Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, The Terrible Twos) has announced a 2024 headlining solo tour celebrating his forthcoming debut memoir Red Letter Days, due out on January 23rd via Washed Up Books. The shows, which begin at Baltimore, MD’s Metro Gallery on January 18th, will feature his formative songs and life stories and include NYC’s Knitting Factory at Baker Falls on January 21st. Tickets go on-sale today at 1pm Eastern time HERE. More shows will soon be announced.
Taken from journal entries between 1990-2000, Red Letter Days is a collection of short vignettes that follow the life of a musician growing up, pursuing his dream of being a successful musician, and his earliest experiences crisscrossing the country (and continents) with his seminal band, The Get Up Kids. For the first time ever, Pryor reveals intimate stories about his struggle with childhood diabetes, what it was like on tour in the days before texting, and all the larger than life characters he meets along the way. Red Letter Days–available only in print softcover and featuring 22 rare and never-before-seen photographs of the period by Michael Dubin and Paul Drake–can now be pre-ordered HERE.
Red Letter Days is a snapshot of a time period that feels nostalgic yet familiar. “This was never meant to be a book about emo or even the band in particular, I didn’t want to write about the ‘scene.’ That is already well documented,” he explains. “Every one of the stories in the book is one that I’ve told backstage, at a bar, or on a porch. I wanted to translate them from an oral tradition to a written one.” From playing shows in nontraditional venues, to experiences with lifelong friends, acquaintances, and business associates, Red Letter Days gives insight into how Pryor processed this formative time period that saw some of his most memorable moments.
Matt Pryor – 2024 Tour Dates:
01/18/24 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
01/19/24 – Philadelphia, PA – The Parish Room at First Unitarian Church
01/20/24 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
01/21/24 – New York, NY – Knitting Factory at Baker Falls
