Midwest emo vets The Get Up Kids will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their classic, massively influential 1999 album Something To Write Home About by playing it in full on tour this summer and fall. Support comes from another great, veteran Midwest band, Smoking Popes. The tour is bookended by appearances at Pittsburgh’s Four Chord Music Fest and Las Vegas’ second & fourth wave emo-centric Best Friends Forever fest. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday (4/26) at noon Eastern.
The NYC-area gets stops at Brooklyn’s Warsaw on September 28 and Asbury Park’s Stone Pony on October 1. All dates are listed below.
The Get Up Kids co-vocalist Matt Pryor also just released a memoir and you can hear him talk about it on Artist Friendly with Joel Madden.
The Get Up Kids — Something To Write Home About 25th Anniversary Tour
06/23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Four Chord Music Fest
08/23 – Dallas, TX – Studio at the Factory *
08/24 – Austin, TX – Mohawk *
08/25 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger *
08/27 – Phoenix, AZ – The Nile *
08/29 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park *
08/30 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
08/31 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
09/03 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
09/06 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Spokane *
09/07 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall *
09/08 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox *
09/10 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot *
09/11 – Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre *
09/13 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar *
09/14 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck *
09/24 – Columbus, OH – The Athenaeum *
09/25 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live! *
09/27 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
09/28 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw *
10/01 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony *
10/03 – Boston, MA – Big Night Live *
10/04 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City *
10/05 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall *
10/06 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall *
10/08 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave *
10/09 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater *
10/10 – Chicago, IL – Metro*
10/11 – Chicago, IL – Metro *
10/13 – Las Vegas, NV – Best Friends Forever Fest
* w/ Smoking Popes