• 23rd March 2013 - Records back in stock

  We've got some more records available again in our store. We've also added the new Denovali Swingfest London flyer to our shows page. x

• 9th March 2013 - ArcTanGent Festival

  Happy to announce that we'll be playing this year's ArcTanGent Festival in Bristol. x

• 24th January 2013 - New tee-shirts

  We've added some brand new tee-shirts to our store. There are both men's and women's sizes and they're available for pre-order now. x

• 21st January 2013 - New shows

  We've recently confirmed our first shows of 2013! Details on the shows page. Hope to see some of you there x

• 1st November 2012 - Sell outs part 2

  We've now sold out of our CD copies of Rope for No-Hopers. As with the vinyls, we should have some more soon and we'll let you all know when they're available to buy again. Thanks to everyone who's ordered a copy so far. x

• 13th October 2012 - Sell outs

  We're really sorry but we've sold out of all of our standard black and limited edition gold vinyl copies of Rope for No-Hopers. We'll let you know when we have some more copies available. x

• 28th August 2012 - More shows

  We've recently added a couple of new gigs in Cardiff and Camden - details on the shows page. x

• 15th July 2012 - New Shows

  We've got two new shows coming up, the flyers for which you can see on our shows page. The first is supporting Bardo Pond at The Croft in Bristol on the 5th of August with Anta [facebook // last.fm // songkick]. The second is a special show at Bristol's Louisiana with labelmates Blueneck and Petrels on the 13th of October [facebook // last.fm // songkick].

• 14th June 2012 - Limited Edition Vinyls

  We now have some lovely limited edition copies of both the Rope for No-Hopers and S/T EP Vinyls in our store.

  

• 12th June 2012 - Store & Thanks

  Thanks so much to everybody who helped with or came to see us on our tour, we had an amazing time and met some great people. We also finally picked up the copies of our new record, as well as the new re-press of the self-titled EP. You can order these, as well as posters and tee-shirts, in our store.

• 1st June 2012 - Tour!

  We're off on our European tour tomorrow. If you live in or near any of these places you should come and say hello:
  
  03.06.2012 Münster (ger) - Gleis22
  04.06.2012 Leverkusen (ger) - KAW
  05.06.2012 Metz (fr) - Astrophone
  06.06.2012 Liege (bel) - Le Garage
  07.06.2012 Berlin (ger) - Berghain Kantine
  x

• 28th May 2012 - MP3s

  If you'd like to download our new record in MP3 format, it's available from a number of places including iTunes, Amazon and the Denovali MP3 Shop. x

• 21st May 2012 - Post-Rock Paper Scissors

  Jona and Zee are the guests on this week's episode of the lovely Post-Rock Paper Scissors, where they're interviewed about the band and the new record. They also curated the tracks played throughout the show, choosing some favourites of the band. You can listen here. x

• 14th May 2012 - Tee-Shirts & Store!

  Our nice new tee-shirts have arrived today and we've put up the beginnings of our own little web store, which you can see here (or click on the 'store' tab to the right). x

  

• 11th May 2012 - Mini European Tour & Denovali Swingfest

  We are embarking on a mini European tour this June. You can check out the flyer and dates on our shows page, where you'll also find the new Denovali Swingfest flyer and line-up. x

• 30th April 2012 - New tracks online

  Denovali are streaming some of the tracks from the new album on their website. Track #2, 'Horse Manifesto', is up now. Check it out here. x

• 11th April 2012 - Pre-orders soon!

  Pre-orders for the new record will start on May 11th. x

• 9th April 2012 - Twitter

  We have just opened a Twitter account: @tpsquintet. We look a bit lonely at the moment. Follow us? x

• 1st April 2012 - Release Dates

  The new record will be released on Friday 25h May in mainland Europe, Japan, Australia, America and on the 28th of May in the UK. Artwork and tracklisting to come soon. x

• 2nd March 2012 - Recording & Mixing Finished!

  So we've finally finished the recording and mixing process. We've just sent the files over to Magnus in Sweden for mastering and are now working on finishing the artwork with Lucy Joy which we think is looking rather nice. More updates to come soon. x

  

• 31st January 2012 - Shows, Deadlines and Mastering

  We've just confirmed what will most likely be our first show of 2012 - supporting the Danish band Sleep Party People in Bristol. You can find more details on the shows page.

  Our fast-approaching deadline for finishing recording and mixing the new record is the end of February, at which point it will be sent to Sweden to be mastered by the lovely Magnus Lindberg of Cult of Luna fame.

• 16th November 2011 - New Record Label and Future Shows

  We are excited to confirm that we're planning to release a full length record with Denovali Records (homepage | facebook) in 2012. They will also be repressing the debut EP. We're looking forward to working with Denovali and planning some European tours and festivals for next year. x

• 25th October 2011 - New Rehearsal Room

  We've finally moved into a new rehearsal room, so we can begin to play and write music together again. We will also be continuing the work on the new record; at the moment we're finalising and recording guitar parts. We've taken some pictures of the room which you can see by clicking the thumbnails below, including our high-tech sound-proofing mattress that we found on the roadside. x

  

• 25th October 2011 - New Website

  Welcome to our new website! x

• ArcTanGent Festival 2013 // Bristol, UK // 31-08-2013 // Website // Facebook

Before //

We are The Pirate Ship Quintet, based in Bristol, SouthWestEngland. We are five core members but have worked with numerous other musicians since our beginnings. Our Début EP was released on Sound Devastation in 2007. After several years of hiatus, the band is together and playing once again.

Now //

Five years after their début EP was released to critical acclaim, The Pirate Ship Quintet recorded their first full length album entitled 'Rope for No-Hopers', which was pressed courtesy of Denovali Records. The record is a compendium of pieces chosen and refined from an abundance written over the past few years, during which time the band disappeared from the live scene.

The five tracks on this record move through the richly melodic foundations of contemporary classical and minimalist rock. The swelling dark atmospherics give way to moments of brute force, punctuated by low level, desperate vocals. It is a little heavier and more technically diverse than the debut E.P and feels like a considered and organic evolution of the band's method.

The band's fantastically talented cellist, who has played with the likes of The London Symphony Orchestra among others, recently accepted a full-time position with the National Orchestra of Wales which is based very close to the band's home town. With all members of the group living in the same part of the UK once more and with their own small studio in the heart of Bristol they will be writing, recording and performing consistently again.

The name of the new album evokes both solemnity and catharsis, while the track titles are references to abstract ideas and in-jokes, products of the band's notoriously dark sense of humour. 'Horse Manifesto' for example details the imagined uprising of an equine regime, bent on recompense for man's inhumane exploitation of their kind.

The record was written, performed, recorded and mixed by the band. More than ten locations were used in the recording stages including a old chapel on the banks of the River Severn, a furniture-making workshop, the offices of The Big Issue magazine and the band's current studio space. It has been mastered by Cult Of Luna drummer Magnus Lindberg in Umeå Sweden with mountains of beautiful analogue equipment.

The Pirate Ship Quintet, in its current arrangement, consists of Ziapour (bass guitar), Jona (drums), Alex (guitar), Alphie (guitar), Sandy (cello), Moo (trumpet) and Terrence (vocals). The artwork for the record was created by Lucy Joy and Jona Sturgess.

Press contact:
www.creative-eclipse.com // pr(at)creative-eclipse.com

Europe & ROW Booking agent:
www.denovali.com/booking // booking(at)denovali.com

UK Bookings:
tpsq(at)live.com

General enquiries:
info(at)thepirateshipquintet.com