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Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

College pop quasi-legends The Get Up Kids are to split.

The band released a statement yesterday saying:

Ladies and gentlemen, the rumours are true. After ten years, close to a hundred recorded songs and several trips around the world, The Get Up Kids will be playing their last shows this summer.

The band will be heading off on a huge valedictory farewell tour, finishing off in their hometown of Kansas City on the July 4th Weekend.

The Get Up Kids added “As a group we'd like to thank each and everyone of you for supporting us over the years. Whether we slept on your floor in '97 or you drove all the way to Lawrence to see us play in '05, we are forever grateful. We feel it's best to let the last ten years speak as a document for what the band was. We can look back and say that we are proud of everything that we accomplished. In the end, we will always remember this as a good time; we hope that you remember it that way too.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

That's a shame. I really liked them in their early days, and I thought the Conversation single off the last album was good, but they were going a bit too laid-back for me in recent years.

Never mind, I'm sure there'll be interesting off-shoot bands to come out of the individual members (and then there's Reggie)

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Waaaaaaaaaaggghhhhh!!!!
First Promise Ring, then Elliott, now the Get Up Kids.
Ann Arbour is one of my favourite songs ever. Thats ruined my day.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

That's a shame, damned fine band. Everything I love eventually gets up and leaves :-(

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

Good band.

'Something to write home about' was a great album.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

damnit! the get up kids are a great band.
why do the good bands all split up and the shit ones becoming so popular !?!
hopefully the live album will be a suiting farewell to them.


homesick_alien is right , something to write home about was a classic.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

*crys emo tears*

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is that a daniel clowes drawing on your profile ?

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

Am I alone in having hated these wretched whingecore kings?

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

Looks like it. So far.

They were pretty good live, had one great record and did a nice Cure cover. Who could ask for more?

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I bought said record a couple of years ago because so many people recommended it. It made me feel sick. I recently sold it on Amazon Marketplace.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

these guys are overated.

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Yes, go away

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Stop fucking breathing you waste of a brain.

sorry, had to say that.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

i quite liked this band

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

bah. so they coming here before they split or what? i'm not gonna fly all the way there. it's been swell while it lasted.

Get Up Kids get up and go. Forever

A great band but they had lost the hunger. Gone were the frantically energetic shows of 2000 and before. Good to see they called it a day before it turned sour. The first and second albums are both classics.

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they hacve called it a day???????????????????

when???

what??

why??

their last album was pretty good obviously not to the standard of something...........

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