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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.

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The Brudenell is a lively and fun loving venue that embraces music and art under a wide and diverse umbrella that has no boundaries.

Our open music policy believes in freedom and creation and holds the belief that music and expression provide useful social interaction.

It is a community ‘non profitmaking’ venue, that holds charitable status, based in Leeds 6. The Brudenell Social Club is owned by its members, run by its members, for its members.

The Brudenell is most famous for hosting secret gigs for bands like Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Chiefs. However, it has been a centrepiece of the Leeds music scene for a number of years, and hosts gigs most nights of the week, which are put on by a variety of local promoters.

33 Queens Road,

Burley,

Leeds,

West Yorkshire,

England,

LS6 1NY.

0113 275 2411