Before I start uploading my own stuff, here’s what everyone else has added so far to Davey’s facebook page at facebook.com/daveymacmanus :

Davey’s own photo album - featuring some nice distance shots, and him with a blokes arm which was promptly dragged halfway across london (something like that) for everyone and their boss to photograph. Oh the lulz… seriously though. D1939’s arm looks even better in real life.
Speaking of which, here’s Dom Murphy’s very own video of Loop a Loop.
Long time fan Rodger Button has plenty of gig shots in his album, including support acts The Kicks and Morton Valence.
And there’s plenty more individual shots showing up on both Davey’s page and Owen’s Facebook page, including quite a few by the wonderful and ever-loyal Dan Aitch.

Testing 1 2…

Y’all there? Hopefully this works better than the last time i tried this live blog shinanigans. Wordpress app sure seems easier to use anyway.

Currently on the way down to london town on ye olde eastcoast, postings curtosey gprs. Weather still looks gloomy in the midlands. Listing to old crimea live radio session recordings; forgot how grea Julz was Now cant post shit cos the signals gone…. Lots of yellow flowers n pylons though. Pretty.

Aand signals past gogopostygo

2.40pm
I think i see some sun. might not get soaked walking around london afterall. And thx joe for the SC headsup. We can all play guess-that-sandwich-filling again.

2.45pm
Wordpress needs a time stamp tag. Diy liveblog sucks :p. why did the greatness of little blue crunchy thing pass everyone by? Bonus points for guess-that-bagel-filling.

2.50pm

“heads i win…tails you loose”… Too many good crimea songs forgotten too. Speaking of which, forgotten just shuffled onto ipod. Humanity’s loss. This yellow oilseed-rudestuff seems popular. Fields still plastered in it. Gotta get me some - must be in wrong business selling games. Towns looking less characteristic by the mile. Hello generiland.

3pm
Parrado / rosevelt amazing too. Norweigian indie somethingorother. Will upload some tracks later cos i know noone ever got them off mp3.com / napster in the day. Oh and yeah, you are getting like 4 years of blog posts in a day here. Slap that blog back into shape.

3.15pm

Almost in kings x. Gotta go soon. Davy postin old song lyrics over @ his facebook. Back later with more. Remember, sandwich filling guesses in the comments. Winner gets one, if we ever meet…

3.20pm

London looks.. Suprisingly alright. Theres sun too !!! Crimea stalking iminent. Oh gawd i must scare these people sometimes…

3.26pm

Bang on time. Thats it for an hour folls. Off to trot round n get mugged n shanked. Like all the cool kids.

4.50pm

Back doors ftw. Its actually a feckin church too. Erm… Yeah… Time to find a power socket…

Big place. Big and cold. Super gig tip - bring a jumper.

5.20pm

Supposedly 500 people turning up to fill the place. Bagsy back row top floor. Always the best view better than back stage anyway…

5.45pm

Plenty of soundcheck tracks recorded fun for all the family. Just about finished though. Biiig big place…

6.00pm

Heating is go. Not so much need for coats anymore. Maybe a light summer jacket…

Now for The Kicks to soundcheck. Crimea disappear who knows where, maybe to pray or something. Is it even legal to have a bar in a church? Meh. Maybe some sneaky pics from the stage in a bit. This would probably be pretty cool if anyone were on this blog to see them. Alas, even my mother has deserted the place. Ho hum. Kicks sounding decent. Apparently they won Xfm or something, so joe keeps telling everyone. What theyre gonna do with their own entire radio station, i dunno, silly prize if u ask me whats wrong with a nice cake and sticky bun?

6.05pm

Owen drumming with the kicks. Have i missed something here, or is their regular awol?

6.10pm

I do believe im almost alone in the venue. Oh the fun to be had… unless im getting locked in… Erm.. Guys… Guys??!?

6.15pm

Teehee…

Andy’s fancy sparkly stool. Im saying nothing.

Respectively, view from andy’s, owens and daveys places.

And err.. Spoiler.. The all important setlist…

6.30pm

Now that everyones fecked off but the cable tech and tea lady, it’s time for the ever popular guess-that-sandwich-filling game. Again, bonus points for the bagel type.

And found my old crimea stickers n plectrums

Now i really must go an charge this phone thingy.

