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Re-Action Recordings

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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 - JunkboxSpecial Needs - Funfairs and HeartbreakSpike Priggen - There's No Sound In FlutesMalcolm Ross - Wrong Place Wrong TimeThe Primary 5 - Go!Simon Breed - The Filth and Wonder of...Adventure Club - Wilderness MusicSerotone - EquilibriaThat 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

My Interests

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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

My Blog

THE LOW MIFFS AND MALCOLM ROSS - ALBUM NEWS (Updated)

April 26thFinally the collaborative project between The Low Miffs and Malcolm Ross is complete. A more eclectic collection of songs, you'd be hard pushed to find.Wilfully out of step with anything els...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:36:00 GMT

THE CATHODE RAY - Guardian review

SLIPPING AWAY DOWNLOAD SINGLEhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/09/new-band-c athode-ray....The lineup: Paul Haig (vocals, guitars, synths), Jeremy Thoms (vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion),...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:38:00 GMT

Guide/Info on Recently Added Videos

Finally, after a long lay-off, were now starting to update our MySpace  things have been quiet over the last six months, but with scheduled releases from both Malcolm Ross and The Low Miffs, and The...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:10:00 GMT

THE CATHODE RAY - Download Single

A quick update to announce that the The Cathode Ray digital single Slipping Away will be available for download from iTunes etc from Monday April 6th.Slipping away is a shiny example of how great-guit...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:36:00 GMT

Malcolm Ross & The Low Miffs - The Cathode Ray - Gustaf Heden - Update!!

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 Bre...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:07:00 GMT

SIMON BREED - The Smitten King Laments - Reviews

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/8278/Simon-Breed---T he-Smitten-King-Laments.html Simon Breed - The Smitten King Laments Artist: Simon BreedLabel: Re-Action RecordingsIn the (almost) title-tr...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:49:00 GMT

SIMON BREED single and album imminent

SIMON BREED   precedes debut February 2008 album with new single  'Finish My Book'  - out 19 November 2007 "& if you can imagine Jim Noir crossed with Nick Cave,  you're part wa...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:13:00 GMT

Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist - Single and album imminent

Dave Graney and The Lurid Yellow Mist release a download single '68 Babe (name, rank and rock-scene) on November 19th, and release:-.. The Brother Who Lived album on March 3rd 2008    ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:36:00 GMT

Serotone album EQUILIBRIA out October 1st

Serotone, Scottish 5-piece rock act, released their debut single EQUILIBRIA in August - the reviews are still coming in. They are currently gearing up for the release of their debut album proper&...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:27:00 GMT

Simon Breed - Devastating Sky and Filth and Wonder of... reviews

Live Review  Catch, Kingsland Road, London     10th August 2007 Simon Breed is a light bulb waiting to explode into a million different ideas. His brilliantly witty and cleverl...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:09:00 GMT