Very few posts get put on here these days, but statistics show that people, whether intentionally or not, still visit this page for whatever reason, and bands still exist to request our friendship, boosting numbers that mean absolutely nothing.

A few years ago, Rupert Murdoch (owner of News International and this very site also) broke with his previous anti-web stance and diverged his interests somewhat.  Users such as yourself will know that the market has pretty much been cornered by facebook (fewer ads, less clunky looking, and without the facility for novices to wreck their pages through poor html and CSS).  Still, often the first place people check out bands remains Myspace, although the Guardian newspaper predicts dark times ahead: check this story out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/23/myspace-facebook-job-cuts-redundancy

Still, facebook is no angel, and if it wasn't for the monopoly both sites have over us, it would be nice to dispense with both, which is why we try and make our own independent website (www.actionier.co.uk) have more shit on it than you will find on either myspace or facebook.  To the extent that we are redesigning everything to make us sexier than multinationals.  And they're pretty darn sexy.  Mhmm Coca Cola:

http://www.killercoke.org/

So if you've kept reading this far, you will have gleaned very little actionier or kimmy yeah info, and about 30% polemic.  So here goes:

Actionier's sophomore album 'Fire And Dinosaurs' is slowly being mixed and fixed whilst our absent percussionist, Sam, finishes up sorting out Japan (they may have honour and deference, but they lack Sam's sweatshirts and empathy).  The three Kimmy's will be performing a rather secret gig mid-July that will be recorded and filmed, and depending on whether its tidy enough for general release, will be released somehow.  Great lovers of free shit that we are, we will try and make as much avaiable through our 'proper' website as possible, to which I urge anyone that hasn't signed up to our mailing list to do so at:

http://www.actionier.co.uk/

No pressure of course, but we'd like to think our (often rare) mailouts have some value that Murdoch's money-haemorraging machine does not.  An early version of album track 'Bloodbath' is already on there.  It might not be your favourite, but stay tuned, there'll be more.

Of course, if you would like either actionier (after september) or kimmy yeah (late July) to play your house, DIY show, farmers market or school disco, drop us a line at:

info@actionier.co.uk

And you'll be sure to get a response.  Some of your reading this might even get an invite to the ultra special KY show next month.  We'll see.

Skillz out.

xx

actionier/KY

But while we don't, this guy does:

http://antonpaisov.livejournal.com/26560.html

And he does it whilst listening to our remix.

hello all.

by jiminy its caaaaaaald ootside. and for that matter, its freezing as i sit here in my kitchen having smashed a jar full of coffee and used the last of milk, do as i do and grab a sweet black tea to get you through this mess of words that is the latest actionier blog.

well, sam has been in japan for some time now and so the dust settled on the drums is thick enough for an inquisitive finger to write (after a bit of a lick) what the hell are the other three up to? here goes.....

Simon has accidentally had an undercut shaved into his quite long hair, that coupled with the beard he is sporting has led him into nefarious activities such as listening to 80's agit punk and keeping a scruffy dog on a piece of string. we're all a bit worried for him but he's more concerned with THE MAN, and i don't blame him for once. i read a paper the other day and apparently its all gone to shit and the man is to blame. if only we had started listening to simon earlier.

Tom is celebrating his birthday today as he has reached the grand old age of 25. the doyles (of which tom is an exemplory member) can teach us all a thing or two about how to live (and how to work through the hangover) so its going to be a night of celebrating with beers'n'that. i miss his moustache. there, i said it. don't make me say it again.

I (Iain) am a bit beaten up by some slick moves on a squash court that left me elevating my ankle for 3 days. its a beautiful combination of vomit green and purpley black and quite frankly the blame rests on my own shoulders for going on a fucking squash court in the first place.

because (and here is where i start making a point).....

we should be rocking, playing huge songs with the odd twiddly rhythm for people to try and figure out on the way home, and because we are not i'm going to apologise to anybody reading this. normal service is going to be resumed.

in the meantime, we are mixing our debut album which is a combination of some of older songs finally recorded in the breathless way we actually play them and some new material for you to hopefully learn to love. as a sideline we are playing music (the three UK actioniers trading under a new non-actionier name) that will be at the bottom of the bill at a lo fi gig near you soon (as long as you live near solly street in sheffield) and eclectic doesn't quite sum up the noise we are currently making.

