About Us

We are a tribute band for the beloved, gone-too-soon pirate romcom masterpiece, Our Flag Means Death. Our setlist features songs from and inspired by the show. The members of Our Flag Means ROCK are gals in bookish nerd professions who met when they were five and who have been making up goofy lyrics to songs since approximately 1993.

Danica plays piano/keyboard, lead guitar, and clarient.

Rachel plays ukulele, rhythm guitar, and miscellaneous percussion. (She's also the webmaster.)

Tagline(s)

We have several taglines--choose your favorite:

• "Some women are born to be in tribute bands. Some learn on the job. Us? We're a pretty solid mix of both."
• "We ARE adequate!"
• "Rush County, Kansas's fourth-most popular pirate sitcom tribute duo"
• "We've never heard an Our Flag Means Death tribute band before, so to us we sound amazing."
• "We ARE real musicians in the real world."
• "Used to be in a snake cult"
• "We aren't professionals, so you can try this at home.
• "Look, we've been pretending to be in a band our whole lives. It's not so bad once you get used to it."
• "We think we're just so-so, but we've decided to carry ourselves like we rock."

Our Influences

Yusuf/Cat Stevens

"Weird Al" Yankovic

The Alessi Brothers

Flight of the Conchords

Nina Simone

Nathaniel Buttons

Testimonials

These are actual sentiments expressed by audience members at Our Flag Means ROCK gigs:

• "You were perfect! You guys put the White Stripes to shame as a two-person band!"--Gina, from book club
• "I felt like I was in a Paris cafe!" (re: "La Vie en Rose")
• "I love Make Music Madison. Where else can you see . . . whatever that was?"--our #1 non-family-member fan
• "My favorite part was when the library intercom came on in the middle of the song!"--one of our kids
• "She fingerpicked that Fleetwood Mac song, and she sang in French!"
• "Is it Death Flag?"
• "Brilliant"
• "Is it like a Monty Python thing?"
• [clearly just there for snacks]
• "You sounded like professional musicians"
• "I would have liked it even if I didn't know you"--one of our moms
• "I was glad to see a clarinet"--a clarinetist
• "You should have me sing with you!"--a man with a beautiful voice who was not necessarily sober
• "That song sounded like Cat Stevens!"--in regard to Miles from Nowhere
• "How long have you been playing together?"--clearly expecting an answer longer than "three days"
• [$12 in the tip bucket]
• "Are all those taglines on the website?!?"