Get Up Kids formed

While in high school, Ryan Pope , Rob Pope , and Jim Suptic formed a short-lived band called Kingpin. Matt Pryor had been writing songs since he was a teenager, and was playing in a band called Secret Decoder Ring. Following the demise of the two bands in 1995, the Get Up Kids were formed. The band originally planned on calling themselves the Suburban Get Up Kids until reasoning that there were fewer band names beginning with the letter ‘G’ than there are with the letter ‘S’, and that therefore they were more likely to be noticed in a record store if their name began with a ‘G’. The band was formed on October 14, 1995, on Suptic’s 18th birthday. They played their first show supporting Mineral on the same night as their high school prom.