December 14, 2005 Check it out. No, seriously, check it out. Go to the shows page to find venue/ticket info... and we'll see you at the shoo...   November 23, 2005 Hi...... Uh.... Long time no see, or talk.... huh? uh... yeah.... this is awkward, isn't it?..... Anyways, there are a few SWINGIN' UTTERS SHOWS comin' up. We get to play with TSOL, and you don't, so there! Check out the shows page. -utters September 13, 2005 Hi, The Utters have some shows coming up, so Check out the shows page, kids... and also check out the Utters on my space! See you soon. luv, Utters June 28, 2005 Just a brief update to let you know that the long standing issues we have had with our Guestbook have now been resolved, so feel free to "discuss". luv, Utters March 20, 2005 SHHHH... the Utters are sleeping...While they nap, Filthy Thieving Bastards will be playing some shows in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles, featuring Spider Stacy from the Pogues playing whistle and singing. They'll be doing mostly Pogues songs and a few FTB songs as well. The dates are: Thursday, 3/24 @ "Stinky's Peepshow" @ Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco, CA Monday, 3/28 @ the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco, CA Thursday, 3/31 @ 19 Broadway in Fairfax, CA Saturday, 4/2 @ Alex's Bar in Long Beach, CA and..... Sunday, 4/3 @ Zen Sushi in Silverlake, CA The Bastards have only played a handful of times, and this should be an especially great time to see them, with their friend Spider lending a hand in kickin' yer ass! yay!! luv, Utters January 6, 2005 Happy New Year to everyone out there in Utterland. (sigh). How we wish there really was a magical Utter land--full of wonder, hedonism and debauchery. Alas, there is no Utterland, my dears, so you just have to make do with this charmingly sub-par website. hahaha. We've got some shows comin' up, so check out the shows page, please. We'll see you there, and ask you to buy us drinks! luv, the Utters December 14, 2004 Thanks for coming out to the San Jose show, those of you who made it...... It was a grand affair! It really was a gay old time, ladies and gents, truly the cat's meow. We've got some more wonderful shows coming up, so please do check out the shows page, friends. We hope you come out and dig our cool, super far-out jams. They will TRIP YOU THE FUCK OUT, BRO. The Swingin' Utters are going to freak out on a psychedelic musical journey in Petaluma, CA, brother, and by god you will not want to miss it..... Winona Ryder's from Petaluma, you know. --utters     Also, Here's a link to a cool UTTERS MESSAGE BOARD hosted by Mary, who is a nice girl. She's Canadian, too. We hear they're friendly to married gay pot smokers. HALLELUJA!!! Swingin' Utters LOVE their gay marriage endorsin', legalization of marijuana supportin' friends!! You GO, girls and boys!!   December 9, 2004 Hola!!! We've gots a few shoooz comin' up... and one of 'em's tumarra!!! How lame it is that we would just spring that on you like this, huh? yep, pretty lame....... But that is the glory of the Swingin' Utters. We're just lame, kids! Enough of yer gripin', go to the goddamn shows page and check it out. November 10, 2004 Hi. We're all still recovering from the election, a little downtrodden, a little depressed. Kind of speechless, really. PunkVoter and others devoted to spreading the TRUTH will keep on, and everyone opposed the fucking criminal that is our President should keep on as well. We cannot give up hope that this yahoo frat boy and his cronies will eventually be beaten, sussed out, and tossed off the roof someday soon.... Keep fighting, keep raising hell, keep demonstrating, and just please don't shut up..... do whatever you can to do good..... We think it's important not to lose faith, cuz if we lose faith we really have lost. A really close friend of ours is a soldier for the U.S. Army, and he's in Iraq right now. We don't really have words to describe what that means to us, or to his family. This shit is real. Okay, now the other stuff........... If we had a penny for every complaint (or curious inquiry) regarding how often we (don't) update our site, the Utters would most probably be retired, only occasionally picking up a quaint little mandolin or uke whilst sipping strong tropical drinks on some fucking tropical island..... drunk, lounging, entertaining the locals....uh, anyhow.... The recent shows have been really a helluva lot of fun, with almost all of us pulling double duty. Darius was even really drunk at a couple of the shows!! It was a gas. As some of you may know, Shadowboxer no longer has anything to do with Greg or Kevin...... They've instead resurrected the great Lowdowns, "with whom we shared many a stage" close to ten years ago... a great punk rock and roll band that we really dig..... and, uh..... yaddayaddayadda.... Johnny had a brand new baby girl on October 5th (yay!), and is busy being a dad, or some shit like that (what a pussy!). Jack, Spike, Darius, and Paulie (from Bottles and Skulls) are starting a new band, and arguing on the name of said band. When it really comes down to it, what's in a name? Touring and recording are in the grand plans, so brace yourself fer some super gnarly shit, dudes. Please don't be mad at us cuz we suck at being good stewards of our site... That's just the way it is, yo. You know we love all of you dearly (except for any of you that are assholes, of course). --UTTERS   October 13, 2004 Sorry for the last minute announcement, BUUUUT We have a few shows coming up (in the next coupla days...) in October. Tommorow Thursday, October 14 we will be playing Stinky's in San Francisco, and the next night Friday, October 15, we will play the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Later in the month on October 30, we will be playing Alex's Bar in Long Beach. Hope to see you all there!!!!! --UTTERS   Also, Here's a link to a cool UTTERS MESSAGE BOARD hosted by Mary. July 23, 2004 LATE BREAKING NEWS!!! Please welcome Jack Dalrymple from One Man Army as the newest member of the Swingin' Utters guitar family!!! Jack will be playing the upcoming shows and we hope to see more of him.... UTTERS OUT You can hear an MP3 and read about other interesting stuff at the Fat Wreck Chords website.... AND HEY, YA MIGHT AS WELL CHECK OUT THE E-CARD, WHILE YER AT IT!! LUV THE UTTERS June 29, 2004 Hiya! We've still got THREE (3) shows comin' up. Check it out on the shows page, then show up to the show! yay! Our live record is out TODAY, JUNE 29! 23 songs, and you've most likely heard 'em all before!! You can hear an MP3 and read about other interesting stuff at the Fat Wreck Chords website.... AND HEY, YA MIGHT AS WELL CHECK OUT THE E-CARD, WHILE YER AT IT!! LUV THE UTTERS June 25, 2004 Hiya! We've got a monstrous THREE (3) shows comin' up. Check it out on the shows page, then show up to the show! yay! Our live record is coming out on Fat on June 29! 