Secrets Of The Witching Hour is unleashed! The Residency Continues…
To free or not to free. Read the latest Crimea mail out and figure out how to do both with the new album.
Archive for the ‘Gigs’ Category
Mr Monkeyfish posted this one on the boards, have to say that Proud Gallery place looks like a prison cell.
According to RecordProduces.com, a man called Greg Haver was involved in the mixing of The Crimea’s upcoming album, Secrets Of The Witching Hour. His other credits include a number of big names, namely both the Manic Street Preachers and The Hot Puppies.
There’s more details on the album at RoomThirteen.com, who report the release date as May 13th. Read more for the rest of their news.
And don’t forget to tune in to Radio 1’s Colin Murray show tonight from 10pm for a preview of another song from the album.
Mexico City, Paris, Carlisle, Guernsey… can you hear us!!!
Official mail outs are back; get yer gig news ‘ere!
Colin Murray continued his Crimea support last night, playing The 48A Waiting Steps during the Black Hole section of his show. I think it’s safe to say that tuning in every Tuesday around 10.45pm will get you a new Crimea track. Anyway, the good stuff: Colin said he loved em so much he got them to play at his engagement party. More news on the suposed “free” album, he said it’ll be made available via MySpace. And he mentioned the song is about a bus Davey gets in Dublin. The bad stuff? By the time the albums out you’ll have heard the whole thing already 
The inquisitive can click here and skip to 45 minutes in, the not quite so can read more for the evening’s tracklisting.
Here’s a review, albeit a very short one from Rock Beast who were at the Beautiful Days festival last year. At least they have a nice pic of our very own rockbeast-in-my-pocket, Owen Hopkin. They’ve also posted a few more pics of the band up here on pages 4 and 5.
Big Swap news - Contact Music posted an article on the Crimea’s charity job, probably sometime last century, like I care. If it feels like deja vu reading it, welcome to my life.
Resident Evil, Come into our world folks…
MySpace is where most mailouts are now being shot; here’s the latest one to grace the land of unexpected errors, and includes word on the new album release date, four special gigs and a little competition. If you want my advice, go to the first one. The lead singer of Paris Motel supplies vocals for Requiem Aeternum so who knows if there’ll be a duet.
I think I need more practice writing XHTML. So here’s another review. Visit LosingToday.com or read more for a review of The Crimea’s gig at Manchester Academy 3 on 4th September 2006. I know it’s late, but it’s not like they’ve played much since, is it?
The Crimea have updated their MySpace page with extra details on their new album Secrets Of The Witching Hour. They would also like to remind you that they’re playing a gig at The Metro in London tomorrow. Yes, Valentines Day. Owen and Joe have even offered free snogs to the shortest and tallest people to turn up. Possibly not the most well-thought out of ideas; this webmaster assumes they’ll end the night making out with each other.
If you can’t make it, not all’s lost. There’s a new Crimea track up for download on the same site, so you can at least close your eyes and pretend you’re there. Or frankly anywhere but your own front room reading your own bloody website for entertainment. And it didn’t even snow :o(
For something a little more visual, check out Google Video. I’m slowly re-uploading everything YouTube destroyed, just do a search for my user name - pepsi_max2k - and it should bring up most Crimea related clips.
Lemme know if this works, will ya?
These look new, though frankly even if I had seen them before I wouldn’t remember. First one is from Wembley where they were supporting Snow Patrol, second from Belfast last summer.
From Myspace / thecrimea.net:
“Sorry it’s been a while for an update. It’s taken ages to shift the extra inches around the gut that’s stopped us from getting near the computer.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Christmas shows. The party at The Enterprise was particularly good, probably our best yet. The party back at the gaff was also good, thank God for carpet tiles is all we’re saying…
So there’s plenty afoot. It’s taken a while, but our new album, ‘Secrets Of The Witching Hour’ is almost done and dusted. We’ve been to a sweat box in London, we’ve been to our country retreat in Norwich, we’ve been to Latvia and now we’re back at No Sun studios in Camden. It’s getting there. It’s almost there. It’ll be worth the wait.
