Smash It Up has been running in Hull since 1998 and before that in Northampton since 1995. It has put on countless bands in that time including: GBH, Senseless Things, Down By Law, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Johnny Moped, U.K.Subs, The Vi*****rs, Anti Nowhere League, Capdown, 999, Discharge, Abrasive Wheels, English Dogs, Duncan Reid and The Big Heads, China Drum, The Lurkers, EXTC, Neville
Staple (The Specials),Warzone, Tribute to Nothing, One Car Pile Up, Midway Still, Skimmer, Link 80, Assert, The Beat, The Freaks Union, 4ft Fingers, Not Katies, Fletcher, Whitmore, Defenestration, Phinius Gage, Pete Bentham and The Dinner Ladies, The Reputation, Even In Blackouts, The Dead Pets, Swellbellys, The Reputation, Eddie Tenpole Tudor, Vanilla Pod, The Briggs, Red Lights Flash, Cute Lepers, Cyanide Pills, Nothington, Towers of London, Millie Manders and The Shutup, Acid Drop, Aerial Salad, The Nobodys, Travis Cut, Whizzwood, Leek and The Bouncing Uptones, The Supatones, Fandangle, Ming City Rockers, Nose Bleed and many, many, many more.