Hello everyone, I have a lot of awesome things to tell you.

1. I am stoked to the max to tell you that we are entering the studio in 2 weeks to record our first full length record (which we’ve yet to figure out a name for). We have been rehearsing and demoing every day these last few months- working really hard to perfect these songs. We’re really hoping to take things up a notch as soon as we get this record out. That means lots more push in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and lots more US touring to come.





2. We are opening for Less Than Jake at The Varsity in Baton Rouge on March 13th. The show is 18+ and advance tickets are available for $15— at The Chimes Restaurant on Highland Road, over the phone at 866.777.8932 and on-line at www.ticketweb.com. And don’t forget, we’re playing a free show in New Orleans at Banks Street Bar on February 21st. Our friends Kill Lincoln will be coming into town from Washington DC. It’s going to be awesome. 

See you soon,
Mike

Hey there! 

So, we’ve been really really really busy, hence why I haven’t made any updates in awhile. We’ve been writing and demoing new tunes for the past few weeks, but we had to put that on hold last week to play some shows! 

Our friend, Kenny Plont, came down from Detroit to play trombone for these shows with us! Yay, Kenny!

The first show was The Big Finish in Tampa, FL on December 29th.  

We knew it was going to be quite the drive from BR to Tampa, but damn… We clocked in at just over 13 hours. It was rough. Also, Kenny got car sick and you can imagine what that led to. Many o’chunks. 

We pulled into Transitions Art Gallery’s parking lot just in time to load in and play our set. Considering how dead we were from driving all day and how much Kenny looked like death, we still had an awesome time and everyone had fun. It was great hanging out with some good friends of ours!

Grabbed a picture of The Best of the Worst killin’ it. 

The one and only Christian Costello took a sweet video of us playing a new song. Here’s the video!

A big thanks to Robot House! for setting up such an great show! 

On the way back home, we made a pit stop in Gainesville for our favorite…Reggae Shack. Feast your eyes on this plate!

My mouth is watering right now. 

On New Years Eve, All Over the Place rolled up to Mike and I’s house in their camper and they crashed with us. Really good dudes. 

The next day, we were playing at the Dragon’s Den in New Orleans with: MC Duck, All Over the Place, and Bujie and the Highrise. 

Kenny lookin’ like a hard ass. 

It was a fun show! Everyone played great and we had a little spin to our set. A couple of days before the show, Mike lost his voice. So we just played a lot of covers and had Kenny the Plont sing them. We got Wes Meadows (singer/guitarist of All Over the Place) to sing a SGW song. It was a good time.

Our last show with Kenny before he left was our Baton Rouge show. This show.

It had been awhile since the last time we played at HTGT (since July…wow), but it felt like we were back home again. 

All the bands on this show were fantastic. 
Dead Legends blew me away. Here’s a video Kenny the Plont took of them playing!

I hadn’t seen The Lollies in awhile and they sounded tighter than ever. Their new jams are going to be sweet. 

The Best of the Worst were super tight, and they’re awesomely nice people! Shout out to Joe Scala! 

We had a ton of fun with these shows! Kenny took a bunch of footage and made a little video of our adventure. Check it out.

Kenny left the day after our BR show. It sucked to see him go, but hopefully he will be coming back down during the summer to come on tour! 

Now it’s time for us to get back on the writing/demoing horse so we can have this album out for your ears to enjoy. I think you’ll love it. 

-AP

Hi everyone. Hope all is well with you. This is Mike. I sing in Squirt Gun Warriors. I don’t usually post on tumblr or really go on tumblr or actually know anything about tumblr. Aidan is usually the one who fiddles with all that black magic. But we haven’t posted something on here in a long time so I thought it would be cool if I stopped by. We just finished demo-ing 1 metric fuck ton of new music for our new record. We demo-ed 14 new songs the past couple of weekends (in addition to the 2 singles we already released). So that all that together leaves you with this neat little folder on the desktop of my computer containing 16 new songs.

