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🦀🦀🦀 Previously in the land of Crabs 🦀🦀🦀
🦀🦀🦀 2024 🦀🦀🦀
Strummercamp time is here again!
24/25/26th May 2024 at Oldham Rugby Union Club.
The line-up is fantastic. We are scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
See you there, thanxxx
p.s. here is a pretty low-fi recording off our set in all its tough-shelled rough-edged orange-coloured beauty ;-)
Lovely Bella didn't feel up to doing it, that's cool, we love you mucker. So we had, really short notice, the wonderful Matt standing in. Thank you!
Thus,
Rumble in the Crumble
Buzzy Bees
are Honk & Drum Crabs only,
with Guitar Crab joining for
Purple Custard
Bourbelles
Sausage Dog Blues
Tommy Spud Gun
Take some time out to listen, you deserve it :-) xx
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Daisy and Matt's wedding - 11th Anniversary Special Edition 4/5/24
Many thanks for having us play again! It was mint!
🦀🦀🦀 2023 🦀🦀🦀
22 October 2023, Sunday, Apple and Pumpkin day at Hulme Community Garden Center (HCGC). A daytime gig, we played at 15.00h for just over an hour. A great day out. Thanks for having us!! xx
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At The Station Hotel in Ashton Under Lyne. Our second time here. Organised by Phil from Strummercamp - thanks for having us! Brilliant afternoon and evening! We Shall Overcome.
Space Rift
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
Buzzy Bees
Bourbelles
Cactus Dub (was P45)
Sausage Dog Blues
About 47 minutes in total.
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A long session version of 'mdma' with video: "mdma (with laugh)". Small format version below. Enjoy.
(Made January, added September, 2023.)
... this will be here once I manage to upload it. Connection here is dreadful.
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Potato Day at Hulme (Manchester, England, Earth) Community Garden Centre on 19th of February, 2023. In the afternoon.
With a song by the name of "Tommy Spud Gun", what better opportunity then to play it at the "the new seed potatoes are available" Potato Day of our local Community Garden Centre. Hurray for spuds! Hurray for Hulme Community Garden Centre!
The garden centre is a lovely space to amble about in; it also sells plants and has a small cafe to hang out in ... go and visit.
Thanks for having us!
Space Rift
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
Buzzy Bees
Cactus Dub
Bourbelles
No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
encore: Tommy Spud Gun ... what else today!!
🦀🦀🦀 2022 🦀🦀🦀
A short, lo-fi, recorded live in session, version of 'mdma', with video, and entitled "session with orchid and mdma".
Currently only on facebook untiI I find some other storage that I can link to here.
🦀🦀🦀 2021 🦀🦀🦀
The Unlocked Gathering - a fantastic day out with live music, dj sets, dancing, activities for kids ... all in a covid-aware and safe manner, free, no ticket required, just turn up.
A showcase that it can be done ... and hopefully, going by initial feedback, to be repeated regularly. Bring back live music into city parks :-)
Daisy and Matt have set up a Crowdfunding Page for the event
so it could stay (ticket) free ... people just came down as it was held in a public park ... please help them out if you can, they are working for free but infrastructure does cost money, and they would like to pay the artists some money too (which obviously appeals to us as drum sticks, guitar strings and sax reeds cost money too) - thank you, have a grand day always 🦀🦀🦀
p.s. this is what Daisy had to say afterwards via facebook:
"What an absolute pleasure to put on Unlocked yesterday, to see people getting together for the first time in ages, to bring the rig out, to stage live music and get the decks out too. We had about 450 people at the peak, more than that throughout the day and an excellent kids space in the woods. And dancing, seeing people bouncing to jungle at the end was the icing on the cake.
Wah Wah West
Cactus Dub (previously known as P45)
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Sausage Dog Blues
Tommy Spud Gun
total 45 minutes, roughly :-)
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Wah Wah West
Cactus Dub (previously known as P45)
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Sausage Dog Blues
Tommy Spud Gun
total 45 minutes, roughly :-)
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Facebook video playlist
🦀🦀🦀 2020 🦀🦀🦀
Crabs Birthday Bash SURPRISE 2020 recorded live from the living room
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At J and J's Wedding 29th February 2020
Space Rift
Buzzy Bees
No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Spuds
about an hour
(with Eastfield ... class!)
🦀🦀🦀 2019 🦀🦀🦀
9-11-2019 Hulme Street Party
No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
Buzzy Bees
P45
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
about an hour
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No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
Buzzy Bees
P45
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
under an hour
Video footage :-)
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Strummercamp Shangri-La Stage 26 May 2019
No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
Bourbelles
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun - eat them all up!
total 30 minutes ... nearly on the dot :-)
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Mayday Mayhem Stumblefunk Mayday weekend 2019
Space Rift
Wah Wah West
Doodette parts 1 and 2
Sausage Dog Blues
Buzzy Bees
Bourbelles
P45
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
around 70 minutes on Sunday lunchtime :-)
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M_d_m_a
Goyt
Fairground
Doodette parts 1 and 2
Sausage Dog Blues
No Asses
<break>
Space Rift
Bourbelles
Buzzy Bees
Wha Wha West
P45
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
two sets are twice the fun :-)
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🦀🦀🦀 2018 🦀🦀🦀
Alt Femme Fest at The Abbey Taphouse August 2018
M_d_m_a
Fairground
Wah Wah West
Buzzy Bees
Sausage Dog Blues
Doodette parts 1 and 2
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun
about 50 minutes
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M_d_m_a
Goyt
Fairground
Buzzy Bees
Purple Custard
<break>
Space Rift
Doodette parts 1 A&E and 2 Skank
Wah Wah West
No Asses
Sausage Dog Blues
Tommy spud Gun
played a good looong time with long'ish break in between
audio of Space Rift with images in a video
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At Agatha's Birthday Party, a week after Stumble In The Malverns, on a wobbly
balcony in a sunny garden, we played
Mdma
Goyt
Fairground
Buzzy Bees
No Asses
Doodette (A&E ; Skanky)
Wah Wah West
Sausage Dog Blues
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun.
Over an hour.
Thanks again for having us, it was mint!
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Opened the festival on Friday evening. No snare stand so we used the large floor tom instead of the snare for a more gothy sound ala Banshees :-) Got away with it too.
Great wee festival, thanks for having us again!
Mdma
Goyt
Fairground
Buzzy Bees
No Asses
Doodette (A&E ; Skanky)
Wah Wah West
Sausage Dog Blues
Purple Custard
Tommy Spud Gun.
Bit over an hour.
🦀🦀🦀 2017 🦀🦀🦀
"Celebrate" the Redbricks 70th Anniversary street party on Saturday 8th July.
Our first ever gig as a three-piece. Surprisingly, people liked us ;-)
No Asses
A+E
Skank
Goyt
Buzzin Bees
Sausage Roll Blues
Wipe Of Wipe Out
Tommy Spud Gun
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Dragonfest Stumblefunk 2017
Honky and Drum Crab playing some Crabs material as a two-piece because
Guitar Crab was not available.
Sinister French
Sausage Roll
A+E type into 4/4
3/3 brush with clarinet
about half an hour
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(*) Lyrics in Purple Custard from the amazing poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph, read by herself in this video here.
Crabs are now Lucy, Matt, Teddy
Crabs are a while back Lucy, Bella, Teddy
🦀🦀🦀 Miscelleneous 🦀🦀🦀
Walking legs: 3 pairs, used for movement.
Crabs are capable of walking forward or diagonally, but usually they walk sideways.
p.s. thanx Cr@ss, you saved my life, tedxx