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PAST NEWS...
5/9- this album is killing us, but check out a few new mp3's

4/28-"when i got the music, i got a place to go." singing those words along with a group of strangers with our arms wrapped around each other makes covering a rancid song that much sweeter.

we played a really good show at the YoungMen'sChristianAssociation last night. it's funny that a place that incorporates two things that displease me (christianity and men) could put on such a rockin good time. it all sounded really good after we ran a mic through my bassamp and cranked the P.A. up to 11 (actually, i don't think that thing went up to "5"). the crowd was appropriately responsive and we played well musically. it was also nice to play on the floor with the audience (though most of the stages we play on arent usually more than a few feet off the ground...). overall, it was a really good time. there was a comforting mentality about the night that made you fell like this is what we have, and we do it well.

other highlights of the night included an insane exploading shaving cream ballon pit courtesey of kil me kate, who also managed to play five songs with little property damage. also, the free vegan pizza was a very nice gesture by the kids who put on the show. THANKS!

downfalls of the night include MAT get nailed in the head by a flyng bass neck (sorry mat!) and the threat of the police (who were later pacified by free doughnuts).

4/21-we played last night at the hi pointe for the STL animals rights team (START),. but only after smoking a joint for hitler's birthday! lame.

hi pointe shows usually go pretty well, despite their constant delays. there was a bunch of people there, a lot of them came out just to see us. imagine our displeasure when we had to go on at 12:10 at night and over two thirds of the place cleared out. so first and foremost, SORRY TO ANYONE THAT HAD TO LEAVE BEFORE WE PLAYED! i was amazed that anyone was willing to sit through a bunch of emo rock bands just to see us (not to alienate emo music or anything, but honestly most our friends/fans don't really like that kind of music...). secondly, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO STAYED! we would have gone home and gone to sleep if it wasn't for you guys.

doing it for the animals. i guess it's good thing that the animal rights team made some money from the show. it just seems like too much to ask to play an animals rights benefit and actually have some kind of conscience about it. after all, being active with animal rights means more than mere consumption (i.e. paying money to see a show). but we aren't one to talk. we didn't bother giveing any crusty vegan speaches lat night. i dont' think anyone wanted to hear anything but ROCK, which is understandable.

new pictures (courtesey of shannon) and two older photos i just recieved today (courtesey of joey).

4/6-we played at the galaxy last night. there were sooooo many people there, and a lot of our friends came just to see us. it was probably one of the worst shows ever (MAT said that it sucked more than the time we played at the Down Under Bar in columbia in front of 4 goth kids and a traveling freak show...). we successfully managed to mess up every song, and some songs twice. MAT'S guitar string broke as usual, and you couldn't hear anything (typical for the galaxy). in fact, every band i talked to afterwards all said that the sound guy was fucking everyone over, and i couldn't agree more. oh well.

the strange thing is that before we played and even afterwards, there were so many people who were just comming up to me (STEPHEN) and telling me how great we were. three people whom i never met approached me just to say we were their favorite local band. one guy actually freaked out and hugged me. i was so surprized that i just shook my head in bewilderment instead of actually trying to comprehend what they were saying.

it's a good feeling. kind of like finding vegan food that taste good. you can be that much more proud of what you are doing.

i didn't especially like the brewing fight in the crowd between the obnoxious punk kids and the toughguy hardcore apes (they were elbowing each other in the chest and making grunting noises...makes me think of apes...). but that didn't go anywhere.

also, a large amount of the people who praised us so much kept throwing around the word "fag" and "gay" and speaking of homosexual practices as something to be offend about. i realized how hard it is to speak up about such..."improper word usage" (is what i will soften it as) when it is people who really appreciate what you are doing. but i would like to think that if somebody really thinks of us as their favorte local band, they would perhaps look into what we are about. gay bashing and heterosexism sure isn't what we are about.

i dunno. i'm sure 90% of the people reading this think i'm being extreme. im used to it.

oh yeah, before the show, a one legged black man with an african dialect and native markings all over his body came up to talk to us. it wasn't at all akward because although it was hard to understand him, he really had something to say.

"there is one world that we are all a apart of, and it's not in america, or africa, or europe or afghanistan or anywhere. it's in your heart."

i guess it just means that much more hearing it from somebody who isn't a punk or an activist or some fake unity-preaching scenester. sure, there was some relgious intent behind what he was saying, but it really didn'matter. i guess unity is just a universal message.

i dunno. i'm sure 90% of the people reading this think that i was just being suckered for spare change. that's what the bouncer thought who was quick to criticize the man for his cripple and un-american dialect.

