08-05-10
GIGS GIGS AND MORE GIGS
Yes, yet more lovely gigs, and since we didn’t get much leg work out to the Metal To The Masses poster, WE'RE GOING TO REUSE IT AGAIN!!!
Next Gig is our return to Cambridge to headline the MAY BRAWL... in June, then its our first strike at Nottingham at Ye Olde Salutation Inn [see below] and then its off to Manchester to blow SOS FEST AWAY!!!
01-05-10
In just under a week we are off to play our first gig in Manchester.
We’re off to battle many of the north’s premier bands to win a chance to play BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR. Come down and wave yer cutlass for us!
01-05-10
Battle Report
Well well well mehartys its been one hell of a month!
We've been battling across the length and breadth of the UK.well ok, mostly Midlands, Yorkshire and London, BUT ITS BEEN FUN!
Its been more than a privilege touring with York's most brutal battlers since the Vikings, PANTHEON.
Highlights have been the extra buxom wenches of Burnley, the delectable Fish and Chips of Grimsby and, without a doubt, the vast throng of drunken pirates that greeted us in London!
But so much of the past, NOW TO THE FUTURE!
We've got a boatloada gigs still to come. From further traversing to the south for a piratical party in Hatfield and our triumphant return to Cambridge, to our first gig in Manchester as we Battle For Bloodstock and join again with Blaze Baily and Fury UK at S.O.S. Festival
Check out the GIGS section for dates and flyers
The future is bright, the future is RIPE TO BE PILLAGED!
03-03-10
CAST THE SAILS TO THE WIND, OH MEN OF THE SEA!!
Skull Branded Pirates are hitting the towering waves of the UK taking their renowned stage show across the globe (or UK) to win new hearts, pillage new lands and generally ROCK YOUR BRAINS OUT!!!!
Check yer captain’s logs and Set your main masts
2nd April 2010 – The Old Bell – Derby
3rd April 2010 – Sanctuary – Burnley
7th April 2010 – The Rising Sun – Coventry
9th April 2010 – The Matrix – Grimsby
11th April 2010 – The Mill – Mansfield
16th April 2010 – The Gaff – Camden
For more info check out the
Facebook Event Page
08-01-10
Battle Plans for 2010
2010 is lookin' to be a belter!
We got the first few dates booked, starting at the moment with a night of hard partying and drinkin' in Leeds - our first Fenton date in YEARS.
A few more battles planned here there and everywhere but the big news is
THE TOUR
We're gona be joinin' up with our good chums MORKRET and pillageing across the country.
We're lookin to book dates between 2nd and 11th of april.
So let us know if ye want us!!!
Check out the MYSPACE or the GIGS section for more info and for
ALL THE PIRATICAL METAL YE COULD ASK FOR!!!
19-09-09
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day to ye all!
This be your official “Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day to ye all!” message from your humble fabulous Skull Branded Pirates.
But its not all fun and games; this day is our bands live anniversary. That’s Right! 2 YEARS SINCE WE SET SALE!!! 2 years since we introduced you to what British Pirate Metal is all about!
Battles have been fought, won and many a stadium has been pillaged dry. We’ve played with some top names in metal, striving each and every time to top our last performance.
To commemorate this momentous day we’re making our album available FOR FREEEEE!!!
To grab hold of this most bootyliciouse of treasures click HERE and download a piece of history.
21-08-09
Battles with FINNTROLL and BATTELORE - Ticket Available
Battles with FINNTROLL and BATTELORE – Ticket Available
As many of ye know, the awesome SKULL BRANDED PIRATES are hitting Leeds Rios with FINNTROLL and BATTELORE - this epic conflagration is set to happen on the 30th September.
Come down and do some heavy drinkin’ and hard fighting.
FINNTROLL, BATTELORE & SKULL BRANDED PIRATES
30th SEPTEMBER 2009
£12 Tickets (£0.50 postage)
02-05-09
Album Reviews, Battles Won and Lost, and Setting a New Course
ATTENTION ON DECK, LOWLY SWABS!
Its been a rip roaring few weeks for us scurvy lot. We’ve been travelling again across Yorkshire, tearing up everywhere we’ve come into contact with, as well as harassing the worlds Music Press with our CD, THE LEGEND OF SALTY JIM
First couple of reviews are in, including one from Kerrang! Magazine, and they be looking good. - To have a read, click here
Battle Reports – Well in the last few days we’ve had a faire number of battles to fight. First we took on Leeds’ “The Shed” under the command of Black John Crawford. Much ale was supped and many more tears were “Shed” as the long anticipated (and never to be played again under pain of pain) cover of Africa was heard and rained down on us all.
