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25.02.08 - The Cribs: 'I’m A Realist' / 'Bastards Of Young' new single

The Cribs hit the New Year running with the release of 'I'm A Realist' on February 25th. The Cribs finished the NME Shockwaves Tour last Friday with a triumphant night at Brixton Academy. Following the tour the band will appear at the NME Big Gig with Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons and Bloc Party.

“I'm A Realist” marks the final chapter in the life of “Men's Needs...” and comes b/w a cover of the Replacements’ classic “Bastards Of Young”, which was produced by Bernard Butler and the band, with Sebastian Lewsley at Edwyn Collins’ Westheath Studio. The single is released on Wichita Recordings.
“I’m A Realist” is available on 7” and download.

12.02.08 - The Cribs NME Tour

The Cribs are headlining the NME Shockwaves tour with support from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang John, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and The Ting Tings.

The tour is about halfway finished now, but there are still some tickets left for the remaining gigs.

February
12 - Rock City, Nottingham
13 - UEA, Norwich
15 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
16 - University, Leicester
17 - Academy, Oxford
19 - Academy, Bristol
20 - University, Cardiff
21 - Pyramid, Portsmouth
22 - Academy, Brixton

You can get tickets here.

15.01.08 - The Cribs Headline The NME Awards Tour

The Cribs are back on the road headlining the NME Awards Tour 2008 from the end of January. Tickets are available from the box offices below or from www.gigsandtours.com or www.nme.com.

JANUARY
29 Belfast Mandela Hall - 0818 719300
30 Dublin Ambassador - 0818 719300

FEBRUARY
01 Glasgow Barrowlands - SOLD OUT
02 Manchester Academy - SOLD OUT
03 Newcastle Academy - SOLD OUT
04 Lincoln Engine Shed - 0871 4244 555
06 Birmingham Academy - 0844 477 2000
07 Liverpool University - 0151 256 5555
08 Leeds University Refectory - SOLD OUT
09 Leeds University Refectory - 0113 244 4600
11 Sheffield Octagon - 0114 222 8777
12 Nottingham Rock City - 0871 3100 000
13 Norwich UEA - 01603 508 050
15 Cambridge Corn Exchange - 01223 357851
16 Leicester University - 0115 912 9000
17 Oxford Academy - 0844 477 2000
19 Bristol Academy - 0844 477 2000
20 Cardiff University Great Hall - 029 2078 1458
21 Portsmouth Pyramids - 023 9282 4355
22 London Brixton Academy - 0844 477 2000

Support on all dates comes from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You Yeah? and The Ting-Tings.

After all that, The Cribs play the NME Awards on Feb 28th at London O2 Arena with Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Klaxons, Manic Street Preachers - tickets exclusively available from NME.com.

Finally, if you want to help out you can vote for The Cribs in this year's NME Awards, go to NME.com and follow the Awards links, the main categories Best British Band, Album, Live Act are all fan votes.

08.01.08 - Best Art Vinyl 2007 - The Winners

The Cribs follow in the footsteps of Hard-Fi and Thom Yorke to win the best record cover art of 2007.
Best record cover art exhibition to launch 2008's programme of events at the Art Vinyl Gallery in London.

08 January 2008: Music design gallery Art Vinyl today announces the results of the search to find 2007's best record covers which are to be celebrated in various exhibition venues around the UK in 2008, the first of which is at the Art Vinyl Gallery in east London.

Previous winners of the award were Hard-Fi's stark Stars of CCTV in 2005 and in 2006 Thom Yorke's The Eraser, took the honours for its design featuring a linocut by Stanley Donwood.

Art Vinyl - creator of the unique Play & Display frame for 12" vinyl - compiled the list from over 3000 public votes, with the favourite 50 sleeve designs now on show here.

Art Vinyl founder and managing director Andrew Heeps said, "This year it has been the art of great photography and composition that has shone through as the nations favourite sleeve designs for 2007. The results of the poll are always intriguing as they provide an instant snap shot of the popular art and music of that year. In a year of some digital music controversy it was great to see so many of our customers voting and still expressing their passion for vinyl cover art. This annual Art Vinyl Award is all about celebrating the emotional resonance of the best sleeve designs from a great year of art and music."

All of the sleeve designs will be displayed in the Play & Display Flip Frame and the exhibition of the 50 best will tour the UK in 2008 taking in a variety of venues including bars, record shops, museums and universities.

09.11.07 - London Shows With The Sex Pistols & Leeds Christmas Shows!

The Cribs who have just released new AA side single "Don't You Wanna Be Relevant"/"Our Bovine Public", are in London this week supporting the Sex Pistols. They play 4 nights at Brixton Academy starting tonight on November 8th, 10th, 12th and 14th. All dates are now sold out.

The band also play Swn Festival in Cardiff tomorrow (Friday 9th November) as part of the Wichita Recordings night at the University. Support comes from Those Dancing Days and Shrag. Go here for more details.

The "3 days of Cribsmas" shows are at Leeds Brudenell Social Club on 19th, 20th, 21st December and are on general sale now. Tickets are limited to two per transaction and available from www.seetickets.com

You can download the new single from iTunes right here. Or buy the ltd edition picture disc, 7" single or CD single right here.

03.07.07 - Moving Pictures Video

02.07.07 - US Tour

Tickets for The Cribs upcoming US TOUR are now available exclusively through here , the Cribs Ticketing site.