Until then, there’s a couple of shows in the diary (check the tours page), and if anyone has any bright ideas on how to raise four grand to get us to China, send your answers on an electronic postcard to the usual address…”
Upcoming Shows:
Baraka (Area Club) Watford / 24-Jan-2007, 20:00
MIDI Festival Beijing / 01-May-2007, 12:00
For the guy from C&C drums from Canada or whever it was… Gimme a day to wake up and I’ll put a link here link below, for what it’s worth. All my photos are cunts. They prolly got white paint on them too…
Meanwhile, here’s something else… and like the dickhead I am I assumed as taking photos sideways works perfectly fine, videoing the stuff sideways would work too. Fuckit…
C&C MAN!!! rack it up… they’re shit. but whatever… Owen / drum pics. If you need bigger / better quality versions, god forbid, then email me. Maybe i’ll stick the rest of the gig pics up later… or maybe i’ll stick up more vids up instead ;o)
London Sprawling! Fancy A Slice?
Bethelehem! Madrid! Riga! Ashby De La Zouche! Can you hear us?
We’ve a few freak-fests coming up before we pile on the pounds at Chrimbo. There’s the Snow Patrol date, a show at swanky new venue Neighbourhood and our own XXXMas show at The Enterprise. Here’s the details, spread the word of the lords…
18 December - Neighbourhood, London
Free before 8pm, a fiver before ten and seven after that. We’re on-stage at 10.15pm. There’s even talk of some record spinning, but ask yourselves one question: are you ready for Saxon’s ‘Wheels Of Steel’ or Budgie’s ‘Breadfan’? Of course you are. More details about the club here: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_club_729.html
19 December - Wembley Arena
With Snow Patrol. All hail Gazza Lighbazza. This show is sold out though. Sorry for getting your hopes up. We’ll probably be getting jacked up and hitting the stage at about 7pm. We were born to play arena rock.
20 December - Enterprise, Camden
As we don’t get invited to normal Christmas parties, we make up for not being able to photocopy our arses or make inappropriate passes at our boss, by having it large at Camden’s finest jar emporium. Tickets are ?5 on the door, in advance from the pub, or on the phone: 020 7485 2659. It’ll be the stuff of legend. Again.
Buy Now! Pay the morning after.
Lots of love
The Crimea.
Also from that page: “We Love You - Lats And Lats”
“We’re in Latvia. The album’s almost done. It’s bloody freezing. Still, there’s a table tennis table upstairs, a hardy Welshman (Greg Haver) mixing downstairs and a lot of hair-pulling as the final bits of recording get done by everyone else in the live room. Seven more days and it’s done. In the can. You’ll be blown away. And that’s a guarantee, chief.”
And one other thing from Myspace…
News that the Coopers Arms has reopened under new ownership: http://www.myspace.com/ycwps
Okay, make that two…
People who’ve been to gigs in Aber within the last few years might be familiar with Pagan Wanderer Lu, purveyor of fine back-bedroom indie with a nice line in lyrics. Everyone else should check him out too, as he finally has a label-released CD out — details and sample tracks here: http://myspace.com/paganwandererlu
I’ve been persuaded by some Christmas spirited character to inform you all once again that The Crimea are playing gigs. Again. Man, I thought they gave that stuff up like last summer… or was it this summer… whenever. Apparently in the coming month they play a Windmill, Arena and Stadium. Clearly they cannot afford to play modern venues like pubs anymore, and have resorted to some kinda medieval gladiator entertainment spectacle. The intertubes whispered in my ear. They say,
Nov 27 2006 8:00P Brixton Windmill, London
Nov 29 2006 8:00P Men arena, manchester, Northwest
Nov 30 2006 8:00P the arena, newcastle, Northeast
Dec 1 2006 12:00P Bar Academy (Lunch Time Show!), Birmingham
Dec 8 2006 8:00P DeMontford University, Leicester
Dec 19 2006 8:00P wembley arena, london, London
As if you couldn’t tell, I shamelessly ripped that straight off MySpace, presumably conjured up by some all knowing Elf like being. Clearly I’ve given up all hope of running an informative website, the elfs will do. Wikipedia, the web’s other all knowing lifeform, says “[Wembley] arena is the second busiest busiest music in the UK (the MEN Arena in Manchester is busier)”. So, maybe at lease *one* person will have a decent recording this time. And as some d-list lyricist once said, I’d rather fuck up than miss out. So fuck up already.
The two of us, heckles raised,
Eyes locked dead to the greasy world.
Neither of us overjoyed to be out of love,
Filmed at T In The Park and Cardiff Festival Big Weekend, 2006.
