Live Performances
The Saturdays started promoting "Up" on various television programmes in September 2008 when the group performed "Up" live at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. On 4 October 2008 the single was performed by the girl band on BBC television series Sound where the group also did an interview. "Up" was then performed on Channel 4 show Everybody Loves Lil' Chris on 10 October and then again GMTV on 11 October 2008. The Saturdays performed "Up" on British breakfast television series This Morning on 27 October 2008; Sandford was undergoing appendix surgery at the time and therefore was not present at this particular performance.
On 3 January 2009, the group performed the song along with "If This Is Love" and "Issues" at G-A-Y. The girls wore sequined miniskirts and big hair during the performance. The dance routine was described as "hot" by Larry Meyler of The Sun, Meyler went on to say: " if this live show and the crowd's raucous reaction was anything to go by, the feisty fivesome are taking a first class ride on the pop train to super stardom with no looking back."
"Up" featured as the setlist closing performance in the group's first solo tour, The Work Tour. They performed it at twenty-six different venues in the United Kingdom and The Philippines between June and August 2009. During their performance, the group wears different coloured glitter outfits. Catrin Pascoe of the Western Mail positively reviewed a performance of the song on the tour, mentioning: " they got me up on my feet dancing and singing along. for their biggest performance yet, the five girls did themselves proud, leaving me wishing they needed a sixth member."
The Saturdays performed Up along with their current single 30 Days at Birmingham Pride on 2 June 2012.
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