Kerrang! has a small review of The Crimea playing The Borderline on 17/4/03 on page 46 of the latest May 10th issue. A scan of the review will be up on the press clippings page shortly.
Now I’m sure that March wasn’t the last time someone took a camera to a Crimea gig. If you’ve seen them play and took pics, send them in to photos@inaudible.co.uk and they shall be up on the site soon afterwards.
The Hot Puppies. If you’ve been reading this news section long enough, you’ll know who they are. The next big band out of Aber have their debut single reviewed on the Radio 1 Session In Wales website. It’s out on June 2nd too, along with the single from another Aber originating band you may know about. They played both singles on the show aswell, mentioning the joys of female guitarists in the form of Julia Parker inwetween the two. Click [More] for the tracklisting.
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Another day, another bunch of Crimea news for you all. Playlouder have a review of the Kerrang! Weekender festival in Sussex in April. The Crimea were there, they saw them play, and my oh my did they ever love them. Click here for the full review or on [More] for the Crimea bit.
I did some updates on the links pages at last. There’s now new site links and review links for you to look at.
One day I’ll get bored of posting news about a Davey MacManus fronted band being played on the biggest radio station in the UK. That day is not today. Surprise surprise, Mr Peel, also known as Uncle John to the band, gave the new single a spin last night. Hear the show recording here (WRG’s at 1:10 in), see the tracklisting here.
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White Russian Galaxy is popping up all over the place. Radio 1’s Session In Wales played the single last Thursday and here’s the recording (skip to 1hr 5mins) or click [More] or here for the tracklisting. After the song, presenters Bethan and Hew spent a couple of minutes talking about The Crocketts and their musical differences from The Crimea. They also gave the release date as July 2nd, which is quickly looking like the official release date judging by the following. Dotmusic has it as a major forthcoming release for the same date, along with artists such as Linkin Park, Jennifer Lopez and Marilyn Manson. Click on [More] for their full list of releases for June 2nd. A quick flick through the NME will also give you the same date for the single’s release, or pop into Jumbo Records in Leeds and they’ll tell you the exact same thing, and that they’ll also be stocking the 7″ vinyl copy of the single. If you’re now tired of hearing about the release date, you can tune into XFM who seem to like The Crimea and played the single last night, or SBN who have kept the single on their playlist B for another week.
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Crimea fan John Peel decided to give the new single an airing on Wednesday 30th last month. You know the deal; the recording’s here, skip to 1 hour 30 minutes for the track and see the show’s tracklisting here or through the salmon coloured button.
Owen’s given me another update on the state of the Crocketts merchandise he’s selling. The skinny olive coloured Nuke Ibitha t-shirts are all gone, as are the medium Unamazing Disgrace t-shirts. Everything else is still available through the shop page.
A bit more info on Sunday’s gig at Brixton Windmill, The Crimea will be on at 7.00pm with the other bands playing between 5pm and 11pm.
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White Russian Galaxy was just played on SBN radio but it was the old Klutzville version again which lots of you will have heard already.
The next bunch of MP3s are up and available for download. Lottery Winners On Acid and Fred Flintstone were played live on XFM’s Music: Response show on 27 March 2003. They’re slightly better quality than the Peel Session recordings so get over to the downloads section and have a listen. You can also still get the song that Davey likes to call “It’s raining financial advisers”. Forgotten will be available for the foreseeable future as the band have asked me to keep it up on the site.
Two new gigs have been confirmed. The Crimea play at The Windmill in Brixton this Sunday (4th) and at The Borderline in London on Tuesday 20th May. Make sure to check the gigs section for information on all future gigs for the band.
Owen Hopkin has said that there will definitely be a 7″ vinyl to go along with the White Russian Galaxy CD single although at the moment it’s not known whether they’ll be selling any merchandise at future gigs like they did during the LWOA release tour.
Owen from The Crimea has e-mailed me to say that the advertised gig at Glasgow Barfly on March 24th is NOT going to happen, but the band will be up in the city sometime in early June. He also gave me an update on the Crocketts merchandise he’s selling. The Great Brain Robbery album and the Nintendo Fallacy EP have both sold out, but you can still get these through various online second hand record shops. Check out the shop page for all the merchandise still available, and the gigs page for updates on new gigs.
