I’ve just changed the stylesheet around a bit, dunno if it’s better like this or not, so lemme know…
Good thing *yay*: verdana font - easier to read and it’s smaller vertically so i can fit more stuff on a page (especially good with horizontal frames), it’s easier to read cos it’s not so bright…
Bad thigs *boo*: verdana font is wider so it’s made the lyrics menu page mess up a bit, and the site looks like it’s been put through the wash a few too many times compared to the crimea one…
*Yay* i guess this is the one most poeople come for so here it is - the all new & improved, toatlly Firefox compatible LYRICS PAGE *g*.
FINALLY someone other than myself can be bothered to make a Crimea site :oD www.bandbuilder.com/thecrimea and yes, the tracklisting is very much similar to the Klutzville EP. Infact, it all but is the Klutzville EP, cept with the re-recorded versions of stuff and I can’t quite remember which those are but I think it’s only LWOA… so basically an EP of the last crox/klutz stuff without all the new crimea stuff inbetween :oD :oD they say you can buy it online too. I wouldn’t, but for anywhere from £8 to £13 for imports :o\… oh and they copied my crimea logo too :oP well, the red/white bit…
Hi again, quick public service announcement this…
If you’re the former webmaster of http://crocketts.webjump.com who goes under the name of J, please get in contact with me cos you have cool live recording of the crox and i want them. Thankyou.
Sader news: I dunno who it was who first pointed me in the direction of this band, but i’m sure it was someone crox related. Easyworld have just announced on their website that they’ve split up. They played the recent V Festival just after The Crimea on the same stage, and their fans were even nice enough to post their approval of the Crimea on the easyworld messageboard. Are there any decent bands left?
Good evening dear children.
Exactly this time two years ago i was at a crimea gig :o) woo…. anyways… you may have noted a strange new bannery thing northwards ^. well don’t get too excited cos none of the links work, but in time strange and wondorous new things will start appearing on the site. before it does though, i want you to all go and dig through your old collections of kerrang and melody maker mags and look for old crox stuff. scan it in, send it here, the last guy who did provided me with half of the press clipping page. thanks jonny. and i’m gonna try do a kind of little gigography so if you know the date and place of a gig, lemme know too.
Another band you may read about in those old mags, the ole Llama Farmers, no longer exist. Boo. Whatever. www.churchofvizzini.com <– Bernie’s new band ;o) (fyi he was the lead singer of the llamas yes yes he was. probably.)
mehehehe i have sooooo much cool stuff to put on this site. if it ever gets done. booo :o(
crimea should def. be playing at the cmj thing in new york. julz is gooonnnee… again… country hoping or something but i have some of her cds to give away too *g* if you want me to take a pic of somewhere in aber for you i will cos it’s not like i’m gonna have much better to do there. cept uni work. like that matters. and until dacey’s house falls down again that’s about all the interesting stuff i have to say.
Well today I just got the urge to share with you a little email someone once forwarded to me. And Jane, if you ever read this… weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
From: crocketts
Date: 04 March 2001 18:46
Subject: Dentists Nghtmare
Allo Jane
The mystrey of Davey’s missing tooth? Well that’s what it is, no-one really knows and nothing can prise the info from the defendant. There have been many theories, some with more creedance than others….
1.) Some have suggested that Davey very kindly, donated it to under priviliged kids.
2.) Years of constant mic slamming eroded it away.
3.) It just upped and left one day, taking it’s pet Mole(r) with it.
4.) Genetic tests revealed it too have been formed from a different type of enamel, and so the Govt stole it and are conducting hush, hush experiments on it.
5.) Davey was a bit strapped for cash one day and so he made a deal with the tooth fairy.
6.) Davey was supposed to visit the Orthodontist, but got a bit pissed and ended up at the Awful Dentist instead.
I hope these ideas have enlightened you somewhat, perhaps you could mail me some of the other possible explainations, it would help my work greatly, and who knows perhaps this enigma will one day be resolved.
Have a goodun.
Ricardo Wurzerello
Needless to say, there won’t be too many emails like that being sent anymore.
