I wasn’t kidding when I mentioned a few posts back that a brilliant summer campaign was about to get underway. Check out The Crimea’s MySpace page for a list of new shows slated for the summer, including four dates in New York and one in Boston.
Archive for 2008
You can win tickets for the Enterprise show tonight (14 May) from Xfm…that’s all Davey said…you’re all on your own, best of luck…I’m sodding jealous of you if you get to go…
But this link may (or may not) be helpful.
Thanks be to Andy for passing along this link to the Crimea Xfm’s Radio session in April. Unfortunately they don’t have the session in its entirety, but you can listen to them perform Lottery Winners on Acid, Loop a Loop, and The Psychologist (a/k/a I know how to make you laugh).
Ok, it’s obvious a fair few of you are a bit gutted that you didn’t find out about Friday’s last minute gig until it was too late. Well Davey sent over a recap of the night –
Joe performed as Jose Blase
He played 2 of his own songs:
-half left (the last time I played this was in leicester at the charlotte and someone filmed it - see youtube)
-somewhere to live
and 1 cover:
-the bad touch by the bloodhound gang which went down pretty well and everyone sang along
davey played as davey macmanus
loop
the only living boy and girl
shredder
how to make you laugh
blue dog (ive stuck an old live version up on myspace/crocketts)
lottery
amazing night, great gig etc. good to be able to smoke in a pub.
Joe and Davey will be playing TONIGHT (as in Friday 09 May) at 71 Great Titchfield Street, London. (It’s a speakeasy kinda joint) Troubadour Joze Blaze will serenade you starting at 1:00am, Mr. Macmanus at 1:30am. OK, technically that’s Saturday morning. Bring your PJs, it’s an all nighter…
Wow. Talk about a surprise. Davey and Owen are updating the Crocketts MySpace page.
Videos are on the way, oh yes. A band history written by Davey and Owen is also on the way, oh yes. Let’s hope Owen types that out because Davey’s keyboarding efforts…erm…well, sometimes they require a decoder ring to crack.Live versions of Bluster Boy, Frog on a Stick and Ring of Fire are already available on the Player, along with the infamous Will You Still Care and 1939 Returning. All charming offerings sure to delight one and all.
And everyone start planning your trip to Valhalla in 2010. Ooo got you excited now, didn’t I?
Christopher - You know what this means Hol don’t ya? Some bastard had a whole live show recording they never told me about! Humph. Well this post should be resigned to the Crocketts site ( inaudible.co.uk/crocketts ) but as Hol don’t know what she’s doing and no one visits the place anymore… It’ll stay here til you all know where to go for crox news :o)
Get out your calendar and start requesting time off from work…new Crimea shows and events are being announced.
Davey will be doing - and I quote - “an acoustic type thing” on BBC Radio 1’s Rob da Bank & Friends show on 26 May. Sorry to all of you who live in the GMT zone because I just noticed that Davey’s time slot is somewhere between 2 am and 4 am. Meanwhile, those of us on this side of the Atlantic will be enjoying his acoustic handiwork at far more reasonable hour (9pm Eastern/ 8pm CST / 7pm Mtn / 6pm Pacific) Listen to it online here. This is part of Rob’s “Campfire Special” and will also include some live tunes by Adem, Johnny Flynn, Jose Vanders, and Noah (from Noah & the Whale).
Keeping on the acoustic note: Davey will be heading back to his old stomping grounds of Aberstwyth to perform at the ‘castle rock‘ on the seaside. This is a free show…what an incredible setting…if no one gets photos or audio of this event then there will be trouble. Hear me? Trouble! Show starts at 8pm.
Summer festivals are just around the corner - The Crimea will be performing a full band set on 27 July at The Square Festival in Borth. (I believe Borth is slightly north of Aberstwyth.) If rumors be true, you get a discount to something called an Animalarium when you buy festival tickets. Let your imagination run wild with trying to figure out exactly what an Animalarium is. It sounds like an evil zoo [ED: surprisingly accurate description]…like lions and birds and kangaroos are held in a giant tank together to let Darwin and the food chain work their magic. Sounds like a lovely day out! Take your kids!
Reminder reminder reminder - Enterprise residency shows continue..tix are only £6, come on, what can you get for that pittance these days? Mark your calendars if you haven’t already done so - remaining dates are 14 May, 28 May, 09 Jun…all shows start at 8pm. Buy your tickets at thecrimea.net. And for more info on all future shows and festival appearances just check out the gigs page above (yes, it works again) or the Last.fm events page from which the listings are taken.
Lastly - quick thank you to Christopher for letting me guest blog at this site. If you haven’t checked out the Archives section of this website then you should reserve an evening and treat yourself. I did such a thing last Friday evening and it made for a crackin’ bit of reading as I enjoyed several glasses of rum & diet coke.. Christopher, hopefully this post came out better than the last one, but the paragraph formating codes are not playing nice so I apologize if you need to come in and tidy up again.
