Billboard, the US music charts company, have LWOA listed on the new releases list on their website. Strangely they have two entries for the EP, suggesting it’ll be released in two formats (probably CD/Vinyl or CD/DVD).
3WK Undergroundradio have playlisted ‘Lottery Winners…’ and ‘Baby Boom’ from the EP, view their site and listen online at www.3wk.com.
The Crimea will be performing in New York City’s Museum of TV & Radio on October 15th, recording a special show for US radio station KCRW as part of their CMJ Music Marathon coverage. If you’re in the area, the museum does let visitors in to watch radio broadcasts, though best to check with them first. Regardless, they’ll be broadcasting the band’s set live on their Morning Becomes Eclectic show at around 11.15am (4.15pm GMT) and you’ll be able to listen online to the show, and possibly to an archived recording of The Crimea’s performance from the MBE homepage.
Back home, photographer John Bown has just stuck on his official website some pics he took of The Crimea performing at The Gallery in London on July 29th.
And for the Welsh readers, here’s a BBC Wales webpage with something about “y (the) Crimea” on it, though with online translators not catering much for Cymraeg I couldn’t tell you whether it’s more about the region, the venue or the band. EDIT: Go figure, it’s about the mountain. Never mind about that link then…

Found the first of probably many LWOA EP review online, click here or More to see what KEXP FM had to say about it.
The Crimea will be supporting Jimmy Eat World on their two English tour dates later this month, though unfortunately both are already sold out.
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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…

The Lottery Winners On Acid EP will be released in America on October 5th and to promote the launch, Warner’s have stuck each track featured on the EP onto a special LWOA mini-site. You can launch the site from the splash page at www.bandbuilder.com/thecrimea, but there’s numerous links to it on this site, and unless you’ve installed Windows XP SP2 it should pop up from the home page. If it doesn’t work, you’ll probably need to install the Macromedia Flash plug-in.
Contained on the EP are five of the best tracks from The Crimea’s debut album Tragedy Rocks - White Russian Galaxy, Lottery Winners On Acid, Baby Boom, Bombay Sapphire Coma and Opposite Ends. You can purchase the EP from various online retailers including Amazon.com and TowerRecords.com, aswell as purchasing digital copies of the EP from Warner endorsed online digital music stores.

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.)

Not much going on lately other than a few new pics of the band at V 2004 on the E Festivals site.
And Lottery Winners On Acid still looks like it’s coming out Stateside on October 5th, possibly on the Double Dragon lable with Warners distributing. Means nothing to me but it’s gotta make sense to someone.

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.

According to Amazon.com, Lottery Winners On Acid will be released in America on October 5th by Warner Brothers. They list the price as $7.98 but there’s no other details as yet. I’ll keep you updated…
Meanwhile, US websites Tower Records and CD Baby both have the Tragedy Rocks album back in stock, so go grab a copy before they sell out again.
And if you’re in two minds about wether to get one, here’s a review of the album by Alternative Malta (halfway down the page). “Come on, I know you?ll like it!” Click More for the rest.
EFestivals have some pics from the Ambient Picnic festival. If you have friends, you can also send them as e-cards.
A V Festival punter has reviewed every one of the bands who played the Music Choice stage on Sunday 26th August. You can view the whole thing here or click More to read the paragraph on The Crimea.
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Andy Norton, Crimea lead guitarist, was on BBC 6 Music this morning playing with Charlotte Hatherley. Andy’s mentioned before the first acoustic track, Summer, then at the end of the interview (when The Crimea are also mentioned), and plays guitar and provides backing vocals for both the first and second acoustic track, Bastardo. Downloads are just underneathe…

Summer (4 MB) -=- Interview (3 MB) -=- Bastardo (4.5 MB)

Crimea lead guitarist Andy Norton is currenly helping out Charlotte Hatherley (lead Ash guitarist gone solo) during some radio sessions. They’ve already done a few things together but will next be in session for Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music, Tuesday 24th August between 10am and 1pm. You can read a bit more about Andy’s moonlighting on the Unofficial Crocketts site.
IC Wales have an article on their websiteabout FF Vinyl’s North South Divine compilation featuring The Crimea’s White Russian Galaxy. You can view the whole article here or click More for the small Crimea bio they produced.
Virgin Radio will air coverage of V Festival over the weekend, so you may just hear The Crimea if you tune in. Here’s their V 2004 homepage.
Music Choice, sponsors of the stage The Crimea will play on at V 2004, have a small page/bio on the band here.
More Virgin stuff, their ‘…Louder’ site has a review of The Crimea on. I’ve seen it elsewhere but not this green looking.
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You’ve only got a week left to get your entry in for the Kerrang! Awards 2004. You can enter here, you just need to provide your details and then add whatever band you want (like The Crimea) to the best newcomer/band/album etc sections. The awards take place on Thursday August 26 and will be telivised shortly afterwards.

Free show!!!/Compy winners/V fest and Charlotte’s bum (notes) - The Crimea
And the winner is…. Yup, you guesed it. Olli “Lucky Expletive” Macca. But wait, there’s more than one prize…
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The Crimea are playing a V Festival warm-up gig at Camden Barfly tomorrow, Thursday 19th. If you’d like to be put on the guest list then please email owen.hopkin@virgin.net. Sorry for the short notice. V Festival 2004 takes place this weekend and as Channel 4/E4 are screening highlights you can tune in if you didn’t get tickets. Extra gig details are on the gig info page.