It's the year 2008, and the Bilge Pumps are prowling around the countryside, looking for places to steal booty and bury booty, depending on our mood. We're going to be returning to some of our usual haunts this year, so be sure to check under your bed at night and make sure we're not there playing with your dollies.
We have coupled our desire to look at ourselves over and over again with the morbid desire of our fans to torture themselves by putting together the archive of footage below. Think of it as returning the the scene of the crime or picking that half-healed scab that never seems to get better.
(Click on an event name below to see what happened when the Bilge Pumps landed there)
April 4-6, 2008
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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA MEDIEVAL FAIR 2008
2008 marked our triumphant return to Norman and the Med Fair that ranks in the top 40 festivals (not just ren faires) in the country. After taking a year off, we were really happy to be back in Sooner land where our largest collection of fans are. Even though many of us, especially Maroon, got hit with the traditional Oklahoma allergy attacks to reduced our voices to gravel, we still had fun and put on entertaining shows and reconnecting with our fans.
Saturday afternoon, we recorded a one-hour show to be the highlight show for our next DVD, (currently untitled) and thanks to all of our OK fans, it turned out to be a successful show with lots of insanity to be preserved forever in plastic disks. Special thanks go to: John, Tod, Josh, Lyssa, and our sound guys for making sure the recordings came out well. And thanks to Dana and Celie for the hospitality as well.
Pictures and video coming soon
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February 21, 2008
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TIPPERARY INN 2008
It was back to our favorite Irish Pub in D/FW as the Bilge Pumps rolled back into the Tipp with a fun-filled Thursday night show. We had all six band members there pulling a 3 show performance filled with strangeness. We had a marriage proposal during "Whisky Johnny", a brand-new song performed that all 6 of the band members had never sung together before, John Crow debuted his first lead vocal in a song, and... more curious of all... Phil McGroin remembered all of the words to his "Old Dun Cow" class rock songs!
Pictures coming if I get some
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January 26-27, 2008
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SCARLET'S MID-WINTER RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL 2008
The mermaids and foxes were looking for a piratey makeover in 2008 and the Bilge Pumps were happy to do our part to spread the buccaneer butter around their toast. We took over the second floor of the festival building and proceeded to set the roof on fire with all sort of craziness onstage. Including a final show that contained almost all of the bonus tracks from our CD's... never performed onstage before. Surely that was worth the price of admission, right?
Fun footage is frozen forever forthwith
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January 12, 2008
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LOCHRANN'S IRISH PUB 2008
The Bilge Pumps fired up the year 2008 with an appearance at a brand new Irish pub in Frisco and gave it a right good breaking in. We rolled into town, crammed all five of us (Squeegy was missing) and our equipment onto the stage and gave the crowd something to watch other than football on TV. They were a little surprised by the pirate music exploding in their midst, but it wasn't long before they all got in touch with their lil' buccaneer inside.
Pictures of the piracy are here
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