Sitting on the dock of the (Cardiff) bay
Info on the band’s gig in Cardiff, broadcast live on Radio Wales this Sunday. Click [More] to read.
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This Sunday The Crimea play a free gig at Cardiff’s MS1 Club. Details on the gig can be found on the gigs page, but that’s not all. The gig will be broadcast live on Adam Walton’s BBC Radio Wales show between 10pm and 12pm on Sunday. You can listen to the station throughout Wales on 93-96 & 104 FM, online and on digital radio and digital TV.
If you’re going to be in Cardiff for the day, you can also visit the Radio Wales Big Buzz festival between 2pm and 10.30pm. The line up includes top bands such as Blazin’ Squad, the Fast Food Rockers and Aberystwyth’s very own Hot Puppies. Maybe just check out the last one then. Oh and it’s also being broadcast live on Radio Wales from 6pm till 10pm.
Alternative music webzine SoundsXP has a review up of The Crimea’s support gig at London’s Electric Ballroom with the Kings Of Leon. Click here to read the whole review or click on [More] to read the Crimea related bit.
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Looky a nice new looking news page :o) well, almost new. Anyway this is a quick one, you might remember a year ago when Kernel Krok played The Limelight in Belfast, just before The Crocketts split up. Well, after finding pictures of the gig ages ago, I’ve now found a review and surprise surprise, they didn’t like them. This time it’s the BBC having ago at the “two brothers from The Crocketts”. Ok then…. the whole review is here, read the crox bit by clicking more.
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Another Mailout - The Crimea love The Kings
A quick one about some new support gigs for Kings Of Leon. Click [More] to read the latest.
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Compass Point Festival This is an update for anyone going to the Compass Point Festival on Friday. The Crimea will be headlining the Indie stage on Friday evening. If you can, try and see The Keys playing on the same stage and I’ve heard a rumour that Davey MacManus may be singing an old Crocketts song with Midasuno on the Rock stage.
Glastonbury Welcome back to those who went and no, the Crimea didn’t play but you may have noticed lead guitarist Julia Parker on the One World stage playing with her other band Project Winterhaven.
A review of the recent Travis gig, where The Crimea played support, is up on the Travis website @ www.travisonline.com.
The Crimea have been confirmed as support for the Kings Of Leon gigs at London’s Astoria and Electric Ballroom, though both are now sold out.
The March issue of the Medway & Maidstone Express had a review of The Crimea playing the 45 club in Ferbuary. You can download a copy through their website or click on [More] to read the article.
XFM has the recording of the band’s XFM session on their website. You can listen to Lottery Winners On Acid and Fred Flintstone but unfortunately they’re messed up the White Russian Galaxy one because it’s a totally different band.
Three photos of The Crimea at Brixton Windmill are up on this site. Reminds me of the old Enterprise gigs. Ahh, the memories… getting punched in the stomach by Davey, dodging low flying microphone stands, and no one knowing who I was :o) um… on with the updates..
Thecrimea.tk is back with a new look. The Crimea forum can now be accesed through links on the site or by clicking here.
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Mailing List - The Crimea Strike Back
A look back on the recent tour and a look forward to some future gigs. Click [More] for the update.
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Believe it or not it’s exactly a year to the day that I first saw The Crimea play :o) and almost exactly a year that inaudible.co.uk has existed :oD Thanks to anyone and everyone who’s visited the site in that time. Time for some press updates….
Big Chesse? magazine had some very intresting models in Issue 42 that was out in June. Pictures of Davey sporting some fetching Camden Market wares will be up on the site asap, and taken down a day later when I get complaints from the band ;o)
The June issue of The Fly also had an article about White Russian Galaxy in it, if you could find a copy.
Owen’s been interviewed about The Crimea, and it’s up on two different websites. The First is at 247 magazine here, with the full interview. The second is on what claims to be the national website of Wales, and you can find the article here. You can read 247’s version by clicing on [More].
Drowned In Sound has a review of The Crimea’s gig with Clarksville at Camden Barfly on 18/6/03. Click [More] to read the Crimea bit.
