Definitely one of the, if not THE most fun I've had at a concert in awhile, and that's saying something because I have a lot of fun at concerts typically. BUT it's not every day you get to wave a blow up sword and wear an eye patch for the show. We were blessed with a beautiful Saturday during Memorial Day weekend for the Alestorm and Gloryhammer sold out concert in New York City.
A week earlier my gf and I spent some money on Amazon... I bought 20 blow up swords and 10 eye patches. We also both both wench/slave type of pirate outfits. Sadly, on Friday everything BUT the costumes arrived. Such a shame. My gf did get her shirt and was able to dress somewhat wenchy but not full wench like planned. We still, however, executed our plan to get there early. So we hopped on the train at 3:30pm and realized we were about to have an interesting train ride as Taylor Swift was playing at Metlife, which was along our way to NYC. So we had a train full of swifties which made for a fun ride in. Doors were at 6 and we got there at like 5:45 after stopping for drinks once we got into the city.
Here's me eating a hot dog before the fun! And you can't really tell, but the line to get in went around the city block and all the way down the avenue block.
I then started handing out my swords. It took a moment as people were definitely not sure how to react, but once a couple people grabbed and blew up the swords, people just started coming at me for them and very quickly they were all gone minus one for myself. Took awhile to get into the venue and the opener Luthero had already started. They didn't really stand out to me, at all. After the finished, we went outside for a smoke and I saw Christopher Bowes (singer of Alestorm) quickly come out of his tour bus to take a picture of the marquee. I was too slow to get to interact with him, but my time would come....
Gloryhammer are fun, but maybe a bit too cheesy for my tastes (and that's saying a lot). Definitely a fun live band with everyone chanting "hoots!" between songs and of course the catchy sing along chorus. The new singer was fine. He may have said "New York City!" a bit too much between the vocals, but he looked to be happy and having fun and I can appreciate that. I'm probably not going out of my way to check them out, but if they tour with someone, I'll make sure to see them because at the end, it's a fun set.
Then finally, what we had been waiting for! Alestorm just killed it. Place was sold out and very difficult to move around, so we were kind of stuck in the back without a view, but even everyone in the back was singing along to all the drinking songs. They sounded pretty good and Chris' banter between songs was that typical dirty stupid humor. He made a comment about all the kids and that their lyrics were not for them
(as they went on to sing a song "yo ho stick a cannonball up your cunt yo ho") and he mentioned about not wanting to go to Maryland the next day
Crowd was pretty wild and a bit after halfway in the set I said fuck it, I need to get into the action. I grabbed my gf and just went right into the pit and started going wild waving my sword. Definitely the highlight of the show was just rocking out like a pirate in the mosh pit. By the end of the set we were up only maybe 3 rows from the barrier of people and Chris just jumped in the crowd when the show ended. So people started coming up to him and taking pictures. My gf managed to snap this selfie with my sword and eye patch and a CLASSIC Chris Bowes face
Alestorm & Gloryhammer LIVE @ Sold Out Irving Plaza New York City NY 2023Next up:
Atlantic City Beer Festival with 311 this weekend
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