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…
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.
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 
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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 
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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.
There’s another fan made Crimea music video up on YouTube. This one’s for a song from the previous album, Gazillions Of Miniature Violins, and was made by Tom Feltwell, Ollie Hodkinson and Sam Powell for their A2 in Media Studies. Check it out below along with the fan made Baby Boom video by Alan Gillhespy that’s been around for a while longer.
I’ve just added a few new MP3s to the downloads page featuring Crimea related radio pieces that have been aired recently.
First up is the big one - all of the comments Colin Murray made on The Crimea during his four month long promotion of the band, playing each song from the album in the Black Hole segment of his Radio 1 show. Unfortunately there’s two missing - Requiem Aeternam which he played a few weeks before the rest so I had no chance to record it, and Several Thousand Years Of Talking Nonsense which he never actually played. But the rest of them were played and the comments are all available in one single MP3. If you wanna play each track inbetween comments, you can still download the whole album for free on the official website.
Owen Hopkin may have evaded you all with his appearance on Channel 4 news last week, but his interview with Five Live’s Drive show didn’t and is also available on the downloads page.
And finally Adam Walton impresses with his band knowledge, not only of previous gigs but also of a small upcoming release that you may wish to know about (unconfirmed as yet though). Check out his MP3 for that, and as he mentions it during the MP3, you can also get the live Crimea track Forgotten that they performed in the MS1 Club in 2003. Featuring former Crimea guitarist Julz Parker, it was broadcast live on Radio Wales as part of the Big Buzz festival. And just about everyone who’s emailed me in the past few days has asked for the song, so don’t be askin no more eh?
Dance for joy you happy little monkeys as inaudible.co.uk’s wholey unofficial alt. downloads are back….
UPDATE: Oh, no, wait… you missed it. Oh well, there’s always the next release day And to make up for it, there’ll be a spiffy new comeptition up here in a few days 
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Of course, you can aways get the official Secrets Of The Witching Hour album download for free on the official crimea website, or purchase the CD from their official online store.
There I was, checking out Regina Spektor’s website forum to see if anyone’s mentioned The Crimea yet, when I come across a few people slightly confused over exactly what connection she has with the band. Well, far from some kinda English-Russian love orgy, she happened to meet up with the band waayyy back in 2005 (see photos) and recorded a small poem of Davey’s which features on an old gig recording (available here as Opposite Ends (Live at St. Louis) ). Originally the band planned to include the recording on the new album, but this never happened due to legal reasons (a DMCA takedown would be enough no doubt, damn yanks). Feel free to discuss legal issues surrounding the inclusion of an individual’s voice on a non-commercial album release in the comments. But you never know, one day maybe some clever, mpaa/riaa hater will edit the stuff back in. Now I just gotta get this site’s hosting moved outta the States…
Tom Wiggins of Stuff.tv, home of Stuff magazine, has made Secrets Of The Witching Hour his download of the week, seeing the story make it on to the front page of the site. Thanks Tom. And If you haven’t already, download the thing or check out the album lyrics.
The story also makes it’s way on to the front page of Netscape.com thanks to a number of user votes.
London blog 020.com give it their top spot, and it’s a great article too, as is another one at Rock Sellout.
It’s front page news too at Click Music, who include some gig dates along with the regular album story. Also posting similar articles are ShoutMouth, CMU Beats Bar and long time Crimea supporters This Is Fake DIY.
Smaller articles appear on Owen’s ex-employer Fly Magazine’s site (check out the latest mag release btw, it’s free too!), monster music site Contact Music, Entertainment.ie and technology blog PC Advisor.
And Danish news site GAFFAk gets in a story for the Danish speaking Crimea fans.
