Member Since: 12/07/2006
Band Website: www.re-action.uk.com
Band Members: 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
Sounds Like: The future; with an affectionate nod to the past!
Record Label: Proudly Independent
Type of Label: Indie