Monday 30 May 2011

We're 4, and it's For...

We recorded recently, so you might catch us flogging this:


You can download the first track 'Sticklebricks' from the music page of our website.  You may choose mp3, ogg or glorious flac formats.  If you're old skool, you can come to a gig and purchase the tangible for a meagre £2.  We'll even write your name in for you.  To personalise it like.

Skillz

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Tuesday 24 May 2011

chris....... can you....... yer'know.......... fix the sound?

for the purpose of any notes you're keeping, i shall break with the tradition of any traditional bullet point(ing).


1) chris walker; bon viveur, cavalier, lover and fighter, but in this instance (and most importantly) studio king, covered us in microphones and recorded our prolonged wade through four of our songs. Using his wits and a digital machete, he trimmed the false starts, misplaced screams and blue humour and left us with four very very live tracks. These tracks are known to us as sticklebricks, abc, fropack, and ask the universe. soon they will be known to you. god help you.


b) we have several gigs coming up. if you didn't know already, we haven't been playing out much. we are the musical equivalent of a quiet neighbour who kept himself to himself. Well, as so often we find with these stories, we're ready to drug, capture, kill and skin the innocent passing pedestrian that is sheffields live music scene. well, not really, but we really are ready to play gigs, big fat gigs. yes sir. but how did we get from where we were to where we are. guy. that's how.


guy, why are you here?:


3:1 - when we formed kimmy yeah it was an antidote to the delirium of being 3/4 of a 4 piece band. as actionier we had a drummer, the drummer went to japan, we formed a three piece band called kimmy yeah and the guitarist played the drums. it was so exciting. so new. so temporary. or so we thought.


3:11 - drummer came back. played for a bit then had to go away again. so then all we have is kimmy yeah.


3:2 - but if we were going to do it then out with the 'make shift' and 'make do' and in with new blood, new songs, new studio, blah blah blah.... most importantly we got guy.


3:3 - guy was the best person to join our band. the three of us hadn't pissed in any other baths in a long time and it was going to take a special kind of person to make sense of a band that is almost never what anybody else thinks it to be. we are a genre-less conundrum of noisy music holding simple ideals in the kernel of each chorus, bridge, middle eight and very occasionally a verse. just trying to write a song and sing it. thats about it and thats about all guy has seemed to want to do with us. perfick.


# so. first gig with 4 of us on wednesday 25th may 2011. i'll tell you how it went.


thanks,


Kimmy Armstrong

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Thursday 19 May 2011

Midweek at the Red House

May 25th is a significant date for us in Kimmy Yeah.  If anyone has read stuff before, you might know that we have grown from 3 to 4, with the addition of Guy on drums.  Guy also plays in other bands.


I've not seen United Fruit before, so I'm quite looking forward to putting faces to their tunes.  Conversely, I've seen Pudge loads, but it never gets old.  Great Deeds played at one of our DIY shows before at the Stockroom, but they were then known as the Kaido.  I'm not sure if that was meant to be airbrushed from history but there we go.


We did a rough and ready recording of some of our 4 piece goodness the other week, and hopefully, following a few tweaks we'll be able to make this available, more than likely at an incredibly low price.  The songs included cover such heartfelt subjects as old toys, Noel Edmonds, poor puns and ageing.  Zounds.


Skillz

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