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Live in a Dive
by Swingin' Utters


		Label: Fat Wreck Chords 2004-06-29 Media: Audio CD

Tracklisting:
1. Don't Ask Why
2. Pills & Smoke
3. Five Lessons Learned
4. Jackie Jab
5. Nowhere Fast
6. Glad
7. Tied Down, Spit On
8. Hopeless Vows
9. Fruitless Fortunes
10. All That I Can Give
11. Windspitting Punk
12. The Courage of a Younger Pope
13. No Eager Men
14. 15th and T
15. Teenage Genocide
16. I Got Your Number - Swingin' Utters, Bruce
17. Mother of the Mad
18. London Drunk
19. Expletive Deleted
20. The Next in Line
21. The Dirty Sea
22. Here We Are Nowhere - Swingin' Utters, Cluney, Henry
23. Catastrophe

Biography

San Francisco's biggest and best punk band, the Swingin' Utters, have
returned to set the scene aright with their latest opus, Dead Flowers,
Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones. Where other bands have made a mockery of
street punk with their corny gimmicks and posturing, the Utters deliver
music brimming with the passion and desperation the genre in known for.

It all started for the Utters back in 1995 with their first full
length The Streets of San Francisco, which was released to critical
acclaim. As a result, the band received two Bammy's (Bay Area Music
Awards), one of which for best debut album. Their success caught the
attention of many others as they were then invited to join the first
Warped Tour and later went on to tour Europe with fellow Bay Area
punkers, Rancid.

We here at Fat Wreck Chords snatched the Utters up in 1996 in time
to release a classic punk record in A Juvenile Product of the Working
Class. Considered by many as one of the best punk records of the 90's,
Juvenile Product marked the Utters as the premiere punk outfit from SF.
The release of this album sent the Utters into a touring frenzy as they
toured the U.S. and Europe for nearly a full year with bands like the
Mighty Mighty Bosstones, NOFX, and Social Distortion.

Since then, the Utters have put out some glorious material. Two
full lengths: Five Lessons Learned and a self-titled record in late
2000; and two EPs: Sounds Wrong and Brazen Head. Years of hard work and
quality releases have firmly established them as the torchbearers of the
Oi/streetpunk scene and garnered them much respect from their peers,
touring nationally with The Dropkick Murphys and The Damned. They've
even further bolstered their lineup by adding Spike from Me First and
the Gimme Gimmes to give them yet another vocalist.

Throughout all these great tours and great records the band has
stayed true to their working class ethic and proletariat roots by
maintaining their blue collar day jobs. While other bands pretend to
sing about the plight of the working man, the Utterslive it six days a
week. Chief songwriters Darius and Johnny both have families to support
and both work unglamorous day jobs. While Darius makes a living as a
fishmonger (that, folks, is a seafood butcher), Johnny works
backbreaking hours in the Cinderblock warehouse.

Despite all the adversity and despair that is inherent to a working
punk band, you won't hear a muttered word of regret or resentment from
the Swingin' Utters. Never have they wavered from the righteous road of
punk rock and never have they accepted offers from the abomination that
is the corporate rock machine. With this latest (and arguably greatest)
record, it's clear that the Utters' time is now. Dead Flowers, Bottles,
Bluegrass, and Bones is a breakthrough record made up of guts, Guinness,
guitars, and accordions.

Source: http://www.fatwreck.de/ukutters.html