CaptainHellfire

Ahoy me maties! Me good friend Billy Bones has a pirate pickup lines he wishes to share with ye! He's also always on the lookout for new piratical humour to tickle 'is funny bone so if you've got jokes or other pickup lines ya'd like to share with him I'll be sure to pass 'em on Yarghaha!

http://captainhellfire.wix.com/band#!billy-bones/c10lt

Even assassins creed 3 isnt bad for getting into the pirate mood, the beginning of the game is set only 20 years after the golden age in boston, starts with a voyage on a ship to america, the sailors working away singing a few shanties, haul on the bowline and hanging johnny. A full game you can drop into to get you in the mood for going a roving on the seven seas is going to be quite the treat!

Looks like were going to finally get that awesome pirate based video game weve been begging for! dont let the hooded main character worry you if this is anywhere as good as the rest of the series this is the closest you'll get to living in the golden age of piracy :)

Black Bartholomew Roberts

With his cup o' tea and gold cross

Was quite the daring rover

Till they caught his crew hungover

Treasure Island with Heston and Christian Bale for sure, and the 1950 version is great too. Also for some more quality Robert Newton pyracy check out Blackbeard The Pirate (1952).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHTx4iTEIE

Heres hoping they redeem the francise with the next movie, or movies as it seems its going to be. I'm hoping its just going to be a new movie rather than two sequels like I read somewhere a while ago. In my opinion Dead Mans Chest and Worldsend as a single movie with the fat trimmed from them would have been far superior than the double movie

I thought it was a bit of a shame they didnt stick to the book more, a far better story in my opinion and it would have set up Jack Sparrow to be capering around more if theyd just put him in place of Jack Shandy. Plus in the context of the movie it seemed like they just gave Blackbeard a zombie crew for the sake of sticking to the Pirates movies formula but its all explained in the book. Heres hoping someone films the book itself one day!

Ah as an update Son of Rogues Gallery is out and from what I've 'eard of it...... it's bloody awful! Steer clear me hearties!

Ahoy there me buckos! I've just started trying my hand at the seafaring life and started me own pirate band. We've called Captain Hellfire and The Wretched Brethren and we've just had our second gig on the 25th of January. I thought I'd share some of the lyrics I've written. This first set of lyrics be from a song about that most famous pirate, Black Barty, I play this by meself on the piano at the moment but we are looking to develop it as a track incorporating the whole band.

Black Bartholomew Roberts (Seas of Chance)

In darkness we all swing together

Each man but skin and bone

Packed inside this floating coffin

We sail the seas as one

I'm staring at the ceiling

Concentrating on my mission

Thinking as my head it sways

With pendulum precision

The flame it flares more brightly

Then it flickers with indecision

I wonder how I came to find myself in this position?

Cast as a villain with no regrets

No feelings for the dying

As I twist my cutlass in their breasts

Laugh at them for trying

To protect their glittering gold and jewels

Like it was worth their wretched lives

Worth more than their daily bread

Their sons, daughters, wives...

But as I gaze out through the porthole

I spy the shifting seas

And realise what this bloodshed without reason really means

If kings want more

Then the pawns must have less

And the rest risk their lifeblood

On the cold dead seas of chance

A short life and a merry one

On this motto I've based my life

And backed it up with flintlock

Grapeshot, cannonballs

And knives

Sunk stout ships and men o' war

Burnt cities to the ground

Struck terror in the hearts of men

For doubloons, silver and pounds

But my men they slumber round me

Like intoxicated babes

Follow their orders well

As they march into their graves

But a slights not to be tolerated

And I've killed "good" men for less

Strung the Governor up the yardarm

And watched him dance with Ketch

But we live in a despicable world

And in hard and trying times

And it's best to die on the seas of chance

Than in the gutters of honour sometimes

If I pay the price for my misdeeds

I'll not have no regrets

Wrap my body up in chains

And send me sinking to the depths

In my heart I know I'm a good man

One that settles all his debts

Through the darkness and the horror

Down and down at od's bequest

In his image he created me

So the blame we share together

And in that final swim I'll smile

And rattle my way down to my maker!

But we live in a despicable world

And in hard and trying times

And it's best to die on the seas of chance

Than in the gutters of honour sometimes

I quite like the John C. Reilly songs and his voice be quite fine to my ears, My Son John is definately a favourite from the album. I suppose the nature of so many artists on one album is different people will be appreciating the timbre of their voices or not and you've got to take the songs you like from it. with a few adjustments to your playlist or liberal use of the skip function its definately a good buy. that be said I dare any of ya to appreciate Bully In The Alley but! haha

Yarggh, was a wee bit disappointed with this one, what with it turning out that it wasn't even Henry Morgans ship that they were looking at, plus not explaing what they found in the chest that they hauled up from the depths.... (my guess nothing) seems a bit like if the money wasn't put up by captain morgan rum and the movie had to be made then there wouldn't have been a movie at all!

Tis' a jolly good album! Patchy as the hull o' a worm eaten ship but there be some jolly good songs on there. Rolling Sea by Eliza Carthy be a winner, High Barbary by Joseph Arthur and Fire Down Below by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds give you that evil pirate captain angle, Baltimore Whores and Good Ship Venus be all good family fun. Steer clear of Drunken Sailor and anything by Baby Gramps but!

For any of ye that appreciated this album there's a sequel called Son Of Rogues Gallery coming out the end of this month (February)

Aha! Here be my deviant art page! It only has a few pirate related things at this point but expect it to be filling up in the near future!

http://seventhsealdesigns.deviantart.com/gallery/