On this tour, Black Sails Over Europe, Alestorm and Týr took turns in headlining; and seeing as this show was in Denmark it was no surprise to see Týr headline here.
This meant that it was Alestorm who were up on stage after Heidevolk had finished their set; and as an homage to (or possibly just playing a prank on) said band Alestorm performed a fun version of their Saksenland song in their soundcheck.
A short discussion about World Of Warcraft arose, in which we found out that vocalist/keytarist Christopher Bowes is an incarnate Alliance player (in case anyone was wondering).

It wasn’t such a long time since last we were visited by Alestorm here in Copenhagen, at that time also accompanied by Týr on the Ragnarök Aaskereia tour, but since then they have had a few line-up changes (newly acquired guitarist Tim Shaw quit, resulting in Dani Evans changing from bass to guitar and ex-Waylander guitarist Gareth Murdock joining the pirate crew on bass), and their popularity, although large last time, seemed to have grown quite an impressive bit.
The crowd was very large, and could be heard far and wide as they sang along to songs like The Huntmaster, Captain Morgan’s Revenge and Set Sail And Conquer; the fact that everyone was able to sing along was certain proof that Copenhagen had not forgotten about these Scotsmen in their absence, but rather spent its time studying their material to be ready for their second coming.
Some songs where hard to study though, as Alestorm gave us a few tastes of what their upcoming album, Black Sail At Midnight, would be like with the new songs Leviathan and Keelhauled. Leviathan is actually already out as an EP, and Keelhauled was to be found on the compilation album Black Sails Over Europe sold exclusively for this tour.

As last time, Captain Bowes was good at giving explanations for the songs which brought big smiles to people’s lips; like what was said for Leviathan;“This song is about fucking girls, drinking beers and slaying seamonsters…”
My only problem here was that many of the jokes that were made were the same ones as he had said on the last tour as well, so the novelty of it had worn of. Take for example the introduction to Wenches And Mead;“This song is about wenches and mead, this is … (and you can guess the rest)”.

Last time Alestorm had made a good impression on me, but sadly this second gig did not live up to expectations.
The main reasons for this was partly due to said fact about them repeating themselves, but also the fact that I think it’s strange to have such an outspoken pirate profile on the band without having anything even remotely piraty in their stage show. That’s what I miss.
Apart from this they gave a good and energetic show, and you could clearly tell that they have moved up in the world as they had a much longer setlist to play this time around.