Saturday, November 14
Join the GCs at Martyrs (3855 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago) as we play new songs and old favorites! Katie Todd and Alma Sub Rosa are also on the bill. We play last, in order for you to have time to get good and liquored up before our set.

Sunday, November 15
Brian Krumm and Brian Leach of The Great Crusades will take part in an evening to celebrate Jay Bennett's life and music at the Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago).

Other performers include:
Edward Burch
The Viper & His Famous Orchestra
Brad Elvis & Chloe Orwell The Handcuffs
members of Dolly Varden
Quartet Parapluie
Steve Frisbie
Dorian Taj
John Peacock
Kenneth Rainey Tangleweed
Chris DeMay

Hi there. Brian Krumm, songwriter, singer, and guitarist for The Great Crusades, will be playing a rare solo performance tonight (Monday, August 10) at Schubas (Belmont & Southport, Chicago) at 8 p.m. Go for the suds, go for the stories, go for the songs. The artists Blue and Dick Prall will be playing later, too. Dick is doing an all-covers set based on the artists who have influenced him.

Hey everyone. The GCs will be playing in the Pub Side of the Abbey Pub on Saturday, July 18, starting at 9:30 p.m. Won't you please come to the show? It's free, for chrissakes. The Abbey Pub is located at Elston & Grace in Chicago.

Hope to see you at Belmont and Southport in Chicago for our show at Schubas tonight, Thursday, June 25. We're opening for the Damnwells at 9 p.m.

If you are in the St. Louis area, we hope you will join Brian Krumm and Brian Hunt from The Great Crusades as they play an acoustic set at 9 p.m. on Christmas Night, Thursday, December 25, at the world famous Stagger Inn Again (104 E Vandalia St, Edwardsville, Illinois, (618) 656-4221). Dana Anderson and the Mad Iron Trio are also on the bill. Feliz Navidad!

Hi. just wanted to send out a quick reminder that we will be playing tonight in Chicago, Friday in Champaign, IL, and Saturday in Edwardsville, IL. All shows are with Champaign's Tractor Kings and Mack Johannson from Sweden's Hyacinth House. See you there we hope! We play SECOND in Champaign and THIRD in Chicago and Edwardsville.

Show info:

Nov 6 2008 9:00PM
Quenchers with Mack Johansson of Hyacinth House and Tractor Kings
Chicago, Illinois

Nov 7 2008 9:00PM
Mike & Molly's with Mack Johansson of Hyacinth House and Tractor Kings
Champaign, Illinois

Nov 8 2008 9:00PM
Stagger Inn . . . Again with Mack Johansson of Hyacinth House and Tractor Kings Edwardsville, Illinois

Wow! We're back home after (another) whirlwind tour with The Great Crusades. We did 5 shows in 6 days in Germany. One of them was a show at a private boarding school in Holzminden that was quite crazy. Lots of body surfing, slam dancing, and screaming teenagers. Also, made some new friends in Günzburg (and saw some great, old friends), had a blast, as usual, in Arnstadt, partied all night in Wesel--including a visit to the late night disco Baby Doll, and played a GREAT birthday basement party in Düsseldorf. Also, had the opportunity to play with two great bands, Stronzo Konst and Black Rust. Check them out!

Anyway, I expect there will be photos on www.thegreatcrusades.com message board very soon from many of the gigs. Take a look!

Just wanted to send a reminder out about our show at Reggie's Music Joint in Chicago this Friday, Sept. 26, at 9 p.m. We are playing with the fabulous Chicago band The Thin Man.

Hello/Hallo,

Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane. We're all in high gear getting
everything ready for next week's Germany shows and it never seems to slow down
until the sip of that first beer at the airport. We're bringing with us some new
tunes and a healthy dose of the old stuff. We even worked up a trio of new cover
songs for later in the night (hint: We'll be drinking heartbreak motor oil and
Bombay gin.) We'll also have copies of "Key to the City," our retrospective DVD
released in May.

When we get back to Chicago we're playing a show with 2 great bands. BigBang is
from Norway and The Thin Man from Chicago via Newcastle, England. A highly,
highly recommended evening. See details below.

Fall mini tour
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Sep 18 Günzburg, Germany | Musikbar on the Rocks
Sep 19 Arnstadt, Germany | Kulisse
Sep 20 Wesel, Germany | JZ Karo 10th Anniversary Party
Sep 26 (Fri) | Chicago | Reggie's Music Joint w/ BigBang and The Thin Man


The Pontiac Turns 15
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Easily the worst men's room in the area, always a great place to hang out. We're
playing on SATURDAY, OCT 18th to celebrate 15 years of that thing that only The
Pontiac Cafe can do. It's where the band's Chicago experience all began...and
often ended in a drunken lullaby, random lyric or just a great memory.

That's it for now. We've got a few fall shows and studio updates that we'll pass
along next month.

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp,
The Great Crusades

Hello. After our mini tour in Germany in September, we have some shows coming in the great state of Illinois, two of them are even outside of Chicago!

We will be playing with our friends from Norway, Big Bang on Sept. 26 as a "welcome home" show. In November we will be playing some shows with our friend from Sweden, Mack Johansson (of the fellow Glitterhouse Records' band Hyacinth House). We must like Scandinavians!

We also have been wanting to play with both The Thin Man (Chicago) and Tractor Kings (Champaign, IL) for quite a while now because we are fans of both bands. Here are the dates:

Fri., Sept. 26 Reggie's Music Joint (Chicago) with Big Bang and The Thin Man
Thurs., Nov. 6 Quenchers (Chicago) with Mack Johansson (Hyacinth House) and Tractor Kings
Fri., Nov. 7 Mike n Molly's (Champaign, IL) with Mack Johansson (Hyacinth House) and Tractor Kings
Sat., Nov. 8 Stagger Inn (Edwardsville, IL) with Mack Johansson (Hyacinth House) and Tractor Kings