The Get Up Kids become Break Up Kids
Muzieknieuws 09-03-2005 14:54
The Get Up Kids decided to break up. The band exsted for about ten years and recorded close to a hundred songs.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the rumors 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. We're celebrating the release of our as-of-yet-untitled live record and we're coming around one final time."
The formation is going to tour one more time through homeland United States. Their final show will be in hometown Kansas City during the Fourth of July weekend 2005.
Despite their break-up drummer Ryan Pope, see photo, and the rest of the band look back on their musical career with pride and joy:
"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."
