The Get Up Kids - 25 Years of Something To Write Home About

25 Years Of Something To Write Home About THE GET UP KIDS Smoking Popes Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 8pm The Rave/Eagles Club 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave Milwaukee WI 53233 All Ages Advance tickets start at $29.00 All information subject to change. Please visit www.therave.com/getup for any changes that may have been made since this listing was created. The Get Up Kids have announced a North American headlining tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1999 LP, Something To Write Home About. The 29-date trek will see the band playing the album in its entirety at each show, including The Rave/Eagles Club in Milwaukee on October 8th. In the two and a half decades since the release of this landmark album, the four core members of The Get Up Kids — Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, and Ryan Pope — have explored side projects, helmed solo ventures, and held stints in high-profile bands. They’ve also started businesses, found spouses, and raised kids. Still, run into them on the streets of Lawrence, Kansas, these days, and you’ll find that — perhaps beneath a beard — each has retained the high-spirited, unwavering authenticity that fans stood feet from at basement shows before the band’s sophomore breakthrough. Something to Write Home About has landed in a similar place: recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band’s scene. The album has been established as an important late-millennium rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and punk, it provided the parameters for emo’s Midwest-centered second wave. Today, Something to Write Home About still sounds like the lodestar it was for its fleet of followers, but it also retains something singular: an affecting, unaffected quality richer than its genre associations, bigger than its hooks, and deeper than mere twentysomething turmoil. The anniversary tour will be a chance for fans to rediscover the album or to revel in a classic they’ve never forgotten, and experience it live with the brash, big-hearted band that loves it as much as them. “Anybody can start a band when you're 20 and go on tour and have a couple of years of fun with that. But what it became, at least to us, is the reason that we can still do this now,” says Pryor. “We are doing this as a celebration, and we're going to have a party every night on stage.” The Get Up Kids’ most recent full length album–2019’s Problems, produced by Peter Katis (Kurt Vile, The National) and released via Polyvinyl Record Co.–earned the band a Top 10 debut on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart, and career-high critical acclaim from SPIN, Billboard, Kerrang!, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, All Music, Newsday (3.5/4 stars), Exclaim! (9/10 stars), Punknews (4.5/5), and more. Described by Stereogum as “a validation and revamp of Get Up Kids 2.0, honoring the indie-leaning sound of 2004’s Guilt Show and There Are Rules with a stronger sense of confidence and melody”, Problems followed their celebrated “return to form” EP Kicker that earned praise and support from outlets like Pitchfork, The FADER, Billboard, The AV Club, SPIN, Consequence, and Modern Drummer, among others Purchase tickets at eTix.com, charge by phone at 414-342-7283, or visit our box office at 2401 W. Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee. Box office and charge by phone hours are Mon-Fri 10am-6pm (open later on show nights). Don't buy from 3rd party sites. Only buy tickets from TheRave.com, ElEaglesLive.com, eTix.com, or links provided by The Rave, ElEaglesLIVE or official band sites. The Get Up Kids www.facebook.com/TheGetUpKids www.x.com/thegetupkids www.instagram.com/TheGetUpKids Smoking Popes www.smokingpopesmusic.com/ www.facebook.com/smokingpopes www.x.com/smoking_popes www.instagram.com/smokingpopesmusic