ACTION DIRECTE - COMMUNIQUE 'COUP POUR COUP' JUNE 2010

Welcome comrades to the next phase in the musical guerilla campaign of Action Directe. After celebrating their first ten years of active duty with friends old and new in Leeds in May, the band is rejuvenated and ready for a more vigorous engagement with the ConDemNation that is UK2010.

ELECTRO-BOURGEOIS DEVIATIONS DEFEATED!
The Action Directe Politburo met on the 30th May in the shelter of a Leeds bar side room, where they frankly discussed the achievements and limitations of the bands current position. After much criticism and self-criticism, it was agreed that the internal power vacuum that led to the electro-bourgeois deviations of the 'Vanguard' album were a mistake, for which Comrade Heyes has to take full responsibility. It was the unanimous agreement of the committee that Action Directe had to reclaim their position at the forefront of industrial punk, with renewed political zeal and musical aggression, and that these were too important a time of social struggle and upheaval to derail the band into escapist retro-futurist dead ends. With a line now drawn under the previous four years, Action Directe are now ready to pick off where they left off with the 'Intervention' album in 2006 and reclaim their position leading the digital resistance. 

BUILDING THE DIGITAL RESISTANCE!
So the rest of 2010 will see the band up the momentum and regain the initiative. We can confirm that there will be a new Action Directe released in October, which will set the record straight and set the new standard for industrial anarcho-punk, which will be preceded in August by a new single taken from the album. We are also pleased to announce that Action Directe will be widening the resistance on a UK tour starting in September, which will continue through to November.

Whilst the band is their targets to their UK2010 campaign, there is still the matter of some housekeeping to attend to. We are sorry for announce that the band's drummer man AntiAndy has left Action Directe for pastures new, and the band wish him all the best for the future. In order to prepare for the future and adjust to new circumstances, the core trio of Action Directe - Joel Heyes, Danny Carnage and Charlotte Winchcombe - are looking to bolster their sound and line-up, and are looking at various methods of doing so. More news, as they say, when we get it...

By way of preparing for future live operations, Action Directe are dusting off the barbed wire and berets and will be undergoing preliminary performances at the following venues:

Fri 4th June - Newcastle Head of Steam (w/Death By Electro Giants, Death Emitting Diode & Superhcharger) - FREE GIG!
Sat 24th July - Leeds Bar Santiagos - Yob-Goth.com Relaunch and Summer Party w/Spekulus and The Last Cry - £3 Entry

But first....

NORTH KOREA'S DREAMING!
In order to have one final indulgence before the big push, we can confirm that Action Directe will be releasing a special AA-side online single to celebrate the achievements of the DPRK in reaching the World Cup final. In order to commemorate the achievements of North Korea, Action Directe will be unveiling their unofficial North Korean World Cup anthem, 'Juche Dance (Action Directe Megamix by HGV)' as well as a brand new track, 'Singing For The Clampdown'. The band promise that the tracks will be available online at www.actiondirecte.co.uk before a ball in kicked on the 11th June!

Until then - get some rest (you'll need it!) and watch this space.

Action Directe - Def Before Dishonour!//
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