It’s true. The Pirate Band does Naut-Rock……and to prove it, Rodent Records has just released Nautical By Nature – a collection of 13 sea-worthy tracks that go very nicely with rum, parrots, blood-lust, intimidation, scurvy, treasure and a horrible, horrible death. Hoisting a spectrum of influences from traditional sea shanties to NY Art Rock, the discerning musical scholar will note The Pirate Band's crafty updating of the 17th century buccaneer's blues to the more modern seafaring sounds of 19th century.
Legend has it, The Pirate Band reemerged in the early 1990s after a nearly 300 year submergence at the bottom of the Bermuda Trench. Through a fog, they sailed the ocean blue till eventually landing in San Mateo, CA, the epicenter of the "Dated Music" explosion and set up a stronghold. Initially the crew directed their energy towards drinking and fighting. Music was practiced infrequently and wrongly, but after five or seven - maybe it was nine years - and not much effort - the band finally made a successful sack of San Francisco and became feared and adored as they darkened the portals of many dank and unforgiving establishments. The Pirate Band prevailed and went on to sell-out many a show. With success came more fighting and less practicing......though pretty much the same amount of drinking and wrongness.
It was 2005 when time finally came for The Pirate Band to pull up anchor and return to the sea. They needed to get back to their roots and do some killing, reflecting, recording and digging up of buried treasure. Two years out from land and shower, The Pirate Band has returned with gold-filled pockets, blood stained hands and an album of pure treasure:
It's The Pirate Band's
Nautical By Nature
-Available on CD and ayeTunes
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in t
Jon to Hal and Axel The Pirate Band: Greetings Pirate Band Hal & Axel ahoy! Great to see you on the Space, we sure enjoyed your previous band Clap Band and being on the gig with you a few years ago in SF!: Watch The Video Here:
