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Updated: 22/11/05
Behind the scenes with Davey and Owen of The Crimea
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Peel called The Crimea's Lottery Winners On Acid 'one of the best songs I've heard in years' and we agree. OneMusic caught up with The Crimea when recording their session for Huw. Joining singer Davey MacManus and Owen Hopkins on drums, The Crimea's line-up now includes Andrew Norton on keyboards, Andrew Stafford on guitar and Joseph Udwin on bass.
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"I was cleaning the streets outside Radio 1 with a balaclava on and Owen was working as a dinner lady!" |
Give us a brief history of The Crimea then.
Davey: 'Myself and Owen were in a punk band which broke up in 2004 and we were both left in horrible jobs, I was cleaning the streets outside Radio 1 with a balaclava on and Owen was working as a dinner lady! We got sick of working, so we invented a new style of music, we spent a long time finding a band, signed to Warner Brothers and we came back three and half weeks ago to begin our campaign in the UK.'
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Owen: 'Getting the line-up to where it stands now, settled about a year ago. We've got Joe from Zimbabwe, Andy from Wales, our keyboard player Andy is from England, and Davey who's Irish. We like to think of ourselves as an international band.'
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