XMAS BAFFing

Hello peeps. You're more than likely too busy shopping or getting rat arsed to read any of this- and if you're not, it's Chistmas for heaven sake, whats wrong with you?

Anyway, as 2006 approaches it's wintery death rattle we feels it's only right to highlight the efforts of certain individuals who made this year more satisfying than seeing Jim Davidson working in McDonalds (and then getting told off for oversalting the fries). A drum roll please.......

Bolt Action Five would like to thank; Chris and Tom from No Pain In Pop records who are releasing our first single "Tree Friend Tree Foe" and managing the group. They have simply been too good to us for words and are responsible for putting on two of our best gigs (at the New Cross Inn and Goldsmiths College Halloween night), as well as organsing all background stuff we don't understand and making sure we're tucked up in bed before the 9pm watershed.Ed Stringfellow from The Agency- who gets us gigs at brilliant venues, such as the Carling Academy which is ACE. He has also shown us lots of support and been a thoroughly good egg.Malcolm from Orange and Blue Studios, who recorded Tree Friend Tree Foe to an indecently high standard. Then he did the sound for us at the Fox Fest in Lewisham and turned BAF into some kind of sonic apocalypse, only louder and with better lighting.Tobias (not our Tobias) is designing the sleeve for our Tree Friend single. This is awsome coz he's a proper artist and he isn't making us pay him loads of money. Plus the sleeve is gonna ROCK!! Kissy Sell Out who is one of our big fans and as well as being the Saviour of Dance Music has done an A-MAZE-ING remix for the b-side of our first single. Dan spent christmas with him too and got a DVD of CBBC's Raven. Steve Lamaq. He played us on Radio 1 you know. Then came to one of our gigs. SCORE!!!! Play Music Magazine gets a shout out for putting us on their cover mount c.d and spreading the good word. Cheers for that. Artrocker Magazinehas also been very kind to us with their live reviews, interview and allowing the group to review a weeks worth of singles (thanks Angela). Nice one guys. Oh yeah, they're also putting us on at the Buffalo Bar on new years eve, where we might well perform a very messy cover of Europes The Final Countdown with all the other bands as a grand finale. Thats only if we havn't passed out from excessive alchohol abuse before then and can still remember the words. (Think yourselves lucky we havent come up with a piss poor Xmas song like the bleedin' Killers).

There have of course been an army of promoters, photographers, journalists and well wishers who have all played their part in making us feel all warm inside- but are too numerous to mention. Of couse, we cant forget all those folks who have showered us with flattering, ego inflating comments on myspace and come to our gigs; to the lot of you I say "have the happiest of Christmas's and the newest of new years"- we think you're all fucking fantastic!!!!!!

One final mention has to go to the bands/ artists we have played with who have been really sweet to us, or just blown us away with their powers of musical genius. Or both. A few names that come to mind are: (Cue Oscar night style build up music)- Blah Blah Blah, Look Look (Dancing Boys), Lost Penguin, Kate Nash, Popular Workshop, Cock N' Bull Kid, Hadouken!, Levelload, Kissy Sell Out, The Cleft Palettes, Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Metronomy, Dave I.D, Fake Shark Real Zombie, Smatka, What Would Jesus Drive?, Tiger Force, Awful Sparks. I'm positive I have missed a few, but thats what happens when tiredness and stupidity become bedfellows. It's nothing personal. However- a great bulging Santa's sack of thank you's to all the above.

Anyway, i'm off to cop a feel of the presents under the Christmas tree to see if I can work out what they are. This will allow ample opportunity for me to practice my "happy" face if anyone from my family has been sick enough to buy me socks.
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM BAF

MARKxxx

Adding INJURY to INSULTS

Yeah so I just got back from playing at The People Vs, where we had to play a rushed set (to be honest we still manage to fit in like 6 songs even in a 15 minute set) cos we had to go at eleven and we were delayed cos The Lancaster Bombers were pissing around getting set up. See, there are disadvantages to headlining kids, JUST SAY NO.

So in support we had washups the Bombers, and before them we had a young band from Devon called, er,... let me check the flyer in our comments bit.... open new tab in firefox.... er.... HEY MOLLY! they were called Hey Molly. Yeah so they were totally post-Libertines-Monkeys generic and they didn't half go on but hell when you're from Devon it don't matter what you play, you still gonna get fucking LAID by every indie girl in your pikey little town. We should know.

Anyway our first song, upon finishing, received two claps. that's TWO claps. From the SAME person. He clapped once, he clapped twice. Then silence.

ah.

and to ADD INJURY TO INSULT i got my front tooth chipped on stage. I look fucking remedial people! off to the dentist i will zoom.
People DID dance by the end, though, so i suppose WE STILL GOT IT.

Shit.

I'm feeling down I need a hug. Any volunteers tonight at the Academy are welcome :(

DTC X X X X

Smiths You LEGENDS//

Okay before I hit the hay I just want to post this up. Not just because it's some nice publicity, but mainly because of how much we love this piece.

It was created by a writer and designer utterly on the same wavelength as us. For once, a journo just gets us - we're not being treated as an anomaly for using a drum machine; for once the references and descriptions are researched and intuitively accurate; and for once someone spelt our FUCKING NAME RIGHT! I mean JEEZ!



There is something here that for us is how we'd want to be shown; an article by guys about guys from the same background. Hell, the designer even clocked the Bolt Action reference and stuck a rifle schematic behind us. right on.

Also the handdrawn logo, the fact that someone acknowledged it and created their own take on it is a nice touch for us. Reminds us of the tats we draw at gigs.






okay rant over. Beddy byes

DTC X X X X

Eastbourne is a ZOMBIE TOWN

Memorable becuase th reviewer was the ONLY PERSON THERE...

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah....for tonight this little club is all noise: a pulsating, techno-industrial ear pounding beaten out from the Jen-Synthetone and guitar combo of Bolt Action Five: a fine four-piece descended from the hallowed halls of Hackney. Up front, Dan the Carnivore is cavorting across the bijou stage .. reacting to the sweeping club lights in a jerky photokinetic romp, and bellowing out a visceral, upended-New-Romantic vocal in between. Behind, the sound is a punk-pop industrial - New Wave whimsy underlined with sludge guitar and then electrified with a manic synth that drives, without fail, through every stunning track: ..Gurl Howl.. is dark-edged camp punk; ..Tree Friend Tree Foe.. is brooding and explosive; and with Dan..s broad grin and a promise that ..We..re gonna party!.., they know how to work the crowd. Perfection: see them now......blah blah blah blah blah blah"

YEAH!! We like this one - there's lots of catchy bits, like PUNK POP INDUSTRIAL and TECHNO-INDUSTRIAL EAR POUNDING

YEAH!!! We like those

ianxxx