Taken by your’s truely, here’s some stuff to start you off with…

Photos:
http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/582817722vdyuDc
After 5 years, another Webshots album Featuring larger versions of all the stuff and more from the live blog yesterday.

Video:
Here’s my own YouTube album, currently with four of my own vids in, more to come as others upload various shakey-phone vids.

Audio:

Following the official setlist, here’s a to-be-constantly-updated list of tracks, along with additional vids etc. Sorry the audio’s crap, only so much one can do with an iPhone…

Soundcheck
Witches Broom
Mid-Air Collisions
Judas Loves You
Beehive Mind
Shredder
Intro

Gig (coming Sunday, needs some work cropping stuff…)
Intro
Loop A Loop
Last Plane Out Of Saigon
Baby Boom
Mid-Air Collisions
Bad Vibrations
Beehive Mind
Witches Broom
Shredder
Judas Loves You
Requiem Aeternum
Who Knows
How To Make You Laugh
The Only Living Boy And Girl
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Famous Blue Raincoat (Acoustic)
Opposite Ends (Acoustic)
Everywhere
Lottery Winners On Acid

Bonus:
Background listening To come once the rest is sorted…

We’ll all know the secret to eternal life, or whatever it was that davey promised.

The Crimea’s first gig in whatever it is, 2 years or something stupid, and as always they still have fans, mostly famous ones.

gary lightbody @garysnowpatrol:

The Crimea are doing a show in the Union Chapel on thurs 17th of may if you can make it good people. Great band!

Kelly Jones off of Sterophonics:

Hi folks, if you wanna see one of my all time favourite bands and incredibly gifted lyricists, go to this gig for a total one off show this Thursday 17th May at the Union Chapel in London. The Crimea will paint images in your head you’ll never erase. Kelly

Maybe one or both may even put in an appearance, you know how Kelly likes to show up at gigs. That said, why he’d publicise his presence for all his stalkers elodies fans, I dunno. So anyway, if you’re going, here’s the full line up:

The Kicks
Morton Valence
The Crimea

Also,

Well, not quite. 1000 maybe. Yup, this is published post 1000 (technically 1004 if including a few private / deleted test post, and 1247 if you go by URL, I don’t even figure how that works) but, you know, who cares these days… Maybe we’ll hit 9000 in a few centuries
And thanks to Joe who’s endless tips on Crimea realated events would have been immensly useful 6 years ago No really, at least there’s one person to come back here for Now I’m off to figure out where the hell this chapel place is. Oh for multimap, whatever do the kids use these days? And, in hindsight, 1000 fixed width page may have been useful. Stupid widescreen 2000000 width nonsense. Note to self: make things smaller.

Oh and, Joe, whilst you’re in tip-off mode, what the hell time is everyone due there for soundchecks? Billy the boy-scout bunt here gets in about 6 hours early as ever (never can trust these trains…) and obviously has no friends to hang out with anywhere else. Seriously mr jon, 7pm? wtf? have you got like, a job, or something? Meh… Yeah anyway… Here’s some traditional post-Crimea-gig goodness. Cos it’s always over waaayy too soon.

Mmm… too many blue smarties last month. That’s another girl scared off then. Sorry crox lady person. Meh.

So anyway, did I ever spam anyone with a copy of an old forgotten demo (I obsessed over the first verse back in 2008: http://immortalsoon.co.uk/archive/994 )? If so, can I have it back please, I think my only copy was on the iPod I just formatted, and it’s like the best version ever. I swear someone e-mailed it me around dec that year but for the life of me I can find no trace at all. UPDATE: Sorted. It wasn’t a Forgotten demo, twas Baby Boom, damn them and their “let’s borrow this lyric and this riff from this song and put it in this other song” how’s a kid meant to find anything? The Crimea - Baby Boom (Lily Demos).mp3

