Pete and the Pirates

Pete and the Pirates play the kind of pop music this blog is all about. It's pop music that is in essence a bit 'shanty'. A bit ramshackle. The type of pop where you imagine that the band were only just about able to hold it together long enough to record the song, and as soon as the engineer pressed 'stop' on the mixing desk it all fell apart gloriously as band members collapsed from the exertion of having to try and play together, in time, for 3 whole minutes. It's also utterly utterly joyous.

Pete and the Pirates are scuzzy (yet surprisingly intricate), just about in tune and blessed with enough melodies and killer lines ('that's not fair, I was doing my hair', '6.15 and I'm cooking tea, Onion garlic sesame') to keep me smiling for a good while yet and marry all this to tunes so bouncy and liable to suddenly head off in a different direction it leaves other bands seeming flatfooted.

They've built a strong live reputation too, and its entirely justified. The songs come alive more and a sweaty, beery, venue is far more forgiving of the odd bum note than on cold hard compact disc. Its a good spectacle too, with a pleasing contrast between the trailblazing drumming of Jonny and the cigarette wielding vague bopping of singer Tom.

The new single is "Come on Feet" and very good it is too.


Listen to more at http://www.myspace.com/peteandthepirates

or head here to see my favourite PatP song and rejoice at the glorious moments when it cranks to life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n84wmMJ1z5k