The band have been mentioned in a music news section of the BBC Wales website. It’s all in Welsh so I can’t translate it all for you, but it mentions the new single and some stuff about Welsh member Owen Hopkin. To read the article, click here or on [More], and if you speak the language and can send me a translation I’ll stick it up on here for everyone.
More White Russian Galaxy updates, a couple of sites have the release date for the single as May 12th, but most still say May 19th. And SBN student radio station have now got the single on their B playlist. Click here to listen to the station online and click here or on [More] to see the current playlist B.
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The winners of the CDs full of Crimea radio session tracks are Martin Hough, Craig Nunn and Sam Barker. The CDs have been posted and should arrive with you soon. Sorry to everyone who entered and didn’t win, check out the downloads section for some of the tracks which were on the CDs.
Bethan And Huw’s Radio 1 show website has some details and updates on The Crimea in the news section. Click here or on [More] to see the article. They’ve also added the recording of the rest of the Aberystwyth University Exposure Tour gig. To go along with headliners and ex-Murry The Hump band The Keys, you can now hear support bands and Aber locals The Hot Puppies and Gabrielle 25. They’re all worth a listen and as I was around the Uni at the time, I wrote a review of the gig which you can read here.
Staying with Radio 1, last Tuesday (15th April) Colin Murray played The Crimea’s new single White Russian Galaxy at the end of his show. You can see the tracklisting for the show here or by clicking [More] and if you’re quick you can hear a recording of the show here and skip to 1 hour 50 minutes to hear the start of the track. If it sounds at all familiar, that’ll be because it was exactly the same version as the one year old Klutzville Promo EP version. Now I’m not saying it’s the version they’ll eventually release, cos surely they wouldn’t release a song with band members as different from the current Crimea line up as The Crocketts line up was, would they? Well you might just have to wait till the release date to find out, which according to Colin Murray has moved to June 2nd. As they say, good things come to those who wait.
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Honk Magazine’s website has an article on The Crimea recently posted on their website. Turns out the record deal they signed was with Nuxx, a spin-off from Warner-Chappel. There’s also some info on new guitarist Julz and something about a new album, so check out the article here or by clicking [More].
Gig News As revealed in the latest mailing list message, The Crimea are about to undertake a nationwide tour with The Basement, around the time of the White Russian Galaxy release. Also, if you’re going to the Borderline gig this Thursday, there’s a flyer up for download to get you in for ?6. There’s info on all that and all the tour dates so far on the gigs page.
Owen Hopkin has apparently written an article in the latest issue of the NME. It should be on page 61 and is about getting signed in the music industry. I’ve not got a copy yet but I’ll put up more details if and when I get them.
A new Crimea/Crocketts website has opened up. Crocketts Tab Center is a collection of Crocketts and Crimea tab from around the web, especially Crocketts Tab and Crocketts Musicpage. They need more tab though, so get over to www.get-me.to/ctc and give them some support by submitting any guitar, drum, bass or keyboard tab you can think up.
The Cable TV show featuring The Crimea was show last night on BBC 1 Wales, and the band played a live version of Fred Flintstone. If you missed it, it’s on again tonight at 9.15pm on BBC 2 Wales.
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Kerrang! Weekender festival details have been posted on the Drowned in Sound website and show The Crimea as playing on the Big K! Stage between 1.30pm and 2.00pm. If you’re going, make sure to take loads of pics and send me scans of them to put on the website.
The Drowned in Sound website also insists on continuing to treat the MP3s on this site as their own, even after I asked them not to. With all the extra files I’ve got up, there’s already been a few too many downloads from the site so I’ve had to move the Utopia MP3 to a different folder. If you have a download manager and were in the middle of downloading the song, you’ll need to restart the download through the link on the downloads page.
The Cable TV show on BBC 2W featuring The Crimea is also available in England through Digital Satellite on channel 961 and in Scotland and Northern Ireland through Digital Satellite channel 962. Thanks to Lucifer for mentioning that on the previous post.