23 songs, and you've most likely heard 'em all before!! You can hear an MP3 and read about other interesting stuff at the Fat Wreck Chords website.... UTTERS, OUT.   P.P.S We have NEW MERCH ON OUR Buy Stuff page!!!!   June 15, 2004 Europe was a blast. Really, it was... touring with NOFX is fun. Honestly, every show was great, and it was a thrill being back in Europe. It'd been 6 years (7 years in some of the places) since we'd been there, and goddamn, 6 years is a long time. Anyways, thanks to all of you punky Europeans who came out to the shows, we really appreciate the support we got from all of you, and we really did have a helluva time. And Hey! Guess what? Our live record is coming out on Fat on June 29! 23 songs (that's a double record on vinyl, folks!) recorded at the Troubadour in L.A. last year. We always wanted a double record. sigh..... You can hear an MP3 and read about other interesting stuff at the Fat Wreck Chords website.... but you already knew that.... There are also a few shows coming up in July, the first being aPunkvoter benefit at Slims on Friday, July 16.... more details as the shows are confirmed! Later! Love, D'Utters P.S. Euro tour pictures coming soon. P.P.S We have even more merchandise in our Buy Stuff page!!!!   May 6, 2004 More European tourdates (with NOFX and The Epoxies) are on the shows page. Check it out. We've added a headlining UK show, and a Belgian show.... Can't wait to see all you Europeans. We love you Europeans. Everyone must go to punkvoter.com immediately. Fight Bush!!! "Zac Hunter (Nerve Agents, The Frisk), Greg McEntee and Kevin Wickersham (Swingin' Utters), Andrew Champion (Screw 32), and Ryan Blasquez (The Silent Film Stars) have formed a new San Francisco-based band called Shadowboxer. The band has begun recording a full length album to be released this summer on a label still to be determined. They will begin playing around the Bay Area in late April, and tour the west coast in June/July." Here's a link: http://thrill.to/shadowboxer See ya, Utters   April 22, 2004 European tourdates (with NOFX and The Epoxies) are on the shows page. Check it out. We can't wait to be back in Europe... It's been 6 long years!! Everyone must go to punkvoter.com immediately. Fight Bush!!! "Zac Hunter (Nerve Agents, The Frisk), Greg McEntee and Kevin Wickersham (Swingin' Utters), Andrew Champion (Screw 32), and Ryan Blasquez (The Silent Film Stars) have formed a new San Francisco-based band called Shadowboxer. The band has begun recording a full length album to be released this summer on a label still to be determined. They will begin playing around the Bay Area in late April, and tour the west coast in June/July." Here's a link: http://thrill.to/shadowboxer See ya, Utters April 2, 2004 Long time no write. Sorry, but laziness and general procrastination are genes that run like villains through the myriad of twists and turns and wonderfully beautiful yet mysterious geometry that is the Swingin' Utters Punk Rock DNA.. Also, some of us have jobs and families and dogs and cats and shit like that. Maintaining a website sort of takes a backseat to the aforementioned...There is great news, though: The Utters are gonna be back in Europe! That's right, kids, Swingin' Utters will be supporting the almighty NOFX on a tour of the UK, with a couple of German dates mixed in, to add some cultural flava. The Epoxies shall open, my homies... Dates will be posted soon, but I'm sure all you discerning, intelligent punker boys and girls can find them somewhere on the web, yes? It starts May 8 in London, and there are twelve shows. Stay tuned for the itinerary. In other news.... 1. George Bush still sucks. 2. Everyone must go to punkvoter.com immediately. 3. Filthy Thieving Bastards have upwards of 25 songs, and until recently were actually practicing them! They will put out another record someday. Really. 4. Darius recorded a solo demo a few months ago, and wants to record a damn record. 5. Spike is still the lead singer of a cover band. 6. Yes, Max Huber will join us once again on the geetar for the European tour. 7. This is kinda rad... "Zac Hunter (Nerve Agents, The Frisk), Greg McEntee and Kevin Wickersham (Swingin' Utters), Andrew Champion (Screw 32), and Ryan Blasquez (The Silent Film Stars) have formed a new San Francisco-based band called Shadowboxer. The band has begun recording a full length album to be released this summer on a label still to be determined. They will begin playing around the Bay Area in late April, and tour the west coast in June/July." None of the udder Utters have heard them yet, but we sure as hell can't wait. Here's a link: http://thrill.to/shadowboxer That's all for now, people. Luv, Utters    Also, CHECK OUT THIS SWINGIN' UTTERS SITE....IT'S RUN BY MARY, SHE'S FROM CANADA, AND THERE ARE TONS OF PICTURES, LYRICS, A CHATROOM, AND LOTS OF OTHER COOL STUFF... CHECK OUT THE SWINGIN' UTTERS SKATE DECK! December 20, 2003 Dear Diary, I'm so sorry it's been so freaking long since last I wrote on your silken pages, gosh darnit..... uh, yeah it's been like 3-1/2 months since we posted something, and we really do apologize, that's pretty damn lame. In our defense, I must say that we're all pretty busy people, what with jobs and kids and wives and girlfriends and such... Very belated thanks to all of you that came out on our Youth Brigade tour. It was a blast-- we shared a 32' RV with the brothers Stern, and it's about as close to a tour bus as we'll ever get... The live record will be out sometime next spring, although there's no release date set in stone. Probably sometime in April, but who knows? There's a comic book to be finished (I hope y'all are familiar with Scooby-Doo, that's all I can say...), and mixing to be done. We're all busy working our asses off, raising kids, and appearing on late night talk shows (well, Spike at least)... Filthy Thieving Bastards are gonna play another show (their 3rd show, actually) on January 11 at the DNA in San Francisco, along with Throw Rag. It's an Incredibly Strange Wrestling event. FTB are also working on a new album, but who knows when they'll actually get into the studio.   --Utters    P.S., CHECK OUT THIS SWINGIN' UTTERS SITE....IT'S RUN BY MARY, SHE'S FROM CANADA, AND THERE ARE TONS OF PICTURES, LYRICS, A CHATROOM, AND LOTS OF OTHER COOL STUFF... CHECK OUT THE SWINGIN' UTTERS SKATE DECK!   