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We’ve been hunkering down, writing a shitload of songs for our next record. We’re going to spend the month of May in the studio, and so we HOPE to have it out on Fat Wreck sometime early Autumn, right around the time your kids get back to school… We’ll let you all know of the exact release date once we’ve got one! It’s an exciting release for us, as Jack Dalrymple has already contributed several songs (for the first time as an Utter), and there are more to come. It’s also the first time we’ve ever recorded a proper record in Santa Cruz, where we formed some 24 years ago. Yes, we are that old.
On another note, we’re also going into the studio to record a few songs for a couple of upcoming 7″‘s, one on Fat, and the other a split with Modern Action on their label.
‘Til then, if you’re in San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day, come to Thee Parkside in fabulous Potrero Hill, and get really sloppy drunk with us (or, if you’re sober, it should be a good opportunity to make fun of Johnny and Darius. They may drink a little.)

We wanted everybody to know that we lost an old friend. Joel Dison passed away yesterday. It was unexpected and we are all pretty shocked. Joel was a really great guy, the father of two, and played guitar with the Utters from ’90-’92. He was on every recording we made before Streets of San Francisco. Our heart felt condolences go out to his family.

The show in San Antonio on November 20th is now at The Ten Eleven! Check out the Upcoming Gig Calendar for more details!

Hey everybody… We’re heading out to Texas in November, then cruising through Arizona and California for a little tour ’round Thanksgiving time. Hope to see you all out there! Check out the shows page for the venues and dates.

We’re heading out for a few shows with our pals the Dropkick Murphys. Check out the shows page for the dates… Hope to see you there! More tour dates for November to be announced in the next few days, so stay tuned!

Check out the dates on the shows page!

We’ve added a show in Manchester on September 7th.

Check out the Shows page!

Howdy everybody! We’re (slowly) getting off our asses with the whole website situation (and lack thereof for the last few years) with the help of our friends Bill and Andre over at Working Class Industry way over on the right coast. Anyhow, this is a little update to let you know what we’ve been up to as of late…

As some of you may have heard by now, we started recording a new full length over a year ago now and, well, “technical difficulties”, forces of nature, bad luck and other bothersome bullshit has kept us from making quicker progress on the damn thing. At least it’s got a title (“Here, Under Protest”)… Barring any other mishaps, it should be mixed by the first week or so of the new year, and released sometime in the spring of 2011 (barring any other mishaps).

To keep you occupied in the meantime with some of our new material, we released a 3 song 7″ on Fat Wreck Chords in June (also available digitally), and another one on November 23. Each 7″ has 2 songs from the upcoming record, and 1 song exclusive to the 7″. The songs that will eventually show up on the full length will be remixed, so as to please the nerdy collectors out there. There are some CDs floating around as well that were pressed for our European tour in November–both singles (6 songs) together on one CD– and some of them may have made there way to our shores, so look out for that as well…

We’ve been hitting the road pretty much since July, and ended our little run at the end of November, after a 3-week European tour. It was our first time back in 6 years, and we were thrilled with the way everything went. We plan to be back in Europe sometime next fall, and to make the trek “over there” once a year from now on, if the wives and kids and jobs allow it! More touring in support of our record (first full length since 2003!) starting next spring, and so on and so forth. So, we’re pretty much back on the scene… Whether you like it or not!

Hugs and Kisses,
Swingin’ Utters