Rum. Cleavage. Pubcrawls. YARRRR!
19Sep2008
We would have you give a bloodthirsty cheer of thanks to our sponsor for this year’s PiratePalooza, Onyx Consulting!! Onyx is Atlanta’s Premier Mac & Windows Repair, Service and Consulting Provider and recently opened a second location in Decatur, site of our 4th annual PiratePalooza pubcrawl. Coincidence or Fate? Whichever it may be, you should… Continue reading 2008 PiratePalooza Sponsor
18Sep2008
I shouldn’t have been surprised when me old pal Foe, what runs the Dragon*Con Pirate Party-o, mentioned something about making some stickers for his year’s event… it be terrific idea for spotting pirates on the high ways of the inland passages as they trundle past in their autocarriages (and a good way of making sure… Continue reading PiratePalooza Decals
18Sep2008
As we’re likely to have a good number of pirates come to this year’s Palooza concert, parking will be at a premium. Plan ahead by studying the interactive Google Maps satellite view of the area around the James Joyce and, as always, consider autocarriage-pooling, with your Designated Driver at the helm. This gathering of the… Continue reading Where To Park at 2008 Concert?
17Sep2008
We’re pleased to announce that the popular Atlanta-based burlesque troop Syrens of the South will make a special pirate-style appearance during the finale of this year’s Pirate Music Concert, scheduled to run from 6pm to 10pm at the James Joyce Irish Pub in Avondale Estates. We certainly hope that the Syrens legendary love of seamen… Continue reading Pirates and Syrens
14Sep2008
THUNDER!!! but that were a terrible storm we just encountered…. the entire Palooza has been blown into a strange new sea we’ve never traversed afore…. and we’ve just learned where it is that we’ll finally come ashore… why, it’s The James Joyce Irish Pub in Avondale Estates!!! HUZZZZAHHH!!!! If you’ve never been to the James… Continue reading PiratePalooza 2008 a GO!!
13Sep2008
This cursed poll is never quite on the mark, but it still makes us giggle to go back and compare the number of people who’ve said they’re coming with the actual turnout at the Palooza…. so jump in and let us know how many dangerous bounders you’ll be bringing to this year’s Palooza! (The poll… Continue reading Palooza Estimate for 2008
12Sep2008
2008 ROUTE We apologize for the late changes to this year’s bloody schedule, but an unexpected squall has blown us off-course! Fortunately, there still be a way to the Palooza what allows us to invade Decatarrrr!!! Location 1 : Taco Mac (2pm – 3pm) Why not start at a place what gives you 92 beers… Continue reading Pubcrawl Route for 2008 (revised)
10Sep2008
Every pirate knows that PiratePalooza™ is about music and the salty musicians what brings it to us. Whether it be long-hauls, sheet-drags, capstan shanties, stamp-n-go’s, pumpin’ or fo’c’s’le shanties, you’ll find us singin’ about sailing, drinking and wenching. Now, without further adieu allow me to announce our line-up for the 2008 Pubcrawl!! Wine, Woman, and… Continue reading Palooza Concert 2008
10Sep2008
Look alive you sorry dogs, the seas are high and the Palooza is calling! It be only 10 days before we invade Decatarrrr and there be much to be done ahead of the invasion… like getting our T-shirts! This year we’ll be treatin’ ourselves to a fyne chocolate brown shirt to commemorate the glory that… Continue reading Raise Anchor 2008!!
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
03Aug2008
Have you ever been to “that thing” what happens over in Decatarrrr every Septembarrr? That thing with the seafaring entrepreneurs and the pubs and the crawling and the concerts? You know, the birthday for the space pirate what be known around these parts as Captain Drew? Did you really like it all that much? Really??… Continue reading That Thing in September…
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!
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