September 1, 2003 We've updated the shows page... some clubs have changed, some of the shows are pretty early, etc. so you may want to check it out... and that's about it. See you somewhere out there... --Utters August 17, 2003 As you should know by know, the SEPTEMBER TOUR dates are posted on the shows page... In other news, as many of you may (or may not) know, Chuck is no longer with the band... and we're still looking for a permanent new member to fill in that void... but in the meantime, we asked an old friend for a favor... and Max accepted our invitation to help us out on guitar for one last tour! We're all very excited. It's an Utters reunion! whoppee! later, --UTTERS August 15, 2003 MY GOD!! Our second update in three days?!? Must be a record... The last couple of dates of our SEPTEMBER TOUR have been filled... So check out the shows page, my little homies... We're hittin' the road with Youth Brigade once again. Thank god for Youth Brigade. Oh, and Jack Grisham's still running for Governor of California... Hallelujah!  bye for now..... --UTTERS August 12, 2003 Okay kids, it's time for your sporadic update... but this one's cool cuz it's all about our September TOUR DATES!! Check out the shows page, dagnabbit, and check us izzout! We're hittin' the road with Youth Brigade once again. Thank god for Youth Brigade. Oh, and Jack Grisham's running for Governor of California... Hallelujah!  bye for now..... --UTTERS July 10, 2003 Yeah, no shit... two months without an update is pretty pathetic. There are plenty of things on the site that need to be updated, but... uh.. anyways, you gotta take the good with the bad... Thanks all of you for coming out and supporting us on our U.S. tours. We had a blast, except for Portland, where we were ripped off... They stole a bunch of equipment, etc. and we were screwed... but the show itself was great... San Francisco on Friday, July 18 is our next show. At Slim's... and stay tuned for a Canadian tour itinerary... We'll be touring Canada, and doing some more U.S. dates in September... Bye. May 14, 2003 OK, there have been a few venue changes for the West Coast Tour, so check out the SHOWS page for the update. See ya there! May 1, 2003 YET ANOTHER SHOWS UPDATE!!!! We have posted the CONFIRMED dates for the West Coast Tour. Here are some funny links, if you like to laugh at our president: http://www.fatwreck.com/junk/nofxwoe.htm http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html http://206.67.50.61/assetsFromHumor/comics/dancingbush.swf April 30, 2003 YET ANOTHER SHOWS UPDATE!!!! We have posted the CONFIRMED dates for the West Coast Tour.   --UTTERS   ALL OFF, YES ALL OF, THE TOUR DATES ARE UP AND WAITING FOR YOU ON THE SHOWS PAGE... April 12, 2003 We just discovered that the Buy Stuff page was deleted from our server, so sorry about that!! It's back up now... SHOWS UPDATE!!!! The San Francisco show on MAY 29, 2003 has been cancelled. Instead the UTTERS will be headlining at the Bottom of the Hill on Thursday, April 24th for the LIVE 105 Local Lounge Live show. The show is all ages, $5 admission and doors are at 6pm. There will be 4 other bands as well: The Matches, Locale AM, Divit and The Velvet Teen. We will reschedule the cancelled show later this summer.This show is coming up fast!! Hope to see you all there!! --UTTERS March 28, 2003 SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET THE DATES UP, BUUUUUT WEST COAST SHOWS ARE NOW POSTED, SO STOP YR SNIVELING!!! March 13, 2003 OKAY, OKAY, SIMMER DOWN NOW... WE'RE DOING A WEST COAST TOUR IN MAY... DID Y'ALL REALLY THINK WE'D SKIP OUR NECK OF THE WOODS? February 28, 2003 Have you bought the new record yet? Jeez, I hope so. Thanks to all of you that came out to Rasputin's for the instore, it was fun and strange. Playing live in a record store during normal business hours is weird. The Filthy Thieving Bastards show has been cancelled. sorry. Here is a link for the soon-to-be-realized, first ever SWINGIN' UTTERS SKATE DECK! ALSO, here's a nifty e-card for you to check out, courtesy of the fabulous folks at Fat Wreck. Check out some mp3's of new songs on the Fat Wreck website. Just click HERE to hear it.    Fat Wreck and a few other sites have posted the tour dates, and we'll post them as well, as soon as they're confirmed . . .--wuv, UTTERS February 24, 2003 The SWINGIN' UTTERS IN-STORE AT RASPUTIN'S RECORDS IN BERKELEY IS TOMORROW, 2/25/03 AND WE START AT 5 P.M. . . Our record also comes out tomorrow. . . Here is a link for the soon-to-be-realized, first ever SWINGIN' UTTERS SKATE DECK! ALSO, here's a nifty e-card for you to check out, courtesy of the fabulous folks at Fat Wreck. There's also a track listing for the new album, along with an mp3 of one of the new songs on the Fat Wreck website. Just click HERE to hear it. You can also see what the record looks like! There are a couple of updates on the shows page as well, so check it out. . .  We'll post tour dates soon, we promise.--luv, UTTERS February 11, 2003 We all had a helluva good time this weekend at the Punk Rock Bowling Tournament in Vegas. Beers were only $2 at the bar, and that's cheap, kids, that's cheap. We will post our tour dates (March 21-April 21) very soon. We're going out with Pistol Grip and One Man Army and Youth Brigade. OMA and Youth Brigade are doing two weeks each. OH! Here is a cool link for the soon-to-be-realized, first ever SWINGIN' UTTERS SKATE DECK! ALSO, here's a nifty e-card for you to check out, courtesy of the outrageously rebellious, yet mysteriously suave and courteous punk rockers at Fat Wreck. There's also a track listing for the new album, along with an mp3 of one of the new songs on the Fat Wreck website. Just click HERE to hear it. You can also see what the record looks like! There are a couple of updates on the shows page as well, so check it out. . . January 20, 2003 There's a track listing for the new album, along with an mp3 of one of the new songs on the Fat Wreck website. Just click HERE to hear it. You can also see what the record looks like! Well, we hope everyone is having a lovely new year. We'll post tour dates soon. See you at the Shakedown (?). . . --UTTERS   We have some upcoming shows, so check out the shows page for updates. . . December 30, 2002 Adrian Cote, a dear friend of the band, passed away a couple of weeks ago, and there will be a benefit held for his family at Slim's on January 13. . . There's more info on the Lustkillers page. . . We'll update you on any tourdates as soon as we can, but we're looking at late March right now. . . Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody out there. . . R.I.P. Joe Strummer. . . Still reeling from the bad news. . . Stay Free, UTTERS December 13, 2002  HEY EVERYBODY!!! Sorry it's been so long since our last update. . . Well, the Filthy Thieving Bastards played their first two shows ever, the first being to a sold out X show at the Fillmore (yikes!). . . We had a great time at both shows, thanks to those of you who showed up! The Utters played Incredibly Strange Wrestling, which as always was a helluva time. . . It also was Chuck's first Utters gig, and we're glad to report that he survived. . . OKAY! WE FINALLY FINISHED OUR RECORD. It's mixed and mastered and ready to go. . . The release date is February 25. . . The title of the record has changed, it's called "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones", and it's a rocker! We're all very happy with it. . . We should be touring the states starting in late March or early April. . . We do have some upcoming shows, so check out the shows page for updates. . . Peace be with y'all. . . --UTTERS November 8, 2002 The Utters are playing, the Lust Killers are playing, and the Filthy Thieving Bastards are (finally) playing. . . so check out the shows page. . .   --UTTERS October 29, 2002 The date of our December show in San Francisco changed to a week later. . . check out the shows page. . . We have added three new designs to the Buy Stuff page!!! Check it out!!   --UTTERS   October 18, 2002 We finally fixed all the crap on the Discography pages, so now you can check it out without being incredibly annoyed. On a more pressing note! We have added three new designs to the Buy Stuff page!!! Check it out!! Also, check out the shows page for info on our upcoming S.F. show. --UTTERS October 7, 2002 Well, were in the final stretch of mixing the new record, so it should be out at the beginning of next year... On a more pressing note! We have added three new designs to the Buy Stuff page!!! Check it out!! More to come soon... --UTTERS BUY STUFF! DIRECTLY FROM US! RIGHT NOW! We finally got our shit together and set up the BUY STUFF page, so now you can get all the stylish $wingin' Utter$ gear you've always dreamed of. . . Incidentally, all the merchandise that we will be selling is exclusive to this site. . . . and all of the clothing was printed by Johnny Peebucks himself!!   Our new guitar player's name is Chuck Worthy and he takes over Max's duties as both guitar player, and youngest member of the band. . . Chuck plays bass in Greg's other band, the Lust Killers, and he also happens to be a pretty bitchin' guitar player, so we got the little bastard. That's about it fer now, folks. . . --UTTERS   September 28, 2002   Thanks to everyone that went on the MUCHMUSIC site! We survived the week!...In related news that very same video is #2 on the Top Ten on the website. There are tons of rad videos to watch including a "live" video for Windspitting Punk. (its not actually played live, but the live footage is cool) Check it out! Also watch for more cool merchandise coming soon on our up and running BUY STUFF page!!! September 19, 2002 There's a Swingin' Utters video on Much Music (Canada's much better version of MTV). . . They're having a contest, where you can vote on certain videos you want to see more of, and the Swingin' Utters are in 3rd place right now (out of nine bands). . . It's the only video we've ever done, super (and obviously) low budget. . . before we were on Fat Wreck. . . It was a Cocksparrer cover, and was included on the "Punk Rock Jukebox" compilation (see discography), which will be re-released by Blackout Records. . . The show that it's being played on is called "Oven Fresh", on MMUSA (Much Music USA). . . You may get this channel you've got digital cable. . . It's on Monday-Friday @ 4:30pm (7:30est). . . so go check it out. . . So please go online to their site and vote for us! Here's the link: http://www.mmusa.tv/heavy/mpov.php?sid=2 September 10, 2002 BUY STUFF! DIRECTLY FROM US! RIGHT NOW! We finally got our shit together and set up the BUY STUFF page, so now you can get all the stylish $wingin' Utter$ gear you've always dreamed of. . . Incidentally, all the merchandise that we will be selling is exclusive to this site. We've never taken any of this stuff on tour, and probably won't. . . Some of the designs are the same, but we've slapped them on different shirts or printed them in different colors we haven't done before. . . and all of the clothing was printed by Johnny Peebucks himself!!   Our new guitar player's name is Chuck Worthy and he takes over Max's duties as both guitar player, and youngest member of the band. . . Chuck plays bass in Greg's other band, the Lust Killers, and he also happens to be a pretty bitchin' guitar player, so we got the little bastard. That's about it fer now, folks. . . --UTTERS   September 6, 2002 HEY!! GUESS WHAT!?!? YOU CAN FINALLY "BUY STUFF" FROM US. . . WE'VE GOT A FEW DIFFERENT DESIGNS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, AND WILL BE ADDING MORE AND MORE IN THE COMING WEEKS. . . SO CHECK IT IZZOUT, BEEYOTCH. AND BUY SOME SHIZZNIT. -UTTERS Okay. . . So we gave our homely site a little facelift (she still needs some work though). . . lots of broken links ain't broken any more (there are still a few we need to fix. . .), and of course the new Buy Stuff page, where you can actually buy stuff (imagine that). . . Please continue to feel free to give us any feedback about the site. . . we're trying, believe us, to update more often and get everything fixed. . . . . . IN OTHER NEWS. . . . We finished tracking a couple of weeks ago, 17 songs in all. . . we start mixing in early October. . . So the new record will probably be out in February sometime, with the tours starting out in March. We can't wait for the mixing process, cuz we're all very excited about the new songs, and are optimistic that all you guys and gals out there will love them as much as we do. . . just to answer a lot of questions out there: yes, we do have a new guitar player, his name is Chuck Worthy and he's gonna be great, so there you go. Chuck plays bass in Greg's other band, the Lust Killers, and he also happens to be a pretty bitchin' guitar player, so we got the little bastard. We'll keep you posted on anything of interest asap. . . . --UTTERS   August 12, 2002 OKAY, OKAY, OKAY. . . WE SUCK AT RUNNING OUR OWN GODDAMN WEBSITE, BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT I, PERSONALLY, WILL MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT AT UPDATING THIS CRAP MORE OFTEN, EVEN WHEN THERE'S NOTHING MUCH TO TALK ABOUT. . . BUT THERE ACTUALLY IS SORT OF A LOT OF SHIT TO TALK ABOUT, NOWADAYS. . . WE'VE BEEN RECORDING OUR RECORD IN LITTLE SPURTS SINCE APRIL(!!) AND IT IS SLOWLY DRIVING US MAD. . . BUT THERE WERE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS AND THERE ARE REASONS, LAME AS THEY MAY BE, THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON OUR RECORD FOUR MONTHS AFTER IT WAS STARTED. . . WE'VE GOT THREE OR FOUR MORE DAYS OF RECORDING TO DO IN AUGUST, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE DONE AND READY TO MIX AFTER THAT, WHICH MEANS YOU