We’ve been sending these back and forth to our buddy Kenny from Michigan who is in the bands A Billion Ernies and Take a Hint. He’s gonna play a couple shows with us this winter on keys and trombone. We’re really stoked to have him on the road with us. The shows are gonna be so good. We have 3 so far for the winter and may add another 1 or 2. Check it:

December 9th in New Orleans - with Bomb the Music Industry, the Rooks, Negation, and Neil Berthier (from Donovan Wolfington) solo @ the Big Top

December 29th in Tampa - huge show with Chilled Monkey Brains, The Best of the Worst, Won’t Be Arsed, and a ton more @ Transitions Art Gallery

January 3rd in Baton Rouge - really magnificent set of bands coming together for this one: Squirt Gun Warriors, The Lollies (last BR show ever, 2nd to last show ever) from NOLA, Best of the Worst (Community Records, NJ), Dead Legends (Former FTA, A Billion Ernies, Lollies from) from NOLA

We are really pushing the musical limits of what we considered ourselves in the past. We’ve got some weird new material. But like weird in a really exciting way. Don’t I sound excited? I hope people like it. Blah.. So anyway, I hope everyone is well and I hope to see many of you very soon.

<3 Mike
Squirt Gun Warriors

Okay, let me start off by saying this: 
The past week has been probably some of the most fun times SGW has ever had, EVER. 

Now to begin the stories.

So, on Monday, August 13th, Mike got a call from Jason (he’s in The Last Slice) asking if they could crash at our place in Baton Rouge for the next few days. They didn’t have any shows booked until the four shows (including MSR) we were going to be playing with them. 

Naturally, we were stoked to see them and have some serious hangs. 

It was a good time.

In case you didn’t know, Johnny is no longer in SGW (it’s a long story for another time) and we had been thinking of what to do in regards to replacing him. We knew were going to be playing four shows with The Last Slice (Lake Charles, LA/New Orleans, LA/Tallahassee, FL/Atlanta, GA) and we had the idea: HORNS! 

So we rolled with it.

We spent the next couple of off days chilling and getting Donny and Jason to learn a few of our songs and a sweet “Rascal King” cover by The Bosstones.

They learned them like the champs they are and we were totally ready for the next four shows.

The first show was in Lake Charles, LA at the Happy Hippie with Bujie and The Highrise, UNRB, Joystick, and The Last Slice. It was a crazy awesome line up, which yielded a crazy awesome show. 

We were told it was the biggest ska show that’s happened in Lake Charles in the past 5 years!

There are some pretty sweet pictures from the show right HERE.

Here’s a favorite of mine. 

**PHOTO CREDIT TO Daniel Castro Photography**

The next day was New Orleans at The Dragon’s Den with The Worst, UNRB, The Last Slice, and Joystick.

It was yet again a crazy show!

Everyone kicked ass.

We ended up crashing at Dante’s place where we swam and hung out until 5am. 

It was hilarious because Ethan, Donny, and Jason ended up getting locked out of the house because everyone else passed out inside. So they slept in the drive way. 

Good times. Good times.

The next gruelingly tired morning The Slice dudes and us got some McDonalds breakfast and hauled it over to The Bomb Shelter in Tallahassee, FL. We played with Shit Broke Forever, UNRB, The Last Slice, Joystick, and Chilled Monkey Brains. 

More Mike Plante photography HERE.

The show didn’t end until around 2am and yet there was ANOTHER show at The Shark Tank where MC Duck and Waxed Curbs played. Caleb and Tracey (from The Last Slice) and us didn’t end up going to the show because we were starving for some Steak ‘n Shake. 

We all crashed at Tyler Fatkans (guitarist from Shit Broke Forever). 

The next day we woke up 2 hours late and all hauled ass over to Atlanta. 

I was the first one to drive and was flying down the highway until I got a nice speeding ticket of 72mph in a 45mph zone… That’s going to be great on my record.

Here it is!

We managed to get to Mass Ska Raid all in one piece. 

My god was it a crazy day.

So when we got there we had an hour or two to get some food and load in. We met up with a bunch of friends of ours who we hadn’t seen in awhile: Blame Sydney, Survay Says, Lowdive, and Corporate Fandango to name a few.

We had a really fun set on the newly refinished Purgatory stage at 3:40.

Everyone seemed to like us and we got plenty of compliments after our set. It was great! 

I caught a bunch of bands sets, here are few pictures:

Blame Sydney!

