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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.
Well there’s another suprise - apparently there’s three two B-sides for the single out there, each available exclusively on a single blog. I’ve only found one so far, but I’ll also update this as more are discovered…
Faronheit feature Stoned, a history on the band and more indepth music reviews. EDIT: OMFreakinG it’s actually Down On The Farm, one of the greatest Crimea tunes ever! And it’s not changed one bit from the original demo. God bless the man with the sense to do that.
Nothing But Green Lights have the second one; Can’t Forget You Girl features a very familiar melody…
For the first time in i-dunno-how-many years, The Crimea have a new and unique single release! Unique in more ways that one, as it’s not your normal trip-to-HMV gig; the band are continuing their trend setting release tactics by making the single available not only for free but from a multitude of various sources in a number of different guises.
I’m not sure of the exact count - some say 16, others 12, I’m guessing around 10 - but a number of different remixes of the single will be available exclusively from various blogs around t’net this week. The official website www.thecrimea.net has the full lowdown, though you may have to wait a little for them all to appear (mine’s still on the way ;o), but here’s a few to get you started:
The original radio edit is available at on the Trident Gum website and is also featured as the soundtrack to their new advert, as seen on TV right now or also their website.
Indie MP3 feature a Ricardo Autobahn Vocal Remix and various indie pop music reviews.
Get Weird feature the funky Rex Kwondo Remix and a wonderful day-glow skin.
Hits In The Car have the “laid back” The Brute Chorus Remix and other music news.
Galaxy FM feature the Black Litter Baby remix and some, err, european stylings.
Instrumental Analysis feature the reggae Rood-ID Dub A Loop Remix and plenty of other band profiles.
Akira The Don’s Akira The Don remix is available on Akira The Don’s blog and his All Star Akira The Don 15 mixtape which can be purchased for about £5 via the Akira The Don MySpace page. I’ll stop saying Akira The Don now.
Badminton Stamps have the Beatcave Remix and plenty of Philly attitude.
Just a quick note to mention an upcoming London gig — details can be found on the official site.
It is I… ah who cares. Sorry I’ve been away so long; too busy hacking Xboxes, wireless hotspots & scart cables, playing video games, taking apart PCs and promptly putting them back together again (just like oversized novelty eggs), and trying to figure out the many technicalities of the UK’s video broadcasting and playback systems. Anyway, you don’t care about that do you? Crimea!
Well keep your eyes glued to the adverts for once and look out for a certain Trident Gum advert. Damn fools gone loop a loop… for the nation… erm…
And check out thecrimea.net starting tomorrow (well, technically, today) for more freebies. Damn world gone loop loop a loop a loo… And I do promise to fix up the site soon…netime. My mind just wanders…
Notice anything different? Yup, we got a new domain name! Curtosey the beautifully written yet criminally unreleased Down On The Farm. And yes, I know it’s twatted up the non-news pages, but unless one of you knows how to define a php define(”VARIABLE” /location) type thing globally from a single file, then it may be that way for a couple more days… Anyway, as the news is working again, here’s some more interesting stuff Davey just let me in on…
Davey MacManus will be a guest speaker at the Building A Business On ‘Free’ seminar on November 5th. Also attending will be record execs, music website owners, game designers and copyright meanies to talk about weather it’s “viable or indeed advisable to give music away and if so, how can it be done in a way that doesn’t compromise artists’ income, integrity or longevity?” Best of all, it’s free to attend; just check the website for details on how to register first, then go along and grill Davey on why there’s so many great songs they still haven’t given away free.
…from October 11th:
“We don’t know. It’s coming out sometime, but no one seems to know when - us, our management, our press officer, our agents, etc. The bloke outside Owen’s Tesco came up with the closest answer - Aaaarrrghhh, DIAMOND WHITE!!! Do it quickly!!! SPECIAL BREW!!!!! The Charlatans have unsuccessfully tried to steal your thunder!!!!! Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh’.”
