Jimmy Eat World & PUP in Toronto

Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative-rock band formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993. Their guitar-driven mix of emo, power pop and pop punk is best known through the album Bleed American and the songs “The Middle” and “Sweetness”; the follow-up Futures added “Pain” and “Work” to their catalogue. On the 2002 Pop Disaster Tour, Jimmy Eat World opened North American amphitheatre dates for Blink-182 and Green Day. The band marked the tenth anniversary of Clarity with the 2009 Clarity x 10 tour, performing the album in full, and later co-headlined The Amplified Echoes Tour with Manchester Orchestra in 2023.

PUP is a Canadian punk rock band formed in Toronto in 2010 by Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Steve Sladkowski and Zack Mykula. Originally called Topanga, the group adopted its present name before releasing the album PUP. The Dream Is Over and Morbid Stuff followed, bringing songs including “DVP,” “Kids” and “Scorpion Hill.” In 2014, PUP opened for The Menzingers on a North American tour. Five years later, the band mounted a North American headline tour supporting Morbid Stuff, then co-headlined another run with Joyce Manor in 2023; Pool Kids opened those shows. PUP has performed at Coachella in Indio and at both Reading and Leeds in England.