Think Cow Punk. Now take away the punk. Whatcha got? A cow? well, yes, but… erm… folk singing cows.
I found out recently that Davey’s brother is a traditional Irish musician and this morning what do I find in my inbox but an MP3 by one Rod MacManus and a little note saying I could put it up for download. So here it is - Cealtra An Tra by Davey’s brother Rod. Have a listen and see what you think. Add comments on the message board or wherever.
Currently up for sale on eBay are a signed promo photos of The Crocketts and a set of playing cards with a We May Be Skinny & Wirey style cover design. Click the images below to go straight to the bid page for each item. On a personal note: I want them. So please don’t bid. Please?
Right army, this one’s straight from the top. Davey’s been in touch to suggest you all check out an author called JT Leroy, cos he quite likes him. If his books are anything like Davey’s then be prepared for some weird shit.
About that whole “working on the site” thing… XHTML sucks. and DIVs suck. But as soon as I figure them both out I can get a proper news page up, but you might’ve noticed that there’s a few other new pages up already like the shop and downloads ones.
Yes I am working on the site. Should turn up sometime soon, though I do remember saying that about a year ago… Blame XHTML. And I’ve got a load of new old Crocketts mag articles to put up, but Uni scanners are the shit so lawd knows when they’ll appear. For now I’ve resigned to listening to the On Something single. That and posting on the message board, as old forum regular Lucifer has returned and already produced the longest thread there. So where the hell are the rest of you?
Umm… was there a point to me starting a new paragraph? Unlikely…
Mclusky Split! A sad day for some of us, more over at Mclusky.net.
In happier news, if you read the crimea site, you’ll be pleased to know I got everything backed up. Infact, the whole hard drive seems to be working fine again now. It only cost me £100 to find that out :o\
Having been nominated for the Pop Factory Award’s Best New Act award (which The Crimea won last year), Halflight are playing a gig at the Pop Factory in Wales on December 3rd to launch the event. They’re currently giving away tickets to the gig on their website www.halflight.info but first you’ll have to answer a very Crocketts related question about Owen Hopkin. And for any Halflight fans visiting this site, here’s a few more pics of their gig at The Bay in Aberystwyth a short while ago.
Peel tribute night on Radio 1, Thursday 16th December, more details @ drownedinsound.com.
Look look, massive Mac. Hehehe… She’s just recorded vocals for The Crimea’s ‘Lottery Winners On Acid’, ‘Opposite Ends’ and ‘Someone’s Crying’, or so says a man who just e-mailed me from a studio in the US. You’d never believe me if I actually told you who ;o)
Hahaha… Junior Eurovision… Hahahahahahahaha….
Gone but not forgotten. RIP Davey’s Non-Tooth.
So he’s only on the first track “Where The Pins Drop” but it’s good all the same :o) and I want a new camera cos mine keeps breaking everything. or at least, it does when its battery works and it can be bothered to take the pic. then again, half the time it still doesn’t bother…
CDs you should listen to if you haven’t already…
El Toppo by the Llama Farmers, a lovely autumny album, listen and watch the leaves fall down.
The It Girl by Sleeper, unless it’s just me who’s stuck thinking “what do I do now?”…
That’s all, it’s not like I have a wide ranging taste in music or anything. Why not try the NME for that? hahahaha mmmm :o\
It’s all about Hip-Hopkin today. Ex-Crocketts/current Crimea drummer Owen is suddenly all over the web. So aswell as revealing that his favourite colour is purple (?!?), here’s what else he’s been up to lately…
Halflight. Yeah I know I mentioned this last time, but now I found the article :o) “The ’special guest’ drummer (from Welsh band The Crimea) in Owen Hopkin keeping the beat perfectly.” Check it.
Maybe this could be why they got that support slot? Unless he really does like “POP” that much. Not that I’m sugesting anything, like…
And he’s been writing some mag articles again, this time for Drummer magazine, with a couple of his interviews apearing in the June (”Owen Hopkin sits down with Primal Scream’s beat controller”) and July (”Black Eyed Peas’ Keith Harris sets Owen Hopkin’s pants on fire with his burning beats”) 2004 issues.
Happy and sad news for you today…
Happy: God damn my memory I forgot already… so I’ll get on with the sad for a sec…
Sad news: Wait wait… I just used my brain and the sad news is no longer aplicable… so neither any happy or sad news today then… fooking ‘eck…
Well one thing you can’t miss, that twat bush & dick have managed to convince most of America they’re the good guys again. Sadly the rest of the planet knows differently.
Oh oh I remembered the happy news… Halflight’s Susbside EP has been reviewed… somewhere… and I’ve been to soo many sites today I’ll never find the page in the history… it did say something good about Owen, i promise…. but they’re playing Aber on the 12th :o) like it matters to anyone as no one but me lives here anymore. Maybe I should just go do something useful instead of writing crap here :o\ Hopefully the next update I’ll have remembered something :o( Hands up all who think I should just piss off down to the refectory for some rubarb crumble *sticks hands in air* woo. cept it’s closed in 8.. no.. 7 minutes. Fookit…
2 minutes… :o\
