The Pirates Are Coming!

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 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.
Influences :
Tom Waits, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, The Doors, Rogues' Gallery, rum, stories about pirates, The Pirate Captain, Guybrush Threepwood, and the tea made from the Flower of Bermuda.
 
Sounds Like :
A furious maelstrom at sea within which there is no eye, Tom Waits and Jim Morrison arguing in someone's voicebox, about four times the amount of voices in the band, concentrated rum-soaked fun
 
Both of our Live CDs, Live Scallywags and The New Steez EP, are being sold at AnimeLA. Live Scallywags is also available for purchase at www.cdbaby.com