Tag Archives: Alestorm

Sonisphere 2014 – Saturday 5th July – Review

Day two of the festival kicked off a little earlier than the previous day at 11am with Tesseract on the main stage. Alestorm, however, were the real treat of the morning opening the Saturn stage with ‘The Quest’ and continued their infectious jitterbug set with the likes of ‘The Drunken …

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Alestorm announce ‘Piratefest’

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…   Alestorm announce ‘Piratefest’, 19 dates across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Eire!   Scottish pirates ALESTORM with Captain Christopher Bowes at the helm are set to release their upcoming album Sunset On The Golden Age on …

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Gloryhammer interview, October 2013

Gloryhammer interview, October 2013

I spoke to Christopher Bowes and James Cartwright from Power metal band Gloryhammer at the end of their first UK tour to talk about how Chris formed the band, the writing of the album, the forthcomign Alestorm DVD, why Alestorm decided to do a cover of “In the navy” and …

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Gloryhammer -tales from the Kingdom of Fife

The news that Alestorm’s Christopher Bowes had launched a power metal band got my interest straight away.  The thought of Alestorm’s humour being applied to power metal sounded like a perfect match – after all, a lot of power metal lyrics are cheesy and over the top.  With Gloryhammer, Christopher …

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Summer Breeze Open Air 2013

Summer Breeze Open Air is about to go into its 16th round. For the seventh time, the metallic breeze will blow in beautiful Dinkelsbuehl, Germany from August 15th to 17th, 2013. As usual, this year’s Summer Breeze will take place over three days on two open air stages on the airfield …

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