June 28th 2009

Fuck me. Has it really been May since something was written here? Well, the summer is generally a quiet time for wock and woll outside of the festivals, but also a period of reflection. The actionier album will be called 'Fire and Dinosaurs' and its release will follow and overhaul of the very site you're reading at present.

Our man on drums returns once the weather starts to suffer again, and in the meantime, the three Kimmys of Kimmy Yeah will be doing a rather unusual gig/video/fancy dress thing. Invites are limited for space reasons (too many wormholes) but the thing will be recorded and filmed, and rather than Kimmy's ancient keyboard-through-a-guitar-amp sounds, we'll be piano-ing it up, like Ben Folds having a breakdown.

Hearing our initial demo of KY sounds weird these days, in that we often play the songs faster, and also better, but in the spirit of giving stuff away to keep people interested, the lyrically complex 'Set Fire To It' is now available on our music page for download, in 320kbps 'glory'.

Our statistics show that the one FLAC file on there gets a bit of attention, but there's only so much you should give to hermits and Dr Who fans. We'll be back on the road soon, in some form. Join our mailing list, and ask your friends whatever happened to us, and then let us know. Rumours are ace.

May 19th 2009

Hello Chinese. One of the actionier tracks we recorded last October is now on the music page. Bear in mind this may not be the final mix, but you can wave your lighter to it, ballad-style. The 3 kimmies are likely to be recording again at some point, so some of them will be on here too.

May 5th 2009

Looks like the Northwich thing is off, still, a DIY show at the stockroom next week:

April 15th 2009

Bonsoir. Le French have left and the dust settles... That means of course, its time for us to carry on mixing the actionier album. Some songs mostly done and sounding sweet, but much more to go. Next Kimmy Yeah show: 15th May.

March 18th 2009

Hello again.

Another DIY show coming up, this one to celebrate the death of Christ and being able to get drunk on a Sunday. Yes, its an easter special, with our guests from France, Atomic Garden and A Bear. Click on the poster for the CIA link:

Hello interested masses and accidental browsers, and hello to the people of China, who for whatever reason, are the single most avid visitors to this site, and to which we say:



Thank you to those people that came and watched our DIY show with H7, LAP and Wooderson. Some were confused and thought we'd be on last, but essentially, we're humble people, and it was our first rusty gig. This is what we played:

Chocolate
December
Catwalker
Bang Bang Bang
Panda Song
What I Want
Set Fire to It

2 of those tracks are available on the Music page, and if you want to buy the Kimmy Yeah Bee CD, just catch us at a show, or send £2.50 by PayPal to:

info[at]actionier[dot]co[dot]uk.

More shows to follow...

February 3rd 2009

And here's the poster (click here for the Last FM event page, or on the poster for the Farcebook event):

Happy new year. The gig on the 27th of Feb will now have the following bands:

HELSINKI SEVEN(Cheshire)
Life Among People(Manchester)
Wooderson(Sheffield)and
Kimmy Yeah (that's us!)

A pretty poster from Joseph William will be on here when he's done it. Also, if you get the chance, check out the 65dos remix of Calvinball. S

December 23rd 2008

Cursed by injuries we are. Cursed. Following a celebration of young Tom's birthday, I managed to pwn myself good and proper by falling off a garage roof and fracturing my elbow. I say fell, but witnesses say I jumped. These things happen. Iain is truly living the Thug Life, or at least that what he says. Witnesses have described his latest injury as 'hardcore face-mopping' following a fall, but we humour him with his delusions of criminal activity. Not much to report, except that we're going to have an intense January of writing stuff, more due to necessity than anything else. February 27th will be the first non-actionier actionier show, with our friends Helsinki Seven on tour, and further support coming from one of the best newer bands in Sheffield, Wooderson. Further details will follow... - Simon

November 20th 2008

Hello people. As promised, actionier haven't been doing much, but some of us have been putting together some new shit. Its early days, but keep checking back. Or alternatively, put your email address in that little box up there (top left) and (in web 2.0 slang) you receive 'notification'. How are you anyway?

November 2nd 2008

Ed Cartledge of Sort Of.. films has now put a version of 'Regeneration Song' online (a film about Stag Works in Sheffield). We feature a little in it, but despite this, its actually quite good, and you can find a version of it HERE.