6.50pm

Still nowt but sttaff n band here. As the ozies would say - where the bloody hell are yall?

Will be going silent for much of gig to record the damn thing. Will update once its over though, never fear non-existent blog readers, you hall never be deserted
7.08pm

Past seven, guys, doors are open already, where are these 500 already?!? Why am i the only loser to ever turn up on time :/

7.35pm

Ahaaa pobol now, mr jon, whythe slackin? Here’s some stage, from the proper angle this time.

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.

No no, Vest-ival! Somehow. Anyway…

The Crimea play their first festival in lord knows how long, next Saturday 21st May 2011.

More details at http://footballaction.org.uk/vestival (it’s at that bloke off of tele’s farm thingy). Plus them ones who had that dancy moonlight early 2000’s hit thing. And some no name lady someone who just got in off the popularity of her much more talented brother whatever dj thing. Yeah. Hope they don’t read this any more. Hell, who does?

And apparently, the man in the know Crazy Matt, says Davey will be “supporting The Damn Jammage on May 19th at the 100 Club, Oxford St”. Sounds about right. Christ, can the world take this much Crimea all in one go? Guess we’ll find out.

And if you can’t wait for the musical madness to begin, seems like half of Australia’s upped and moved over to London for the month, so keep an eye out for any gigs by Lecia or the Hussy Hicks, featuring one time Crimea guitar lead extrodinaire Julz Parker - say from me if you go - she won’t have the faintest but who gives a shit .

Spend a hearty evening with that rarest of sightings, The Crimea in full gig-gig-valentines-gigity mode.

February 14th 2011 @ The Enterprise, Camden, London.
Tickets Here
Or just sneak in whilst no one’s looking like yours truely.

In the meantime, spend your days listening to the new Crimea double-album. What? You ain’t got a copy? Well err… that makes two of us then. But I hear some of you do, so err, get torrenting already! the wait can’t be long for an official release .

Hit more for… Err… More. Crimea live blogging is go. On a site no one uses. Oh well. Excuse the auto spell check on phone. Heres one to start:

15.43 - finding random floors to sleep on. Regular crimea fan friends all pissed off n got jobs or something. Will Joe have remembered to stick me on guestlist? May get locked out of th sold out show if not. Will anyone even understand me through this damn cold?

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What? Last post Jun 10? So long I forgot my password to this place and had to dig it out the desk drawer.

Almost as long as the Crimea’s last gig. That would be, their Chrismtas Gig 2009. But no fear, 2010 is hear, and along come ye olde Davey & Co to fill your festive stockings with… a lot less than they may have done when they were all free and single. Well, I don’t know about that, but Dan Harris got married. Erm… wrong website. Ok…

The Crimea Christmas Gig 2010!
@ The Enterprise, Camden, London, UK (home of their very first gig too)
Full details @ http://thecrimea.net/news
Tickets at Musicglue.

Come along, bring… someone… preferably who still knows who The Crimea are… and festive joyness and I still need that elf costume. And no more excuses like “oh, I’m in Texas” yeah yeah. You can even meet yours truely, sulking on the floor, pissed that they changed the damn date/venue/line up again and told no one… no no, it won’t happen this time, deffinately not… I hope.

PS. Keys & Hot Puppies for support? We can dream…

And with the usual just-maybe-not-sort-of-quite-in-time notice, here’s the full details:

The Crimea’s biggest, or at least craziest supporter, Matt “Crazy Matt” Stockman has his own record lable (god forbid). And the launch party for Sharabang Music is this Saturday 22nd May, at The Windmill in Brixton, and features our very own Davey putting in an acoustic performance, first publicised one of the year no less. Doors are 2pm, entry is £7, more details in the links below, and hit More for the press release. Oh and, unless you like being covered in beer, then stay away from the short black curly haired dancing man. That, or don’t complain - you were warned ;). Seriously though, do say hi to Matt if you see him, and give him your best wishes for the lable, I know I would if I was there…

www.windmillbrixton.co.uk
Sharabang FaceBook Page
www.myspace.com/thecrimea

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Long standing supporter my ass. I should kick the lot of em, scoundrels. Not content with forgoing mention of radio and TV appearances aplenty, they’ve now taken to only mentioning where to watch their one and only show of the year the day after they play it. I’d be pissed, but I’m too busy laughing. Couldn’t have made it anyway, but thanks for letting us know eh lads?