Davey MacManus has been lifted to the hights of international stardom, hanging out with the likes of Jack White and co, or at least in a sentance of this article he has. In a review of My Red Cell’s new album by Crud Music Magazine, they say of MRC’s lead singer: “He has a brimming, psychotic delivery that is impossible to ignore, reminiscent of a speeding Jack White smothered by Davey MacManus of past Welsh cult heroes The Crocketts in some rowdy bar after closing”.
I might stick the new crox site up sometime soon. It’ll only be the stuff I’ve finished, around 50%, but it’s better than nothing.
Oooh it hurts. Here’s a couple of reviews you won’t be seeing on The Crimea site. Both of the Ambient Picnic festival on the 1st of this month, and both for Underdogzine.co.uk.
AMBIENT PICNIC - BY JON
In 2004, you’d think we would have moved on a bit from the shoegazing FX-rock of the early nineties, but it’s obvious that headliners The Crimea still hold their Ride records close to their hearts. If you think of X Is Loaded, but without any of the tunes that make that band vaguely tolerable, then you still won’t manage to plumb the depths of dullness that The Crimea do – and with appalling lines like “we’ll walk through the streets like lottery winners on acid” they don’t help themselves either. It was at this point I decided to head off to the Dance Tent – that’s just how bad they were…
AMBIENT PICNIC - BY GARETH
From bad to worse as The Crimea take the main stage, some crappy Indie band that nobody had heard of and indeed few people stayed to see. The shocking thing was these guys were the headliners… but how??? Nobody had heard of them. Still at least I am justified in bitching about the Ambient Picnic when they put on this level of a show for a headliner.
Enough. Andy Norton’s currently on the road with Charlotte Hatherley from Ash as rythm guitarist and backing vocalist for any current radio sessions she’s doing. I’m currently trying to find out details of future sessions, but here’s a couple of acoustic MP3s he did a couple weeks ago. They’re the last two, titled “Acoustic (Low Quality)”, and were recorded for a Virgin radio session.
And the girl Andy replaced, Julz Parker is playing her final UK gig this year with Project Winerhaven at the Late Bar on Kilburn High Road, Thursday August 26th. Please go, she’s good and stuff.
The new Halflight E.P, entitled Subside, is out now and I do believe our very own Owen Hopkin provides drums for some of the tracks. You can read reviews and purchase a copy over at their website, www.halflight.info.
” Ih-bee-thar “. And with that word you know it’s deffinately a MacManus who’s taken over Radio 1’s Thursday evenings. Listen again and view her full Radio 1 webpage here. This week Annie’ll be in ground-zero itself presenting a live show from the island’s Cafe Mambo as part of Radio 1’s Ibiza weekend. And before you ask, I have put in a request to her to play some Crocketts stuff, but so far heard nothing back. Maybe it was the whole “Nuke Ibiza” thing. Whatever…
Julz / Project Winterhaven are playing the Mau Mau on Portobello road on Aug 8th. They’ll be on around 7 but doors open at 3 for some singy-types to do their stuff. Apparently they’re alright.
There’s something else but I forget. Maybe it’ll come back… … maybe not…
Aliright kids. I think I’m about to get sacked from a job I never had. At least it’s something for the resume. So incase you don’t see me round here too much anymore (North Korea really don’t look that bad) I better remind you about the ANNIE MAC SHOW, tonight at 9pm. While you’re waiting for that to start, click this, skip to 1hr 10mins and hang around a bit to hear Regina Spektor’s “Your Honor”. It’s kinda cool.
PS. I knew bloody craig should’ve kept his site going :o\
The Annie Mac Show, next Thursday from 9pm on Radio 1. You best all be listening :o)
More TV play for the crox’s last single, some guy just posted this on the crimea forum:
“1939 returning” sampled on RTE TV!
Was watching TV last night here in Eire, and there was an ad on for some program, and (quietly) in the background, the sample playing was the opening strains of 1939 returning! Wow!
Who’d a thunk it! Daveys very own home-station sampling his stuff!!!
Madness alltogether…
Halflight, who Owen played drums on some studio recordings for, have just won themselves.. well.. something to do with Wales’ Pop Factory show, and have got themselves nominated for the Best New Talent category in the Pop Factory Music Awards 2004, the same category The Crimea won last year. Check out their website at www.halflight.info.