October 20th 2008

Thanks to all concerned who came down on Friday to the Shakey - it was a good show that was hopefully as enjoyable to watch as it was to play. H7 and the C-Ball rocked our world and Sam got a good old send off worthy of a king. Here's what we played:

Mathlete
Her Bribe
Pause
Happy G...
Kick Colt
Freeview
The Last Temptation of Chris
Half a Gun
Almeida (feat. Dave and Matt of Calvinball)
The Fal
Bloodbath
Philosophy Pt. 2

If your reading this, and haven't signed up to our email thing, there's a box on here somewhere where you can submit your details. Remember kids, everytime you use myspazz, you make Rupert Murdoch more rich and powerful. He suxx. Bigtime.

Despite not seeing gigs of ours for ages, we'll probably be leaking elements of our album on here over the next few months (again, you won't see any stuff on the 'social networking' sites) so bookmark us, digg us, whatever it takes... Si

October 10th 2008

Today's update will be in the form of dealing with the confusion from this:

"wtf?????" "what happened??" "Why are you splitting up?"

If you look at the flyer, it actually says 'Actionier Goodbye Show' rather than 'Actionier are splitting up'. If that was the case, I don't think we would be in the process of recording an album. One of us will be away for quite some time, so a sending off celebration seems worthwhile, and we all like gigs right?

Oh yeah, you can also download one of our more recent tracks now from the Music page...

September 26th 2008

Again, its been ages since this has been updated. OK, so what's the beef with us then? The thing you should know is that you must attend the Shakespeare on the 17th of October, as you will not see another 'nier show for ages, possibly EVER! The reason is that one of us is piloting an outreach scheme to get kids into scaffolding. Its called Supporting A Better Future. Anyway, along with us we have Calvinball and our friends Helsinki Seven. Hopefully (hopefully) the show will be free of charge, so no excuses. In the next year, you may become aware of an album type stuff of ours, with some kickass tunes.

And on a different note, to those that saw Fighting With Wire on Monday, I apologise for the lack of shouting. -Si

August 15th 2008

Well we have recorded another 3 tracks with a view to doing a lot more. 2 of them have been gigged a bit (the Fal and Bloodbath) and the other (The Last Temptation of Chris) was played at the Red House back in July. We're pretty excited about our new stuff, so once I get permission to put at least one of them online I will indeed. If there's on thing to take away from todays update its this advice on holding hands with that first love "3 fingers, 4 fingers, whole hand squeeze. That's the way to Lady-Please". Si

August 5th 2008

What are Actionier up to these days? Its Summer and rainy, so its all about the writing at the moment. A bit of recording should happen very shortly, with material that's still hard to play. In other news, single 'Freeview' can be bought as nice high bitrate mp3's (along with the ace side from Kill Chaos). Give mtraks ago or purchase the vinyl from good ol Field. Its cheaper than shops, especially during this credit munch.

July 7th 2008

Its Spectaculier month! Come along if you're around...

Links to the bands are below...

June 22nd 2008

2 bits of info for today. One is the line-up of our next Spectaculier at the Red House. We have the wonderful Hey Enemy as our headliner, along with support from Helsinki Seven, and now, for one night only, Stop That Astronaut will be entertaining us.

Also, I've put up another live recording on the music page. Its quite good, but when I talk at the end, I do sound a bit like a kid on a Variety Club minibus. - Si

May 30th 2008

Bladdy hell - not written here for a while. After this stint of gigs, looks like June is about writing songs and who knows, maybe recording something if the mood takes us. July will see another of our spectaculiers (see gigs page). We haven't done one in ages, but this one should be pretty good as we're making a night of things (2am people... kareoke... dancing girls...). One band confirmed, and we're waiting to hear back from some others. Hopefully we'll have a line-up soon that'll make your eyes water. We're doing something rather exciting in August. Its super hush hush, but if your one of the few people who read this, think of yourself as 'in the know'. More details soon...

May 12th 2008

Good day. The month of May sees us go all over the shop that is the UK, well Nottingham, Plymouth and London.

We just supported Fighting With Wire again last Thursday, and as always it was a pleasure. Catch them on the road - its definately worth it. This Thursday coming is our single launch part 2 in Nottingham, at the hallowed ground of Rock City's basement, and once again we will be joined by Kill Chaos, a solid chunk of rock pwnage.

