Davey talks alot (more that usual) about The Crocketts in an interview with I Like Music, and also his favourite place on earth - a huge fuckoff massive rainbow coloured dragon rode by green jelly babies. I think.
Owen talks more about The Crimea and their US tour with New Noise.
The inevitable Tragedy Rocks reviews come in via Manchester Music giving it a rare less than favourable mention.
And looky at this - Virgin give it the opposite, a great review. Not sure where the 3/5 fits in then, but being the company who droped the band’s previous incarnation I’d say maybe it’s a slight touch of sour grapes. Mehehe.
Another great review, but this one of a gig. Manchester Online witnessed crowd interaction and amp ascending. I’ve gotta get to a gig sometime.
Another gig review comes via BBC Liverpool who showed up at the Liverpool Academy to be enchanted by babbles and bubbles.
Here’s a mention of the band from the Telegraph, apparently they’re on a par with the Artic “look at us at number one with no help” Monkeys.
I’ve added a few blog links in the past, some nonsense, some totally foreign, but this one’s a little different. Radio Wales presenter Adam Walton mentions them in his, but he’s kinda miffed with Warners for not sending him a copy of the album yet. So get to it someone. Speaking of AW, I just noticed a playlist from last year on his Radio Wales site. Look down the page and you’ll see what looks like him playing half the album in a row. I swear I don’t remember seeing it before, and I’m sure it wasn’t a session, so *yay* for mr Walton.
Oh oh, photos from Cardiff from mr Jon. More coming soon but christ, give me a break for a while, I’ve just spent four hours scanning magazine articles in. And the gigs page is updated for the guy who wasn’t sure whether the next Cardiff gig is on or not. It is. ?8 on the door I do belive.
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Tragedy Rocks review at King Of Quiet, it’s one for everyone who bought the last version. Hit More to read it.
Thankyou very much mr James Ellaby, editor of Manchester Entertainment Online who pointed me towards their review of The Crimea’s gig at The Roadhouse a few days ago.
Over on Livejournal, Turkeyphant has posted his review of the Cambridge Portland Arms gig with a few pics, the last of which is a rather interesting set list. You can post your best ideas for what the “X, A, E2″ stuff is by hitting More.
And for some photos, check out Flickr or more specifically, barney britton’s shots from the Newcastle show and judyboo and Colonel Fabian’s of the Harlow Square gig. The latter of whom just happens to be and ex-member of Crocketts fans El Spoonio who’s now in The Shadow Project. If they’re as good as El Spoonio then they’re most deffinately excellent.
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Well, lucky viewers of S4C’s Bandit music show last night will have seen Owen give a one minute interview about the band’s new album, and a few seconds of film from the Cardiff show a few days ago. Crowd surfers ahoy. Cheers to Phil on the message board for filling us all in. And damn my video again for putting white lines all over the recording. The sooner I get a TV card in my PC the better.
Anyway, not all’s lost, Decoy Music have two new Crimea home movies to view. Titled The Making Of Tragedy Rocks they feature Andy N’s attemts at singing, Joe’s attemts at making a Chilli Peppers video and many more amusing events. I tried to rip them but alas, rip they would not, so you’re stuck with the stream for now…
Talk about tabloid interest, The Crimea are in The Sun again, although this time it’s the online version featuring a large article on the band. Cheers Emma for the heads up.
Here’s something for all you Japanese fans from the Same Shit Different Day blog. I know how they feel, if not what they’re saying.
And for the ones of you who entered the album comp, we’ve not forgotten about you, just waiting on one of the judges to get back from a wee trip he’s on and give his verdict :o)
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Sorry for the small break in transmission, it was much needed. I’ll start with some stuff from the band’s official website www.thecrimea.net: Free guestlist places for the UK tour shows are available, drop the band a line via their MySpace profile if you want one. The comp for signed album copies is over, check the site for the winner’s details. And the band have been added as headliners for Boobytrap Records’ 5th birthday party at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff on November 13th. The gigs page on this site should have more details soon.
Now, some real news. The Crimea’s drummer Owen Hopkin features in an interview and his own tour diary article in this month’s issue of Drummer Magazine. It’s available for ?3.20 if you can find it in a store, or for ?4.00 via their website. My copy’s currently in the post :o).
The Crimea’s album Tragedy Rocks has also been reviewed in the December issue of Q Magazine, out now for ?3.80. Why these things are out a month early and sell out before the named month arrives is beyond me, but don’t wait ’til December to get it.
Speaking of magazines, I feel the need to mention the State Of Mind magazine again. If you live in the States, the October issue available from their website for $4.00 features a huge four page interview with Davey and Andy from the band, going into great detail about various song lyrics and the band’s last US tour. It’s a great read, and for anyone outside the states, I should have something online soon ;o).
Another interview with Davey MacManus can be found on the Clickmusic website, though there’s not much new from previous ones but you can hit More to read it if you so wish.
“The Crimea have produced a surprisingly delightful album”. Words from The Beat Surrender’s review of the album, ending with a 7/10 rating.
Also reviewing the thing are BBC Northampton; “I?m still only days into being enlightened to this band but already I love them”.
The Cardiff Barfly show on October 28th has a preview on the icWales site and there’s also photos from the show on the Xplosure site. Props to mr jon for getting his head right in the middle of it :o).
To the blogs, again, the Big Bad Bit blog mentions them and the White Russian Galaxy song, while an old friend of Owen’s is suffering Hopkin withdrawals on the Pidster blog. Personally I’m happy people have stopped writing me for a week, I was about to die with all those reviews to post :oP.
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