caption current_members website years_active label article_title past_members background genre image origin name
the uk . january 2006 . crimea at the 100 club , london , davey macmanus joe udwin andrew stafford owen hopkin -lsb- http://www.thecrimea.net/ the cimea website -rsb- 2002 -- 2013 -lsb- acre records -rsb- http://www.ilovealcopop.co.uk/ alcopop records -rsb- , -lsb- http://www.lazyacrerecords.co.uk/ lazy the crimea -lrb- band -rrb-
 andrew norton julz parker group_or_band indie thecrimeaband.jpg united kingdom the crimea
the crimea -lrb- band -rrb-

the crimea were a british indie band , based in camden , london .
the band were featured in john peel 's festive fifty , ranking higher than bands such as the white stripes and all eleven of the initial album demos were played on his show .
the guardian has described the crimea 's songs as `` mini-epics '' that reduce frontman davey macmanus to `` spasms of jerking anguish '' .
on 2 july 2013 they announced via their official twitter account that they were calling time on their 11-years as a band and that their gig at the jazz café in london on 30 july 2013 would be their last .
