Gaffa Tape Sandy, garage rock from Bury St Edmunds and Brighton

Garage rock, Bury St Edmunds and Brighton

Listen to “Home Waiting”Tonight: Norwich

The three members of the band on a green velvet sofa

Gaffa Tape Sandy
100% garage rock
Made in Bury St Edmunds, 2015
Lining: sandpaper

Live

P40

Kim Jarvis, Catherine Lindley-Neilson and Robin Francis

On the road now

Tonight
Norwich
Voodoo Daddy's
Tickets
Saturday 3 Oct
Bury St Edmunds
The Hunter Club, Washing Machine's 15th birthday party
Tickets

Just played

London, Barfly Camden1 October 2026
Brighton, Prince Albert30 September 2026
Brighton, Chalk6 July 2026
Brighton, The Hope & Ruin12 May 2026
London, The Black Heart17 February 2026

The band has listed 102 shows in 28 towns since 2016.

Every show, on a map

Music

New single, 11 August 2026

Home Waiting

It is out now on Bandcamp and everywhere else you listen to music.

Buy on Bandcamp Spotify

Listen on Bandcamp Red vinyl and CD

Debut album, 31 May 2024

Hold My Hand, God Damn It

Alcopop! Records, Counter Intuitive Records

1Body In The Water
2Scrapbook
3Dead to Me
4Evil, Evil, Evil
5Get Off
6Split
7Rosemary
8Devour (Rosemary Pt. II)
9Medicine
10Energy
11Holding Hands
12Queasy

Recorded and produced by George Perks at Vada Studios.

EP, 2019

Family Mammal

Alcopop! Records

8 tracks and credits

Beehive
Meat Head
My Desperate House
Headlights
So Dry
Dinner Jacket
Turnstile
Kill The Chord

Produced, recorded and mixed by George Perks at The Crypt Studio, London and VADA Recording Studios, Worcestershire. Mastered by Andy “Hippy” Baldwin at Metropolis Mastering. Artwork layout and design by Cameron JL West.

EP, 2017

Spring Killing

Self-released, reissued by Antigen Records in 2019

8 tracks and credits

Water Bottle
Pink Neck / Train Wreck
Black Christmas
Manager
Transylvania
Collarbones
Smart Dressed Guy
L'appel du Vide

Recorded, mixed and produced by George Perks at Punch Studios and Crypt Studios. Mastered at Metropolis by Andy “Hippy” Baldwin. Artwork by Kim Jarvis.

Singles and one-offs

Videos

Energy, official video, 2024

My Desperate House
Official video, 2019
Headlights
Official video, 2019
Beehive
Official video, 2018
Water Bottle
Official video, 2017
Smart Dressed Guy
Official video, 2016

About

Gaffa tape is handy

Say it out loud and you get the name. It turned up at the very first rehearsal, in 2015, when three students at West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds started a band.

A first EP, Spring Killing, took them to the BBC Music Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2017 and into the NME 100 the following year. They signed to Alcopop! Records for Family Mammal in 2019 and released their debut album, Hold My Hand, God Damn It, in May 2024.

Along the way they have opened for IDLES, Buzzcocks, The Subways, Mom Jeans and Destroy Boys.

Kim Jarvis, vocals, guitar
Catherine Lindley-Neilson, vocals, bass
Robin Francis, drums

2015Kim, Catherine and Robin meet at West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds and start a band.
2016First single, “Smart Dressed Guy”, self-released in February.
2017Spring Killing EP in April. The BBC Music Introducing stage at Glastonbury in June.
2018Named in the NME 100. Latitude, The Great Escape, Truck, Y Not and Iceland Airwaves.
2019Signed to Alcopop! Records. Family Mammal EP in August.
2020First headline tour in March, cut short by lockdown.
2022Sniester in The Hague, V11 in Rotterdam, Latitude again.
2023On the road with The Subways and Mom Jeans. 2000trees. “Split” in November.
2024Debut album, Hold My Hand, God Damn It, in May. UK headline tour in the autumn.
2025The UK and Europe with Destroy Boys.
2026Indiefjord in Norway in July. New single, “Home Waiting”, in August.