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 Bob-Omb, 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
"A fragile gang delivering a charming rumble and fizz of tension and release..": Andy, afogofideas
"The effect is a bit like rubbing an ice lolly over a sunburned arm" : Brill Dream weblog
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 thegiveitups@googlemail.com
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 sam@tastyfanzine.org.uk 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!
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
Hi Ben! We have a brand new summer popcast up now at Popshifter magazine! Seventeen of our very favorite summer tunes, PLUS our newest recording "Summer's Gone"!
Catch a wave and surf on over to have a listen! Let us know what ya think!
Wow! Thank you so much to The Give it Ups, you were so amazing it really was fantastic. We loved having you a part of the Weekender. Bristol needs you back soon. XX Matthew and heather
Just a quick note to let you know that our debut EP, "Willow Pattern Songs" is now available as a digital download from Amazon (UK, US, Germany etc.), iTunes and other good mp3 stores, as well as a limited edition CD from Rough Trade, HMV Japan and Proper Songs.
Online Now!
