The career of Christian Gibbs, frontman for C. Gibbs and the Cardia Brothers, has gone full circle. From performing as a solo act to being part of a one-hit wonder band and back again, Gibbs has seen nearly everything the music industry has to offer.

Between working as a caterer, doing some security and working for a moving company, Gibbs has always found time for his music. Gibbs began his lengthy and tumultuous music career when he moved to England in his early twenties and started answering ads in newspapers calling for musicians.

“I answered one ad and asked the guy what the band’s style was. He asked, ‘Have you ever heard of Modern English?'” Gibbs says.

“[I said] ‘Yeah, I used to watch them on MTV,'” says Gibbs.

Almost two months after answering the ad, Gibbs says he was on tour with Modern English, the one-hit-wonder band best known for its only hit “I Melt With You.”

Gibbs says touring with Modern English was a big reality check for him as a person and as a musician.

“It was an insight on how far you can go on a certain level,” Gibbs says. “It was also a catharsis to me in making the decision to not go back to college.”

Shortly after joining the band, Gibbs was traveling throughout the United States and playing music in front of large groups of people, instead of cramming for finals and staying up all night writing papers like most twenty-somethings.

“How could I pass up that opportunity?” Gibbs says.

After leaving Modern English, Gibbs joined up with the Morning Glories. Unlike Modern English, the Morning Glories had a harder, edgier take on blues music. Gibbs says he also played guitar for Foetus (pronounced fetus), an industrial band whose sound was quite a change from Gibbs’ own personal style. After leaving Foetus, Gibbs moved on to his next band, The C. Gibbs Review.

Releasing the album “29 Over Me” in 1999, Gibbs’ career began reaching the mainstream music community.

He started opening for notable acts like John Mellencamp, Son Volt and Everclear. In the midst of the flurry of touring and recording, Gibbs says he also found time to play bass for Phantom Chords, as well as opening for comedian Margaret Cho.

Gibbs and his band, The Cardia Bros., will have their latest album, “The Pinkermen Set,” available at the show to buy.

Without giving too much information away about his upcoming show, Gibbs says his set at the M-Shop will mostly be plugged in and not acoustic. Several of the acoustic songs Gibbs has been working on have yet to be released to the public.

“We’ll be playing some songs from our album, as well as some acoustic stuff,” Gibbs says.

Having toured all but two states in the country and a portion of Europe, Gibbs says the Midwest is definitely more receptive to his self-described “swamp blues-country” music than people on the East or West Coast.

“The kind of music I play is more popular, it seems, in the South and Midwest,” San Diego native Gibbs says. “I think my music is more indicative of where I’m from.”