PUP RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR “RESERVOIR”, DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED OCTOBER 8, PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES

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TORONTO PUNK OUTFIT PUP RELEASES CHAOTIC VIDEO FOR “RESERVOIR”, CONTINUES “SO IT GOES” TOUR WITH HOLLERADO INCLUDING DATES WITH FUCKED UP AND BILLY TALENT, A PERFORMANCE AT CMJ, AND A HOMETOWN ALBUM RELEASE SHOW ON OCTOBER 17.  PREORDER PUP’S SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM FROM ITUNES TODAY, RELEASED OCTOBER 8 ON ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS. ALL TOUR DATES LISTED BELOW.

Toronto punk band PUP is a trainwreck on stage and their new video for “Reservoir” isn’t going to change that.  Just like the album track itself, the video is a ridiculous, self-destructive, shit-show gone awry. “It's two and a half minutes of face destroying, hand breaking, full contact free-for-all, climaxing in a full-blown, on-stage fatality,” says frontman Stefan Babcock. Infamous Toronto promoter Dan Burke has a cameo; that’s how you know things are going to get messy.

Taking the visceral energy and recklessness of a PUP gig to the extreme, directors Chandler Levack and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux take cues from live videos of punk legends like Black Flag and Minor Threat. “They wanted to channel the same sort of rawness, except with more blood, gore, and glory,” says Babcock. “This video has it all: drunk Kids, crowd surfing, fake blood, real blood, destroyed gear… It's a total cluster-fuck and we love it.”

Supporting the upcoming release of their debut self-titled album, out October 8 on Royal Mountain Records, PUP is currently touring the nation with label-mates Hollerado and playing sets with Fucked Up and Billy Talent.  Recorded with legendary producer Dave Schiffman (Weezer, The Bronx, Rage Against The Machine, Mars Volta), PUP is chock full of the raw energy that makes up every live show, with many tracks recorded live off the floor.

CANADIAN TOUR DATES

Sept 26 – Waterloo, ON @ The Starlight

Sept 27 – London, ON @ Call The Office

Sept 28 – Ottawa, ON @ Oktoberfest


October 03 - Guelph, ON @ Peter Clarke Hall


October 04 – Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah


October 05 - Ridgeway, ON @ Sanctuary

October 06 - Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theater #

October 15 - Brooklyn NY @ Cameo (CMJ)

October 17 – Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dees (RECORD LAUNCH PARTY)

October 18 - Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Du Mile End


October 22 - Moncton, NB  @ Tide & Boar


October 23 - Charlottetown, PEI @ Hunter's Ale House


October 24 - Halifax, NS @ The Marquee | Halifax Pop Explosion*


October 26 - Fredericton, NB  @ LAVA Vodka Bar


October 31 - Sudbury, ON @ The Townehouse


November 01 - Sault Ste Marie, ON @ LopLops


November 02 - Thunder Bay, ON @ Crocks


November 05 - Saskatoon, SK  @ Amigo's


November 07 - Lethbridge, AB  @ The Slice


November 08 - Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room


November 09 – Calgary, AB @ The Republik


November 12 - Kamloops, BC @ The Blue Grotto


November 13 - Kelowna, BC  @ The Habitat


November 14 - Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore


November 15 - Cumberland, BC @ The Waverly Hotel


November 16 - Victoria, BC @ Sugar


November 17 - Whistler, BC  @ GLC


November 20 - Canmore, AB @ Communitea Cafe


November 21 - Medicine Hat, AB @ Schooners Pub


November 22 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange


November 23 - Winnipeg, MB  @ The Park Theatre

* With FUCKED UP

# With Billy Talent

All other dates with Hollerado on the "SO IT GOES” TOUR

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