Reviews, speculations, or other things about live shows and other concert type things.
The last time I saw Taking Back Sunday, with original members John Nolan and Shaun Cooper, was a show that sticks out clear as day in my memory. It was April 26th, 2003, the Saturday date of the Skate and Surf festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Taking Back Sunday was playing the main...
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When The Get Up Kids announced that they would be playing at Blender Theater in New York City on May 1st, 2009, well–to say that I was excited would be an understatement. They had announced awhile back that they would be playing a reunion show at The Bamboozle festival (that same weekend), but that’s...
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The last time anyone saw The Get Up Kids in San Francisco was in 2005 when the bands who opened for them were the very unknown Punchline from PA (still relatively unknown) and the relatively unheardof Say Anything from LA, CA (now a seemingly large pile of scene). This show was at The (legendary)...
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I’d like to begin this with a quote from TGUK themselves: If we had known what we know now… One year later, we’d still be around. Of course, many people draw the idea that TGUK is doing this because of money. They are re-releasing, arguably, their best record Something to Write Home About, and...
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