Small Crew Play Live In London

After quite a few days in the sun I am just catching up on my inbox, maybe more later in the week but for now news on Small Crew. They have a rare gig in London coming up, only their third I think.

"Here's a little bit of pop news:

That elusive international combo Small Crew will be making their first live appearance of the year in London, England on May 26th.

Details:

Dead or Alive presents

Small Crew*@ The Comedy Leicester Square

26.5.09

£5/4"

So if you're in London pop along...

A Song Named After You - The Studio Time Is Booked!

I recently got an email from Richard at Small Crew and somehow I managed to convince him to write a musical piece and name it after you dear reader. That's right, Small Crew who brought you the fantastic It's Not Too Late To Wait and more recently Rambling have agreed to write a song and name it after you or your home town if you prefer. What a prize. Depending on the creativity levels when they come to record it will either be an instrumental piece named after you or it will be a song with you in the lyrics. To give you a taste of what they are capable of I have re-posted It's Not Too Late To Wait and Ramblings, along with instrumental piece Sunday Strut. They will even supply the song on a CDR with its own sleeve.

All you need to do is send your name, home town and your favourite word (personally I like "flaps") to whatswrongwiththemainstream@googlemail.com. Winners will be announced on 23rd May.

Let me tell you a bit more about Small Crew, on one of my earlier posts about them I tried to guess what their location influences referred to, Richard answered those questions:

Sheffield: You missed out The Human League (up to Hysteria), Def Leppard (just Hysteria), Cabaret Voltaire, Tony Christie.

Hull: The Housemartins, not The Beautiful South (although the early singles are classics...). Also, my mum went to university in Hull.

MP3: Rambling - Small Crew
MP3: Sunday Strut
MP3: It's Not Too Late To Wait - Small Crew

Rambling - Small Crew

Having posted It's Not Too Late To Wait in last month's playlist I was excited to receive two new tracks from them in my inbox this month. As a band in their infancy Small Crew appear to be exploring their musical influences and Rambling takes us down a new path for the band. I'm certainly not going to try to pigeon-hole them at this earlier stag so I'll leave you to listen to the track and make up your own mind. However, I will have the other track and some exciting news for you next month. So if you like what they've done so far come back to this blog towards the end of May.


MP3: Rambling - Small Crew

It's Not Too Late To Wait - Small Crew

Small Crew are from Armenia according to their MySpace site, I'm not sure that's true, I hope it is but judging by the singer's accent when singing I'd guess their from the UK. They site their influences as "New York, Manchester, Stockholm, Dusseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Oxford, Glastonbury, Montreal, Glasgow, Melbourne, Boston, Sheffield, Dresden, Liverpool, Philadelphia, Tupelo, Hull." I wonder if they are describing the home towns of their influences? I'd guess that Sheffield would be Pulp and Hull would be The Beautiful South? In fact you could describe this track as Paul Heaton turning up to sing with his band but forgetting to tell the drummer...

The band are giving this and another song away free on their MySpace site.

MP3: It's Not Too Late To Wait - Small Crew