In other news, Tom's hurt his hand but is still playing albeit with some grimaces involved (the facial expression, rather than minature versions of the sidekick of Ronald MacDonald).

If you pick up this month's Sandman, you'll see us featured in there, looking dead cool. Too lazy? Then why not download a pdf version from HERE.
We now have hard evidence that we are nice people, so you no longer have to rely on mere hearsay. Here's what we played on Thursday:

Freeview
The Fal
Mystery One
Bloodbath
Pause
Kick Colt
Mathlete
Philosophy Part Two

April 17th 2008

Alas, our trip to Newcastle has been called off this week as Tom has damaged his hand. Sorry any Northeastern folk - we'll be back I'm sure...

April 14th 2008

Thank you to everyone who came to part one of our single launch. We certainly had a good time, and were pleased with the turnout. Apologies to those people who actually thought we were having a raffle at the start of our set. It was basically a cover for technical difficulties. Big thank you's go to Jim for a lighting and stage set-up worthy of Queen, and Jeff at the Shakey for his consistant patience and help all the way through. We played 2 new things on Saturday - one is tentatively titled 'Bloodbath' and the other one has no name yet.

Chances are, you'll be the first to know when we know. Si

April 1st 2008

Its after midday so alas this isn't prankworthy. Our single launch in Nottingham has been postponed from this week as poor old Darren from Kill Chaos has got ill. Hopefully our Sheffield leg should still be on, but hey, sometimes people get ill. Except me of course.

I forgot to mention below that our single is available to buy now from the Field Records shop. So if you like vinyl, you'll be in heaven. If you don't, its a nice thing to own, but the track should be on iTunes soonish...-Si

Mar 29th 2008

Local people, you may see weird cd's of ours floating around the city in strange places. There's 50 of em.

Mar 17th 2008

Wow. A busy week last week what with Fuzz and things. You can catch a sneaky glimpse of last Thursday's show on the ol' YouTube. This ain't the final mix of footage, but if you missed out, its a bronze medal. I promise there was cheering, however we didn't record it on this version.

In other news, we got our first copies of our single, Freeview



and we also now grace the pages of the Field Records website, where the single will be available from, at the end of the month.

Its even been reviewed super early by Rockfood and we're dead happy about not being 'lazy susans'. Look out for more exciting Actionier stuff happening in the next couple of months...

Feb 18th 2008

Ahhh. A month of rest. Actionier have switched HQ's and we're preparing for what could be a busy couple o' months. I could write something to inform you using all of my intelligence and wit, but it would be far from rivalling Iain's blog on the EVIL MYSPACE BLOG. Check it out.

Jan 30th 2008

We've hit this month with the ground running. Some great gigs in both Sheff and the big smoke, and the single is 'in production' - exciting. A good response from the Freeview video has inspired us to start thinking of our next video idea. Any suggestions welcome. Tomorrow is Leeds, if you are in Leeds, come along, and if you know anyone in Leeds, tell them too. Together we can beat the traffic... Si

Jan 10th 2008

Our video for 'Freeview' is now available on here... Check the Music Page to have a gander if you're free. We like it.Si

Jan 2nd 2008

Merry New Year! Our first shows of 2008 have been slightly sorted - see the Gigs Page for more details. Look out for a couple of cheeky new recordings appearing soon, as well as a new video. Keep popping back... Si

Nov 18th

The AP article is lovely and pretty...



They say...

"THE STORY SO FAR: Following his departure from Sheffield's 65daysofstatic, vocalist and and guitarist Iain Armstrong circulated an ad for his next project with the J. Foxian headline "When the DeLorean hits 88mph!" and soon recruited guitarist Simon Linskill, drummer Sam Dougherty and bassist Tom Doyle for his kinetic, math-rock "dream band.

Doyle says, "there must be something in the beer this way because we had a mass of people just as excited as about the music as we were before we'd played a gig".

WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW 'EM: The Mathlete EP was picked up by BBC Radio 1 (which Doyle reminds is "The biggest freaking radio station this side of the pond") and contains a melodic cross-section of Dillinger-esque time signature abuse and Fugazi post-sing-alongs. "Why write music to nod your head to when you can write music to save the world to?" Poses Doyle. "Listen with open ears and pretend you're a superhero".