If things have seemed all too quiet on the front lines of The Crimea, rest assured the cannons are being prepped to fire, dragoons are being assembled…get ready for a brilliant summer campaign.
First up - an article from The Guardian detailing the changes occurring in the music industry and innovative approaches artists are taking to promote themselves. Davey’s bit is in the middle… but I know you’re going to read the entire article, right? sure you are.
Next is… oh dear…sorry. *sigh* I just can’t get past the photo. Will someone please make sure Davey has ready access to a razor and shaving foam on a semi-regular basis? Joe…? Talking to you. Let’s keep this sort of thing a “one-off”: This Is London’s 12 Bar gig review.
Lastly… a scanned copy of The Camden New Journal, hot off the press today…and technically it is still Thusday over here in the CST. Davey is front page news in lovely drenched splendor from the 48A Waiting Steps video. Don’t miss the great side bar in which the journalist encourages you to miss the birth of your first child to see a Crimea show. Ok, maybe she doesn’t say that exactly. But you could certainly get away with missing the birth of your second child…um, unless you are the mother, of course.
Ok that only leaves one thing. Must figure out how to upload said scan to this thing. CHRISTOPHER!! How do you upload stuff to this thing!!?? It’s not letting me upload!
Oh never mind…here’s a link to the scanned glory - And here’s a link to the web page of the Camden New Journal.
Crimea show tonight and new single in the wings…
More residency news; may the force be with them! …wait… wrong star show…
The Crimea - Enterprise gigs, new songs and loop competition?
Vids, gigs, remixes and DJs. The Mac is back; both of em!
Didn’t think we’d get left out did you? Oh no, arriving in my inbox last night was this little beauty:
The Crimea - Loop A Loop (Num’s Dark Disco Remix)
Think Crimea vs Gnarls Barkley, and it’s available free and exclusively to immortalsoon readers forever more. Now I must go update the original Loop release post as a couple more remixes have materialized overnight.
Well there’s another suprise - apparently there’s three two B-sides for the single out there, each available exclusively on a single blog. I’ve only found one so far, but I’ll also update this as more are discovered…
Faronheit feature Stoned, a history on the band and more indepth music reviews. EDIT: OMFreakinG it’s actually Down On The Farm, one of the greatest Crimea tunes ever! And it’s not changed one bit from the original demo. God bless the man with the sense to do that.
Nothing But Green Lights have the second one; Can’t Forget You Girl features a very familiar melody…
For the first time in i-dunno-how-many years, The Crimea have a new and unique single release! Unique in more ways that one, as it’s not your normal trip-to-HMV gig; the band are continuing their trend setting release tactics by making the single available not only for free but from a multitude of various sources in a number of different guises.
I’m not sure of the exact count - some say 16, others 12, I’m guessing around 10 - but a number of different remixes of the single will be available exclusively from various blogs around t’net this week. The official website www.thecrimea.net has the full lowdown, though you may have to wait a little for them all to appear (mine’s still on the way ;o), but here’s a few to get you started:
The original radio edit is available at on the Trident Gum website and is also featured as the soundtrack to their new advert, as seen on TV right now or also their website.
Indie MP3 feature a Ricardo Autobahn Vocal Remix and various indie pop music reviews.
Get Weird feature the funky Rex Kwondo Remix and a wonderful day-glow skin.
Hits In The Car have the “laid back” The Brute Chorus Remix and other music news.
Galaxy FM feature the Black Litter Baby remix and some, err, european stylings.
Instrumental Analysis feature the reggae Rood-ID Dub A Loop Remix and plenty of other band profiles.
Akira The Don’s Akira The Don remix is available on Akira The Don’s blog and his All Star Akira The Don 15 mixtape which can be purchased for about £5 via the Akira The Don MySpace page. I’ll stop saying Akira The Don now.
Badminton Stamps have the Beatcave Remix and plenty of Philly attitude.
Just a quick note to mention an upcoming London gig — details can be found on the official site.
It is I… ah who cares. Sorry I’ve been away so long; too busy hacking Xboxes, wireless hotspots & scart cables, playing video games, taking apart PCs and promptly putting them back together again (just like oversized novelty eggs), and trying to figure out the many technicalities of the UK’s video broadcasting and playback systems. Anyway, you don’t care about that do you? Crimea!
Well keep your eyes glued to the adverts for once and look out for a certain Trident Gum advert. Damn fools gone loop a loop… for the nation… erm…
And check out thecrimea.net starting tomorrow (well, technically, today) for more freebies. Damn world gone loop loop a loop a loo… And I do promise to fix up the site soon…netime. My mind just wanders…
