CANADIAN punk rockers PUP are gearing up to play The Rainbow in Birmingham.
The Toronto four piece will perform tracks from their latest album, The Dream Is Over.
Those were the exact words a doctor said to singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock upon discovering one of his vocal cords had a small cyst and was beginning to haemorrhage.
Although PUP, completed by drummer Zack Mykula, bassist Nestor Chumak and guitarist Steve Sladkowski, had to end 2015 by cancelling their last couple of shows, by releasing new music and getting back on the road, they are now proving their dream is still very much alive.
Babcock said: "We had a clear idea of what we wanted to do this time around. We knew that we wanted it to be heavier than the first record, we knew that we wanted to keep all the weird, quirky time signatures and we knew that we wanted to have banging choruses. We went into it with one mindset and everybody knew what their own individual goals were on the record.”
Tickets for the show on Tuesday (August 30) are available via birminghampromoters.com
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