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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