I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: September 27, 2024] The Get Up Kids / Smoking Popes

Back in 2022 I wrote

My friend Al got me into The Get Up Kids back in the early 2000s.  “Mass Pike” is a frequently played song on road trips.  My Get Up Kids album is Something to Write Home About.  I never really got that into Four Minute Mile.  So, even though this show could have been fun, it wouldn’t quite have been for me.

And here they are two years later touring for that very album.

But it was the same night that I was going to see Mannequin Pussy and Margaritas Podridas, who I was really excited to see.

So, once again I missed The Get Up Kids.

Smoking Popes seem like an unlikely opening act.  I didn’t even know they were still a band.  I enjoyed their Born to Quit album quite a bit.  And the one after that was pretty good too.  Apparently at some point in their career, someone in the band became a Christian and the band broke up.

Then they reunited about twenty years ago (!) and have put out a few records since.   I’m sure it would have been fun to hear the old songs again.  Maybe I’ll bust them out on Spotify.