On the 11th March 2015 at a location in that London, a band was playing another of their relentless shows which have grown with more energy and vibrancy than the last.

As a support act you rarely get to say that you remember more for them than  you do the headliner but these guys have been stealing the shows, fans as they go, picking up more and more plaudits.

Judging by their social media the demand for their merchandise is reaching sell out proportions.

Now, is this just some clever media campaign by their management team or is it a genuine ground swell for a real band with a real future?

New Album album Gold Dust is due out on the 11th May and it promises to be packed full of punk attitude married with rock experience and a smattering of hey look at us you fuckers. Single ‘The One’ aside (overly electronic filled and not perhaps their best but luckily their only iffy track) they pack energy, guitar licks, soaring angry vibrant vocals with every track played live. If you want a catch up get Red Light Fix – Rise up, Requiem of the Drunk, Fight and This is for you are a taster to start then grab single Alive. I guarantee you will want to secure Gold Dust.

If you can, go see them now – it won’t be long till larger venues beckon and the merchandise disappears.

Social Media campaign – done.

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My favourite track? Well I have two cos I’m greedy like that –

Alive

https://youtu.be/eHdzXO0vZ3E

Fight

https://youtu.be/wX1wPLjPhlc

What are your onions?

RPOS x

Pirates.

Jolly Roger, Avast me Hearties, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum and so on.

Captain Pugwash, Black Beard, Captain Jack Sparrow, Davey Jones.

If you have ever loved watching tv shows, cartoons, movies, reading books, dressing up as any of the characters above or as your regular standard pirate, then like me you may well associate pirates as being like being in a band. A band of brothers, fighting to keep going, competing in shark infested waters for a hand full of gold until the next show.

Until it becomes more than the looting and the music and it becomes political, people become greedy, paranoid. Have outsiders whispering in your ear about how you should be captain of your own ship, treachery, sex, money, greed with a swagger.

So Saturday, was the XV episode in series 2, well its actually episode 7 in series 2, but far cooler to call it XV. What am I on about? Black Sails. Just about the best thing on TV while Game of Thrones is off waiting for Winter.

I found it by accident last year, when series 1 was being aired in the US. I found it on Amazon – what was Love Film – and was instantly hooked – Pirates+drinking+fighting+looting+raiding+whoring+betrayal+drinking+fighting = an 18+ view of Pirates based in Nassau. Nassau a caribbean trading island full of debauchery and intrigue as the Pirates battle for control and supremacy whilst being kept in line (ish) by the governess (Hannah New). It makes for an epic show, the characters drag you in with their very different traits, there are twists and counter twists with a cracking cast the whole way through series 1 which finishes with an epic cliff hanger.

Captain Charles Vane, Ann Bonny, Captain Flint, John Silver, this is a prelude to Treasure Island and one to watch with the twists and turns keeping you hooked.

Series 2 goes at a faster pace, rarely is there a lull in the action or tension.

Special effects are fantastic, colourful shoots, excellent characters

I can’t go any further as not one for spoilers all I can say is watch it – Pirates like Rock Stars having the time of their lives, living by the seat of their pants whilst swashbuckling their way around money, greed, ‘love’ and power.

Here is the trailer for the first series – watch it and I defy you not to want to watch more…………

http://youtu.be/Pvxpv_fycl8

BE PUNK

RPOS X