UPDATE: POP PUNK GROUP - THE GET UP KIDS VENUE CHANGE AND NOW A TWO FOR ONE TICKET SPECIAL Pop punkers The Get Up Kids performance in Auckland this Thursday 11th August has now moved from the Powerstation to the more intimate surroundings of Parnell’s Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle, 144 Parnell Road, Parnell. A ‘Two-for-one’ ticket special for the show is now available when you purchase tickets through www.ticketmaster.co.nz and Real Groovy. Tickets already purchased for the Powerstation show are still valid for the new venue AND now qualify for the two-for-one special BUT if you hold a ticket you must contact Ticketmaster before 6pm on show day. By Quoting your ticket number/reference you will be sent another ticket. This two-for-one special will not be available if ticket holders wait until entry. Local support from The Jury & The Saint – with doors at 8pm. The old Windsor Castle – once the spiritual home of Auckland punk and post punk in the late 70s , early 80s , should be bouncing to the breathless hooks and feverish intensity of the Get Up Kids when they storm the stage this Thursday. --------------- THE GET UP KIDS HEAD TO NEW ZEALAND FOR ONE SHOW… Its been over ten years since five kids from Kansas City; USA crashed the party of every punk-leaning teen worldwide with their breathless hooks and feverish intensity. In the blink of an eye THE GET UP KIDS were suddenly the darlings of the underground, cementing their significance with 1999s seminal Something To Write Home About…. “Its original, powerful, aggressive, heartfelt... it is simply the greatest pop punk album ever written. Sputnik Music In 2005 the group played their presumed final set of tours dates before the band members continued with various individual projects. Pryor with the New Amsterdam’s and his kids music project, the Terrible Twos; Dewees with Reggie and the Full Effect; Suptic with his own Blackpool Lights; and the Pope brothers with Koufax. However, the group reunited after a four-year hiatus to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their classic album, 2009’s Something to Write Home About with a deluxe reissue and a tour. Following this reunion the band wrote an albums worth of new material that was to be released as a series of EPs. The first, Simple Science, arrived in April and promptly reached the Billboard charts, proving that the band still had a devoted audience. After the release of Simple Science, the band scrapped their three EP plan, instead combining the other songs with even more new material and releasing it as a full-length album. The result was their fifth full-length; There Are Rules, which the band self-released through their own Quality Hill label. The first full-length album in seven years, There Are Rules continues where last years Simple Science EP left off. Visiting New Zealand this August, THE GET UP KIDS will be bringing that same attitude and depth, but more adhesive and endearing than before, All in all, they are one band that should not be missed at any opportunity. - Faster Louder
