
Blog: Archives: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 About/Contact	Eat Your Greens And Keep Your Dreams Scott Jones on Pete and The Pirates at Bristol's The Cooler April 12th, 2008 A twinkling of the guitar, a slap of the bass, a drum beat and ”I’m not scared of you, darling, I’m in love with you, darling” are the first words we’re greeted with. Right from this eruption of melody everyone can see the Pirates are on top form tonight, with Tom Sanders bouncing and dancing faintly and really into it. ‘I’ll Love’ sets the tone for the night with its soft, gentle to nearly loud vocals and its upbeat to slow changing pace. Pete and the Pirates look the part with one in a ‘Mr Happy’ t-shirt and Sanders in a t-shirt he must have made himself. It's got The Pirates’ great art work on it with the red love hearts and the skulls, and it reminds me of a picture I saw sometime last week of quite the opposite, 'Ash’ in action at their new jobs as Topman dummies. The Pirates’ ships all seem to head off in different melodious directions yet they're intertwining with every wave and the subtle vocals ride along gracefully. ‘Knots’ and ‘Mr Understanding’ (which we’re assured is about a real guy) are really up tempo tracks with guitars twinkling here, there and everywhere, even the people who don’t dance at gigs tap a toe. “Get out of bed, its the wrong one” sings Sanders as a monster of a man comes past with a massive rucksack, taking five people from each side with him, in his quest to get to the front. Great stuff, and who wouldn’t want to be at the front while the spinning guitars of ’Knots’ rain down from above. ‘She doesn’t belong to me’, ‘Dry Wings‘ and ‘This Thyme’ shimmer, twinkle and rock all at once, with their lyrics so humbly underplayed, a million miles away from the pretentious shit bags that the ‘NME‘ adore. “Eat your greens and keep your dreams” is almost child like in simplicity and is just one of many lines that has got me eating out of the Pirates’ hands. Guitars shimmer for the final time tonight in ‘Come on feet’ and The Pirates announce that they are playing a gig in London later on (later on, its 11 o’clock now) if anyone wants to go with them (shit, why didn’t I go?), before they set sail. Pete and the Pirates were at the top of their game, every stroke of a guitar, every bass line, every drum beat and every vocal had real meaning and purpose, and it's hard to imagine how they could be anything but, with the gems they have in their treasure chest. I cant believe its over, it seemed to last momentarily yet forever, I think I’ll call it fleetingly forever (if that makes any sense). © 2008 Scott Jones
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Scott Jones on Pete and The Pirates at Bristol's The Cooler

April 12th, 2008

A twinkling of the guitar, a slap of the bass, a drum beat and ”I’m not scared of you, darling, I’m in love with you, darling” are the first words we’re greeted with. Right from this eruption of melody everyone can see the Pirates are on top form tonight, with Tom Sanders bouncing and dancing faintly and really into it. ‘I’ll Love’ sets the tone for the night with its soft, gentle to nearly loud vocals and its upbeat to slow changing pace.

Pete and the Pirates look the part with one in a ‘Mr Happy’ t-shirt and Sanders in a t-shirt he must have made himself. It's got The Pirates’ great art work on it with the red love hearts and the skulls, and it reminds me of a picture I saw sometime last week of quite the opposite, 'Ash’ in action at their new jobs as Topman dummies.

The Pirates’ ships all seem to head off in different melodious directions yet they're intertwining with every wave and the subtle vocals ride along gracefully. ‘Knots’ and ‘Mr Understanding’ (which we’re assured is about a real guy) are really up tempo tracks with guitars twinkling here, there and everywhere, even the people who don’t dance at gigs tap a toe. “Get out of bed, its the wrong one” sings Sanders as a monster of a man comes past with a massive rucksack, taking five people from each side with him, in his quest to get to the front. Great stuff, and who wouldn’t want to be at the front while the spinning guitars of ’Knots’ rain down from above.

‘She doesn’t belong to me’, ‘Dry Wings‘ and ‘This Thyme’ shimmer, twinkle and rock all at once, with their lyrics so humbly underplayed, a million miles away from the pretentious shit bags that the ‘NME‘ adore. “Eat your greens and keep your dreams” is almost child like in simplicity and is just one of many lines that has got me eating out of the Pirates’ hands.

Guitars shimmer for the final time tonight in ‘Come on feet’ and The Pirates announce that they are playing a gig in London later on (later on, its 11 o’clock now) if anyone wants to go with them (shit, why didn’t I go?), before they set sail. Pete and the Pirates were at the top of their game, every stroke of a guitar, every bass line, every drum beat and every vocal had real meaning and purpose, and it's hard to imagine how they could be anything but, with the gems they have in their treasure chest. I cant believe its over, it seemed to last momentarily yet forever, I think I’ll call it fleetingly forever (if that makes any sense).