Seriously though, I was expecting a break up e-mail ala Cr.. no. Instead we get two albums and a show (yesterday, you know, like, not today, or tomorrow, yesterday). New track up on the FaceSpacePlace. And a, erm… new website. “Official” an’ everyfink. Yeah yeah. It’ll never have anywhere near as much sarcasm and vitriol of this place. It’ll suck. Like yesterday.

Oh yeah, if you did manage time travel - or just checked their website a few days earlier and were ever so luckily in the right place at the right time - send me pics n shits. I’d say I’d post em up here, but, I once promised that to a guy in 2005. He’s still waiting….

UPDATE: Twat. Twat. And indeed, twat. That post I though said 13th December on the official site mentioning the gig, actually, 13th October. So I’ve been in like a crazey hazey daze for months then… Thanks Joe for pointing out the error of my ways. Next year, I shall be there, come rain or shine (or two feckin months notice) ’tis Crimea time. For now though I’m snowed in so fuck em. No wait maybe just another spin of Milky Bar Kid on the discotequemabob…

Just spotted this on the forums here… “April 30, 2009. The Field Of Dreams. owen Hopkin”. Hmmm… Any ideas?

Meanwhile, Davey’s recording a new album (title includes words Field and Dream?) and playing at SXSW again, between March 18th and 22nd. Lets just hope nothing blows up this time…

Yes, it said 17th a couple days ago. Yes, I already have my train ticket to come back on the 18th. Yes, they suck balls. And yes… this means… Holly gets to see the gig? Oh hang on… you didn’t get them to change it did you hol? Sneaky minx, you owe me a fiver!

Anyway… if you ain’t figured it out yet, The Criema have yet again re-aranged a gig. At least I didn’t travel all the way to Aberystwyth for this one Appologies to all those that have arranged anything (as if there’s any fans left… *que tumbleweed*), but the Crimea Christmas Gig at Fortress Studios in London has been moved from Wednesday 17th December 2008 to Thursday 18th December 2008. So if anyone’s doing owt on Thursday, or has somewhere to stay, let me know. Otherwise I’m off to Heathrow to harass some important new arrivals

Listen to seashells; they know everything - Davey solo shows announced & news
I suspect they mean www.tarablaise.com. Well it’s not like there’s many others with the same name, is it?

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So… This place is deserted then. I’m currently spending my time doing a million things, well… playing video games, but it’s practically work. At least, I’m making money and cadbury’s cream eggs from it, if not much. But I have a real job interview soon too. So then I’ll have even *less* time for this place. Sorry guys. Tragedy rocks. Still, you’re not missing much, but there are a couple of things you and your blue dog need to know about.

Yup, two solo shows from Kernel Krok, Thursday 20th Nov (in two days time!) and Thursday 5th December, both at old Crimea utopian haunt The Enterprise, you know where, and if not, get outta here! Expect old skool tracks - Frog on a Stick, Bluster Boy, Lottery Winners, Oliver Twisted… maybe not; I can dream.

The other thing is the pantented super shiny all conquering Crimea Christmas Show. Should be at Fortress Studios in Shoreditch, London, on 17th 18th December. I’ve said it before but really, if you’re expecting many more of these things you’re on something stronger than Davey’s ever taken, so it’s really one not to sit back and miss.

And that’s it. To think, this time in 2005 I was posting 8 updates a day, I guess youth doesn’t last. Still, you can still find you much more up-to-date Crimea news on both their MySpace page, Davey’s newly launched Facebook page, and of course the official Crimea website. Now be gone, and leave this place to dangle from a streetlight on an autumn afternoon. And who knows, you loved em once, maybe they’ll stun you enough to empty your cash kitty and fund Davey’s next song on the back of an envelope.

We’re gathering up the vigilantes again to deliver some good old fashioned mob-style justice.  Go to the Vodafone Live Music Awards nomination website here and type The Crimea in the ‘LIVE UNSIGNED’ catagory.  Vote early, vote often.    

Very cool words from the very cool Brooklyn Vegan blog.  They host a radio show on Sirius so fingers crossed that we hear some Crimea on the digital airwaves.  And tonight is the last U.S. show (for now!).  If you’re in the NYC area, drop by Goodbye BLue Monday and watch Davey and Joe play their acoustic set.