Upcoming Events
Wheatus with Sweet, PUP, Buzzcocks, Chouji, Pinkshift, idontknowjeffery, Home Front, Weakened Friends, Dear Maryanne, Dave Hause, Kerosene Heights, Blood Command, Guilhem Desq, UNWELL, Leisure Hour, The Planet Smashers, Hate, Tim Vantol, Stay Inside, The Holy Mess, Pace Won, Les Dales Hawerchuk, The Penske File, DFL, Crazy & The Brains, The Anti-Queens, The Tazers, Elway, Not Scientists, Sad Saturno, DeeCRACKS, The Bollweevils, Antillectual, Tired Radio, Katacombs, NO BONES, Pacing, The Slow Death, Stop the Presses, Hit Like a Girl, Dead Bob, The Sainte Catherines, Rebuilder, Kat and the Hurricane, Matt Embree, Timeshares, Mvll Crimes, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Mike Frazier, Four Black Lungs, Cold Wrecks, Worlds Scariest Police Chases, Awful Din, 40 REPS, Five Hundred Bucks, One Leg One Eye, Rob Moir, Francbâtards, Gab De La Vega, Dead Alright, ¡FUÁKATA!, Black Guy Fawkes, Hell Beach, Blind Adam & the Federal League, Charlie Weber, On The Cinder, The Lookout, Sadlands, Junior Battles, Julius Sumner Miller, Among Legends, Midnight Peg, Fielding, Unseemlier, Tim Holehouse, Carences, As One Man, The Endorphins, Best Bear, Screaming at Traffic, Wrong Life, Ask Ophelia, The Skammers, The Jukebox Romantics, Dylan Lana, In The Meantime, Jackki Harrt, All My Friends Have Kids, Teddy Duchamps Army, Wayfarer, the Ghostwrite, Jesse LeBourdais, Teenage Bubblegums, Condition Oakland, Bedouin Soundclash, Pretty Bitter, Endless Mike & The Beagle Club, Krang, Baroness and Endless Mike & Beagle Club
Wheatus with PUP, Buzzcocks, Pinkshift, Home Front, Weakened Friends, Dear Maryanne, Dave Hause, Cancer Bats, Leisure Hour, The Planet Smashers, Laura Stevenson, The Creepshow, Gully Boys, Tim Vantol, Direct Hit!, Stay Inside, MakeWar, Half Past Two, Pkew Pkew Pkew, The Penske File, DFL, Crazy & The Brains, The Anti-Queens, Dead Bars, Devon Kay & the Solutions, Stop the Presses, Rebuilder, Billy Liar, Cold Wrecks, On The Cinder, Baroness, Wayfarer and Won't Stay Dead
Past Events
Pup is made up of four childhood friends who went to elementary school together. They originally called the band Topanga (a Boy Meets World reference) but changed the name just before the release of their first record after learning that the franchise was set to be rebooted by Disney. The new name PUP is said to be an acronym for Pathetic Use of Potential. They found inspiration for their logo from graffiti above a urinal at Sneaky Dee's.
The band originally recorded an EP and self-released it digitally. The EP started to get noticed and the group was approached by Hollerado to tour together. PUP has been named one of Canada's up and coming bands by the Calgary Herald, as well as one of Stereogum's top 40 bands of the year. PUP won 2 Bucky Awards from CBC Radio 3 for Best Live Show and Best New Artist in 2013, as well as being nominated for Best Video. They've played festivals such as NXNE, Halifax Pop Explosion, Pop Montreal, and CMW. From September to the end of November 2013, PUP joined Hollerado and the Zolas on a 24 stop tour across Canada to promote a newly released self-titled album. 2014 was a banner year for PUP, they went on their first tour of the UK, playing 8 shows around the country with the UK band Slaves. The first two shows of the tour in London were part of the NME Awards tour. After which they played South By Southwest in Austin, Texas followed by several more London shows and the Groezrock festival in Belgium. In May they started an extensive tour of the US with the Menzingers, Lemuria and Cayetana, playing 32 shows in 39 days. In August they opened for the Hives in London, England. In the Fall of 2014, Pup completed its first head-lining tour of Canada and the U.S.A., culminating in a sold-out concert at Toronto's Lee's Palace featuring a "next level" performance. In early 2015, Pup begins a multi-city tour of Australia, supporting The Smith Street Band.