UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA MEDIEVAL FAIR 2010

Oklahoma, where the was was truly sweeping down the plains, and bringing the rains. The gusting wind created some frigid temperatures at the Medieval Fair this spring, as the festival was pushed up a weekend into March so as not to run into Easter. The result? Crazy, unpredictable, Oklahoma Spring weather. You think that's gonna stop any band of disrespecting pirates? Hell no. The Bilge Pumps came into sooner country with joy in the hearts and unpracticed songs on their lips. It might have been a little cold, windy, and rainy on Saturday afternoon, but the hardcore (translation: insane) fans were there to see our shows anyway, and the rest of them came out to see the other shows. We did our second annual Bilge Pumps blackout show where we encouraged our fans to wear their Bilge Pumps T-Shirts and then get their picture with the band that will be posted on the site. We got to meet some new friends, see some old friends we haven't seen in a while, and meet some even older friends we had forgotten that we'd met before and got to meet anew. Good times.

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THE TEXAS PIRATE FESTIVAL 2010

It was a trip down south for a nearby show for once as the Bilge Pumps sailded our land yachts into Hillsboro for the inaugural Texas Pirate Festival which took place on the Middlefaire grounds. We set up our pirate goods and bait shop and proceeded to fill the plains full of bad humor and worse music. The local buccaneers were friendly as was the lassie in the pub and that's about all a pirate really needs in life, right? We had a good time performing to some new faces and quite a few familiar ones as well and even had fun making one of the bilge junkies dictate to us what to play for an entire set. Damn, we're lazy!

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