Well, waste not want not; while I still remember how to log in…
A long long time ago, in a news post far far away, I once mentioned Chart Log UK, who compile peak chart positions for various bands. They only had a couple up back then, but there’s plenty more stats on your favourite band now, so hit more to check em out. Who knew WRG made it so high, as did Host back in the day. Stupid download crap confuses the hell out of me these days though, is there even still a chart left?
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And, could this be the elusive Hannah Fowler? Sure looks like her.
Ok so there’s not much else to do Crox wise these days. Best go update the Crimea news :o)
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And so went my latter high school and college days, typing that ever-so random of URLs for a direct link to ye olde Crocketts.net message board. Yes, it’s been long gone for nearly a decade now, but oh how technology does amaze and amuse:
Crocketts.net Message Board, August 09 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010809083352/http://www.bleedmusic.com/bleedmusic/forum/boards.asp?L=24
Crocketts.net Message Board, April 08 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/20020408152035/http://www.bleedmusic.com/bleedmusic/forum/boards.asp?L=24
Yes, there it is in all it’s early 2000’s crocketty glory - highlights such as “this is all wrong (nim)”, “tra lala (??!!??)”, “i need some one to talk to coz im bored (nim)”, “rice is nice (nim)”, “Adster, what did i do to small kids? (happy bastard)”, “Lucifer, Elspoonio, Pagey & EvilEvlis (penelopE)” and “ill be comming round the mountian (cable)”.
Chimpsky, janey j, random perverts, oh how I miss you so. Even I put an appearance in during July ‘01 - “RE: I am in no need of medication (christopher) Tue, 31 Jul - 06:25 PM”. Surely I was wrong.
Sadly, no links to actual post content, but hell, when did that ever matter? And if anyone sees those spoonio lads anywhere, tell them to get the hell back together, I’m still stuck on the EP waiting for the album 
. Iccceee creeeeaaaammmm RAARRAAHHHHGGHWWEEREIFUGHGHLLLUG. (christopher).
Rich Wurzel? Biology Teacher.
Owen Hopkin? Classic FM editor.
Dan Harris? Bank Clerk (possibly, or dead, or just married, same thing).
Davey Crockett? NHS nurse and all round health-based academic (and he can spell 
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Will “No 1 Guitar Tech” ‘Boz’ Boswell? Promotions extraordinaire Saatchi & Saatchi head of design?
Dear lord, I think it just hit me. Shit got freaky. Joe, Andy, you best be suitably crazed, drunk and homeless next month, else I’ll be sorely dissapointed. You’re the only hope we have left .
Hit more for another reason not to visit Camden town on a dark night, and why I’m more scared than ever of the self-harming, self-loathing, Mr Self-Destruct…
Winner of most subvertive use - ever - of Crocketts lyrics, goes to…
…the school teacher who used Billy And The Dragon (off The Crocketts’ first ever EP) to teach Polish kids English. No, it wasn’t the world’s best Science teacher ex-Crox bassist Rich, although the answer isn’t too surprising. Long time Crox fan (Stuart) Denyer gets the honours. View more pics of random Polish kids on his site. So I’m just gonna make my exit here before I type anything even creepier…
Rich Carter? Best school tutor ever? “mr cartA rules serious tutor’ness”?!? Didn’t see that one coming did ya. Just watch what you do with that ruler, eh Mr C? Who said mobiles in school were a bad thing. Autograph hunters this way thankyou please. Up next week - Where’s Wally Dan Harris.
Hey guys, due to some spam nonsense with the account I’ve had to kill all user accounts on here other than my own. Sorry Hol :p For ex-authors, if you still want to post then let me know and I’ll give you my own account details.
For the rest of you, please do not use any email addresses related to inaudible.co.uk, as these are about to be killed off too. Just pop one off to — immortalsoon -=- at -=- gmail — or my hotmail address (old timers should know it…) if you have anything interesting to say.
And if you notice any excess downtime here in the short term - probably due to the above. Now I have to go execute some scripts. Or unexecute them. Or something…
So… This place is deserted then. I’m currently spending my time doing a million things, well… playing video games, but it’s practically work. At least, I’m making money and cadbury’s cream eggs from it, if not much. But I have a real job interview soon too. So then I’ll have even *less* time for this place. Sorry guys. Tragedy rocks. Still, you’re not missing much, but there are a couple of things you and your blue dog need to know about.
Yup, two solo shows from Kernel Krok, Thursday 20th Nov (in two days time!) and Thursday 5th December, both at old Crimea utopian haunt The Enterprise, you know where, and if not, get outta here! Expect old skool tracks - Frog on a Stick, Bluster Boy, Lottery Winners, Oliver Twisted… maybe not; I can dream.
The other thing is the pantented super shiny all conquering Crimea Christmas Show. Should be at Fortress Studios in Shoreditch, London, on 17th 18th December. I’ve said it before but really, if you’re expecting many more of these things you’re on something stronger than Davey’s ever taken, so it’s really one not to sit back and miss.