The Last Slice

Some more shenanigans.

Dante and Corey trying to sell a 5XL size Joystick shirt.

Uncle Luke!

To top it all off, when midnight hit, it was Caleb’s 21st birthday!

Happy birthday, buddy.

It was pretty sad parting ways from all of our friends, but we know we’ll be seeing them soon when we hit the road again.

All in all, it was pretty badass and we hope we get invited back next year!

Now that that’s done, we’re going to really buckle down on writing this album. Sadly this means we won’t be doing as many shows for a little bit, but don’t worry, when the album drops, we’re going to hit it hard!

Stay tuned.
-AP 

Anonymous asked: is nick single?

No, sorry! He’s the opposite of that :)

So, as I’m sure all of you who give a shit about ska knew that Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger (for a few dates), Big D and The Kids Table, Suburban Legends, and The Maxies were on a US tour.

Well, Mike, Nick, my little brother and I drove 4.5 hours to Houston last minute to go see all of these awesome bands.

We actually got on the guest list courtesy of Tom from Over Easy Booking who hooked us up with Brent (fill in drummer for The Maxies). Thanks again, Brent!

It was awesome.

Every band was great! 

It was my first time to see Big D, so I was stoked to see them especially. 
They didn’t disappoint.

We met Dave from Big D, we didn’t get to talk much, but he was super nice and we took a couple of pictures.

SO ANYWAY

We’ve been writing songs left and right since tour. We’re up to something like 10 new songs right now? It’s pretty cool.

Hopefully we’ll have something around 15-18 songs before we go into the studio sometime in October or November.

We really want to have this album out this winter, so we’re working hard!

This August, we’re doing a 4 day run with The Last Slice, UNRB, and Joystick on our way to The Mass Ska Raid in Atlanta, GA. 

If you can, you should come out to Mass Ska Raid! The line up this year is awesome. Just click HERE to see it!

Look how excited I am!

Not to mention the dude in the picture behind me…but yeah.

More to come, stay tuned.
-AP
SGW 

Dear lord this update is late, as I’m sure all of you who actually read this know, we’re back home. 

BUT.

I’ll give you the run down of what all went down since the last update.

So, we left Kansas City to head to our next show in Springfield, IL, which if any of you have made that drive…it’s boring as all holy hell. 

It’s a lot of this.

We drove up to The Black Sheep Cafe and played a really early show and hung out with all the kids there for a bit. 

Our buddy Nate from the band Day Old Donuts hooked us up with a place to crash: their guitar player, Brad’s house in Crystal Lake, IL. 

It’s a pretty nice area.

We had an off day that next day so we hung out all day in Crystal Lake.

We cooked lunch in a Walmart parking lot, payed to go see the Avengers but stayed in the theater for 6 hours, and ended up back at Brad’s that night and hung out with all of Day Old Donuts. 

It was sweet.

The next day, DOD and SGW headed out to Lake Villa, IL where we were all playing at The Swing State (this awesome hookah bar) with Waste Basket (FUCK YES) and our buds in Hawaiian Shirt Day from Columbia, SC.

The show was insane and we had some serious hangs with all our friends. 

We crashed at Tim from Waste Basket’s friend’s place (his name escapes me, sorry Tim’s friend!) in Chicago. 
Thanks for everything, Tim and your friend!

The next day we headed to Lansing, MI to play at this new place called Zeppelin’s Music with Hawaiian Shirt Day, Doctor Jones, and Decades.

It was a cool show! 
Click HERE to see a video Kenny Plont from Take A Hint took of us. 

What made it even cooler was two of our buds in Hawaiian Shirt Day got matching Pooh Bear tattoos.

It was awesome.

After Lansing we headed out to Royal Oak to play at The South Hall which is inside this really cool place called Genesis. 

We played with this girl, garage-punk band called Smudge Candy and they were great!

It was a really fun show and it was all thanks to Kenny Plont.

Kenny booked both of our Michigan shows and they were awesome.

He made his house a band safe-haven for us after our Royal Oak. We even got a pancake breakfast the next day. 

KENNY, WE MISS YOU ALREADY.

Next was Berea, OH. 