ALSO,now the message board link at the top just goes to our stlpunk.com message board...

NEXT SHOW IS AT THE HI-POINTE, SATURDAY APRIL 20TH! be there.

4/5-well, we finished recording finally. after 7 days, 40 hours, and a million pieces of pizza, it is all done. as of now, we just gotta do a quick-fix mastering of all 42 tracks and we are good to go. the artwork for the album is comming along slowly, but it WILL get done so help me jebus. we have manya show coming up, so check it out. stephen has a new rant to de-value. all the lyrics are up and accurate for all of our songs finally. i wrote a new history for the band cause the old one was kinda boring. and i added very little to the merch page. oh yeah, we oughta be getting a new domain name pretty soon, so kiss geocities good bye my fellow computer geeks.

2/9- so we played a "show" with the distillers. for all of you that dont know the story, mat basically became best friends with brody armstrong of distillers fame and she said we could play a few songs the next time they came to st louis. so mat went down to indiana along with two others to confirm the show the night before. when we go to the show, everything was pretty relaxed, and by the time we got to play, the crowd was all wound up and stephen had already told everyone to go crazy while we played. sure enough the people came through with heavy dancing and a moster cirlce pit at the request of stepehn's index finger. we were all thhroughly pleased. thanks to everyone who came out and made it so fun.

ENTER: JUSTIN. so this dude just comes outta nowhere after licking my face at a show and he's all like "dude, i love your band more than anyone should ever love a band!" and he offers to put us on his label "DARK FRONT." since then he has become more or less the 4th member of nineteen and he totally rocks.   so it looks like this next album is gonna be pretty huge. with all professional stuff courtesey of justin's pocket.   needless to say we are all very, very exicited.

1/28- so about that show we played. we did so-so. it got kind of sloppy at the end. stephen's bass was out of tune and he messed up while trying to compensate for that. mat finally broke a guitar string on his monster twisted sister guitar. jackson from the spiders sang "roots radicals " with us. yeah, we need to practice songs before we improv them. we sold a lot of shirts and cd's and gave away a whole lotta patches and buttons. we made like 50 bucks from the hi pointe which is good. all that money will be used to record sometime in march. stephen got fired, so laugh at him the next time you can

1/18- here we are. the self-loathing punk band that is nineteen. we played our first show in 2 months on Jan 11 at the Tin Cieling(Centro Sociale), one of the last shows ever to be played there. it was one of the best nineteen shows...ever. don got a black eye in the pit that he wasn't even in. serves him right i guess...for not being in the pit, that is. we played "lights out" a total of four times by request. during the fourth time, i sat down behind my amp cause a was tired of playing the stupid song, when suddenly a big man with a bald head and lip piercings licked my face. deye mofo is his name, which brings me to another topic.
     so this mofo guy turns out to be one of the biggest nineteen fans ive ever met. also, he is putting together a label called Dark Front Records. i know, the name is pretty scary but dont be afraid. i have been talking to him a whole lot about being the first band on this label, which would put our up-comming album on vinyl and CD's and sell it in one package for good and cheap. we are also talking about getting "ridiculing..." re-released.it would be mostly mail order distribution, which is what i think we need. i mean, i can make a billion fukin cdr's and take them to slackers or vintage vinyl, but its a whole lotta bitch work. so hopefully that will take off.
      but back to the show. the coolest part of the show was during the last song, "at least, at least, at least." we always play it last cause its such a great climax kinda song. anyways, there is this one part in the begining where it's just mat singing and playing by himself. during the point in the song, i always thought it to be funny when i held my pointer finger in the air and circled it in the air in order to joking instigate a circle pit. most of the time i laugh and i get laughed at for doing it, then we go on playing the song...most of the time. this time was different...oh yes....different. people actually started a circle pit at my command. either that or they were all drunk and trying to find the exit. it was the best feeling i ever had at a show.
      i guess i am tired of complaining all the time. if nineteen can be as stagnet as we were, then come back and play a show that great, it's like we never left. im content with that.
     oh yeah, we have a show january 22nd at the hi pointe with corbeta corbata, the spiders, and the 7 shot screamers. be there.

