Toronto punk heroes PUP released their pummeling and cathartic fifth LP, Who Will Look After The Dogs?, earlier this year via Little Dipper/ Rise Records, and now they are on a co-headline tour with their long-time buddy and collaborator Jeff Rosenstock!
Catch them live tonight at The Anthem — Friday, Sept. 12!
The co-headline tour is aptly titled PUP + JEFF ROSENSTOCK PRESENT: A CATACLYSMIC RAPTURE OF FRIENDSHIPNESS, where they will play songs like their collaboration “Get Dumber” and more live.
Watch the official music video for “Get Dumber” by PUP featuring Jeff Rosenstock on YouTube:
This is also not the first time PUP and Jeff have toured together — they did so once, about 10 years ago and here is some lore about how that went:
- Jeff’s van broke down. Twice.
- Stefan fell face first into a pile of cactuses while he was hiking with Jeff and his face and hands swelled up to gigantic proportions
- The sold out Denver show got cancelled because a blizzard stranded both bands in Wyoming
- Steve ate a weird gas station sandwich when they were stuck in Wyoming and ended up with food poisoning, spewing out of both ends
- All of Jeff’s gear got stolen out of his broken down van
- PUP cancelled the last week of shows because Stefan ruptured a vocal cord, and then PUP wrote a record called The Dream Is Over, the title being a direct reference to that tour.
Thankfully, things can only go up from here…if this tour doesn’t kill them, that is. They will also be offering low-income tickets throughout the tour with a limited amount of tickets for every show available for $20 at the venue box office.
On this, the band shared: “We know times are shit and hope this helps some people down to the ol’ gig who wouldn’t otherwise be able to! And we must admit, we completely stole this idea from Los Campesinos! who have been doing it for a while and encouraging other bands to offer this as well, so thank you Los Campesinos! for the inspiration.”
PUP and Jeff Rosenstock
W/ Ekko Astral
The Anthem
Friday, Sept. 12
Doors @ 6pm
$52.75 GA/ $90.95 Seats
All ages