The line up was:
The Suburbanites
Three Cents Short
Squirt Gun Warriors
All Over the Place

It was a good time.

Not only did we get a great response, but we found this gem in our tip jar.

The dude that put the show on and gave us a place to crash that night was Wes Meadows from All Over the Place.

Super awesome dudes.

The next day we hung out at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
We had heard a rumor that if you can prove you’re a touring band, they’ll let you in for free.
That rumor is totally true.

We also came across the classiest McDonalds ever while in Cleveland.

That night we played in Columbus at the Purple Grape House with All Over the Place and an interesting acoustic-folk band called Mail Me to Thoreau.

After Columbus, we had an off day and we decided to have the time of our lives…AT CEDAR POINT.

It was absolutely insane.

If you are ever at Cedar Point, ride the Millenium Force as many times as you can. It’s that awesome.

We ended up crashing at Joe’s from Skashank Redemption place that night. 

Thanks again, guys!

Our second to last show of our tour was at Lexington, KY at The Baazar and Gathering Place with All Over the Place and The Rough Customers.

It was a cool thrift store that also did shows.

Beth from The Rough Customers gave All Over the Place and us her place to stay that night. 
Thanks Beth!

The next morning we said our goodbyes to All Over the Place and headed out to our last stop, Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN.

We have a tradition while on tour. On the last show of the tour, we play the show with British accents.  

It was really bad.

By the time that we left Memphis and made it home, our van, Frank, decided to start falling apart.

We have a TV in Frank that we never use and it decided to literally launch out of it’s cubby and land on Chris. So we did what any person with duck-tape would do. We secured that bitch down.

This tour has been the best tour we’ve ever been on. 
We want to thank everyone who set us up a show, gave us a floor to crash on, and were just plain nice to us.

We can’t wait to tour again.

In the meantime, keep an eye out for our first full length album this winter! 

All righty, so we’ve hit the road again.

We had taken a couple days off to get some sleep, restock on merch, and unfortunately sink a shit load of money into replacing two tires on Frank, our van, which sucked.

Our first stop was in Plano, Texas which is just outside of Dallas at this place called the 18th Hole.
It was a bit of an awkward show.

We ended up going to this party with Blake from the band One Short.
We drank a lot.
It was a good time.

Thanks again, Blake!

The next day we headed out to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to play at The Parish with The Last Slice and Classy San Diego.

It was an awesome venue and show!

We explored this thrift store next door and found this gem.

Everyone was really into the show.

That’s where we met The Last Slice. They kicked so much ass and were super cool dudes.

We were going to be playing a show at their place in Tulsa, OK so they let us stay with them after the show in Oklahoma City.

I don’t think their house could have been any more stereotypical of a house in Oklahoma.
Not only was it in the middle of nowhere, but there were cows a plenty.

They have one badass set up in their place.

They treated us to a 30 pack of Budweiser that night.
We hung out and ended up crashing on some mattresses they had for us.

The next day we hung out and got the house ready for the show that night.
We didn’t know what to expect, but they had two kegs of Lonestar, so it was going to get weird quick.

Shit got crazy.

Apparently 120 people payed to get in that night.

Everyone was really inebriated and had a great time.
Those are some of our favorite dudes and we can’t wait to see them at Mass Ska Raid!

Thanks again guys!

The next day we had a day off and we stayed with my uncle, Andre, and his husband, Dan in Kansas City.

We had delicious tacos, played some Wii, and passed out.

Thanks again Andre and Dan (yet again)!

Today we played at The Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL.
We played there last year and it was a cool place, but there just wasn’t a lot of kids there. This year there was a few more, but they were awesome kids.

After the show we sold something around $80 of merch.

Thanks for a great time Springfield!

On another note, we just got word that Jason, trombone player from The Last Slice, is in the hospital because his appendix burst at work today.

That’s the opposite of what’s good.

Go check those dudes out and leave a nice post for Jason!

Click HERE.

More soon to come.

Sorry for the delay!
It’s been a pretty crazy week for us.

Where I last left you, we had just played Orlando.
The next day was the land of zombies and old people, Miami.

We played at Churchills which is this bar that everyone raves about and for good reason because it’s an awesome venue!

