AVAST YE RED LINE!! Part TWO!!

Ok, in the last avast, I saw a pirate band in the subway station, everything about that was AWESOME. Based on that very brief interaction with the band, The Pirate Charles, I bought two tickets to a show a The Knitting Factory. I also talked 5 of my friends into going. I wasn't wrong.

The show there had 20ish bands lined up, MOST of them were hard-ish core, some of them were more rock in the classic 80's sense and a few were just down right hard. I had a GREAT night, it well worth the 18$ (plus 4$ fees from fucking ticketweb. each!).

I'll start with the obvious, The Pirate Charles. NOT what I expected. When I saw them in the subway, they were obviously limited by a lack of electricity and speakers, what I saw (and you too if you've seen the video) made me expect something like Flogging Molly, another Pogues-ish band (I happen to love The Pouges so loving Flogging Molly and bands like them is easy), holy crap was I wrong, these guys ROCKED. The music was way harder rock than I expected.

My favorite aspect of the show was the mob of fans in the audience ALSO dressed as pirates, they mixed wonderfully with the typical crowd of rockers, punks and fans of violent dancing. Watching the rockers react to pirate after pirate coming through the doors was fun as shit, the rockers, so used to being the social outcasts and representatives of fashion what-the-fucks were left confused by the usurpation of their place in life. When the show started, the pirate fans were eager to jump into the fun, dancing with mugs on their heads, giant boobs jiggling in corsets, typical faire, so to speak. It was easy for them, they were CLEARLY there to see The Pirate Charles, the rockers on the other hand, they had been gleefully pushing and shoving in circles just 15 minutes earlier on the smaller stage, plus, none of them had any kind Elizabethan garb on. It took them longer to get into it, but get into it they did, somewhere around the middle of the show, the hair and leather started flying, pirates and rockers together, at least, joined by the hard core pirate music they'd all secretly longed for all their lives. Nice.

So, to sum all that up, I LOVED The Pirate Charles, I recommend never missing a show if you can avoid it, hell, I'm going to keep an eye patch in my car from now on in case I a show surprises me.

I'm currently waiting for their permission to post the videos to youtube. I'll update this post when they give it (they better.....)