11/22-Thanksgiving. Pssh, want a crock. Anyways, I decided to update this site a bit. I ahve been really lacking lately just cause I have been doing some other stuff more important than the internet. AS things lie right now, NINETEEN finally has that stupid album in stores. I did a whole lotta work to make new inserts for the cd and i added a lyric page and even a back to the album. For all of you who bought the cd from us with just the single insert and flat case, just tell me and i can give you the appropriate papers to add to your nineteen colection. In other news, MAT has finally bought a van. Yep, the band van. You can all guess exactly what it looks like I am sure. He also bought two new guitars for cheap and is making them better, in true MAT fashion. Also, we got some more songs and similarily I have for the third time changed the SONGS page. We currently have ZERO shows set up which blows, but i think we really need to work on getting our shit together. I think from here on out, we are gonna start moving a little faster, and get our priorities in line. I also updated the LINKS page.

10/5- I decided to update the site a bit. I havent really felt like doing anything on here lately, but NINETEEN does still exist. Check out our shows page. Not to mention I added another rant to my page.

8/18- We have shows! This Thursday the 23rd at the Roadhouse with THE PUBES, IT TAKES ALL KINDS (female-fronted naked aggression style punk) with THE YOUNG ONES (fifteen/crimpshrine punk) on tour from buffalo NY. This friday the 24th at Arcade Lanes with the pubes and tba. It will be extremly fun I assure you all.

8/6-I (Stephen) updated the page a whole frickin' lot. I think it is neat-o, and for those of you who can enjoy it,lemme know what you think. I made that intro thing all by my lonesome, so GIMME' SOME CREDIT! For everyone out there with a SLOW computer, I recommend that you try not to care about it too much...it will keep you away from this horrible, horrible place. Oh yeah, we have all hella shirts and CD's for sale (props to JEN for all of that labor...XOXOX). I bet if you are reading this from somewhere other than the St. Louis area, we could hook you up with some CDs and shirts if you can't make it to a show...there is the postal system.

7/31-Ultraman is now playing the show on the 10th of August instead of the Pubes. Darn.

7/12-Mat insisted that I let you know that he finally said something on his page and he wishes for you to check it out. Oh yeah, we will probably start making silk screen shirts soon. The guy from THE SPIDERS showed me how. I was also just informed that THE PUBES are playing with us on the 13th of August with the L.E.S. Stitches aswell as the TRASH BRATS. No Tim still. We are having a better time without him...

7/5-Tim is leaving for a month and a week in order to attend a music college course thing in Chicago. I don't think any of us want him to go. So, as a consequence, we won't be playing or practicing for that time, but we have a show the DAY HE GETS BACK. It will undoubtedly be unrehearsed and sloppy, but I'm sure the L.E.S. Stitches will recover the night quite nicely. In other news, Riot Records has sent us another stupid email saying that they have decided to take longer to put out our 7 inch. So I am requesting all of you to email riot records at stlriot@hotmail.com and say, "Hey, as an avid fan of the St. Louis punk rock group Nineteen, I would request that you be a little more prompt in putting out their 7 inch 'One Too Much.' Sincerely (your name here.)" Maybe if enough people say something, they will move a little faster. Oh yeah, go see our show tomorrow. It is our last one for over a month!

6/29-Ahh, my 17th birthday. It is funny how before the age of 17 i mangaged to get a really great band, record, get suspended from school, and go to juvenille court. Well, that isnt the real reason I posted this. I just want it to be known that I revised the songs page. It looks cooler, but it does lack the clever little cooments i left about most of the songs and it very well may take a billion years to download depending on your computer. So PLEASE let me know what everyone thinks about it so I will know if I need to change it. Email me at xixrox@hotmail.com or visit our message board.

6/21-All right, I decided to delete all that other nonsence that was posted earlier and to actually start dating this stuff. Riot Records has chosen the following songs to put on our seven inch:

ONE TOO MUCH
UNMARKED GROUND
MISSING IN ACTION
MY EDUCATION

I believe that is the order in which they will appear. The whole thing will be in black and white, and the lyrics will be included. They said that it would be out before the end of June. Well, I doubt that will work out, based on their past actions (or LACK of actions). We began selling our CD ourselves. They are just CDRs and the artwork was done on my computer, but I dont think they will ever be heard any other way. We have 3 shows comming up. Check them out.