Rum. Cleavage. Pubcrawls. YARRRR!
12Aug2008
Excited about the upcoming 2008 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl?? Here’s a great raw clip from Sandra Sparks’ documentation of the music of the 2007 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl Concert to tide you through…. The two person group doing the singing are Susan Hickey and Gregg Csikos and are called The Rambling Sailors, and have fans all around the U.S.… Continue reading PiratePalooza™ ’07 Clip: Mary Ellen Carter
22Jun2008
It be no small secret that I likes ambling down to the Trader Vic’s on Thursday nights just to hear the Tiki band Tongo Hiti play the sweet, sweet music of the Pacific isles for wandering tourists and lonely conventioneers. If you do make it down there tell Big Mike that Captain Drew sends his… Continue reading Hamzilla vs Godzilla
04Jun2008
Being as I, Captain Drew, are a genuine space pirate, it should come as little wonder to you Earth lubbers that I be having a serious interest in the doings of a minstrel troupe what calls themselves “They Might Be Giants”, particularly when they gin up a handy little ditty for the Walt Disney Company… Continue reading The Ballad of Davy Jones (In Outer Space)
13Oct2007
All you pirates in the crowd raise your hooks in the air, today Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew announced the release of their second album, “Rimes of the Hip Hop Mariners” and I have to tell you that your old pal Captain Drew is very, very excited!! If you don’t already own a copy… Continue reading CD Release: Rimes of the Hip Hop Mariners
21Sep2007
We have one last surprise for you from this year’s PiratePalooza™ and no, it’s not your hamburger (didn’t you hear? they’re still a little behind in the kitchen). No, our little surprise is an “internet album” of pirate-themed music from some of the very same performers you saw on stage at this year’s PiratePalooza™ on… Continue reading PiratePalooza 2007 Booty Music Album (free!)
21Sep2007
That lovely little hellion Joni Minstrel kicks off the PiratePalooza Booty Music album by singing the words to a famous pram by England’s late poet laureate John Masefield. See if you can sing along with Joni without feelin’ the hair begin to prickle along the nape of your neck. This be why we takes to… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 01 – “Sea Fever”
21Sep2007
Track 02 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds that nefarious anarchist Joni Minstrel singing a lovely first person narrative of that prankster of the seven seas, Captain Kidd. Sure he killed a few people… okay, a lot of people… but it’s hard work taking things from other people. Shouldn’t there be some sort of… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 02 – “Captain Kidd”
21Sep2007
In Track 03 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album Susan Hickey and Gregg Csikos of the Rambling Sailors grab you round the collar and fling you high to the world of free-booted pirates in this song called “Pirate’s Life”. Look around your sad little cubicle and feel the blood course hot through your veins… take… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 03 – “Pirate’s Life”
21Sep2007
What is that sweet sound?! Why, it be Track 04 featuring’ the Rambling Sailors with their lovely old-salt harmonies and trademark authentic squeezebox!! Just try listening to this song without bobbin’ your head and wishin’ you were facin’ into the wind aboard a ship bound some faraway rum-soaked shore!
21Sep2007
On Track 05 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album you’ll find Mister Ian O’Donnell spinnin’ us a jig-worthy ditty that’ll have you hoppin’ about like a drunk monkey in hot tar. No, I don’t know what that means either. Still, the song is peppy and I’ve no doubts you’re going to like it! You’re going… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 05 – “Whiskey is the Life of Man”
21Sep2007
Way, hey, Track 06 on the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds Mister Ian O’Donnell puttin’ us to mind o’ the hard business o’ keepin’ a good ship fit and true… let alone operating her as a law-abiding business. Sometimes it’s just bloody easier to take what you need than to do all that hard work… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 06 – “Rigged Our Ship”
21Sep2007
Track 07 on the Booty Album has become yet another enormous hit for the talented members of Three Quarter Ale and a favorite for their fans both new and olde – finding it on this album is a genuine gift to those of us who count themselves among their fans! Sporting a decidedly roguish sound… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 07 – “Pirate Annie’s Chest”
21Sep2007
Track 08 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds us at the mercy of a dangerously cutthroat incarnation of Three Quarter Ale, stalking ’round the deck singing of that most-dreaded of piratical death warrants: The Black Spot. Featuring a performance by that raven-haired temptress Rosemary Quench at her most cruel, you’ll marvel at this story… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 08 – “The Black Spot”
21Sep2007
A special preview from the album “Heroes and Scoundrels”, the final track (track 09) on this first-ever Booty Music album stars a quartet of kilt-wearin’ laddies from the year 1599. Known for their invention of the towering rock anthem and their penchant for the wearin’ o’ the teal, The Lost Boys are zoomin’ up the… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 09 – “Scoundrels”
19Jun2007
This past weekend PiratePalooza alumna Juliana Finch held a CD release party at the Red Light Cafe in Midtown Atlanta for the debut of her newest album “How To Take The Fall” [now available at CDBaby.com]. See how our guest music reviewer, renowned fancypants Lieutenant Lewellyn “Farnsy” Middleworth of the Queen’s Own Music Brigade, takes… Continue reading How To Take The Fall
15Jun2007
All right you scurvy lot, listen up! You have exactly three months to prepare for PiratePalooza 3! This year’s Palooza will be on Saturday, September 15th in Decatur, Georgia. That means you have three months to sharpen your swords. Three months to gather your gold. Three months to memorize your favorite songs and three months… Continue reading Press Release: PiratePalooza 2007
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