We played with some interesting bands to say the least. 
The dude that opened the show played some acoustic songs. Not only did he talk and sound like Charlie Day from “Always Sunny” but he even acted like him

Thanks to Andrew from Askultura for setting up the show!

That night we stayed with this guy who, hilariously enough, evicted some people that morning from the house we stayed in that night.

The next day we drove up to Tampa to play at Market On 7th. 
We’ve played there about 4 times now and that was by far the best show we’ve had there even though it looked like the world was collapsing outside.

That picture was at like 6 in the afternoon too.

Of course we met up with our partners in crime, Won’t Be Arsed, and hung out with them for a bit.

It was a great show and we crashed at Mike’s from Won’t Be Arsed place.

Thanks again to Christian and Woody from Robot House for busting ass to make that such a fun show!

Won’t Be Arsed and us both played in Tallahassee the next night at The Bomb Shelter, but before we made it there, we had to make a pit-stop in Gainesville.

This past December during our Winter Florida tour with Won’t Be Arsed we played a show in Gainesville. We wanted to grab some lunch and WBA showed us the holy grail of all restaurants, Reggae Shack. 

Dear Lord.

I’m not exaggerating when I say we had been looking forward to going back there since the beginning of this tour.

It was a feast of champions.

We were also playing with our good Chicago buds, Waste Basket, in Tallahassee too. (Click on their name to listen to their new album!)

They kicked ass as always.

The dudes who closed up the Tallahassee show were Chilled Monkey Brains.

They were insanely good.

Thanks to R.J. from Chilled Monkey Brains for setting up the show!

That night we and Won’t Be Arsed stayed with Tyler from Shit Broke Forever and his mom made us an awesome breakfast the next morning.

Thanks again to the Fatkan family!

We had to leave early though because Waste Basket and us had to get to New Orleans to play at The Cypress. Which is funny because we did the exact same thing last year.

It was fun show. 

Our buds in Attorney At Law brought some new tune-age and it awesome.

We drove home that night for the first time in 3 weeks and I slept the sleep of destiny in my own bed and I didn’t have to share it with anyone. It was glorious.

The next night we played in Lafayette, LA with our long lost friends, The Chatty Cathies at Cafe Cottage.

We missed those dudes and it was fun to play for super drunk people.

Now we’re back home for about 5 days and we’ll be back on the road heading West!

Check out the rest of our tour days HERE.

Stay tuned.

So picking up where I left off…after Greensboro we headed to Atlanta to play at WonderRoot.

WonderRoot is this cool non-profit artist community and everyone who works there is super nice and it’s an interesting place.

That was the third time we’ve played there and it has only gotten better every time.

It was a ton of fun.

The line up was:
The Hey Misters
Blame Sydney (Uncle Luke!)
Lowdive
El Chupaskabra

It was great to see with our buds in Blame Sydney again. They couldn’t stay for long, but we’ll see them soon enough. Love you dudes!

We hung out with the band Lowdive for a bit. They’re really chill dudes from Athens, GA. Between this drunk/acid tripping dude singing a song in the middle of their set and how tight they were, they put on a good show.

All the bands were badass and you should totally go listen to them!

After the show, we stayed with our friend Analise who has an awesome apartment that has this view of Atlanta from the roof.

It was pretty badass. Thanks again Analise!

The next day we had an off day and we stayed with a family friend, the Wellington’s. They are awesome people and they had a sweet neighborhood pool.

Thanks again guys!

Jacksonville, FL was the next day.
The show was…different so we got real weird with it.

I forgot to take pictures, but you can imagine.

We stayed with this dude named Marco (he was really drunk) and let us try his authentic Guatemalan rum. It was crazy good. Because of how inebriated he was the night before, it made for a really weird morning the next day.

Next was Orlando, FL.

We ended up getting to The Peacock Lounge pretty early and cooked ourselves some dinna.

Hamburger Helper, with some diced onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers with some broccoli.
To be honest, it looked like it was going to be the shittiest concoction we’ve ever seen, but it turned out to be edible.

We’re chefs, what can I say?

The show that night was great.

The first two bands were hilarious and the last two were awesome. Even though it wasn’t exactly a ska show, everyone was still really into it.

Lots of drunk people. Really fun.

More to come.