Nov 1st

A new month and stained skin. Today sees the publication of December's AP magazine who are kind enough to feature us in their unsigned section. We had a marvellous week recording our single, plus a few other 'spare' tracks that may well crop up somewhere. All recorded by Chris at Remedy Recordings.
Last night was our Halloween show with Rolo Tomassi. I still have a red face and hands from the zombie schoolgirl outfits. A fun time was had - here's what we played:

Racer
Mathlete
Mystery One
Tao of Kimmy Yeah
Pause
The Fal
Kick Colt
Freeview
Philosophy Part Two

At least, I think that's right. I lost the setlist in all the gore. Simon

Sep 30th

Howdy again. There's nothing nicer in these autumnal months of the year to gather twigs, be all rosy cheeked and joyous, and also have your music remixed. Our music page now has a remix of our song Racer on it, courtesy of the brilliant 65daysofstatic. Its a bustling techno classic that we're most pleased with. If you're not familiar with the original, if you head over to Last.Fm you should be able to find the original on there. I will probably put it in this place too once I can be arsed, and when I have more frequent ftp access. Enjoy, and if for some reason you haven't listened to 65 - do. Si

Aug 30th

Hello readers. Its Simon here. Iain has a taste for the Blog nowadays so I felt the website was being a little neglected, so here's some news. After the traditional summer hiatus of few gigs we already have an interesting autum coming up, with our first jaunts outside the UK (as a band that is). Another video is on its way, plus we will be recording new stuff for our split single that's going to come out on Field Records at some point in the future. Don't know when yet. We've added another band to our Spectaculier III at the Grapes - Colombo's Mac from Stratford-Upon-Avon, as they are most wonderful, and right up your street if you like shouty yet subtle Reuben-esque rock. I sure do.
I'm gonna save more news for someone else to write as this isn't amazingly witty...

Jul 11th

Here's what we played last night:

Theme For A Superfriend
Kick Colt
Almeida
Mathlete
Mystery One
Philosophy Pt.2
Racer
Freeview

Jul 6th

*UPDATE* Not doing the 12th of July now, but there is still going to be a Team Tall gig on the 26th at the Casbah. And you should come to Heart Yeah's album launch on the 10th. Wickedy Wah.

Jul 3rd

A weekend of rain, camping and motorbikes. Some exciting news though - in September we will be playing host to Derry's Fighting With Wire and our other friends from across the water LaFaro. No confirmed venue yet, but it will be an awesome show for sure.

In other news, we have been asked to do a DJ set next week - we are not yet sure what we're going to play but its safe to say that we have agreed to keep it interesting (but not in the Hard House mash-up kinda way), and also next week is Heartyeah's album launch, which we are playing at with Calf By Calf and some other Sheffy goodness. I'm going to get Sam to write the next news as we have not heard about his appalling cooking fo some time now. Peace out.Si

May 18th

Some pretty pics from the Youthmovies gig are available on the Corporation website here. Twas a good gig... Si

May 10th

Simon writes...Wow... this hasn't been updated in a while - we really should pull our socks up. But we have an excuse, its been pretty busy recently. If any of you have read Iain's blog on the 'other place' (Rupert Murdoch's sinister Fox Kid's death-cult known also as Myspace) you'll know that we played our biggest show yet, supporting Yourcodenameis: Milo at the Fuzz Club.

Yesterday we had the great news that everyone's favourite Welshman, Huw Stephens played our song Racer on his show, plus the good ol' Beeb are putting Mathlete on their Unsigned Podcast this friday.

Our bank holiday weekend was not quite as relaxing as most as we were tied up and shot (by cameras) for our latest video. Shot over 2 days and 2 locations, it will look sa-weet I reckon... Here's some of what I saw from the sidelines with my shitty camera...

April 1st

Simon writes...The wonderful Steve Cape will be shooting our next video on May 6th. Strangley, it won't be for a song from the Mathlete EP but I can promise something interesting...

March 25th

Simon writes...2 'new' old tracks available on the Music page. They're exactly a year old and are from our first ever show. Its nice to have an MP3 clearout once in a while...

March 21st

Sam writes
Actionier have been busy! The EP is completed in its unmastered form, and might I add, sounds amazing! Many thanks to Chris RemedyRecs for all the works he's put in!