It’s definitely Loop A Loop, though. In the meantime, go watch the Hot Puppies set at liveroom.tv or listen to the original Out Of Africa…
Name those shoes! The answer and more pics coming soon… ish…
Seems like a hot topic lately so here is where you, your friends and your musical colleagues can find all The Crimea’s UK chart positions: Zobbel.de lists everything from the second (well… 3rd) LWOA release at 31 to the 2nd Tragedy Rocks release at 196. Just scroll down the page ’til you see the band’s entry.
Radiohead eh? They release a free album and you’d think it had never been done before. Strangely I’m not the only person to be interested in anyone noting otherwise; Davey himself wishes to point you all in the direction of Times Online’s industry critique titled The Day The Music Industry Died which, in a nutshell, says “Earlier this year another rock band, the Crimea, did the same”.
More impressive is Q4 Music’s piece on “5 moments that changed music”. Yes people, along with Led Zepplin being tight fisted, Levi removing a top, Mariah Carey following with the pants off EMI and Gnarls Barkley being, well, Gnarls Barkley… The Crimea’s Secrets Of The Witching Hour free download release is apparently the 5th most important event in music history. Go figure. And hit more for the full 2 paragraphs.
The big boys Sina.com.cn have a fittingly large Crimea video on their site featuring the band’s 2007 Midi Festival performance in China. That’s the one without Julz. Who played with the at Chinese Pop Festival btw, have I been gone that long? Anyway, it’s 15 minutes long and has so many tunes crammed in I’ve already forgotten what they were. An alternative copy is at Tudou.com if you need it.
Two more Midi vids can be found at Mofile.com - Man and Loop A Loop, though they’re much lower quality mobile phone clips.
And if you still wanna check em out for real: gig details below. I’ve no idea who’ll be on guitar for them, but I heard a rumor a while back that made me wet myself. I have a good feeling it may just be Davey though. Don’t be too hard on him…
Friends, Romans Crimeans lend us your ears… - Friday, September 28, 2007
Our last show with these guys was amazing and the after party is the stuff of legend. For real. Be there folks it’s going to be cataclysmic…
Love
The Crimea
Crimea lead singer Davey MacManus was interviewed on Radio Five Live last Wednesday by none other than the band’s biggest fan Colin Murray. He was standing in for Simon Mayo and had an in-studio debate with members of the press and music industry on the effects of giving away music for free. There’s an excellent writeup of the show on the New Music Strategies blog but if you just wanna get down to listening, you can still listen again to the whole show (starts at 2 hours in) or download the slightly edited discussion in MP3 format from this podcast page. It’ll all be gone by tomorrow though so I’ll try to upload the stuff here asap.
Davey was also interviewed by Pop Matters on the band’s history and free album. Billy Corgan fans stay well away.
Also known as Kernel Krok, Davey’s resurected his solo career and should be playing the Abbey pub in Kentish Town on September 15th as part of the Abbey Village Fete, further details will follow I’m sure. This follows an apperance by him a few days ago at the Trans 2007 festival in Belfast.
The August edition of The Fly magazine features a review of the band’s show at the Borderline last month. Pick one up for free at your local indie music store of Fly venue, or just check it out online.
And one more place mentioning the album is GoingWare who link to it on a page about free legal downloads.
Huh. Not content with stealing my thunder as official site, some fool has gone and made a post there so informative and obscure the likes of which are hitherto unseen outside of inaudible.co.uk.
Yes, the Victoria line is down! Tube fans lament, while attendees of the Crimea’s Brixton Windmill gig tomorrow can get the 133, 159, 59 & 333, and “virtually every bus [that] goes from near Oval to Brixton”. Apparently it’s only 10 mins away, unless it gets jacked by some no good type. But only I’m that unlucky.
PS. they play at 4pm, doors 2.30pm. Hot tip: Get pissed, fall asleep outside, then wake up tomorrow around the same time for a BBQ and Abersytwyth’s 2nd finest export The Hot Puppies.
