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
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