Welcome to ABBOTT & CRABB’S Other Homepage

Howzit Okes and Cherri’s (bit of Sowf Affricannism there)

This page is where we get to show you some of what ABBOTT & CRABB get up to, it also gives you a chance to listen to some of our idiocy as well, the sound files are in a very compressed mp3 format to keep the file size down so don’t expect CD quality, if you want a better file mail me and I’ll send it to you, email is: cricket@iafrica.com

About ABBOTT & CRABB

We’ve been around on the South African Pub and Club circuit for the last 21 years, we are a Comedy/Musical duo (some say it should be Musical /Comedy) who in all honesty have always had an identity crisis, are we musicians, comedians, actors or what first??!!

I suppose that we are mostly a comedy duo, most people seem to remember us for that although in fact what we do is probably 70% music. We’ve done quite a few recordings, some of which have been released commercially, they are:

“A Live ABBOTT & CRABB” ….a cassette release in 1985 I don’t have a copy of this one anywhere, so if anyone HAS……….mail me…ta

“At Last”  ….. An Original album (doesn’t that have some terrible connotations ORIGINAL!!!!) released on vinyl in 1990.It was recorded at Marshall Harmse’s studio over a period of 3 weeks. Many of the songs had been lying around for a LONG time and we felt we had to do something with them

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“Party with the very best of ABBOTT & CRABB” Released on CD and Cassette in 1998

“ABBOTT & CRABB alive and Woes” a Video also released in 1998

The CD or Cassette and the Video are still available from me at cricket@iafrica.com

CD’s R60 (out of stock temporarily)       Cassette’s R40     Video’s R100    

Plus post and packing

VENUES

People are always asking where we’re playing, I’m hoping to include some sort of calendar on the site but until then you can phone me (Dave) on: -

Home (011) 704-3800 or (011) 462-4905 or cell 083-280-5124

 

 EQUIPMENT

People often ask what we use as far as gear goes, we use Electrovoice speakers all round which are supported by the good people at Prosound, CROWN power amps and a Spirit Folio mixer with Shure radio mikes and Boss Echo/Pitch shifters for vocal effects. The guitars are a CARVIN acoustic/electric plus a nondescript banjo for Henry and a Fender Telecaster plus a nondescript violin for Dave. All the backing is supplied by a Pentium 166Mhz MMX laptop with a Roland SCP55 Pcmcia card on board. It’s probably time to change the card but until something considerably better arrives I won’t bother. Both guitars go through Sansamps, Dave’s was one of the first one’s to arrive in SA. Dave also uses a Korg AXG1 for guitar effects; it’s nice and small and has good usable sounds.