"...The Pirates Charles come across as jovial and shameless in their performance... The Pirates Charles' rough presentation is so wonderfully perfect that it's hard to believe it isn't secretly (and masterfully) contrived...That such a primitive facade can conceal music so entirely engrossing is a major feat."
-Bilgemunkey Radio
"If you've not been lucky enough to catch The Pirates Charles in concert then your pyrate life is not yet complete. [The Pirates Charles] take chanty music to the next level of rock. If pyrate music groups had rock stars, The Pirates Charles would be they.
-The Pyrates Way Magazine, Spring 2008
"...Equal amounts of talent and imagination, The Pirates Charles is just as impressive to watch as they are to hear".
-Bobby Musgrove "Un Sung" KILLRADIO.ORG
"Somewhere out there Blackbeard and Beefheart are drinkin scotch goin' 'These guys are where it's at.'"
-Taylor Johnson
Influences
Tom Waits, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, The Doors, Tom Waits, Rogues' Gallery, rum, stories about pirates, The Pirate Captain, Guybrush Threepwood, and the tea made from the Flower of Bermuda.
The Pirates Charles are a crew of crazed scallywags here to rock your very existence to the core. Armed with cutlasses dripping moonshine, epic tales of the sea and its many heroes and villains and of course the trusty Sarton Blades, they will pillage your mind and leave you bewildered and compelled to drop your entire existence and join us on our adventures and become a Pirate Charles as well.
The history of the Pirates Charles is a rich and adventurous, though surprisingly short tale. It all started near the beginning of 2007, when Captain Diggity and The Red Pirate Cassidy began writing songs and entertaining the idea of forming a pirate band the likes of which the world has never seen. The songs came swiftly and without mercy, as did the addition of pirate twins Tor and Dylan Cronin (flute and mandolin, respectively). Now solid enough to begin playing shows, the crew worked tirelessly on their original shanties, war ballads and drinking songs, expanding their catalogue of material and bolstering the ranks along the way with the likes of bassist and blues pirate extraordinaire David Gale, the saucy and delightful Fiddlewench Teresa Sohrabi, and the thunderous percussive madman Harpoon Austin. Now with well over thirty original songs (and numerous old world shanties) and a live album under their belts, The Pirates Charles continue to enamor new fans anywhere they go, whether it be at their home venue, The Verity Room or on a packed Labor Day beach or ComicCon or local pirate festivals or performing with the magnificent Pirates For Hire. But parents be warned – The Pirates Charles aren’t quite your five-year-old’s PG-rated pirate band. In addition to the obvious plundering and sacking, The Pirates Charles have been known to use bawdy language (oh no!), rock like it’s both 1777 and 1977, and sing romantic ballads about their favorite prostitutes on Cat Island. So while they may not be appropriate for the kids, adults young and old alike may take delight in knowing that there’s a salty pirate rock band for them.
Keep an eye out for the new version of The New Steez EP - with updated tracks and new versions of old favorites, available sometime in late March / early April, along with The Return of David Gale!
You guys should come down to San Diego for July 4th if possible, Hellhound is putting on a giant pirate beach party/bbq on Mission Bay, all day. Let me or the Hellhound page know if any of you scalliwags can attend!
Me first taste o' yer sweet rum be in Big Bear, after again in NorCal PF, then yer CD rocked me all th' way home! 'n ye let these pieces o' eight go fer a mere 10 dollar note King's money!??! Rock On Mates! See ye around I will ;D
