Peerless Pirates

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For Queen And Country

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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For Queen And Country
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No Sight Of Land
3:47
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Bring Out Your Dead
3:23
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High Seas Love Affair
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One Over The Eight
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Genre: Alternative / Indie / Pop Punk
Location Oxford, London and South East, Un
Profile Views: 23050
Last Login: 5/17/2012
Member Since 4/3/2007
Website www.peerlesspirates.com
Record Label Unsigned
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
Peerless Pirates hail from middle England – somewhere between The Cotswolds and The M4 corridor should cover it - but nowhere near the coast surprisingly. Their sound is a marriage of energetic, up tempo, guitar driven songs with lyrics inspired by the everyday tinged with splashes of history and naughtiness. They began tentatively in the summer of 2008 and went on to perform many gigs around Oxford and London to much critical acclaim. Several glowing reviews followed of both their live performances and their songs. The band played live acoustic radio slots for both Recharged Radio in London and for BBC Introducing Radio Berkshire. Their songs were also featured on BBC Introducing Radio Oxford and Wiltshire – Quite a level of success for a band that had only just arrived on the scene. There then followed a change in personnel in September 2009 which saw the band taking an extended hiatus whilst their house was put back in order. The Pirates are now back with some of the continued favourites and much new material in the pipeline and are looking forward to heading into the studio to record a new EP.
Members
..Cliff Adams....Voice, Guitar.... ..Richard Voyce.... Guitar, Voice.... ..Stuart Green....Bass, Voice.... ..Barry Short.. ..Drums, Voice..
Influences
....REVIEWS:.. .... "...against a backdrop of contemporary English guitar pop's parochial dying embers, they offer a reminder of more bountiful times." .... ....OXFORDBANDS.COM.... .... "..Far better were Peerless Pirates, another guitar trio, but one with little in common with the previous act. The first song sounded like the Muppets theme tune played by The Smiths, and it got even better after that. Suddenly, the audience realised that they may be allowed to have a good time after all. .... The Pirates' sound is a mixture of Johnny Marr jangle-pop with dashes of rockabilly and classic rock (Their excellent 'Bring Out Your Dead' sounds initially like a hidden gem from Bob Dylan's 'Bringing it All Back Home' album and 'High Seas Love Affair' could have been the product of Long John Silver fronting The Stooges). Blackbearded vocalist Cliff clearly knows his Morrissey, and has a bit of the poseurish drawl, but jettisons the ennui and the foghorn delivery (Truly was it spoken that Morrissey "has the voice that saved a thousand ships") and occasionally sounds closer to Neil Tennant. The band were on effervescent form and even had the earnest post-rockers jigging along at the end. .... Above all, their songs were laden with killer hooks, which is appropriate, given their profession." .... ....OXFORDBANDS.COM.... .... "Oh thank God,a bit of life...musically they're decidedly less rum,kicking out a heavily Smiths-indebted form of jangly rockabilly on 'Bring Out Your Dead ' with a sense of melodramatic melancholy that Moz himself would once have been proud to display. .... In fact you can imagine the singer gallivanting about in front of his bedroom mirror,a bunch of gladioli in his back pocket,as he celebrates the romance of tedium with a flourish that is a rarer occurrence than you might imagine in modern day indie rock. .... 'One Over The Eight ' is better still,akin to 'Hand In Glove ' remade in the style of The Wedding Present, and if 'High Seas Love Affair ' overdoes the pirate motif a little,it eventually blossoms into a lively jangle-pop sea shanty... .... ...unlike too many acts this month,who we 'd gladly force to walk the plank,at least Peerless Pirates are looking at the right map and appear to have a bit of the X-marks-the-spot-factor." .... ....OXFORD NIGHTSHIFT MAGAZINE.... .... "..these guys are absolutely brilliant..." .... ....ALIEN ACID RADIO......
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