They have played with some of the most notable Punk, Oi!, and Hardcore bands including Blitz, Agnostic Front, Swingin' Utters, Randumbs, Blood For Blood, Rancid, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Heroes, The Adicts, and One Way System, have toured the U.S Extensively.
Other acts that have shared the stage with The Dreadnoughts include: Stiff Little Fingers, The Cider Fecks, Swingin' Utters, Hepcat, The Real McKenzies, Goran Bregovic, IAMX, Okean Elzy, Talco, The Creepshow, Mad Sin, and Los Furios.
Swingin' Utters | Swingin' with Raymond | ''Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies'' | This Time I'm Swingin'! | Swingin' With Raymond | Supersexy Swingin' Sounds | Songs for Swingin' Lovers! | Singin' & Swingin' | Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs | A Swingin' Summer |
Though the singles were limited, several of the bands re-released their tracks on compilation albums in the years following, including NOFX's 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records (2002), Strike Anywhere's To Live in Discontent (2005), The Lawrence Arms' Cocktails & Dreams (2005), Swingin' Utters' Hatest Grits: B-Sides and Bullshit (2008), and Strung Out's Prototypes and Painkillers (2009).
The band was originally a side project put together by Johnny Bonnel and Darius Koski of the Swingin' Utters.
Millicent Shelton directed the clip for their second single "U Send Me Swingin" (No. 33 on the R&B chart, No. 33 on the Hot 100, and No. 14 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart).
"Just Look at Me Now" is a concert-only release from Chumbawamba, while the original version is from their album Swingin' with Raymond.
It has since been broadcast on Nick at Night (in 1998) as part The Museum of Television & Radio Showcase series and released on DVD as part of the "Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin'".
"Nothing Knocks Me Over" is a remake of the song "Love Can Knock You Over" from Swingin' with Raymond
The cover calls the band "Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin' Utters", the name they originally used before shortening it ("Johnny Peebucks" being singer Johnny Bonnel).
Come Out Swingin included special guest Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne on piano, and was the 2006 Juno Award winner for 'Best Blues Album'.
The song was originally recorded as "There Is Something on Your Mind" in 1957 by Big Jay McNeely and his band in a small Seattle recording studio, and leased more than a year later to Los Angeles disc jockey Hunter Hancock's Swingin' Records label, where it reached #42 on Billboards pop chart and number 2 on the R&B chart in early 1959.
Things Are Swingin' is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall.
The title-track, as well as This Girl, are taken from the 1995 album Swingin' With Raymond.