PROBABLY WON'T BE GETTING YOUR HANDS ON A NEW SWINGIN' UTTERS RECORD UNTIL THE HOLIDAY SEASON, OR MAYBE SOMETIME EARLY NEXT YEAR. . . BUT I'LL ALSO SAY THAT WE'RE ALL VERY PROUD OF THE SONGS, AND I THINK EVERYONE WILL JUST EAT IT UP AND JUST LOVE IT! HOORAY! SO, THAT'S THE STORY WITH THE RECORD. . . I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE TITLE OF THE RECORD IS UNQUIET. AND MOST OF IT'S A LITTLE HARDER THAN OTHER SWINGIN' UTTERS STUFF. . . BUT HERE'S THE REAL NEWS: MAX HAS QUIT THE BAND. AFTER TEN YEARS, HE DECIDED TO BOW OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS RECORDING MADNESS. . . I CAN'T REALLY SAY I BLAME HIM. . . AND IT IS KIND OF WEIRD AND IT DOES SUCK, LIKE YOU JUST BROKE UP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND OR SOMETHING. . . BUT IT WASN'T ANGRY OR HORRIBLE OR BITTER OR ANYTHING, HE JUST WANTED TO MOVE ON, PLAY DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC, ETC... WHICH HE IS ALREADY DOING IN NYC, AND WE'LL UPDATE YOU ON THE PROGRESS OF WHATEVER PROJECTS HE GETS INVOLVED IN. . . WE'VE ALL BEEN FRIENDS WITH MAX FOR A LONG TIME, FROM BEFORE HE WAS EVEN IN THE BAND, SO IT'S NOT LIKE OUR PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP/RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN SEVERED OR ANYTHING, HE'S JUST DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH HIS LIFE AND MOVE ON. . . YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE HOW STRESSFUL AND TIME-CONSUMING IT IS TO BE IN A BAND LIKE OURS, ONE THAT DOESN'T EVEN TOUR MUCH ANYMORE (OR UPDATE OUR SITE, FOR THAT MATTER), SO I THINK HE WAS JUST OVER IT--AND LIKE I SAID, I CAN'T REALLY BLAME HIM-- IT'S JUST KINDA SAD, AND WE'LL OBVIOUSLY MISS THE HELL OUT OF HIM, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TOUR AGAIN. . . SO THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON. . . I GUESS THAT'S ABOUT IT FOR NOW. . . --DARIUS UTTER   July 14, 2001   OK, OK, the Pictures page has finally been fixed (sort of) and you should be able to link to the big pictures, so stop you're whining! UTTERS are still in the studio finishing up the new record and plan to tour somewhat soon... We are still working on the site, but remember, it is run by musicians and their families so what can you really expect? Thank you all for your generous offers to run the site for us with all of your web tech prowess...we are seriously considering all your offers and may shift the site to professionals, but then you wouldn't have direct access to the band via the site, so it is a toss up.... Cheers, UTTERS     Look for the new Filthy Thieving Bastards LP A Melody Of Retreads And Broken Quills out on BYO in your local record store.   June 12, 2001   Well, we figured we'd put up the parts of the site that are functioning just for kicks, and in hope that we'll get less complaining... The UTTERS are still in the studio, finishing up the new record. More details to come in the next few days, really, we swear... March 1, 2002 Happy New Year! Merry Christmas, too. . . Here's yer belated update. . . The Utters are currently writing our next record. . . We're heading into the studio to demo in early April, and will start the recording process April 22. . . which means you'll be hearing the latest Utters album sometime in August or September. . . No tours in the works, although hopefully we'll do a little something in the summertime. . . No, we are not on the Warped Tour this year, unfortunately. . . No title for the record yet, although we can promise you that it will not be called "Swingin' Utters II". Hang in there, you'll hear from us in one way or the other soon enough! December 11, 2001 OKAY! So we're lame and never update our site, well such is life. We just wanted to say thanks to everyone that came out to the show w/ Youth Brigade in Hawaii. Also, look for the new Filthy Thieving Bastards LP A Melody Of Retreads And Broken Quills out on BYO in your local record store. Cheers, The UTTERS  October 2, 2001 TOUR UPDATE !!!!!! The show in Philadelphia has been cancelled. In additon, the UTTERS will be playing Oct 18 in Portland, Maine and October 20 in Old Bridge, New Jersey. See shows page for club details.   See ya there, UTTERS September 24, 2001 Due to the onslaught of confused emails, we have updated the shows page to indicate which shows are with the Damned and which are without.   See ya there, UTTERS August 28, 2001 We now have all the dates for the Damned tour!!! Check out the shows page for the itinerary. Also, this cool guy in the Czech Republic made a site for us, the link is in the links page. See ya, UTTERS August 4, 2001 Yet another exciting TOUR UPDATE!!! The Utters will be touring the U.S. with The Damned in September and October. Check out the shows page for the itinerary. There are a lot of open dates still, but the majority of the tour is listed. In other news, we're all excited to announce that Fat Wreck Chords is going to re-release our first full length record, The Streets Of San Francisco, on October 23. . . so now you'll be able to actually find it in record stores! P.S. there's an interview/review type of thing at a site called shite'n'onions. We don't know why it's called shite'n'onions, but we do know there's an interview of the Utters over there, so check it out. See ya, UTTERS   July 25, 2001 We added 5 more compilations to the discography section, which was really quite exciting, so you really should go check it out. Really. We also added (and deleted) a couple of links, which was also fascinating. In other news, we failed to mention that little Jack Koski was born on July 8, which is boy #2 for Darius and Jaust. Have a nice day. --utters July 3, 2001 Side One/Dummy is having a contest where you can win a copy of the new Warped Tour compilation, where there's an unreleased Swingin' Utters track, recorded during the sessions of our last album. Click on the link and it'll take you there, baby. --utters June 26, 2001 UTTERS RETURN FROM TOUR, AND TWO WEEKS LATER THEY STILL DON'T UPDATE THEIR WEBSITE!!! It's true, but now we're updating, so shut up already. Thanks for comin' out, those of you that did, we had a grande olde time. Here are some stupid pictures that Rob the merch-guy took. Not that the pictures themselves are stupid, and not to say that Rob is stoopid either. It's just that these pictures are kinda silly, so they're kinda stupid, you know? Don't take it personally Rob, yer such a crybaby. . . P.S. Utters are touring again in September, mostly the South and some midwest stuff too.   