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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Archive for the ‘Gigs’ Category
Now that the Witching Hour news assault is over, here’s a few things that have been around a while but never had the privilege of a mention on inaudible.co.uk…
Way back in 2005 The Crimea played a live acoustic session for the WOXY radio station in America. Strange then that it’s taken me until now to find this page on the woxy.com website with a 24 MB MP3 download of the whole session. Check it out for some old Crimea classics, then check out the Flickr page with pics of the band recording the session.
Featuring a number of reviews and photos from different Crimea gigs is the eFestivals Crimea page, including a link to this review from last year on the eGigs site. If you fancy a more personal experience, there’s also a partial upcoming gig listing with links to online ticket outlets.
There’s also a review of the Pleasance Courtyard gig last year up on the Skinny Mag site, which says of Davey “part Rain Man, part Bright Eyes, but good enough to rival the very best”.
And finally there’s an old single review of Baby Boom up on Caught In The Crossfire, and a White Russian Galaxy single microsite at Video-C.
One more, Iain points you towards Plus One Magazine who have a review of a 2005 gig up. Go to Review Archive then search for “crimea”, or just hit more to read it.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news… two more of the tour gigs have just been cancelled, here’s the damage:
Saturday 26th May - Queens Hall, Narbeth, Wales. CANCELLED
Tuesday 29th May - BoileRoom, Guildford. CANCELLED
Appologies anyone planning on attending, I guess refunds will be available from source or whatever… And Halflight are gonna be gutted. But, there’s a very good reason why they were cancelled. The Crimea have just scored support slots for the one and only Modest Mouse. They ain’t no Halflight, but they’ll do. Here’s where they will be playing:
26 May: Glasgow ABC, 27 May: Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, 28 May: Nottingham Rock City, 29 May: Manchester Ritz
Check the gigs page for any further updates.
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.
Today’s articles come from Losing Today and Crimea regulars Room Thirteen who both have the usual news + gig dates.
The blog of author Warren Ellis contains the news, a hint of a review, and a preview MP3 for your listening pleasure.
And today’s foreign articles are slightly larger than usual. The Danish Urban site features a long article on what looks like the album release story, with a White Stripes twist. And German magazine Neon’s website contains what appears to be a fan’s explanation of each album track, though Google’s translation was less than helpful.
There’s plenty of new Crimea photos around the web, here’s a roundup of some of the newest ones I’ve found.
To start with, there’s a load of news ones on Inaudible.co.uk’s Crimea Webshots album thanks to Carole Button who sent me pics of loads of gigs from last year and some from the Proud Gallery gig this year featuring Amy May dueting with Davey on Requiem Aeternam.
Also on webshots is a few pics from the band’s gig at Star Live in Beijing a couple of weeks ago, thanks to Bad Vibrations on the official forum.
And there’s loads of pics from Saturday’s free Primrose Hill gig up on Flickr thanks to users wilrob7, Alibanana and clashcityrockerkat.
If you have any photos you’d like me to stick on this site then send em to files@inaudible.co.uk, or just let me know about some you’ve found on the web at christopher@inaudible.co.uk.
The Crimea, flying high on a broomstick near you…
Mostly tour news, a bit about the cancelled Angel gig and a lot about support bands.
Sorry to all you northern folk, the free acoustic gig under the Angel Of The North has been CANCELLED due to more bureaucratic madness. Further details were in the latest mailout (soon to be posted here). Check the gigs page for info on other Crimea gigs to attend. Again, sorry about the cancellation and short notice.
Sorry for the short intermission over the last few days. A kid gotta take a break you know? Anyway, he’s what I collected while I was gone. No doubt Google is full of new ones by now 
Adding a list of upcoming gigs to their articles are Indigo Flow and the ever-present CD Times.
Putting a more personal slant to the story are Wayward Measures (”I hope this works…for all our sakes.”) abnd the Fernando’s Desk and The Indie Musician blogs.
Shorter mentions come from This Is London and Crimea news regulars God Is In The TV.
And today’s foreign news come from the French Adilade music site, Russian Pop-Rock site and the Lithuanian Ore site.
The third major UK publication to mention The Crimea’s album giveaway is The Times. Not sure if the online version featured in todays paper or not, but if it did I don’t have a copy so I’m still left begging for scans of that and any other print based Crimea articles. Speaking of which, this article from the Sidney Morning Herald did appear in the actual paper a few days ago.
The Leeds edition of Glasswerk promotes the band’s gig in Leeds on June 5th along with news of the album. No doubt I’ll be there making a cock of myself once again.
