The Salty Pirates from Halmstad, Sweden. Also active during those early 2000s. Good band. Whatever happened to them?

It was the days of CDRs and so they released their music that way.

Discogs has listed one release, “We Thank the Lord Each Day for the Apocalypse”, which was self-released with 6 songs, “Did You Ever Feel Like Fucking Up?”, “The Alien Invasion”, “Black Minds, White Lies”, “My Academic Beard”, “I Lost My Virginity to the Sound of Per Gessle” and “Skogspromenad”. The only detail about this release is that it came out in 2004, on an Imation CDR (remember those?). On the back of the sleeve we see a website for the band which these days doesnt exist anymore, today it is actually own by a company in Florida that does Painting and Renovations and also called Salty Pirates.

Then I track down another release, this time from 2003, called “Make Bombs Not Popsongs”. This one had four songs, “You Got Your Seatbelt and Cars are so Safe”, “Somethings Beautiful are Ugly”, “Fire Deathstar, Fire” and “All That Glitters Can Be Gold”. This EP was produced by Mathias Söderlund and mastered by Klas Holm during the summer of 2003. You could download the EP from their website back then.

I also learn that the band’s original name was Happy Tom. Then they changed to Salty Pirates. They would eventually change their name again, in 2008 they became The Weather in Sweden.

I keep searching.

On Youtube I find a track called “Common Sense” that my friend David has uploaded. It seems to come from a release called “Back with a Vengeance”, it has a date of 2007.

I see a post by Jerry Boman dating from 2005, where he reviews a gig of them at a club called “Thursday I’m in Love” at the Respekt club in Göteborg (I think).

I also think they played Emmaboda at some point. What else? They seem to be a five-piece band.

Other than that not much info. Anyone remembers them

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Salty Pirates – You Got Your Seatbelt and Cars Are So Safe