Neil Holmes - Business/Legal/Financial
Innes Reekie - A&R/Creative/Out and About
John Devolle - Artwork/Design
Etkilendikleri
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
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We're hoping the site will be another useful way for music lovers to find new music. So if you like it, please use it and also pass on the link.
It seems a lot of people are leaving Myspace so I've set up a bunch of other music-based profiles... if you want to keep track of what I'm up to you can follow me or fan me or whatever it is those sites encourage. Come and say hi!
I'll still be here too of course, if this is your social networking venue of preference.
“..The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless , but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to note it as only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming kind that I know to have been concerned with a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw ,what do you say to two children -?’
We say of course, somebody exclaimed, that two children give two turns!..” (H.James, ‘The turn of the screw’)
***Jimmy and The Destroyers - The Fastest, loudest rock n roll band in the World!*** invite ya to our FREE SHOW at Belushis in Camden - onstage 11PM THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!
be stoked to see ya if you are up for comin down!!
Episode 41 of Jim Gellatly's NEW MUSIC sees Jim catching up on his backlog of new tunes between his T In The Park and Wickerman Festival Specials. Selected tracks come from the likes of Mitchell Museum, Cruiser, Union Of Knives, The Low Miffs And Malcolm Ross, The Cordels, The ViviansJesus H. Foxx, Amy Petty and Na Gathan.
(feel free to spread the word! MySpace banner available on Jim's MySpace Profile)
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!
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