Next up was a battle of the bands in Bradford… lets just say, the mighty SBP are now a good bit richer, if ye catch our meanings.
Finally, our latest battles were with our old plunder buddies Alestorm and the mighty Faroic folkers TYR. We ain’t never seen a port so packed as Rios that night, and so many of the crew wearing our T-Shirts and Eye Patches. Cutlasses were raised and much black powder was burned, and afterwards, much merch was sold (Yarrrg, we loves booty)
If ye missed this one then prepare to have yer regret Keelhauled as ye thumb through these pics.
As ye can see, after a night as awesome as that Rios will never be the same again.
But enough of events past! What next?
Well work has begun on Album/EP MK 2 and the endless quest for a label to pay us to do it! We have more gigs planned, with yet another bunch of north of the border scallywags Man of the Hour, as well as a thrash fest in Wakefield, a Bloodtstock gig in Derby and a return to the stage with that old metal legend Blaze Bayley!
Keep checking back for more reviews and more tales of plunder
Memoirs of the Salty Jim
Well its been a few months now since the album has been available and ye lucky brigands have been rocking out to it like nobody's business. Even some young enterprising buccaneer managed to rob us! SEA-GODS BLESS THAT MAN (and string him up by his gizzard at the first opportunity)
But in the last 2 months the wonderful world of the Internet has been busy, and we would like to share with ye all some of the best moments from that epic day.
Also checkout vanguard-online’s review of the night!
SKULL BRANDED PIRATES and the Revenge on Rios
Once again the pirate party hits the stage with your humble magnificence SKULL BRANDED PIRATES followed by them flouncy Scottish piratical chaps Alestorm with there keyboard solos, buckfast drinking, hard partying METAL MAYHEM!
Also on board for the trip is TYR who have retrofitted their longships with cannons and the Jolly Rodger!!!
and a rumour abounds about the return of the king...
GET UR TICKETS OFF US!!! ONLY £10.00 - cheaper than the doors
Drop us a line on facebook, myspace or by email and we'll get it out to you!
21-02-09
NOW AVAILABLE!!!
That’s right lowly Deck-Swabbers, Its here, Its online and its ready for you to part with your hard pillaged doubloons for!
Check out the STORE and buy the album,
£5.00 Direct from us with album artwork and other assorted SBP goodies (subject to what we got in our treasure chest at the time)
Also available to download from the following places!
25-01-09
NEW TRACKS ONLINE &
Alestorm Gig!
Its nearly upon us – the Legend of Salty Jim has been mixed, mastered and been sent off on its adventures to the CD Printers! And it can be yours from the 07/02/08 – but in case you just cant wait that long, We have buried some tracks in the Media section for you, and we’ve hosted a album sample on the Myspace page.
Check ‘em out HERE, get hold of your costumes, buy an album and ROCK LIKE A KRAKEN with us.
While we’re on the subject – We have a gig with Scottish Pirate Metal Heroes ALESTORM. We breach the waves for them on the 20th of feb in the harbour of Oliver’s Bar in Ashton Under Lyme. Get yourself ready for a night of the purest pirate metal antics!
YARRRGGGGG
28-12-08
FACEBOOK PAGE
Merry Christmas from SBP
Us Scurvy Dogs have finally embraced the social networking cesspool know as FACEBOOK! - We've ravaged it and shaped it into our own, now you can have a look see at the SKULL BRANDED PIRATES PAGE on Facebook
18-12-08
ALBUM LAUNCH CONFIRMED
ROCK OF AGES - LEEDS: 07-02-09
THE LEGEND OF SALTY JIM IS COMING
We will be Performing at METAL HAMMERS'S No#1 Metal Club
For more info head over to their website.
The Legend of Salty Jim – 7th Feb 2009
05-12-08
WEBSITE IS HERE
It be about time but Skull Branded Pirates ONLINE is here.
This, along with the band Myspace and Youtube sites, be the definitive source for all things Skull Branded Pirates.
Check out ARRR Albums, Songs and Videos and get yer hands on some official plunder in the online swag store.
Please checkout the Myspace and Youtube sites too
30-11-08
NEW ALBUM UPDATE
Its been a long wait, and although vicious tides and malevolent gods have stood in the way,
Its Nearly Here!
ARRRR first Album, is nearly ready for ye all to add to your personal booty.
9 Tracks of the most Epic and Adventuresome Pirate Metal to violently battle yar ear drums -including a new, never heard before song.
The Legend of Salty Jim – Coming very soon