The Bilge Pumps - Past Landings: Louisiana Renaissance Festival 2015

Hammond, LA November 7 - 22, 2015

For the first time in several years, the Bilge Pumps performed at Louisiana for the first THREE weekends of the festival and we promptly got rained on for two of them. We refused to let that deter us from having a fun show, especially since 1/2 our shows were inside the Painted Badger Pub where the patrons trying to dodge the rain were trapped, listening to the sound of pirate music. We had a different lineup of Bilge Pumps each weekend, which only served to confuse the other untethered musicians in the Saturday evening pub sings.

Jack the Rum Runner and Maroon the Shantyman peel off from the stage to work on a new song before the day starts	Sharkbait Simon the Scapegoat decided the only way he'd get any real rehearsing done was to get the hell away from the other two.	The Bilge Pumps are threatened by a child wielding a balloon sword until they play the song she wants.
6 Bilge Pumps? At the same time? That can still happen?	You think the Bilge Pumps logo appears enough times on stage?	John Crow the Cook gets a mouthful of Splice the Rigger's lingerie during "Biddy McGrath".
The audience gathers before the Bilge Pumps show... because they were told the LSU game was on at the stage.	The Bilge Pumps return to the Painted Badger Pub. Two holdovers from Hawkwood that still taste great together.	The Bilge Pumps and the Whiskey Bay Rovers get together for a Saturday evening Pub Sing with any other unattached musicians in the area.
When not in the pub, the Bilge Pumps destroy the King Stage by coating it with a slippery film of sludge.	Harvey the Corpsman only chooses the sexiest lineup to dance with him during Cape Cod Girls.	It's a multi-generational display of Pumpettes dancing on Johnny Jump Up!
Maroon succeeds in slicing everyone's throats and spraying the audience with blood during Sharkbait's musical number.	Maroon and Splice both agree that Harvey's attempt at vaguely sportsy humor was good.	Maroon and the group show off their manhood... theoretically.
Ewwww. Now Harvey's coat is completely ruined.	The Bilge Pumps sales staff comes out in force during the commercial breaks.	Jack keeps his calluses shiny and stiff... just like his strings and his dinghies.
Sharkbait's gone. That means the band must spread out the grumpiness load among themselves.	Harvey disappears during one of the sets for an emergency... now the rest have to be even grumpier!	The lighting adds to the mood during "One More, on a Dead Man's Chest".