So, I cut the long weekend early enough to (nearly) finish arranging a new song: The Legendary Fred Simard. This song was written in honor of our favorite cider swilling poutine munching friend, of course, Fred Simard up in Chicoutimi. Thanks to the insane abilities of both Ethan and Ryan, this one is going to be absolutely over the top – I really can’t wait to pull this one all together in the upcoming weeks. I’ve been writing and arranging music for the better part of … Actually, I don’t want to think about how long, but let’s just say I was in the Pubcrawlers for 2 1/2 years and the Swaggerin’ Growlers for 6 1/2 years now, as well as projects prior and this is by far the most excited I’ve been for a new album.

I’m going to take about 5 minutes to make myself another Gin and Fresca (AKA the Billy Bueno), and get back to it.

-Swagger

P.S. : We’ll gladly take any and every suggestion for places to play pretty much all up and down the East coast. Don’t worry, midlands, plains, rockies and Left coast, we haven’t forgotten you, we just gotta figure out a good enough circuit of places to play where we don’t blatantly starve. Then, to foreign shores!

So, It’s been a long month or so – where the hell to begin? After the shows with The World / Inferno Friendship Society, we discovered we had discovered a wonderful new group of people to booze with. So when we weren’t working, writing new material, or trying to book our Fall/Winter tour, the lovely Mora, Rebecca(http://www.rebeccaschlappich.com/), and Leslie (http://endleslie.wordpress.com/) were all in town for a couple of the weekends, and we had a grand old time going to festivals and getting thrown out of bars, pissing off passerbys, you know, real wholesome family fun. Then the lot of them were back in town for the Bouncing Souls show, which of course, was incredible. My memory of the night was hazy for certain, but I do know I ended up talking with Bryan, and Zak K of Chunksaah. Damn good people, I gotta say.

Somewhere in this mess, I also began the recording sessions for the Old Edison / Time & Place split, and then get dog sick for a few days. WOOF.

New Material: The writing sessions for Outlaw Waltz have been over the top, and I am genuinely excited for what we’re coming up with. It’s all over the place in all of the right ways, really. There was a brown out in the middle of last night’s practice, which had us hanging on the next door stoop in classic Allston fashion drinkin’ and the like. The power came back on, and the PA just proceeded to howl like an angry, tiny, shrieking Chihuahua. By the end of practice, we almost hurled that fucker outside of the nearest window, and we’re going back to try an fixing our older, more powerful one that we successfully beat the living shit out of in the last 3+ years and 15,000 miles of owning it.

This is what we’ve got going for new songs, as of last practice:

• Outlaw Waltz
• Carry Me Away
• All I Want
• Before The Morning Comes
• The Booze Will Flow
• Six Strings & Gasoline

With several more on deck. I can’t wait.

Also, any booking help down the east coast would be greatly appreciated. This shit was way easier in 2009.

So, we apparently don’t ever remember to update this bitch. Long and the short of it – we just played 3 dates with the World / Inferno Friendship Society. And it was fucking AWESOME. Tonight? New Haven, CT, at Elm Bar (Old Rudy’s) with the Alehounds. See you there, motherfuckers.

-Swagger

The Swaggerin’ Growlers are pleased to announce that we have been nominated in The Phoenix’s Best Music Poll under the category of Best Punk Band. Vote for us, have your friends vote for us, their friends, your relatives, then lets get some internet connections to some cemeteries and get them voting too.

Boston’s Best Music – Best Punk Band

You can vote once a day. Voting ends May 11th. DO IT.

What an incredible night. Might have been my favorite show we’ve ever played. The revelry was excellent, the beer, cold and plentiful, the dancing, boisterous and proud. Notable Thank You go to with the friends, bands, promoters, writers, and everyone else who made this possible:

Pat Kennedy & The Larkin Brigade (band)

The Old Edison (band)

Jason Bennett & The Resistance (band)

Mark Lind (band/music)

Time & Place (band)

Ian Nault (Sound Engineer)

Church of Boston (club)

Katlyn O’Hara (Photography)

Refuse Resist (band)

The Pity Whores (band)

The Furiousity (band)

Narragansett (beer)

Candy Apple Red (Productions & Promotions)

Barry Thompson (Writer)

SPSC

Zana Callahan

Hutch

Jim McSweeny

And a whole bunch more, too many to mention by name – Thank you. 6 years and rolling on stronger than ever.

Check it out:
St Patrick’s Day Riot Press Release – Both Albums and our Live DVD available streaming!

Boston!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182000381833633

Dover!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120328618035659

Where Do I Go From Here

Holes

Currently about half of our DVD is up. In case if you missed it, here they are.

Shows in March:
3/5: Cherry St Station (Wallingford, CT) (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173024112741965)
3/11: Greyhound (Worcester, MA
3/12: Billy’s Tavern (Thomaston, ME)
3/13: Beatnik’s (Worcester, MA) – EARLY! 12pm, right on the parade route
3/17: Dover Brickhouse (Dover, NH) (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120328618035659)
3/18: Church (Boston, MA) 6th Annual St Patrick’s Riot / 5th Non Consecutive Evacuation Day Extravaganza!
(http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182000381833633)

Green Fields

Bastards

Barley

This Fight

Better Days

Tired Eyes

Hey everyone, in that fabulous Dickie Barrett voice: “It’s that time of year again” – Well. getting there. Our Annual St. Patrick’s day show is looming on the horizon, and to celebrate, we’ve decided to post 1 track a week from last years show. They’re only going to be up for a limited time, so pour yourself a strong one, and share this with your friends.

Here’s the facebook link for the 3/18 event: St Patrick’s day Riot

Don’t forget, we’re playing 2 All Ages shows this weekend, Friday at Tewksbury TMUC with The Union Boys (and more!) and Saturday with Refuse Resist, the Pity Whores, Yesterday’s Heros and the McGunks at the Midway (starts early! 3:30pm). Hope to see you all there.

Alright, I’ve set up the Facebook page to import everything from the News Section of our website. Furthermore, I just made writing accounts for all of the other Growlers. Let the calamity begin!

Also, hope to see you up in Dover, NH on Friday, at the birthplace of the Swaggerin’ Growlers: the Barley Pub. We go on at 9:30, and play for the next 3 hours or so. Hope you can come out and say hi. We’d love to see some old friends.