April 27, 2001 UTTERS TOURING THE GREAT NORTHWEST (INCLUDING CANADA) WITH NOFX FROM MAY 30-JUNE 9!!! BE THERE!!! COME SEE THE ROCK!!! Check out the shows page for the itinerary, and see you there! April 24, 2001 UTTERS TOURING THE NORTHWEST (INCLUDING CANADA) WITH NOFX MAY 30-JUNE 9!!!!!! Keep checking the site for details and the itinerary, coming in the next couple of days. --UTTERS April 10, 2001 Well, we've just got one more show to go, on stage in about eight hours in Santa Cruz, where it all started. We want to thank all of you for coming out to the shows and supporting all the great bands we toured with. We were already friends with a lot of the guys on tour, but we also made quick friends with those we'd never met, so the last 5 weeks were really a blast. We'll see some of you in Santa Cruz, and to all the others out there a big thanks from the Utters for comin' out and seeing the shows. Spike's going on the Warped Tour with Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, so we'll have to remain idle for a while. . . Hopefully we'll be out again sometime in the fall. Sorry to those of you hoping to catch us in the pacific northwest and the midwest, but we only signed on for half of this 2-month tour, cuz we hate being away from our families for much longer than that. It's hard to be away from your wives and girlfriends and 2-year olds for that long, we hope you understand. Next time we go out we'll hit the places we missed. See you next time! --UTTERS March 24, 2001 MIDTOUR UPDATE!!!!!!!! We've made our way through Canada and the East Coast and now will finish up the last half of the tour through the South, Southwest and up through California (home!!!) The tour so far has been really rad and thanks to everyone for coming out to see us!!! Check out the shows page for updates. YES we will be playing the second night in Los Angeles with the Dropkick Murphys at the Palace, See ya there, suckers. . . --UTTERS February 17, 2001 SWINGIN' UTTERS TOUR UPDATE!!!! We're playing Santa Cruz (where it all started!) on Thursday, February 22. . . and Vegas on April 7 on the tour with Dropkick Murphys, Reach the Sky and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards. We'll be out with these bands for a month, starting in Poughkeepsie, NY and ending in Santa Cruz, CA. Check out the shows page for the itinerary. See ya there, suckers. . . --UTTERS January 30, 2001 SWINGIN' UTTERS TO TOUR!! Yes, It's true. As all of you probably already know, the Utters will be touring in support of the Dropkick Murphys, along with Reach the Sky and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards. We'll be out with these bands for a month, starting in Poughkeepsie, NY and ending in Santa Cruz, CA. Check out the shows page for the itinerary. See you at the show. --UTTERS January 12, 2001 DAMN! It's been a long time since we updated this site, sorry about that. . . but we've been busy working etc. etc. Well, Happy Holidays and New Years is here and all that blah blah blah. . . There's nothing all that new to report. We should be updating y'all in the next few days about a tour that we'll be doing in March and April, but since nothing's totally solidified as of yet, we're not talking! There's an interview with Darius that was taken just a couple of days ago that's at this address: www.primalchaosonline.com so check it out if you feel the need. Bye for now, see you soon. --UTTERS   November 30, 2000 The Australian Warped tour has been postponed (cancelled) until next December. We're all bummed, but these things happen. The Swingin' Utters' self titled album has been out for over a month now, so hopefully you've already picked it up (and not downloaded it, dammit!). Now some good news. We added a whopping 39 pictures today. Some are really really old. So go look at them and have a laugh. We also finally added the new record to our discography page. How exciting. . . On a side note, the Filthy Thieving Bastards' debut ep was released on November 6 on TKO records, so go an' git that too. You can pick it up at the Mordam Records website, as the TKO website is still under construction. That's all for now, bye bye. November 28, 2000 HEY AUSTRALIA! The Utters will be in Australia in March for the Warped Tour, and we're all eagerly anticipating our debut-down-under. The Swingin' Utters' self titled album has been out for over a month now, so hopefully you've already picked it up (and not downloaded it, dammit!). On a side note, the Filthy Thieving Bastards' debut ep was released on November 6 on TKO records, so go an' git that too. You can pick it up at the Mordam Records website, as the TKO website is still under construction. That's all for now, bye bye. November 10, 2000 Hi! Well, we're back from tour. Thanks to all of you out there that actually showed up to the shows, it was nice getting out and playing fer y'all again. We'll be back out for a full U.S. tour again, maybe in April or May. HEY AUSTRALIA! The Utters will be in Australia in March for the Warped Tour, and we're all eagerly anticipating our debut-down-under. The Swingin' Utters' self titled album has been out for a month now, so hopefully you've already picked it up (and not downloaded it, dammit!). On a side note, the Filthy Thieving Bastards' debut ep was released on November 6 on TKO records, so go an' git that too. That's all for now, bye bye. (what's up with the Rams' defense?) October 10, 2000 YET ANOTHER TOUR UPDATE!!! We have another casualty on the tour itinerary. No Morgantown (and no Milwaukee, as you know). Everything else is safe for now. Sorry to all you Virginians and all you Cheeseheads. By the way, we didn't cancel either of those shows, they just fell through like shows unfortunately do sometimes. We've gotten a couple of misguided, pissed off emails from people who think we like to cancel shows. We don't. Anyhow, Check out the shows page for all the dates. Find out in advance for yourselves if the show is 21 or over. Most of them should be all ages. October 17-26 is with No Use For A Name, the rest are headlining shows. The new record is out!!! Go and buy it!!! Filthy Thieving Bastards will release their 9-song ep on TKO records November 6, hopefully. September 26, 2000 ANOTHER SWINGIN' UTTERS TOUR UPDATE!!! The Milwaukee show fell through, so sorry to all you Milwaukee fans. Check out the shows page for all the details. October 17-26 is with No Use For A Name, the rest are headlining shows. The new record is still due to be out October 10! In other news, Johnny and Darius' side band "Filthy Thieving Bastards" will release their 9-song ep on TKO records November 6, hopefully. September 15, 2000 SWINGIN' UTTERS EAST COAST TOUR!!! The Utters may be coming to your town (if you live on the east coast or midwest) as soon as mid-October, just check the shows page for the dates. We're still working on the particulars for some of the dates, but the final itinerary should be posted in a couple of days. Half of the shows will be in support of No Use For A Name, we'll let you know which ones in a couple of days as well. The new record is still due to be out October 10! In other news, Johnny and Darius' side band "Filthy Thieving Bastards" will release their 9-song ep on TKO records October 23. August 30, 2000 We're planning a little East Coast tour for the second half of October, so stay tuned for new details concerning that. Our record is out October 10, and it's self-titled. Football season starts in less than a week. In the meantime, guess the identity of the punker with the big gun.   