Back to the regular album storys; The Music of Zhisou features a good original write up from some topless bloke. “It’s in The Guardian, now I’m blogging about it, I’m sure there are many other people doing the same.” Yeah, rub it in why not.
While I was at Uni in Wales there was this one channel on TV that caused me much facination. For a while I didn’t think I could get it tuned properly, then I figured all the presenters must be pissed, and had just settled on it being a free porn channel when I eventually realised it was just the Welsh language channel S4C and all the talk about pimps was just the announcer giving program time updates. Anyway, if you wanna learn to speak a bit Cymraeg ala S4C style, start every sentance with “Ferret”, end every one with “like”, and finally recite this Crimea article from Uned5 until you can understand what the hell that Owen’s going on about. Take a look at all the new pretty pics while you’re there, too. Am dani.
A little paragraph from the German Rock-A-Hula Baby, quite a few paragraphs from Javno and if it’s anything like All Of Mp3, most of the album from the Russian @Music site round up the foreign articles. Now it’s late, and I must go watch my favourite new show 2 Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps while dreaming of a life outside Crimea news story hell. Nosh da.
As if you haven’t had enough already, here’s another lot, starting with MSN Music’s Crimea story and Digital Music News’s take on the giveaway.
Putting a different slat on thingg, thank god, are the Londonist who barely mention the giveaway. *Gasp*. Instead, they note the significance of the Crimea’s free gig and BBQ on Primrose Hill, May 12th. You gotta read to find out what it is though.
Another tech blog, Mac.nz, give the album a small mention but The Muso blog trump it with two downloadable singles from the album added to their article.
And where would you be without the regular foreign language write-up. This one’s from Finland, curtosey Discopress.
Chinese website Sina.com has posted two pics of The Crimea playing the MIDI Festival on May 1st. The first pic you can see to the right, the second one features Davey and a surprisingly long haired Joe. English link to the same pics here and here.
Flickr user Sarah Vossler has posted a collection of her shots from the Mao Live House gig in Beijing. Start here, keep hitting more and you come across Davey with a very familiar looking top. Jason Yuan has also added three of his own from MIDI.
And I just found a bunch of artistic looking pics from Latitude Festival last year on Nosher.net.
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.
Slacking? Me? As if, I still ain’t left my chair. Annnd Davey’s just lovingly sent me about 300 more links. Oh well, they can wait; I’ve been busy updating this site as well as finding out what else is new on other Crimea sites. Here be the low-down:
Someone was looking for this earlier, and as the release caught us all on the hop I hadn’t got one ready, but it’s now finished and here, in all it’s glory, is the wholey unofficial Secrets Of The Witching Hour lyrics page. If you can fill in any of the (albeit very few) gaps, please comment below.
Another returnee to this site is the gig listings page, though it’s missing the kinda excruciating detail my obsessed self would have added in times gone by. But it’ll do you for the next couple of months anyhow.
More updates come in the form of downloads; I’ve added both of Crimea manager Steve Taverner’s radio interviews to the downloads page. And I do appologise for the lack of any other working links there, lord knows how long they’ve been like that but I promise they’ll be fixed very soon.
Not my site but the official one this time. TheCrimea.net’s photoblog was updated sometime last year with summer tour photos. Fun with glasses and bananas abound.
Also trying to trick me in to complacency is the Davey’s MySpace blog which, although not looking like it on the main page, has been updated numerous times in the last few months. I’d try and be funny about it but the Davey’s tales of near self-halm and depression are about as fun a read as Kurt Kobain’s diary. Speaking of which, I’m gonna be dead myself if I don’t get something to eat soon…
The Crimea played at the MIDI festival in China yesterday, and will be playing various gigs around Bejing for the next few days. Here’s a round up of the Chinese based Crimea articles on the web.
Firstly though, here’s Flickr’s latest stream of MIDI Festival 2007 pics. I see no Crimea shots next but there’s some there’s sure some well dressed kids over in the big C.
Lord knows how but someone managed to sweet talk the Chinese government into thinking they’re some kinda superstars, and apparently Davey & Co were having tea with the big wigs a couple days ago. The British Council promoting them as the biggest British act at Midi may have had something to do with it. Somehow I can’t help thinking Davey’s gonna do something mental and fuck it all up. But I guess I found out where I know that Filter mag pic from 
The lifestyle website City Weekend has a Midi Fest preview with a paragraph on The Crimea and comments from Owen.
And purely for the Chinese locals, Midi fest has a write up of the band on their site and China News is most likely mentioning the Witching Hour album giveaway.
