathing in the same body.
2022
Every Last Leaf
The final studio album. Darker, deeper. "Enigmatically stoic." A band in full command of itself, making a farewell they didn't yet know was one.
2023
Indefinite Hiatus
November 26. The road, the weight, eighteen years. Not an ending. A pause. The music doesn't stop — it waits.
NOW
Gubbulidis — Return to Root
Mihali and Zdenek. The original MySpace connection. Guitar and bass. What started in a dorm room doesn't need a stadium to be sacred.

The Catalog

Sound Archive

2007
The Natural Evolution of Consciousness
Debut · The beginning of everything
2011
Somewhere on the Mountain
The breakthrough · 100M+ streams
2014
Real Feel
Expanding the universe
2017
PLUMP (Chapters 1 & 2)
Double-disc peak · The axis fully revealed
2022
Every Last Leaf
Final studio album · Stoic & sublime

A / V Archive

Sound & Vision

A selection of live footage and studio cuts.

◈   Streaming server coming for the girls who can't make it   ◈

The Invitation

The Invitation · Maine · March 7, 2026

You Said
Yes

The message came at midnight. "Do you want to come to a show in Maine with me March 7th?" And you said yes. Because of course you said yes.

You're going to stand in a room where Mihali Savoulidis plays guitar like a bumblebee exploded, and Zdenek Gubb holds down the bottom of the universe, and something is going to happen to you that doesn't have a name yet.

That's what live music does when it's the right live music at the right moment. March 7th only happens once.

March 7, 2026Maine · Gubbulidis · General Admission

For the Road — Sabrina

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The Venue

Waldo Theatre

916 ME-220, Waldoboro, Maine
Saturday March 7, 2026 — 7:30 PM
Historic 1936 brick theatre. Small room. Intimate.

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Hotel

Trade Winds on the Bay

2 Park Drive, Rockland, ME 04841
Check-in: Sat Mar 7 — 4:00–7:00 PM
Check-out: Sun Mar 8 — by 11:00 AM
Deluxe One-Bedroom · Harbor View
2 adults

+1 207-596-6661
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Rental Car

Enterprise — Ford Escape

Pick-up: Sat Mar 7 @ 9:00 AM
Return: Sun Mar 8
319 King St, Downtown Fredericton
After-hours return · Intermediate SUV · Automatic

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The Drive

4 hr 35 min — 429 km

Fredericton → Woodstock → Houlton border crossing → I-95 S → Bangor → US-1 S → Rockland / Waldoboro

Border tip: Houlton / Woodstock crossing. Have passports. Going to a concert in Waldoboro, ME. Easy crossing.