However, the journey to the completed ep was far from easy; blood, sweat and tears have gone into the final product. Each CD contains at least 1% genuine Actionier DNA, thats a lot of double helix's!

Any suggestions for cover art would be much appreciated. If enough drawings are sent in, we may have an 'Art Attack' style display, for which Neil Buchanan will be drafted in. Neil will pick his favourite pictures and say a few words: "Ooh, look at this...Lyndsey, aged 11 from Goldthorpe has sent in this underwater collage. Look at the way she's used crepe paper to give it a 3D effect. Super" etc. etc. Neil will then recreate the best design on a vast scale, perhaps on a football pitch, using everyday items.
So...GET DRAWING!!

The Cricketer's gig last night, organised by Team Tall, was super! Petals was ACE. (This is grammatically correct as Petals is an individual. Check him out!) Towers (all the way from Philly) were awesome.
Good luck to them for the rest of their tour. Hopefully they made it to Belfast!

Over the last couple of weeks, Actionier have learned a great deal and grown as people. (Simon is now 7 feet). Here are a few pearls of wisdom:

• Don't kick people's pint glasses when they put them down outside. As good an idea as this may seem initially, IT ISN'T!

• Do eat at Kebab Delight on London Road and eat in. The meals are substantial to say the least and service is excellent!

• Pink is the new yellow

• We may never be able to fill the boots left by John Williams in the form of the Jurassic Park theme tune.

February 25th

An interesting show at the Raynor Lounge last night... Here's the set-list:

Theme For a Superfriend
Kick Colt
Mathlete
Philosophy Part One
Philosophy Part Two
Freeview
Almeida
Her Bribe
Racer

February 22nd

Some good news from the spiritual 'home' venue of actionier that is Corporation, we got an ace slot supporting Youthmovies on the 16th of May. This will be good. Nice... Simon.

February 13th

Our self-run event was a big success, and we wish to thank everyone who came along, including Standard Issue from Stoke and Married to the Sea from Liverpool. We look forward to seeing you again in your respective home towns. The gig was also visited by one of o2's 'Undiscovered Scouts'. The poor thing, sat in his tent, all alone. An undiscovered scout, feeling the solitude of Baden-Powell's movement... Si

January 14th

2007 dudes. Happy New Year! Our first event of the new year was a house party which went down a treat. We are also available for Christenings, Bar Mitzvahs and Wakes. We played alongside the marvellous Calvinball, who will support us on the 8th of Feb at the Red House in Sheffield (a gig we're putting on ourselves), with Married to the Sea from Liverpool and Standard Issue from Stoke-upon-Trent. Those of you in Sheffield we strongly urge to attend - fun is guaranteed, hell, its even underwritten by Lloyds of London.

December 12th

Our EP has now been recorded and is now in the process of being mixed. A big thankyou to Chris of RemedyRecs for the recording and engineering us, and also the fine folks who helped out on the final sunday. Feel proud people, proud...
And of course, Seasons Greetings, Merry Winterval and Happy Yuletide to all our readers.

November 18th

A trip to Manc in a poisonous van but a fine time was had, and nice to be back playing the ol' Corp. Come on people, we need you for the all-dayer tomorrow!

The Set-lists from The Roadhouse and Corp were pretty similar... unfortunately I lost them but we premiered new song 'Kick Colt'. (8th and 9th November)

October 12th

Actionier have shirts, and ethical ones at that too. Nothing set up to sell them from here yet but come on peeps, there's a fair few gigs where they'll be available. Many thanks to Jay of Parasite for the printing. Check out his stuff - its awesome...

September 16th

Dartz were wicked! And Stop that Astronaut were fine as always, a fine night...

Set-list from The Red House (28/09/06):

Theme for a Superfriend
Her Bribe
100 Miles Away
Kolchack
Tao of Kimmy Yeah
Almeida
Philsophy Part 2
Racer
Pause

September 23rd

Tom got hit the mouth today by a frisbee. After it hit, he held his mouth, and then spat, thinking he would be spitting blood. It was in fact a bit of mud, and within one minute of the incident he was fine.