In other news - and jesus there actually is some - Square Moon’s getting another pre-order-limited-release-until-the-next-one-pressing :d Order it here: http://thecrimea.limitedrun.com/products/11541-square-moon-double-12-vinyl-digital-pre-order

And then there’s the free EP available too. you know, in my day an EP had at least 5 tracks, boys. though to be fair add it to the album freebies and you got plenty already:

http://thecrimea.limitedrun.com/products/500676-the-crimea-last-plane-out-of-saigon-free-ep

Another actual gig which I might have mentioned before - supposedly the 10th Anniversary gig, albeit a few months early (was it really that long ago?) - tickets here. That said, it is in a church this time, which could be interesting, though on the plus side for once I won’t get chucked out for sneaking round in the dark trying to take photos of a group of boys, sneaking in the back door whilst no one’s looking. Oh the lulz to be had…

Video too. I stand by Oliver Twisted as the best track ever, but this is close enough.

Silent? Heartless? Dead? No chance.

While this here site is still alive enough to pick up Crimea haters (you’ll never beat mr “Crock o Shite“), El Crimeo have been putting together another Nevermind. Again. Again…. nevermind.

The Crimea - Square Moon

22 track double vinyl, 150 limited releases, pre-order to receive that, the digital download bollocks, and loads of other much nicer physical treats. Like Duke Nukem Forever, the new albums here baby, and promises to suck only half as much! Ok, probably quite a lot less, but inevitably we’ll all be “oh, the demos were better…”, such is the life of Davey Mac.

Actually, most of the tracks are straight off Listen To Seashells, so not too much new, but I promise you Goldmine rocks, as does Stand Alone, tough Jellyfish was better in the demo. Erm… err… yeah…

Gotta go, pre-orders are already down to 147 left. Hit more for the press release while I buy the fucking lot up figure out how to do that mailing list/press release logomabob thingytrip… Wait how do I do more?

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Bllogging this from me fancy new iPhone, having to leave my PC alone while it records 4 brand new Crimea tracks off their myspace. Already had to restart twice due to errors, had to spend hours trying to remember how to record from stereo mix too, been half a decade nearly since I last had too. God I feel old. At least my mum no longer reads this site

so erm… Links and mp3s once they’re done. Must go, iPhone not too easy to type long message on.

UPDATE: Here they are. Take that, incomprehensible soundcard drivers. All the newer or unreleased stuff from the MySpace page. Tara-tastic. That girl needs some stickers. And do check out the MySpace page, someone’s given it somewhat of a revamp, new pics n everyfink. Even one of Rod MacManus, first time for everything…

Judas Loves You (Rough Mix) - Segways in to Tragedy Rocks at the end, then something else. “There’s no one else like you in the world, all I wanna do is cry…” I’ve heard so many I no longer know which song is which anymore
Mid Air Collisions (Rough Mix)
We Stand Alone (Rough Mix)
Petals Open When Reached By Sunlight (MySpace Demo)
The Only Living Boy And Girl (MySpace Demo)

The Tripwire is exclusively hosting the U.S.  release of Secrets of the Witching Hour.  Hey, ain’t no thing if you’re a Limey, Taffy, or Scot -you can still grab yourself a copy of the Yankee Doodle version because it’s free to all man and womankind for-ever baby.  Go on to the download page  at The Tripwire.

The US version features an updated tracklisting and spooky sweet interludes by Tywanna Jo Baskette, a siren from the deepest darkest South.  (A woman after my own heart)

You want ‘em, you need ‘em, we got ‘em…  

• As of this midnight GMT,  The Crimea’s video for 48a Waiting Steps is #12 on the Top 20 most watched video list at e-music TV.  Let’s help it move up the charts, whaddya say?   Click on the link, watch, repeat. 
• Originally posted 30 May, it’ll be new to you if you haven’t read it yet - noizemakesenemies.co.uk story on the upcoming single. 
• Music-News.com interview with Andrew and Davey 
• The press release over at Mi2N, a music industry website

By the way - clarification over the Glasgow gig…It’s actually Saturday, 05 July.  Not on the seventh as I erroneously reported.  Sorry for the confusion!    

