There’s a very educated review of The Crimea’s gig at Birmingham Bar Academy up on the Fat Amp Music site, with the reviewer leaving quite impressed with the band.

The Sheffield version of This City has a preview of the Leadmill gig still up. It may be a little late with the gig having taken place four days ago, but this one isn’t: Evening News 24’s preview of the Norwich Arts Centre gig on the 14th is still valid and contains a little info on the support bands too.

Album stuff now, and Mark Stanley’s blog contains a recomendation and pointer towards the free album, while foreign blog (still not entirely sure where though) Muzak! contains a review of the whole thing. Unless they number things as differently as they write them, that 29% probably ain’t great.

Judge for yourself though, as the Indiestore wordpress blog points you towards the 7Digital Idiestore online shop, official Crimea online retailer, where you can download the whole album from instead of the official homepage. Strangely enough they also charge £1.50 for downloading the album as a whole. Possibly most interesting though is the last paragraph on the blog which mentions some very interesting stuff. Just don’t trust it any more than those Bombay Sapphire Coma rumours.

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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 .

Two album reviews today with both Manchester Evening News and This Is Fake DIY giving it 3 out of 5, the former prefering the the previous album and the later liking the subtletie of the lyrics.

A little more impressed us Unkle Rupert who recommends the album in his blog.

Portuguese blog Remixtures also mentions the album and quite a lot more, though I’ll have to have some babelfish fun before knowing exactly what’s there…

Finishing with some gig based stuff, Room Thirteen review the band’s show at the Fez in Reading, giving it an eventual rating of 11 out of 13.

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There’s a few new album reviews turned up on the web, and they’re not too shabby either. Stylus Magazine give the album a B rating, saying “Macmanus’s unappeased ache is the splintered reflection of the love-fearing adolescent in all of us”. Subba Cultcha also like the album, comparing The Crimea to Grandaddy, Brighteyes and Mercury Rev. And Manchester Music give a shorter review ending in a 4 out of 5 rating.

Pointing you in the right direction is the Morning Paper site with, dare I say it, hopefully one of the last album release stories I’ll have to write about here.

So, on to the gigs, and the BBC Berkshire site has a preview up of a gig last month. A bit late, but what can you do. More recent is the review of the band’s Wrexham Station gig a few days ago from Glasswerk, and this one from Fat Amp Music of the band’s recent Modest Mouse support slot in Wolverhampton.

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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 .

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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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