July 30, 2000 The Swingin' Utters will be part of a seven-or-so band bill at the Toxic Tea Party in Long Beach, CA on Saturday, August 5. It's being put on by Lucky 13 apparel and E.C. Star. Check out the shows page for details, and we'll see you there! July 19, 2000 Hi everyone. Well, we're all back from tour, recovering. It all went really well, and it was great to go out on the road with our buddies Youth Brigade, who kick butt. Thanks for all of you that showed up to support us all, it was a really good time. Sorry about the mix up in the tour dates section of the page, when we posted Sacramento instead of Stockton, it was seriously last minute, and we only found out we were playing in Stockton the night before! The new album will be mastered soon, and is coming out in October. If anyone took any pictures or videos or whatever of any of these recent (or past, for that matter) shows, we'd love to get copies. You can send them to the address below. That's all. --UTTERS July 3, 2000 SWINGIN' UTTERS TOUR UPDATE: Check out the shows page for the latest on the Swingin' Utters California tour with Youth Brigade. Everything's set, and we look forward to seeing all you computer nerds and nerdettes! Happy Independence day June 9, 2000 SWINGIN' UTTERS TO TOUR!??!!!? Yep, you heard it right. The Swingin' Utters may be coming to your town (if you live in California, that is) in July. Check out the shows page. You can also write directly to the band now, to send your love letters, hate-mail, roses and money to. Here's the address: Swingin' Utters PMB #244 2342 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94707 Have a lovely day, and Darius says "GO LAKERS!" (Johnny says "shut UP!") May 14, 2000 Hey there. Well, the Utters have pretty much wrapped up the recording session for the next full length album, which will probably hit the streets in September (?). We've got a couple more songs to add, and some remixing to do, but it's all pretty much in the can. All of the Utters have side projects in the works, though, so you should check them out if you get the chance. Max is living in NYC and playing with former members of Clowns For Progress and The Goops, in a band called 30 Second Charge. Greg is drumming for local San Francisco band Romeo's Dead, who will be recording soon. Johnny and Darius are going into the studio in a week or so to record an ep for TKO records with their band Filthy Thieving Bastards. It's heavy on the accoustic side, with some punk rock and whatever else thrown in. Spike is always singing backup for some band in the studio, and there's a rumour floating around that he's the lead singer in a group called Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. What a silly name for a band. Thanks for visiting our homely little site. --SWINGIN' UTTERS April 21, 2000 Hi! The Utters are in the studio mixing the 17 songs they recorded over the last couple of weeks, so things are slowly but surely coming to a close in the studio. Everything has gone well, and we're all pretty happy with the way everything sounds. Here're some pictures. We'll try to get up a better variety of exciting, action-photos-in-the-studio soon, but for now have some guitar!:  April 7, 2000 Well, hello there. Sorry it's been so long since we updated anything, but we can never spend too much time on the computer. It hurts our eyes, and the typing makes our lady-like musician's hands hurt like the dickens! Anyways, the Utters are in the studio now, finally. Today is day four, and everything is going better than expected, so hang in there, in a little while you'll have some new rock to listen to. We'll try to give you updates with what's going on in the studio, but that just might be too painfully boring and trivial, especially for you crazy kids. See you soon, UTTERS. . . March 10, 2000 We added some reviews and an interview today, otherwise nothing all that terribly exciting in the land of the Utters. Stay tuned for Johnny and Darius' side band, coming soon. We'll keep you posted.  March 1, 2000 I know, I know. You couldn't get to the Posters/Flyers page, 'cause the link wasn't working. It seems to work on Internet Explorer. Well, we hope to fix that little problem soon. We added some links today, so check them out if you dare. Greg has been drumming for Romeo's Dead, a local band here in San Francisco, hence the link, in case you were wondering. Believe it or not (we can barely believe it ourselves) our recording date has been moved again, so now we're heading into the studio in early April. Have patience, we will deliver one of these days February 26, 2000 Hidy ho! Along with the recent additions to the reviews and interviews pages, we have a new page of posters and flyers from past Utters shows, so go on and check it out, people. . . We should have more neat stuff up soon, and will let you know as soon as it happens. . .  February 23, 2000 Hi, guys and gals. No excuses, we're just lazy lard-asses when it comes to updating the www. . . and this computer technology is new to us, even though we're all so close to the damn "silicon valley". . . Well, we added a shitload of reviews for you to read, and we'll just keep adding more, good and bad, of course. It's fun to have a laugh at all the silly people who don't like us. I know, it's completely unfathomable, but there are some weird birds out there. We're rehearsing the new songs, will be in the studio in early March, and hope to make a keek-ass record for you loyal lovelies out there in creepy computer land (and those outside creepy computer land, too). Darius is a St. Louis Rams fan, so congratulate him fer chrissakes. bye bye-- love, Utters P.S. We just added some interviews as well (2/24/00), so read 'em!! --Utters  January 14, 2000 Hey there. Just a little "Hello" from the Utters and family. Sorry we haven't updated the site in so long, but we've all just got sooo much going on, what with the studio dates coming up (March), and little mouths to feed. The next album is written, just waiting until it's time to go into the rehearsal studio and learn it all. Max is living in NYC nowadays, and Spike just returned from Hawaii, where he was playing some shows with Me First And The Gimme Gimmes. Greg is a troublemaker, and Darius and Johnny are shut-ins. We promise to update this site soon, maybe with some damn interviews, more pictures, and someday in the (near?) future, some neat stuff to buy directly from us. Hang in there and enjoy yourselves. Oh and happy millennium, we all had a blast on new year's eve, did you?  