A month before the new single comes out, you can now download the Crimea’s Peel Session version of their last single Lottery Winners On Acid. Also available is the final song from their Peel Session, Forgotten. They’ll be there until April 22nd when some tracks from their Music: Response session will replace them. As well as these, I’ve put Fred Flintstone and Opposite Ends MP3s from the Klutzville Promo EP back up now I know neither of these will be on the next single.
The airing date of The Crimea’s appearance on Cable TV has finally been announced. The BBC 2W website has the date as Tuesday 15th April at 21:15, and says this about the show: Stuart Cable returns for some cosy chat with David Dickinson and Edith Bowman, plus music from The Darkness and Crimea. You’ll need BBC 2W, available in Wales, to view the show, so if anyone there would like to record the show for me I’d be really grateful, and could get some shots of the show up on the site.
New photos of the band have been added to the site. There’s some of them during the Monarch gig on March 25th, some old Crocketts photos from their appearance at the Day At The Races festival in Donnington in 2001, a couple of extras added to the index page of the Rummers gig photos and various things added to the other pictures section.
The art work for the cover to The Crimea’s latest single White Russian Galaxy is now available for viewing. It’s anyone’s guess who the person on the front is, according to the band it’s just a photo they found on the bassist’s bedroom floor. At least the b-sides for the single have been confirmed, and it’s old Crocketts track La Sinoco and newcomer and crowd pleaser Girl Just Died taking up the two spare places on the CD.
The MP3 fest has begun, starting with Fred Flintstone and Isobel from the Radio 1 Peel Session up for download for the next two weeks. If you don’t want to wait for the rest, there’s a little competition running to get a copy of all the XFM and Peel Session MP3s burnt onto audio CD. Click [More] for the extra info on that.
The band have been confirmed to play at the Kerrang! Weekender on Sunday April 13th. It’s the first festival appearance for The Crimea so if you want to attend, you can buy tickets at aloud.com and find out more information on the festival from the Kerrang! website.
Do Something Pretty fanzine have written a review of the DiS Vs DSP gig featuring The Crimea among others. Check out the whole review here or just read the Crimea bit by clicking on [More].
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So I’m sat here listening to the first Crocketts song I ever heard, and I figure it’s time to let you know what’s been going on for the past three years since then. Well, it feels that long anyway. Sorry for all the promises of an update, hell, even Owen got in before me with the mailing list. So here you go. Updates, at last.
White Russian Galaxy. Formerly titled Who Knows, the much awaited second single from The Crimea was announced on Friday through the mailing list. It’ll be released around the middle of May, and it’s coming out on the Double Dragon record label, which is yet another label I can find no info on. If you ask me, it’s just another name Davey made up for a joke, and he’s currently producing all the CDs in his bedroom, along with everything else that goes on in there.
MP3s. The stuff you’ve all been waiting for, MP3s of the John Peel and XFM radio sessions are now available on the downloads page. Currently there’s only interview and talk stuff, but all the songs will be available at some time. I’ll probably put up two tracks every couple of weeks, starting in about a week, so keep checking the site for updates.
All the links pages have been updated. There’s not much new but at least you won’t be sent to any non existent websites.
A publishing deal has been signed by Davey & Co. with Warner/Chappell Music, bringing the band much needed cash for a second set of clothes. Thanks to website local SR, you can click on [More] to find out the difference between a publishing and record deal.
More gigs are lined up for the next couple of months, including one this Thursday, which is part of the Drowned in Sound fanzine vs. Do Something Pretty fanzine night. As always, check the gigs page for more info. Both the DiS and DSP websites have more info about The Crimea on them, and the DiS site even has a link to the Utopia MP3 on this site to promote the band to their readers.
New photos have been put up on the site. There’s three promo shots taken of the band by Tina McClelland on the main page, and photos of the lads and all new lass playing at The Borderline have been put up on the pictures page.
A new update on the Peel Session in February. Turns out Davey’s guitar skills weren’t quite as good as they seemed, as it was actually a session guitarist they’d bought in for some extra help before gaining Julia Parker as lead guitarist. Julz is now settling into life with The Crimea, and looks to be staying with the band for as long as she wants, though continues work with her own band Project Winterhaven.
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