and to summise, we all miss sam incredibly. he is a true gent and in many respects the best sam we've ever known and will ever get to share a smelly van or freezing rehearsal room with again, so we'll hang in there with the actionier tunes and gigs until we can all do it with him again. when we do, please come along and join in the fun, cos it will be fucking magic.

peace y'all

Iain
x

We're featured in a film about Stag Works in Sheffield. You can see a full version at:

http://www.sortoffilms.co.uk/projectarchive/sortoffilms_projectarchive_doc.htm

There's a new song of ours knocking about.  You may have even noticed it in the player.  Its called 'The Last Temptation Of Chris' and our 'proper' website has it available both as 320kbps MP3 and flac.

Go HERE for it, if you want?

x

actionier

hi y'all.

just a quick note to say that plans are going well for the ascension, when we leave this mortal humbling and bumbling to other folk.

we'll be stretching, dancing and prancing our merry tunes on the 22nd of september with our favourite northen irish rock smugglers 'fighting with wire' at the corporation in sheffield. its good to support them, as ever, we'll be hugging them and telling them "its not your fault" over and over again until they have a bit of a cry. we're really beginning to make a breakthough with them as a collective and soon, i reckon, they won't need our support at all. baby steps though, into the big bad world.

then in a flash it will be our day of reckoning, the 17th of october. a friday night in sheffield at the shakespeare. we're inviting everyone to come down, enjoy the show, drink the cool-aid, and join us as we board the mothership and disappear to alpha centauri for all eternity. but if i've learnt anything in life (and this particular lesson was gleamed from 'coccoon 2: the return') we may be back in a year or so to prove that it isn't only mac daddy and daddy mac that'll make ya jump.

for three years actionier has been my brilliant vice. the other guys are the fantastic oven in which i've shoved my half baked ideas and recently we've come alive as a real band with three magnificent songwriters and me, but in a world that seems less exciting to make music in. so we are going to have a rest away from your eyes and come back with something beautiful and profound (and hopefully full of fun, hey its important to have fun!).

show us the love, come see actionier play a couple more times before the air gets cold and the rain becomes the norm. the shows are listed above and on our gig dates and we know we're gonna be there. we will see you soon.

iain of the actionier
xxx

ps: and if you get bored whilst we remove ourselves from your stages for the year, you can always buy the album. coming soon.....

I wrote to NASA recently...


And this was the rather disappointing reply...

Rock City Review 'Sheffield's Actionier were first up and put together a great performance, made evern more impressive when it was announced that bass player Tom had been in hospital at 1 o'clock that afternoon having pins removed from a broken hand.  In the words of Gav from Kill Chaos "He really is a soldier of Rock!"

With staccato machine gun rhythms and fantastic drumming shooting out from the stage, Actionier were a wonderful combination of classic riffs and modern sounds without ever appearing to be dated or dull'

Sandman, July 2008.

We got this review a while ago, but here it is:

"Yet Another in a long line of soon-to-be-classic split 7″ singles from the unsparingly dedicated Field Records sees Kill Chaos and Actionier go head-to-head in one of the collections more visceral moments.

Kill Chaos's turf on the A-Side is defended by the nonsensically monickered 'OK On The O.K.'. A mighty slab of Helmet/Reuben/Verbena esque riffery which ascends to a brief moment of near orgasmic melodicism before falling in on itself. Its fair to say i was more than a little suprised by quite how good this side of the split is, having never lent more than a cursory ear to the various musicians involved's previous efforts. An absolutely cracking first offering.

On the rear of the slice of the black stuff is Actionier's 'Freeview'. It's a little gentler on the senses from the off, and is certainly a little more thoughtful, but explosions of Vitriolic rage like the shelling of some defenseless city mean it's by no means a lazy Susan.

There have been few more perfect bedfellows on the other field splits, and though there are a couple of rough edges, this really is some astonishing handywork. Bladdy marvelous.
4/5"

Rockfood.co.uk