Neil Holmes - Business/Legal/Financial
Innes Reekie - A&R/Creative/Out and About
John Devolle - Artwork/Design
Influences
Some, or most of the following have been instrumental in why Re-Action exists today;-
Musically:- The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Eno, T.Rex, Sparks, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gene Clark, The Byrds, CSNY, Neil Young, John Prine, The Lovin' Spoonful, Arthur Lee and Love, The Mamas and the Papas, Emmylou Harris, New York Dolls, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Fire Engines, Television, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, Snatch, Pere Ubu, Rocket From the Tombs, The Only Ones, The Stooges, Luke Haines/The Auteurs, Elliott Smith, The Go-Betweens, Throwing Muses, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, James Chance and The Contortions, The Ronettes, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Francoise Hardy, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Nectarine No.9, PJ Harvey, John Cale, Nico, Serge Gainsbourg, Aztec Camera, Mazzy Star, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Moodists, Tindersticks, Special Needs, Primal Scream, Junkbox, Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Slits, Shane McGowan/The Pogues, Subway Sect, The Fall, Creeping Bent Records, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Sly Stone, Josef K, King Tubby, Phil Spector, The Kills, Domino Records, The Ronettes, Orange Juice, George Clinton, Fred Neil, Creation Records, Lee Perry, Don Van Vliet, The Modern Lovers, Charlie Parker, Sterling Morrison, The Pop Group, Suicide, The Shangri-Las, The Birthday Party....
Generally:- Hubert Selby Jr, Theodore Gericault, Jean Seberg, Anna Karina, Truman Capote, Luis Bunuel, Chloe Sevigny, Christopher Walken, Baader-Meinhoff Group, Beatrice Dalle, Gunter Grass, Andy Warhol, JD Sallinger, Lester Bangs, Pier Paulo Passolini, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Bukowski, Pablo Escobar, Dan Fante, Francois Truffaut, Irene Jacob, Guy Debord, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Lenny Bruce, John Kennedy Toole, JD Salinger, Jackson Pollock, Gregory Corso, Jean Paul Sartre, Anaiis Nin, Edie Sedgwick, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Luc Godard, F Scott Fitzgerald, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Henry Miller, James Woods, Federico Fellini, Jon Savage, Alejandro Jodorowski, Leo Carax, Hunter S Thompson, Lindsay Anderson, Catherine Deneuve, Abel Ferrara, NYC 1974, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Verlaine, Pedro Almodovar, Brion Gysin, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Alex Trocchi, Krzyzstof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, Milan Kundera, JK Huysmans, Sam Shepherd, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest Hemmingway, Federico Garcia Lorca, Juliette Binoche, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Nick Kent, Mary Woronov, William Burroughs, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton etc
Talent Borrows - Genius Steals!
We formed in April 2005 - it's been a hard slog at times, but hey, it now feels like we're running rather than walking. Furthermore, the quality and diversity of the available music thus far speaks for itself!
Released so far:-
Junkbox - Junkbox
Special Needs - Funfairs and Heartbreak
Spike Priggen - There's No Sound In Flutes
Malcolm Ross - Wrong Place Wrong Time
The Primary 5 - Go!
Simon Breed - The Filth and Wonder of...
Adventure Club - Wilderness Music
Serotone - Equilibria
That was pretty much us for 2007. 2008 has been, for one reason or another, (but mainly the current state of the music industry), a pretty lean year for Re-Action - only two download singles, Dave Graney's epic '68 Babe, and Simon Breed's vaguely Bunnymen-esque Finish My Book. The one physical release, the excellent Simon Breed long-player The Smitten King Laments, received a barrage of glowing reviews in both the UK and Europe, drawing comparisons with John Cale, Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nick Cave!!!
Currently, there are two more physical releases and several digital downloads scheduled over the next few months and into 2009. Both, see Re-Action going back to its roots, by virtue of the fact that both bands are Scottish, and strangely enough both feature a member of the legendary Edinburgh band, Josef K. First up will see Josef K guitarist, Malcolm Ross, on a one-off album collaboration with Glasgow's excellent The Low Miffs - expect something along the lines of Television and James Chance in a head-on avant-jazz car crash with Jaques Brel and Bertolt Brecht!!!
Secondly, and possibly next year, will see the release of the fantastic art-rock album recently recorded by Edinburgh's The Cathode Ray (Television reference anyone?) featuring ex Josef K singer/guitarist Paul Haig, and various other luminaries of the glory days of Edinburgh in the early '80's. Echoes of Lou Reed and Tom Verlaine with a splash of Beach Boys' pop!!
More details posted as and when they are confirmed
David Virgin interviewed by Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro in June Issue of Hollywood's Punk Globe Magazine OUT NOW (With David Virgin on Front Cover! Click Pic' to read
Do something that doesn't suck this Saturday :-) Ex GRratia Recordings in association with Punkvert and all that's unholy present another evening of orchestrated mayhem. Art, bands, more bands, DJs, VJs - and change from a fiver.
Hi there! We've got a new EP that we're especially proud of called Summer which is the second in our series of seasonal EPs this year. We'd love for you to listen to the EP online, and to do so, just click on the graphic below. If you like what you hear, we'd be very grateful if you'd support our efforts by buying the EP for €2.50 (around $3.20).
Hope all is going great for you. Thanks for being our friend!
hows it goin?? are ya up for poppin in to join us for SONIC SURFCORE MAYHEM at the underworld on sun 29th?
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Dearest Dick Lover, My dear son and his naughty band have released a fitting tribute to the end of George Bush's reign of terror with their animated filmclip George Bush's Chicken. Starring George W at home on the ranch with his muslem chicken Ned as well as guest appearances from some of his closest circle including Osama Bin Laden, Paris Hilton, Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama and Mr Ed, this is the behind the scenes insight the world has long waited for. Kindest Regards Gladys Desert Dick Desert's Mum & Webmistress for Dick Desert & The Shotgun Country Club www. dickdesert. com www. myspace. com/dickdesert www. youtube. com/dickdesert
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