The BBC London website had a review of White Russian Galaxy on it a while ago. Click on [More] to read it.
XFM has a poor review of White Russian Galaxy on their site. Click on [More] or here to read it.
The Independent also had a review of White Russian Galaxy in it a while back. Look at the press clippings page to see it.
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Tickets may well have sold out already for the Sheffield gig tomorrow, but Owen has managed to get two pairs of spaces on the guestlist for anyone who wants to go. If you wanna go and take a mate, please email owen.hopkin@virgin.net before 10.30am on the 26th and he’ll get back to you to confirm the place if you were quick enough.
There would have been a bigger update today but they ever baffling wonder that is the Windows operating system let me down again, and you’ll have to wait a few more days. Never fear, Owen’s just sent a mail out to anyone on the mailing list with some band updates.
First up, they’re playing Sheffield Leadmill THIS THURSDAY and Birmingham Academy 2 THIS FRIDAY. They’re both support gigs for Kings Of Leon so get there early to see them play. More info can be found on the gigs page.
They’ve also confirmed that they’re playing the Beautiful Days festival in Devon in August, which The Levellers are headlining.
And if you’re interested in buying some Crocketts merchandise, the address for sending checks to has changed. The new address is now at the bottom of the shop page. If you sent anything recently to the previous address, contact Owen to check whether he received it or not.
The Crimea are on tour. Or they were, the last headlining gig of the White Russian Galaxy tour is tomorrow at Camden Barfly. Everyone who’s attended the previous gigs has loved ‘em so if you’re in London and like the Crimea, go and have a listen.
They’re also supporting top indie band Travis at their first gig in over a year in King George’s Hall, Blackburn, this Saturday.
White Russian Galaxy, released two weeks ago, peaked at number 20 in the independent record label charts on the week of release, but is no longer anywhere to be seen in any of the charts. If you wanna get it back into the top 100, you can buy a copy or two of the CD and vinyl at Double Dragon’s record store at www.recordstore.co.uk/doubledragon. Click [More] for a list of the indie charts for 8/6/03.
The single was single of the week a while ago on Cambridge Student Radio, which you can listen to at www.cur1350.co.uk
Honk magazine, hosts of the rather popular article on the Crocketts Amsterdam trip, have an interview with The Crimea about getting rid of The Crocketts from their lives. Hmm… maybe I should delete that stuff about the Amsterdam trip. Click [More] for a copy of the article but while it’s there, read the copy on Honk’s site here.
Drowned In Sound has an article on the tour up on thier site. All the news they have on the band can be found through their profile of them here.
Tina McClelland, long time photographer of the Crocketts and Crimea’s work, has some more photos of the band on her website. They’re all from the same photo shoot that provided the two lovely group images on the front of this website.
There’s a few more Crimea articles from various magazines that are or will soon be on the press clippings page.
And the Compass Point festival, where The Crimea are playing on July 4th, have the band mentioned on their website for the day’s lineup. They’re headlining the Indie stage though I’m not sure of timings. I suggest you check out The Hot Puppies and The Keys on the Indie stage and a little bird has told me that the Crockett fan in you may like to check out Midasuno on the Rock stage, more details on that later.
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There should be a bigger update coming soon but this one was just too good to wait. For all you crox fans who remember the trip to Amsterdam with The Crocketts, and for those of you who’ve forgotten, Honk magazine’s website has an article up about that time in Crocketts folk law when four idiots decided to get drunk, go sailing and play a gig, all at the same time. It’s a very interesting read, if only to find out about a little Harris family X rated video. Blimey. The article’s on the Honk site here, or click the [More] button if you love this place too much to leave.
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89!!! The Crimea’s debut single White Russian Galaxy has just entered the official UK singles chart at number 89. Yes kids, right now Davey’s at home on his calculator trying to figure out just exactly what it all means. He figures it’d be one hell of a lot of spliffs so it’s all good.
Although it might not seem that high, it’s the highest The Crimea have been so far, so the words 89, N, (-), WHITE RUSSIAN GALAXY, CRIMEA, DOUBLE DRAGON may just make you very happy.
