NEW SINGLE FROM YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS. THE WORLDS MOST AUTHENTIC PIRATE BAND!

Hoist the Jolly Roger!! The worlds most authentic pirate rock band Ye Banished Privateers roll up to shore with their new single ‘No Prey, No Pay’ from a forthcoming new album, Hostis Humani Generis due out soon. 

Ye Banished Privateers have taken no prisoners since launching back in September 2012 in the Swedish town of Umeå, and have a list of crew mates longer than yer arm with over thirty (!) members of the band at any one time and up to a dozen on stage at gigs. With a fourth album due soon the band have released their first single to promote it. While we called their last album 

“unabashed bastardized Irish folk an’ 17th century sea-shanty punk rock”

they have continued on their quest in much the same manner with ‘No Prey, No Pay’ with a utterly fantastic and authentic (smell that sea water!) video to promote it. Sounds of the ocean begin the song followed some pretty nifty accordion and then the song gets into swing. The song stands out in part to the fabulous vocals of Blackpowder Pete who sounds like a more gravelly Tom Waits! His voice is used as the ultimate instrument throughout the song urging it along. Besides that the rest of the band are a little understated with only the accordion, fiddle and tin whistle jumping out at you but nevertheless it sails along at a fine auld pace and guarantees to take yo back in time to when pirates dominated the seven seas. Smell the salty sea air, join an inn full of drunken singing, lots of shouts of ‘yarrrrrrrrs’ and splice the main brace (an order given aboard naval vessels to issue the crew with an alcoholic drink) and get yourself ready for the delivery of their fourth album Hostis Humani Generis (due to arrive in port in February) boasting a wealth of sea shanties, drinking anthems and trad folk tunes. While you would think it would be near impossible to avoid parody Ye Banished Privateers somehow manage it with an air of authenticity and thanks to some great songs. 

Blackpowder Pete goes onto say “No Prey, No Pay” sets the stage for the album and describes how times suddenly had become more difficult for those sailing under the black flag. More than ever, piracy had become a hazardous task, many times with the sole purpose of getting enough value to guarantee a decent meal for a couple of days.”

Sail away with Ye Banished Privateers new song. The most authentic pirate rock inspired masterpiece since the golden age of the dreaded sea-predators!

No Prey, No Pay

Deadlights fastened, pouches empty,

brace yourselves were heading out

Show a leg to the caulk stained sentry

Wet the sails the boom’s about

Set the course for Mayaguana,

a plate fleet’s moving cross the straight

Scudos coined in Old Milano

Pedro’s cog just took the bait

Chase is on in shallow waters

Swivels glowing through the smoke

’tis might be an even slaughter

Took a volley through the oak

Bring a spring upon her cable

Hunter now becomes the prey

Broadsides roar with cannons able

Hooks will take us to the fray

No quarter, No parley

No pay without a prey

Fresh water, fresh barley

fine rations to last the day

No quarter, No parley

Maynard’s sizing up our chains

Good sailors, dried gnarly

end their days in a rusty cage

Scuppers laying low with silver,

none but dead men tell no tales

Charon may their souls deliver,

as we cover up our trail

No more rest on easy booties

Them old days be now long gone

The hangman waits to do his duty

Sail again by the rise of dawn

Fill them seams with tar soaked oakum

Fish the mast to make her hold

Tie and hoist the leadswing’s scrotum

Oh, hornswogglers don’t grow old

Hogshead’s full of sailors folly

Salmagundi and sawbone’s stew

Crimp some knaves from the house of mollies.

At light of dawn head out anew

No quarter, No parley

No pay without a prey

Fresh water, fresh barley

fine rations to last the day

No quarter, No parley

Maynard’s sizing up our chains

Good sailors, dried gnarly

end their days in a rusty cage

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