Didn’t think we’d get left out did you? Oh no, arriving in my inbox last night was this little beauty:

The Crimea - Loop A Loop (Num’s Dark Disco Remix)

Think Crimea vs Gnarls Barkley, and it’s available free and exclusively to immortalsoon readers forever more. Now I must go update the original Loop release post as a couple more remixes have materialized overnight.

There’s plenty of new clips of the band on YouTube taken while on their current Secrets Of The Witching Hour tour. Here’s a roundup:

One of the band’s biggest fans, user roadmutha has vids of songs taken from over four seperate gigs.

Having almost the whole of the Southhampton gig recorded, stereop999 shows himself to be even more obsessive over recorded material than myself.

And finally yertlepower has a couple vids from Sheffield Leadmill, a full recording of which you can still download in MP3 format from the downloads page of this site.

Lucky attendees of the O2 Wireless festival in Leeds and London last weekend will have got to see The Crimea play their first festival dates of the year. If you missed it, or just want to reminisce, here’s some O2 Wireless leftovers…

The London performance gets a tiny mention in Virtual Festivals non-Firefox friendly review of the proceedings.

The official O2 Wireless website contains a better-late-than-never biography of the band and also three short video clips of Lottery Winners, Baby Boom and Talking Nonsense. If you just wanna grab the .flv files, they’re here, here and here.

To end with, here’s two longer but poorer quality clips from YouTube user MadeWithCheese, possibly taken in Leeds.

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Sorry for the break over the last few days, audio editing is one horrendously slow process. On the upside, you end up with this: The Crimea, Live @ Sheffield Leadmill. A full gig download curtosey your favourite Crimea fansite, from the show before the best show of the tour (or so say the band, but Sheffield was pretty damn hard to beat).

Get it all on the downloads page; right click the links and choose “save target as…” if you have any problems. They’re listed in the correct order, though the playlist file will help you out in that regard.

A second, re-mixed version from Inaudible’s tech man Denyer may be available tomorrow, though personally I find the bass a little too quite and noise a little too much in it to recommend over the current available version. But if you wanna have a quick listen to both, here’s a sample of my mix and Denyer’s mix. Comment on your preference below.

Here’s some vids I took the other night. The band’s cover of Je T’aime, White Russian Galaxy mixed with The Raconteurs’s “Steady As She Goes”, and Weird which goes out to all the street team, support bands and, oh yes, myself .

Youtube user roadmutha is now officially my favourite Crimea fan. She’s just uploaded four live vids of the band playing at the Nottingham Social and Birmingham Bar Academy over the last two days. If all goes well, they should appear below. And if you have any Crimea vids that you wanna send to my goodself to upload somewhere, try files@inaudible.co.uk .

MP3s from The Crimea’s session on XFM’s Music Response last Wednesday are now up on the downloads page. All but the most dedicated fans will want to forgo the intro and possibly the interviews too where Davey talks about the band’s first album, record deal, US tour and the new album’s recording and release. But you should all get the three songs recorded at the XFM studios just before the session was broadcast, if only because they’ll probably be removed from the site pretty soon.

Fancy doing a bit of Crimea promotion yourself? The band would be extremely humbled if each and every one of you printed out the below flyers and poster for the upcoming tour and handed them out / stuck em up around your local area. There’s even a special prize available for those who get the most posters up. Although there’s jpegs available, please download the .doc files and print out from there if at all possible (they open fine in the free OpenOffice.org as well as MS Word). The poster has space on it to write your local gig date / time / price in. Please be enviromentaly friendly though and go take them all down again / recycle once the gig is over.

SOTWH Tour Flyers (.doc) -=- SOTWH Tour Flyer (.jpg) -=- SOTWH Tour Poster (.doc) -=- SOTWH Tour Poster (.jpg)