The Get Up Kids - 25 Years of Something To Write Home About Tour
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19 September 2025 starting 9:30 am
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In the two and a half decades since the release of their landmark second album
Something to Write Home About, 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. And to mark 25 years since its arrival, The
Get Up Kids will perform the album in full throughout Australia.
Released in September of 1999, Something to Write Home About 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. Youthful yet assured, the album expands and refines the sound of the band's 1997
debut Four Minute Mile. Amplified and acoustic guitars by Pryor and Suptic are coupled
with keys and synths provided by former member James Dewees.
Throughout, strings and celeste mesh with pop-indebted harmonies as the Pope Brothers'
rhythm section propels each song. The lyrics, carried primarily by Pryor's pugnacious
vocals, use relationships as a springboard to explore betrayal, conviction, and ambition.
His plainspoken poetry is in turn direct and oblique, all kindling for fresh fires in addition to
those already burning for decades of faithful listeners.
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. And through emo's reappraisals and revivals, the band-which now includes
keyboard player Dustin Kinsey-has carried on, releasing albums, remaining friends, and
playing all over the world.
The upcoming Something to Write Home About 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, bighearted 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.
LION ARTS FACTORY, ADELAIDE // FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19
Something to Write Home About, 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. And to mark 25 years since its arrival, The
Get Up Kids will perform the album in full throughout Australia.
Released in September of 1999, Something to Write Home About 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. Youthful yet assured, the album expands and refines the sound of the band's 1997
debut Four Minute Mile. Amplified and acoustic guitars by Pryor and Suptic are coupled
with keys and synths provided by former member James Dewees.
Throughout, strings and celeste mesh with pop-indebted harmonies as the Pope Brothers'
rhythm section propels each song. The lyrics, carried primarily by Pryor's pugnacious
vocals, use relationships as a springboard to explore betrayal, conviction, and ambition.
His plainspoken poetry is in turn direct and oblique, all kindling for fresh fires in addition to
those already burning for decades of faithful listeners.
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. And through emo's reappraisals and revivals, the band-which now includes
keyboard player Dustin Kinsey-has carried on, releasing albums, remaining friends, and
playing all over the world.
The upcoming Something to Write Home About 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, bighearted 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.
LION ARTS FACTORY, ADELAIDE // FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19
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