Alestorm Kick Up A Pirate Storm

24 July 2009

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Avast, ye landlubbers! From the deepest darkest depths of eastern Scotland comes Alestorm, a drunken band of three mad Scots and one Irishman on an epic quest to slay posers, drink beer, and be the greatest damn band that ever did sail the seven seas!

Describing their style as “True Scottish Pirate Metal”, Alestorm plays an infectious blend of folk and power metal in the vein of bands such as Turisas and Korpiklaani, but with a unique piratical twist. I caught up with the guys for a quick chat…

Hello there pretties, how are things going in your lovely world?

Hello! We are all doing wonderfully thankyou, on a little break for the summer at the moment so were nice and chilled.

We are proper 100% loving your super hot new record…tell us a bit about the inspiration behind it…

Thankyou very much! We like it too. The inspiration once again was booze really, wanting to create awesome bad ass drinking music that people can rock out too...and what better than throwing a few pirates and accordions into it.

To anyone who hasn’t heard of you yet, how would you describe your sound?

This is the part where I could ramble on something very in depth about how we sound or say something really funny like "it sounds like [insert artist here] on [insert narcotic substance here]" but we are a silly folk metal band singing about booze and pirates. Thats it really...

If you were going to give us just one song of yours to listen to so that you would become our new favourite singer, what would it be?

P is for Pirate! Its a bonus track from our new album only available on iTunes, seriously you will never have to listen to another Alestorm song again once you have heard this masterpiece.

If you could cover another band’s song, what would it be?

We really wanna do Don't Stop Believing by Journey. We got to play with Journey a few weeks back and I was blown away. Everybody loves that song though, its a classic. Hopefully youll be hearing us do this song and maybe a few more covers just for fun!

And can you sum up your good selves in just five words?

Really really really good looking.

What makes you stand out from the crowd?

We are quite a silly looking bunch really, I guess that helps...Dani is dwarven, Chris looks a bit like a tree in bermuda shorts and Ian walks around and plays drums with his boxer shorts hanging out so were easy to spot. Ill be the one at the bar...

You know we’re having a bit of an economic crisis here at the moment, if people wanted to spend their last £10 on a cd this weekend, why should they buy yours?

"Black Sails at Midnight" is the long lost Jennifer Ashley novel. A whimsical tale of suspense, adventure and daring romance. So deep, so meaningful, that once you've listened to it, you'll want listen again and again, gorging yourself on it's nautical splendor. Many women (and men alike) will fall in love with it's characters, full of manly, dashing pirates (much like the band), who will stop at nothing to capture the hearts of loved ones, find new and exciting lands and drink all your beer.

What three bands would you have to headline your dream festival?

I hear Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition are doing the festival circuit next year which im quite excited about. I would have them on before Nokturnal Mortum because for some unknown reason they never play outside of the Ukraine, and Ryanair dont fly there from Belfast! For my main headliner itd have to be Prince, that would be awesome.

What has been your favourite musical memory to date?

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