Secret gig

A-tota-so in Sheffield

Want to see this show in a super secret place?  Get in touch, and we'll see...

24th November 2011

Do you enjoy Peace In The Park? Why not pop along to a fundraiser at the Red House this Thursday. Its being recorded for Sheffield Live, so you might even be able to get on the wireless. 

 

Here we go

As promised, the first batch of shirts.  Its white on black.  And that looks like this:

There's some in the Rude Shipyard, and also for sale wherever you find us.  Which I would imagine is generally at gigs.  These are around the eight quid region.  If you're not nearby jot us a line at the address on the shout page.

Quiet down now...

Them t-shirts we mentioned before, well, they should be done soon. As you would expect, these will be available at gigs, but also I imagine we'll set summat up on here for online retailing. Also, those who are lucky enough to live in Sheffield will be able to pick them up from some actual real life shops. When we know which ones, you'll be the first to know. 


At the moment we're in a writing groove, so shows are on the down-low somewhat. There's the van benefit (sounds like a German prince) on the 28th at (where else) the Red House. And if we're lucky, a trip to Nottingham in November. You know, the place where Robin Hood is NOT from, nor particularly hung out at.* I think they still have a lot of guns there, so we won't announce this down there. 


Guy's drumming (for Little Robots) was commended in Now Then magazine (listed under Zachary Cale) as 'almost trip-hop'. And that's the headlines. 


*Holt, J.C. (1982) Robin Hood: People's Hero Or Lawless Marauder 


"First published in 1982 and never equalled" - Contemporary Review

Bit of us on here

Round Two

From Nick Deakin:

Shredding Planner...

Oh come on now...

Did they just...?

Mew

Here's the first shirt design...

[Click to enlarge...]

Now Then (young man)

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Summer Of Disco Tent

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It was warm so we had a party in place of a gig.  Things will probably slow for a bit as 25% of KY will be in Japan for 3 weeks very shortly.  That's because we're BIG IN JAPAN.  And when you're BIG IN JAPAN you have to show that you love Japan, and love being BIG in it.

Some further news too, but I don't want to jinx it quite yet.

Skillz

*Photo by Rob Gunby

Boo but yeah and data mining

Oh dear - the Northwich gig has been cancelled.  OK, postponed then.  Sorry - out of our control.


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...you can download our little 4-player in its entirety from a popular tool known as 'bandcamp' (link) (see how I use Granddad quotes).  There is a catch however, and that is that we would very much like your email address.  We can then send you the occasional electronic letter.  That would be swell yeah?

Tomorrow

Despite our solid base in Sheffield, we've never played the Harley.  That's not to say we've not set foot in there, just never been asked before.  Well tomorrow we're there: with Arcane Roots (link).

Sheffield Live(s)

Denzil at the Indie Hour had some nice things to say about us the other day.  You can download the podcast by clicking on Noel Edmonds below:

This Is How We Write

Many thanks to Stephen Chase for this.

Rolling Thunder

Those of you who know us might know that we are very supportive of our city's roller derby team, the Sheffield Steel Roller Girls (you might have seen their merch at our last DIY show).  Well, there's soon to be a film about them (following them up to their last Sheffield bout against Leeds) and the KY is featured on the soundtrack somewhere.  I don't know where, and I don't even know which song.  Es un misterio.


Please do not get us wrong - we are not endorsing the World Of Sports Entertainment, literally just roller derby because its a sport that's actually good.  So if you're in Sheffield on the 2nd of July, come to this:

Skillz

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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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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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