About The Get Up Kids This record was definitely a group effort, The Get Up Kids guitarist and vocalist Matt Pryor says, comparing the new Vagrant Records album On A Wire to the group s much-heralded 1999 effort, Something to Write Home About. The last one was a bit more one-sided, but this one is definitely everybody s baby.
     
      It s no surprise that Pryor has infants on his mind: As we chat, his wife is several days overdue in delivering their first child. He s pretending to be calm, but the parents among us know how he s really feeling. In any event, this baby business is an apt metaphor for dropping a new album, especially one as highly anticipated as On A Wire, which was nearly three years in the making.
     
      Why the long delay from a combo that has previously been so prolific (two albums, two EPs, and five 7-inches in six years)?
     
      We don t write on tour, Pryor says. We mean to, but it just never works out that way. Then I moved to Boston, and [drummer] Ryan [Pope] moved to L.A. This was in 2000, and we were only seeing each other when we got togeth... (More GET UP KIDS Biography)