December 4, 1999 Hi there! Sorry it's been so long since we updated the site, but we've been really busy and also a little lazy. Anyhow, we've added 12 pictures to the pictures page, and 4 releases to the discography page. We also generally touched up some areas in the site, and we sure do hope you enjoy it all. We hope to add some more interviews and reviews soon, so hang in there, kids! October 13, 1999 Today we added another sound file, "Angels Pissing On Your Head" to the Sounds page. It's a track from the split with Youth Brigade out on BYO Records on October 26. Enjoy the preview and Go and buy it! The boys will be working on new material in the coming weeks, and should be in the studio before the end of the month to start recording the next album. We'll keep you posted if anything interesting happens. If you have noticed any problems with the page (i.e., missing links, slow downloads, etc.) let us know. Also let us know what you would like to see more of. October 3, 1999 Well we finally updated the site!!! We added 4 new photos to the Pictures page, among other things. The Utters just returned from their 3 week tour of the East Coast and Canada. Thanks to all of you who showed up at the shows to support us. We'll be working on new material in the coming weeks, and should be in the studio before the end of the month to start recording our next album. We'll keep you posted if anything interesting happens. If you have noticed any problems with the page (i.e., missing links, slow downloads, etc.) let us know. Also let us know what you would like to see more of. And keep a lookout for the split with Youth Brigade to be released on BYO Records. It should be out within a month or so. We will let you know when we know the release date.   September 4, 1999 Today we added more photos and captions to the Pictures page. We also added three Reviews from Flipside magazine. Also, check out The Band page for promo picture, etc. The Utters are playing the world famous Gilman Street on Sunday, September 5th. On September 8th, they leave for the East Coast Tour (see Shows page for updated venues). If you have noticed any problems with the page (i.e., missing links, slow downloads, etc.) let us know. Also let us know what you would like to see more of. Don't forget you can purchase "Teen Idol Eyes" 7 inch through TKO Records. And keep a lookout for the split with Youth Brigade to be released on BYO Records. We will let you know when we know the release date. August 29, 1999 Today we added photos (old and new) to the Pictures page. (Finally!) We will try to add some descriptions later, you can try to guess until then. The Utters are currently in the Great Northwest and will return next week to record the split with Youth Brigade to be released on BYO Records. They will be on the East Coast in September. The venues are still unconfirmed, but we will update the Shows page the minute we know anything. August 17, 1999 Yesterday we added an article and interview from March 1999 to the Interviews page. Today we added "Teen Idol Eyes", the new TKO 7" release, and the "Live 105 Local Lounge" compilation to the Discography page. You can also find some of the venues we'll be playing in your town on the Shows page. The Utters played San Francisco, Sacramento, and Fresno, CA over the weekend, and had great shows every night. Thanks for all of you that came out to see the rock shows, and we'll see you down in SoCal this weekend! August 16, 1999 Today we added an article and interview from March 1999 to the Interviews page. The Utters played San Francisco, Sacramento, and Fresno, CA over the weekend, and had great shows every night. Thanks for all of you that came out to see the rock shows, and we'll see you down in SoCal this weekend! August 11, 1999 Today we added a couple links to sites that sell $wingin Utter$ merchandise on the Buy Stuff page. If you are looking for merchandise more current (like FLL or Brazenhead t-shirts) Email through the cinderblock site link and ask them for availability of these items. Yesterday we added the compilation section to our Discography page. We're still looking for a couple of compilations we don't currently possess. Thanks for checking in for updates and for all the emails and guestbook signers! We're playing San Francisco this Friday, hope to see all you locals there! August 10, 1999 Today we added the compilation section to our Discography page. We're still looking for a couple of compilations we don't currently possess. August 4, 1999 Today we posted phase one of the Discography page: LPs, EPs and singles. We're still working on the Comps. section. . . The Utters returned from their 12 day tour of Japan with NOFX a few days ago, and may never recover from jet lag. It was a great tour with great crowds, and everybody had a helluva good time. Here's a coupla pictures from the last show in Nagoya   August 2, 1999 We added a guestbook today, so there's someplace to post your complaints about how empty the site still is. July 29, 1999 Well, the discography page is taking longer to complete than originally thought, so it will be up this weekend. Sorry... The Utters will be returning from their Japan tour on Friday, July 30, 1999, so the site will get more attention then. The dates listed on the shows page are not yet confirmed so we don't have venues for all of them yet. When we get the confirmed list we will post it. July 23, 1999 The tentative release date for "Teen Idol Eyes" on TKO records, mentioned in yesterday's NEWS, is August 2, 1999. I added a link to TKO records on the LINKS page, so you can place your orders then!   Check in this weekend for the riveting debut of the DISCOGRAPHY page! July 22, 1999 No significant changes to the site itself, but I thought I'd announce that the Utters will be releasing a single on TKO records called "Teen Idol Eyes". It should come out during the first week of August. We'll let you know more details later. Also, the Utters will probably be going into the studio some time in October 1999 to record their next full length with FAT. The DISCOGRAPHY page should be complete and posted by the end of this weekend.   July 16, 1999 Today is the very first day of this site. There isn't much to look at yet, but we will be updating it regularly. Check our home page out every once in a while to see what's new. As of today all we have is tour dates listed on the shows link.