And that’s it. To think, this time in 2005 I was posting 8 updates a day, I guess youth doesn’t last. Still, you can still find you much more up-to-date Crimea news on both their MySpace page, Davey’s newly launched Facebook page, and of course the official Crimea website. Now be gone, and leave this place to dangle from a streetlight on an autumn afternoon. And who knows, you loved em once, maybe they’ll stun you enough to empty your cash kitty and fund Davey’s next song on the back of an envelope.
Wow. Talk about a surprise. Davey and Owen are updating the Crocketts MySpace page.
Videos are on the way, oh yes. A band history written by Davey and Owen is also on the way, oh yes. Let’s hope Owen types that out because Davey’s keyboarding efforts…erm…well, sometimes they require a decoder ring to crack.Live versions of Bluster Boy, Frog on a Stick and Ring of Fire are already available on the Player, along with the infamous Will You Still Care and 1939 Returning. All charming offerings sure to delight one and all.
And everyone start planning your trip to Valhalla in 2010. Ooo got you excited now, didn’t I?
Christopher - You know what this means Hol don’t ya? Some bastard had a whole live show recording they never told me about! Humph. Well this post should be resigned to the Crocketts site ( inaudible.co.uk/crocketts ) but as Hol don’t know what she’s doing and no one visits the place anymore… It’ll stay here til you all know where to go for crox news :o)
Crocketts fans. There are good things acoming. Very, very good things. Hopefully. If you value your crocketty fandom one bit, then keep checking this site throughout the coming months. You DO NOT want to miss this news. Can’t say owt more, I’ll get bollocksed for this much…
If you spot any errors or suchlike in the website, esp. the blog, then please leave a comment (hopefully they work again) and lemme know. Moving hosting provides is sooo much fun 
. But hopefully ’tis finished now, so on with the news…
Update: Hit more for a current buglist, they’ll be fixed asap.
Sorry for the prolonged absense. New menu bar? Meh… Here’s some new music out and about that you must rush down to your local almost-in-administration record store and pick up for a discount price. Like two copies of Nintendo Fallacy for £2 each 
The new 7″ vinyl only single from Midasuno, “Don’t Drive Faster Than Your Angel Can Fly”, is out now and available from HMV in a limited edition signed version. Someone cocked up though and it DOES NOT feature The Crimea’s very own Davey MacManus as planned. I’m assured he will be making an appearance on the soon to be released Songs In The Key Of Fuck album.
This next one is the greatest record I’ve heard in a couple years. My Disguise is a mini album released by Welsh indie band Halflight. Yes they did feature Owen Hopkin on their first release. What… you wanna hear it? Oh hear you go then: Halflight - Where The Pins Drop. Bear in mind that the new album blows it to hell. If “When We Danced” is not the greatest song I hear all year I’ve been playing far too much Ash.
Aberystwyth favourites The Hot Puppies have plenty of new stuff out, including a collection of old singles and a brand new one too. A browse around their site should tell you more than I can.
Here’s a vid of stuff by my second favourite Austrailian artist Lecia. I’m told the drummer only learnt the songs the night before and apparently the stuff sucks. I’d hate to think what that says about my musical taste cos only Julz is better than this. New album out soon too. Maybe I should just go back to the Club and Tim Wheeler.
Ahh I knew there was something I were missing… Crimea chums, gig support, and the only band I’ve ever seen get a 0 / 10 review (and that takes bloody effort, they’re no Hadouken but give em a break eh?), Swound! have just released their new single Disco Siberia. No sign of Crimea favourite If A Shark Stops Swimming but there’s plenty more to listen to on MySpace. And they have better t-shirts than you.
Now please excuse me while I switch hosting / servers. No updates / comments while we move please…
Please excuse the look and on rare ocasions functionality of the site over the next month. I’m updating the graphics as you may have noticed and trying to reposition everything correctly. Then I’ll be changing the menu bar from a frame layout to single page layout, and finally moving the site’s hosting provider. So err… if anything breaks, I’m probably fixing it while you browse, but if anything is majorly messed up for more than a couple days then do let me know at the usual address.
Update: Yes, this means ignore the temporary dual menu bar going on at the moment
He may have lost his L’Oreal locks and gone for an all together more scruffier cut lately, but Crimea drummer Owen Hopkin is still allowed out the house to hang with the best of Britain’s percussion talent on behalf of Drummer magazine. In this month’s mag he’s contributed multi-page interviews with a number of proffesional drummers including Funeral For A Friend’s Ryan Richards. I say you go out and buy a copy if only for the fact that it’s run by one hell of a nice bunch of guys who sent me a load of back issues when The Crimea were featured in the mag a couple years ago.
Old crocketts.net webmaster Holly has just send me a load of old Crocketts tour photos that her husband and former Crocketts guitar tech Will took while the band were supporting the Stereophonics in France. You can find em all along with amusing comments by Hol on the Webshots Crocketts album at community.webshots.com/user/the_crocketts. I would have used /thecrocketts but someone’s already taken that. If it was you… can I have it please? I’ll give you crox stickers and… stuff…
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