Christ, I’m kept in at work for two hours and suddenly the Crimea world takeover suddenly moves up a few gears. Here’s the latest…
The Fly magazine for May 2003 has gone Crimea crazy, with an introduction from magazine deputy editor and Crimea drummer Owen Hopkin on his tour with the band. There’s also loads of photos of the band, tour dates and a chance to win a signed Crimea camera through the Fly’s website, if you wait a week for it to be updated. You can pick up a copy in your local Barfly venue, HMV or Virgin Megastore for absolutely nothing. Thanks to Craig for the info, and I’ll post more on the magazine when I get hold of a copy.
Two words. Colin Murray. Recording (1:40), tracklisting (or click [More]). That’s another play for W.R.G. on Radio 1 then.
The first review of White Russian Galaxy I’ve seen is up on the SoundsXP website. It’s in the singles section and they like it. If you look hard enough you can also find a review of the band supporting Electric Six at Camden Barfly on Wednesday 23rd October 2002. Click on [More] if you just want to read the Crimea bits.
If you made your way to the Nottingham Social last night, stay tuned to this page for a little improvised good will.
And you might wanna get over to Project Winterhaven’s website and hear Crimea guitarist Julz’s new masterpiece.
Read more »
Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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].
Read more »
A flyer is available for download to get you in ?1 cheaper at the Crimea gig this Friday evening at The Borderline. Look on the gigs page for the download and more information on this and any other upcoming gigs.
A Crocketts We May Be Skinny & Wirey style card deck is up for sale on Ebay here. I’ve only ever heard of one person who owns a set, so it’s a nice collectors item. The price is currently ?2.86 with four days left, and if you buy it you’ll get a James Dean-Esque 7″ record too.
A review by Jonathan Birch of The Crimea’s gig at the 45 Club on the 22nd has been put up in the reviews section here.
Pictures I took of the Radio 1 Exposure Tour in Aberystwyth have been put up at www.inaudible.co.uk/aberexposure. There’s pics of The Keys, The Hot Puppies and Gabrielle 25 but don’t go expecting any masterpieces.
A review of Wednesday’s Crimea Peel Session can be found here, and includes details on how to listen to a recording of the show.
Another review, this one of from Twisted Revolution of The Crimea’s gig at Dublin Castle on 01/10/02. Click here or [More] for the review.
Read more »
Welsh magazine Honk has a review of The Crimea’s current single Lottery Winners On Acid in it’s latest issue. You can read a copy of the review online at their website here or by clicking on [More].
Read more »
Well I wasn’t going to mention this but seeing as how half the band and their girlfriends have emailed me about it, there’s a review of The Crimea playing Cardiff Barfly on 23/11/02 up at the Playlouder site here. While I’m at it I might as well mention some extra pictures of the band that Tina McClelland has added to her site here and there’s an extra one of Owen on the Aber Arts Centre picture page.
Rock Sound has a short interview with The Crimea on page nine of issue 44 of the magazine. It’ll be out until the end of the month, but you can get a back issue from http://www.rock-sound.net or just check the press clippings section for the whole article.
The Fly also has some Crimea news in the form of a small review of their Lottery Winners single on page 47 of the latest December 2002 / January 2003 issue. You can pick up a free copy at your local Virgin Megastore of Barfly music venue.
John Peel has either been bribed by, or really, really likes The Crimea. They’re set to record a Peel Session for Radio 1 on January 16th, which should be broadcast at a later date. Lottery Winners On Acid also features as one of his reccomended songs from last month in his record box, and currently one of his most important tunes from the Radio 1 Alt record box. Click [More] to see what other songs he likes.
A gig has been planned for February 28th at The Borderline in London, check the gigs page for more news on that.
Site updates - I’ve been busy adding stuff on the band from magazines to the press clippings page, and some more pics to the other pictures page. There’s also a couple more links to other sites, and a new band for you to check out.
General rumours - Davey may or may not be in Austrailia on holiday at this very moment .:. The band are continuing thier search for a new lead guitarist, posibly to make their first appearence at the Borderline gig .:. Craig from thecrimea.tk thinks there’s a new single coming next month, though I’ve heard from a good source that he just made that up.
Read more »
There’s a review of Lottery Winners On Acid up on the Drowned in Sound website giving it 4 1/2 out of 5. Click here or on [More] to read it.
John Peel continued his advertisement of the single during his Radio 1 show on Tuesday evening. After a request from someone with a broken leg to play a pick me up, he put on Lottery Winners On Acid and later, Blowjob Or 9 To 5. Click here within the next few days to hear the show, and here or on [More] for the tracklisting.
Read more »
There’s another gig happening this Saturday evening at The Gallery in Leystone. More details are on the gigs page.
There’s also a few new downloads on the downloads page. Check them out, they’ll have dissapeared by January the 15th.
More Lottery Winners news, there’s a review of it over at The Despondent e-zine. I don’t think they liked The Crocketts much *grr* but they do like the new single enough to name it their Single Of The Week *yey*. Click here or on [More] to read the reivew.
And I’ve put up photos from the Crimea gig at The Monarch on the eleventh. Thanks to Tina McClelland from www.photo2000.co.uk and Elodie for sending me their pics, which you can view here.
Read more »
If anyone bought tickets to the cancelled gig at Fibbers, and can get to York Barbican Centre on the 16th, email owen.hopkin@virgin.net ASAP to sort out free entry to the gig.
Details on how to pre-order Lottery Winners On Acid, due to be released 25/11/02, are on the shop page.
A poor review of The Crimea at The Monarch on 23/10/02 has been posted on the Bleedmusic website. Click here to see the review.
Gee, have I ever been a lazy boy. So, Kerrang! magazine is out NOW with a nice review of The Crimea in. It’s in the Live Reviews section, and there’s a nice big picture of Davey and Andy, while they’re given 4 out of 5 for the reviewed gig at Dublin Castle on October 1st 2002. It really is a great review, so get a copy now, it’ll be in shops until this Friday. If you miss it, click here to see the article.
Tina Mcclelland has finally uploaded her pictures of The Crimea to her site at http://www.photo2000.co.uk. They were taken at the Black Lion in Salford on September 16th 2002 where the band were performing for the ITC Unsigned event. There’s a large review of the gig in the reviews section, and a small review of the same gig at the Honk - Welsh Music On-Line site. Click here for that review, or click on [More].
Lucifer’s been shipping out copies of ‘Woman’ magazine to a few lucky crox fans. Included is a very intresting article on Owen and his girlfriend taking part in an ‘I Love You, But I Don’t Love That’ section involving certain items of clothing owened by the two. I’ve had orders not to reveal it, but if you can get ahold of the September 9th issue of the magazine, offer as much as you can. It’s worth it.
Last of the updates is that Owen’s emailed me about dates when they tour the country to support their new single release. As expected, they’re only playing the Barfly venues so far. Currently there’s five gigs that should be happening, and possibly another in late November. Keep checking the gigs page as I get more details on each show.
Read more »
A quick note to say that the issue of Kerrang! magazine with a live review of The Crimea in is released tomorrow. Go and buy it.
The Crimea have a tiny little mention on the Radio 1 site. *yey* They’re in the news page of the Welsh Alternative session page, mentioned in the ‘In The City’ bit and in the ‘News in brief’ section. If you can’t be bothered to go to the link below, this is what it says:
The Crimea are Davey Crockett and Owen Hopkin, formerly in the Crocketts, and they play one of their first gigs at Barfly Cardiff on 7 September.
Also mentioned are The Keys, better known as Murry The Hump.
To see what all the (minor) fuss is about, click this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/wales/news/.
