Shield Your Eyes - Reach

I have been meaning to do a bit in the show about Stef/Shield Your Eyes/Gnats Clit for YEARS! I'm reasonably certain that Stef is a genius, but it's very difficult to explain why. Imagine that America never existed; that blues was coughed up in the fields of England centuries ago; that Aldershot is Englands Detroit, and that The West End Centre is the Grande Ballroom. Add (William Burroughs-style) Pirates; tarmac those fields; move up to the present...Now imagine what a timeless music, wearing a doublet and hose, might emerge from that mess?


This is the new album. It is INCREDIBLE.

The doggerel I just wrote really does this no justice damnit
UPDATE -
REACH TOUR
14.11.13 - Wharf Chambers, Leeds
15.11.13 - Maguires Pizza, Liverpool
16.11.13 - Chameleon, Nottingham
17.11.13 - the Victoria, London
18.11.13 - book us
19.11.13 - book us
20.11.13 - Gaztetxea, Getaria
21.11.13 - Arrebato, Zaragoza
22.11.13 - la Residencia, Valencia
23.11.13 - la Faena II, Madrid
24.11.13 - Barcelona
25.11.13 - book us
26.11.13 - book us
27.11.13 - the Black Sheep, Montpellier
28.11.13 - book us
29.11.13 - Triperie, Lyon
30.11.13 - l'Appart Café, Reims
01.12.13 - Espace B, Paris
02.12.13 - Cowley Club, Brighton
03.12.13 - Tamesis boat, London