September 16th

Set-list from The Winning Post (15/09/06):

Theme for a Superfriend
Her Bribe
Tao of Kimmy Yeah
Almeida
Tone Kismet
Philsophy Part 2
Pause
Racer

September 10th

Thanks to Team Tall for having us yesterday - it was a fun if not slightly chaotic day, so hats off Jay and Stocky of Team Tall for organising all the bands for that saturday. Time left us with a shorter set but the atmospher was great.
In other news, you may hear actionier noise coming from the Foundry at Sheffield Uni all this week in the afternoons, as we are helping with the sound training there...

Set-list from D'n'R (09/09/06):

Fear of Numbers
Her Bribe
Tao of Kimmy Yeah
Almeida
Philsophy Part 2
100 Miles Away
Kolchack
Pause

August 12th

Well, after the summer hiatus, we're finally ready to rock again, with City Screen in York tomorrow, and a Sheffield date on the 21st, with 2 excellent Sheff bands, Stop that Astronaut and the Venkman Heist, former Avalon buddies. And of course, lets not forget the Team Tall fest on the 9th of September which will be a blast - its rare you get such a collection of awesome bands for just a fiver...

July 13th

The next crop of shows have suddenly sprung up, predominantly in Sheffield at the moment, but one in York in September. We're also in the process of getting some merch style stuff sorted out, because living isn't worthwhile without actionier merch.

June 19th

It's all been a bit quiet on here for a while. Well, if all goes well, we should be shooting another video in a couple of weeks or so, but of course, its more exciting if we don't reveal which song we're doing it for... Over the summer we hope to record an EP, but at this stage the details aren't finalised. Keep checking back for more info...

May 14th

The track 'Tao of Kimmy Yeah' is now available on our myspace page. There are some more tracks in the pipeline and some will probably make it to the music page on this site. Keep checking back, it will be here!

May 7th

The Corporation was a fun gig - its nice to play so close to home and Fighting With Wire are a most excellent band.

The video to Philosophy Pt.2 is available to download from our music page. We're working on getting it streamed so its a bit easier but its there now...

April 21st

Thanks to everyone who saw us at Stockton. It was nice to get a pleasant North East welcome, and thanks to Stolen Sun and the Oxfam Glamour Models.

Other stuff, we've recently recorded a loada stuff again, but there may be a slight hiatus before its on here or the myspace. And yes, the video is still on its way...."

March 28th

On Saturday 25th March, members of Sepultura stole cupcakes from Actionier's rehearsal room, as it was being used as a dressing room for their gig, and the following day the band were left to deal with the sad site of an empty box of the Fabulous Baking Boys Assorted Cupcakes (worth ?1). If anyone manages to see Sepultura around anywhere, please ask about our cakes..."

March 22nd

Thanks for everyone who came to see us play at D'n'R on the 20th - it was a good night and we all enjoyed it thoroughly, and special thanks to Steel Reasoning and Severed Nerve.

The next stop is a headline show at the Georgian Theatre in Stockton-on -Tees...

February 13th

There’s some new dates published on our gigs page now, in Stockton-On-Tees, Sheffield and Chesterfield. The Sheffield gig will be with our good friends, Lucifer Matches. Check them out here. The Chesterfield gig is an all-dayer at the Green Room – make sure you wear your metal-core hats….

February 5th

After a 15 hour day of shooting, we have finally shot the video for ‘Philosophy Part Two’. It was filmed at the Lantern Theatre, Sheffield, and should be available on this site in a couple of weeks. Massive thanks to everyone who was involved on the day, and we hope you look forward to seeing it as much as we do. Expect lions, tigers, pandas and bears, and some mild nudity. Keep checking back for more info…

February 2nd

Another track, ‘Tone Kismit’ is available on the Remedy Recs myspace page at www.myspace.com/remedyrecs

January 30th

We now have three tracks on our Myspace from our January recording, ‘Philsophy Part Two’, ‘Her Bribe’ and ‘Fear Of Numbers’. They’re all available to download so enjoy!

January 1st

Happy New Year everyone! We’re hoping 2006 will be a good actionier year, so stay tuned and keep an eye out for us at clubs, bars and beauty salons around the UK… Go on, treat yourself.

December 28th

We’ll soon be recording some of our tracks with Chris from Remedy Recs. We hope to have some available here, or on the Myspace page at some point in the next month or so.