'''Ye Banished Privateers''' are a pirate band from [[Umeå]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ye-banished-privateers|title=Ye Banished Privateers discography|website=RateYourMusic|access-date=2017-10-27}}</ref>
'''Ye Banished Privateers''' are a [[folk rock]] band from [[Umeå]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ye-banished-privateers|title=Ye Banished Privateers discography|website=RateYourMusic|access-date=2017-10-27}}</ref>
Their songs are inspired by traditional Irish and Scandinavian folk music and their lyrics are mostly based on eventsthathappenedin the 17th and 18th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://capcreativity.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/ye-banished-privateers-more-than-music/|title=Ye Banished Privateers: more than music|date=2017-01-10|website=Capturing creativity|access-date=2017-06-29}}</ref><ref name=Goteborgs>{{cite news |last=Edstam |first=Fanny |date=October 9, 2017 |title=Piraterna Ye Banished Privateers intar Brännö |trans-title=The pirates Ye Banished Privateers take on Brännö |url=https://www.gp.se/kultur/musik/piraterna-ye-banished-privateers-intar-br%C3%A4nn%C3%B6-1.4712667 |language=sv |work=[[Göteborgs-Posten]] |access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref> During their shows they portray a crew of pirates, wearing historical clothes and acting while playing, making the show itself a mix of music and theatre.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hanneken |first=Markus |date=July 17, 2019 |title=Stilecht und rockig: Piratennacht am Freitag auf der Meile |trans-title=Stylish and Rocking: Pirate Night on Friday on the Mile |url=https://www.wa.de/hamm/night-pirates-freitag-meile-suedstrasse-hamm-banished-privateers-12823668.html |language=de |work=[[Westfälischer Anzeiger]] |access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>
Their songs are inspired by traditional Irish and Scandinavian folk music and their lyrics are mostly based on sea and piracy history from the 17th and 18th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://capcreativity.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/ye-banished-privateers-more-than-music/|title=Ye Banished Privateers: more than music|date=2017-01-10|website=Capturing creativity|access-date=2017-06-29}}</ref><ref name=Goteborgs>{{cite news |last=Edstam |first=Fanny |date=October 9, 2017 |title=Piraterna Ye Banished Privateers intar Brännö |trans-title=The pirates Ye Banished Privateers take on Brännö |url=https://www.gp.se/kultur/musik/piraterna-ye-banished-privateers-intar-br%C3%A4nn%C3%B6-1.4712667 |language=sv |work=[[Göteborgs-Posten]] |access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref> During their shows they portray a crew of pirates, wearing historical clothes and acting while playing, making the show itself a mix of music and theatre.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hanneken |first=Markus |date=July 17, 2019 |title=Stilecht und rockig: Piratennacht am Freitag auf der Meile |trans-title=Stylish and Rocking: Pirate Night on Friday on the Mile |url=https://www.wa.de/hamm/night-pirates-freitag-meile-suedstrasse-hamm-banished-privateers-12823668.html |language=de |work=[[Westfälischer Anzeiger]] |access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref>
Their songs are inspired by traditional Irish and Scandinavian folk music and their lyrics are mostly based on sea and piracy history from the 17th and 18th century.[3][4] During their shows they portray a crew of pirates, wearing historical clothes and acting while playing, making the show itself a mix of music and theatre.[5]
Biography
The band was started in 2008 by Björn Malmros and Peter Mollwing, who gathered several other musicians with the idea of playing pirate folk music.[6]
Today, the band amounts to nearly 30 members.
Their first self-produced album, Songs and Curses, was released on 19 September 2012 for the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
After playing several shows in their home country, they started touring Germany in 2014.
In the same year, on 12 September, they released The Legend of Libertalia[7] their second studio album, on Totentanz Records.
In 2015 and 2016 they toured mainly in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.
They announced their third album in 2016,[8] but the release was delayed until 30 June 2017. First Night Back in Port finally came out when they signed a deal with Napalm Records.[9][10]
In 2020 Ye Banished Privateers released their fourth album Hostis Humani Generis.[11] The name of the album, Latin for "enemy of mankind"[12] is a term that was often used to describe maritime pirates; outsiders of society and a threat to the status quo.[13] Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the band was not able to release the album as planned and live-streamed a concert instead, an online event to which 12000 fans participated.[14]
They released a Christmas special album titled A Pirate Stole My Christmas on December 3, 2021 which featured classics of the festival with a new pirate spin to them.
Discography
Albums
2012 – Songs and Curses
2014 - The Legend of Libertalia (Totentanz Records)
2017 - First Night Back in Port (Napalm Records)
2020 - Hostis Humani Generis (Napalm Records)
2021 - A Pirate Stole my Christmas (Napalm Records)
Samplers
2013 – TheSwashbuckling Sound of Pirates – Der Grosse Piraten Entertainment Markt – 20 pieces of Scurvy Seasongs (Totentanz Records)
2014 - Best of MPS 2014 (Totentanz Records)
Band members
Anders "Nobility" Nyberg - cembalo, celesta, pump organ and miniature piano
Anton "Taljenblock" Teljebäck - viola pomposa, pump organ, brass trash, stone and muddy lawn
Björn "Bellows" Malmros – accordion, harmonica, ocean drum, dholak, djembe, pottery and tabla
Emil "Emilio du Monde" Nilsson-Mäki - lead vocals, duki tarang, guitar, double bass
Eva "Eva the Navigator" Maaherra Lövheim - fiddle, octapad
Frida “Freebird” Granström - fiddle, brass, trumpet and octapad
Hampus "Monkey Boy" Holm - German style bass drum and octapad
Hampus "Bojtikken" Larsson - cajón, percussion, octapad, bouzouki and guitar