The Get Up Kids
Novemer 16, 2008
The Record Bar
By AARON LADAGE
Photos by FORESTER
“When the hell did the Get Up Kids get back together?”
Give or take the superfluous swear word, this was undoubtedly the question on most people’s minds when word of a TGUK reunion show started trickling in over the last few months and culminating in a hush-hush show announcement last week.
To answer that and several of the inevitable follow-up questions: yes, all five members of the Get Up Kids performed
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