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The Give It Ups

About Me

The Give It Ups are two girls and three boys from South London, who play short, fuzzy pop songs.
We've played alongside such musical wizards as: Horowitz, Milky Wimpshake, Hotpants Romance, Stars of Aviation, Mexican Kids at Home, Even As We Speak, The Loves, Pocketbooks and The School, and for promoters including Spiral Scratch, HDIF Presents, Fortuna Pop! and Sunny Inside Presents.
Please drop us a line on [email protected]
May 2009: EP release excitement! Our four song EP "The Give It Ups Sing" is going to be actually, properly released this summer, by Oddbox Records !
It's going to look like this...
... and you can pre-order it here . It'll be available in actual physical form from July 20th, or you should be able to pick up it's contents from iTunes, Emusic and wherever else from about a month after that. Pretty nifty, huh?
April 2009: New track available! "Four Day Week" has been included on A Layer of Chips CD-R compilation, which can be purchased from [email protected] for £1.50. The tracklisting is:
MJ Hibbett & the Validators - One of the Walls of My House
Moustache of Insanity - You and Things
The Hillfields - Delivered
Pocketbooks - Summertime
The Crayon Fields - How Loved You Are
Northern Portrait - I Give You Two Seconds to Entertain Me
Give it Ups - Four Day Week
Feb 2009: We recently did an actual, honest to god interview for the new issue of Iconoclastic Cardies fanzine, which is packed with great stuff, and you should go and buy one from their myspace here: www.myspace.com/iconoclasticcardieszine
You can still buy our very first single now on Cloudberry Records! Click on the scary cat below!


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/11/2007
Band Members: Alex , Ben, Carys, Jess, Russell and David Mk.II
Influences: Palaeontology, lost pets, The Velvet Underground, bank holidays, girl groups, The Vaselines, Jeffrey Lewis, DJ Bob Hoskins going mental in a dustbin, Elephant 6, comic books, rock n’ roll, alcohol, tea, coffee, The Ramones, Sex B-bomb, Jonathan Richman, The Modern Lovers, romantic entanglements, explorers, GI Joe PSAs, Mountain Goats (the), girl drummers, The Kinks, Beat Happening, black metal, Betty & The Werewolves, seeing robots everywhere, Shonen Knife, The Standells, Cylons, The Clean, Sam Cooke and thee Swellest of Maps.
Sounds Like: "...songs that have hooks so large you can hang duffle coats on them": Trev, Oddbox Records

"Cheery pop manoeuvres": Kitten Painting

"Beat Happening having a fight with Huggy Bear in Mothercare": Spiral Scratch

"The twee Pavement": Ian from Horowitz

"This band rock out just a little more than I remember from last time": Last Night From Glasgow blog

"The effect is a bit like rubbing an ice lolly over a sunburned arm" : Brill Dream weblog

"Pork chop sandwiches!": GI Joe
Record Label: Cloudberry, Oddbox, etc?
Type of Label: Major

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