19.06.07 - OCTOBER UK TOUR

After the massive success of their top 15 album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever The Cribs will play another string of dates in October at the following venues:

OCTOBER
05 Birmingham - Carling Academy (0870 771 2000)
06 Sheffield - University (0114 222 8777)
07 Norwich - UEA (01603 508 050)
09 Dundee - Fat Sams Live (0870 169 0100)
10 Edinburgh - Potterrow (0870 169 0100)
11 Bradford - University (01274 23 33 00)
13 Oxford - Academy (0870 771 2000)
14 October - Southampton Guildhall (023 8063 2601)
15 Exeter - Lemon Grove (01392 263 518)
17 London - Forum (0870 150 0044)
24hr credit card hotline 0871 2200 260 or buy online at www.gigsandtours.com

TICKETS ON SALE 9AM THURSDAY 21st JUNE

31.05.07 - UK Arena Dates

The Cribs are confirmed as main support for Bloc Party in December on the following UK Arena Dates:

DECEMBER
12 GLASGOW SECC
13 MANCHESTER Central G-Mex
14 LONDON Alexandra Palace

Tickets are now available from www.gigsandtours.com.

30.05.07 - Gloucester Guild Hall

The Cribs have announced they'll be playing a special one off gig at Gloucester Guild Hall on Wednesday 20th June, in association with The Fly.

Tickets priced £10 are available for purchase in a special pre-sale now by clicking here.

Please visit www.the-fly.co.uk for more details.

21.05.07 - "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever" out now!

Just to let you know in case you forgot or weren't aware, The Cribs brand new Album - "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever" is finally out TODAY!

Click here to buy it now

There is a limited edition run of the album with a blue box set, which includes a full length tour documentary called "Leave Too Neat". Any of you who came to the small club shows in March, may be able to spot yourself on this DVD!

Also, The Cribs kick off their brand new UK tour today starting in Keele and some of the dates still have tickets, so to avoid disappointment, make sure you pre order them through the thecribs.com if you intend on going.

Lastly, Men's Needs charted at number 17 this week in the UK official charts! Thanks to everyone who went out and bought / downloaded one legally over the past week!

09.05.07 - Banners to Embed!

We've had two sets of banners for the album and single made for you to embed in your MySpace profile, home page, company website, etc. You can find them here:

Single Banners

Album Banners

18.04.07 - Coachella

The Cribs have been confirmed to play at this years Coachella Festival. They will be playing in the Mojave Tent on Saturday at 1:45pm.

Click here for more details >>

16.04.07 - Men's Needs Pre-order

On May 14th 2007 The Cribs release their new Men's Needs single. Available on CD, two limited 7-inch singles (one a gatefold) and download, you can pre-order all four of these formats for £3.50 plus p&p or the 3 physical formats for £3 plus p&p.

Click here to pre-order >>

How it works: all the physical formats (the CD and the 7-inch singles) will be delivered to your door by post. The downloads will be available as soon as they are released - just log into your recordstore.co.uk order history (top left when you log into your account) to pick them up. UK only.

12.04.07 - Men's Needs Video!

07.04.07 - Radio News

We had some great radio news this week; The Cribs new single Men's Needs has just been added to the upfront playlist on XFM and BBC Radio 1. Woohoo!

The single is out on May 14th on Ltd 2 x 7" vinyl, CD Single & Download. You can pre-order it here.

03.04.07 - Gigwise Webchat

The brothers Jarman will be joining Gigwise this coming Wednesday to discuss anything and everything you wish to ask them.

The chat will start at 4pm (GMT) in the usual home of Gigwise's Webchat Wednesday's:

http://www.gigwise.com/chat/

21.03.07 - New Album, Single & UK Tour

The Cribs will release their new album "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever" on May 21st, LP & CD through Wichita Recordings. In North America it's released July 10th through Warner Brothers. The album is preceeded by a single "Men's Needs" out on May 14th on Ltd 2 x 7" vinyl, CD Single & Download.

There's a UK tour coming too, starting May 21st at Keele University (click here for full tour info) and ending up in Leeds. Tickets go on-sale Friday 23rd March at 9am using this link. Support on all shows (except Nottingham) comes from The Thermals.

15.03.07 - Podcast - Episode 2

Join the Cribs and Alex K from Franz as they begin the process of recording their new album, "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever..." in Vancouver. In this episode Ryan, Gary, Ross and Alex fear there may be a haunting in the studio as a series of spooky occurences and 'blasts of evil' (TM Alex K) disrupt the recording process...

Click here to subscribe directly through iTunes >>

No iTunes? Fret not, you can follow the instructions to subscribe here.

09.03.07 - vCast

Check out the Cribs vCast using the link below:

The Cribs vCast

26.02.07 - News

There's some exciting Cribs news if you go and check out their MySpace profile...

22.08.06 - The Cribs and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Reading and Leeds this weekend!!

Both bands are playing Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds. Here are stage times...

Reading
The Cribs - 2.45pm (Main Stage)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 6.35pm (NME/Radio 1 Stage)

Leeds
The Cribs - 2.35pm (Main Stage)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 6.05pm (NME/Radio 1 Stage)

20.05.06 - Exclusive Live Concert From The Cribs Now On AOL Music!

See The Cribs live from the Aragon in Chicago, recorded on 19 April, 2006.

Check it out now at www.aolmusic.com/thecribs. Through Network LIVE, millions of The Cribs fans will have access to this performance from the front row, via AOLMusic.com and multiple wireless providers worldwide.