When we announced Blake Scharzenbach and Aaron Cometbus’ Thorns Of Life, a few days ago, commenters brought up another recent ’90s resurfacing: I wouldn’t put the Get Up Kids in the same league as Jawbreaker (sorry), but the guys did just play a reunion show at the Record Bar Kansas City in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Something To Write Home About. They performed the album from start to finish, along with six bonus encore tracks. Let’s start with “Holiday” since that’s where they started.
“Holiday”
“Action & Action”
You can watch more at YouTube via lockerpartner. They didn’t seem to get “Ten Minutes.” But this person did:
“Ten Minutes”
And, because I know you want to get choked up, here’s Matthew Pryor talking about the 2009 tour and reminiscing about the Bowery Ballroom and his engagement to his wife before playing “I’ll Catch You.”
You’ll find the encore, if you look around. Also keep your eyes open for a full-on reunion tour and a re-released of Something via Vagrant. It’ll include a DVD and photo book. And lots of emo.
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The 16 yr-old in me is weeping uncontrollably.
I saw Pryor play solo this year, and my inner 16-year-old shed a little emo tear when he didn’t play “I’ll Catch You.”
LOL. Same here.
I love these guys, thanks for posting the vids. I can’t wait for them to do the full reunion tour.
What do they have to gain by getting back together? At best they put out a couple decent albums and tour again, at worst they tarnish their legacy.
I think this is just a tour to mark “Something to Write Home About”‘s 10th Anniversary. They’ve only been broken up for 3 years — For some bands out there, that is just the time elapsed between their two latest releases. Not to mention, the bassist now plays in Spoon, so I don’t know what the long-term future for their reunion is and I doubt any new releases will come out of this since the main reason they broke up was because everyone wanted to do different things creatively.
“on a wire” is easily their best album
Went to this…it ruled.
Also, got to see Kevin Kusatsus, which is always nice…
That was great. I hadn’t realized how long it had been since I heard those songs. They all look so old too. Anyway, thanks for the memories.
Young indie bands please take notes!!! I miss this band so much!
More pics, and setlist:
http://popwreckoning.com/2008/11/17/get-up-kids-reunion-show-record-bar-kansas-city/
yeah, like matt pryor needs another project to start (again)…
the get up kids
new amsterdams
terrible twos
matt pryor (solo)
the get up kids reunion tour…