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Small Crew
Bill Cummings
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Small Crew
Bill Cummings
Download them now: SMALL CREW- BOXING DAY SMALL CREW- GETTING UP Who are Small Crew? Small Crew is Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards (formerly of bands like The Boyfriends, The Lucas Group and Vermont), although neither is necessarily on any given Small Crew Recording. Small Crew is whoever is in the room at the time when Small Crew music is being made. Small Crew can also be at the end of a phone line, in the post or on a computer, radio or television. If you aid, facilitate or enjoy Small Crew activities, you are Small Crew. Activity is currently limited to this planet but this is purely for technical reasons. Small Crew make any kind of music depending on what's in the room or who's on the phone. They like singing and dancing and they like to keep it dirty. Small Crew are not a collective. They are a combo. To get a straight answer visit Small Crew at: youaresmallcrew@hotmail.com www.myspace.com/smallcrew Ever get that anticlimactic feeling on the day after Christmas Day? It seems Small Crew have. A grand piano motif, complimented by cavernous drums ushers in “Boxing Day” a glorious musical shrug of the shoulders that aches with an indefinable sadness: for a relationship that could be crumbling? For the year that’s gone? Or something all together more sinister? Reminiscent of early shoe gaze, floating, melancholic half remembering vocals look out of the window and wonder why it never snows even though the world seems so cold? A hazy head smiles politely as if to say sorry for the mistakes you’ve made (“You wear your new bruise on Boxing day/Look in the mirror and your face is grey.”) and happy eyes cover up the lies of the picture perfect family gathering….
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There are 12 comments on this article.
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Bloodflowerbill http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Discussion/NewsList.aspx?id=1 |
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Posted: 19/12/07 at 15:35 |
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Bloodflowerbill "Jaysus, why do people have to write such heart-achingly beautiful music? Some nights I just don't think I can take it. You know how it goes, right? It starts in a small, dark corner of your heart, where you think it can't do any damage, and then it slowly expands and before you know it, it's taking you down a well-worn path that you don't want to go down, but what can you do? You're a prisoner to the chords and the melody and pretty soon the fight goes out of you and you relent and then it's too damn late to do anything about it anyway, so you might as well go along for the ride." Lost In Your Inbox http://lostinyourinbox.blog-city.com/boxing_day.htm |
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Posted: 27/12/07 at 18:19 |
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Sonic James Doom This song is really REALLY damn good. I hope this is reflected in downloads because it deserves to be spread to the people of the world. |
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Posted: 31/12/07 at 09:24 |
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Bloodflowerbill Another review: 'Boxing Day'. Comes across a bit like a Shoegazey Sigur Ros. Check out their myspace . Their influences include New York & Manchester. No mention of Hull strangely. Small Crew are not a collective, they are a combo. More to follow.. http://wwwbeepbeepbeep.blogspot.com/2007/12/yo-ho-ho.html |
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Posted: 31/12/07 at 14:18 |
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Bloodflowerbill oo it also appears here! http://musicslut.blogspot.com/ |
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Posted: 31/12/07 at 14:58 |
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Bloodflowerbill A massive worldwide blog wooo! |
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Posted: 31/12/07 at 14:58 |
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Bloodflowerbill I dunno what language its in but Getting up is featured on this blog: http://beethobear.blogspot.com/ Review translated as: " Although The Boyfriends have been regarded as the same with The Smiths and romantic temperament, but the main Orchestra guitarist Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards guided by the Small Crew is more mysterious atmosphere, in addition to songs Boxing Day if it seems engineers from the sound cascading disorderly dust, but also透着Sounds piano chord with the tablets-fog magic; Getting Up and the other was the first to light gallop guitar pop tunes, if the start of Small Crew is very interested in the case, the British music blogs are more maps provide an I'm Not Feeling Too Well can be downloaded. " |
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Posted: 4/1/08 at 21:22 |
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Bloodflowerbill http://www17seconds.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-great-stuff-for-2008-presenting.html |
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Posted: 6/1/08 at 17:03 |
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Bloodflowerbill http://burningworld.blogspot.com/ |
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Posted: 24/1/08 at 18:39 |
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Bloodflowerbill "Small Crew - Boxing Day ** A hint of Mary Chain guitars well in the background of Dream Academy like lush pop." INDIE DAD review |
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Posted: 15/2/08 at 15:42 |
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Bloodflowerbill Both these tracks at around the 3000 downloads mark |
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Posted: 3/4/08 at 17:56 |
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Bloodflowerbill Globally focused and anonymous duo led collective Small Crew are responsible for wonderful wall of sound tunefulness. "Kamikaze" aches like Brett Anderson in Traffic. "Getting Up" could be a more pronounced unreleased Weather Prophets anthem, and I'm really happy to be acquainted. It isn't offering salvation through "a thousand gloomy days" but assures the listener that they will find their "own way." Sometimes that's all, and only what you need. http://treblezine.com/features/154.html |
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Posted: 20/5/08 at 17:00 |
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