Press:

The Independent: 'Tight, lean guitar music... songs about the kind of things that affect real people'

Time Out: 'Unorthodox rock'n'roll'

Critic's Choice in The Independent: 'These post-modern, punk-influenced rock and rollers... delivering original, intelligent music that draws inspiration from a number of styles, including mellow late-1970s punk and modern indie-rock. My favourite track is the epic "Let It Go", but also worth checking out are "Music to Grow Up To" and the riffy "Bakku Shan"

Biography:

Punk, indie, rock, R'n'B, glam, pop... it's all rock'n'roll, and, with echoes of the classic songwriting-played-loud that links The Kinks to Kaiser Chiefs, that's what the Sky Pirates play.

Having formed in Spring 2006, they have already played at the 100 Club, 93 Feet East, and The Hope and Anchor. Time Out magazine's music section called them "unorthodox rock'n'roll", and they come on "like a million stallions", according to The Independent's John Walsh. The Independent has given them both a full page feature (see below) and, on a separate occasion, that paper's Robert Moss made them his Critic's Choice Recommended Download.

As they told The Independent, they don't "parrot... someone else's gibberish about gin-soaked bar-room queens in Memphis. We rock... in our very own way. We have tunes we're proud of, that work, that nobody else has done first, and that nobody else does better than us, and not just because nobody else does them".

The Sky Pirates' EP, 1234, featuring "Raincheck", "I Like Girls", If You Ever Change", and "A Little Too Easy", is out now on Inshore Madman Records. To buy it,  click the shop link above. It is also available on iTunes and at selected other digital stores.

For general enquiries, please email ahoy@skypirates.co.uk

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To read the feature from The Independent newspaper: click here to read the article; click here if you have problems.