Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Nigel Chapman renders the world from the outside in, with a kind of absurd spiritual reverence. His literary sophisti-pop band, Nap Eyes, sprout lyrical imagery of animal spirits and phantoms and 13th century castles and if you’re into Breakfast Records this is a no-brainer. FFO: Destroyer, the propelling wind of the self development paradigm, David Berman."
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A gig held at The Louisiana on Monday 5th May. The event starts at 19:30.
We're thrilled to be hosting one of our favourite bands - Nap Eyes - for their first ever show in Bristol. We've loved these guys for a long time and their new album 'The Neon Gate' is further proof of their understated genius.
Nap Eyes makes crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Nova Scotian rain. Their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA, brain protein aggregation, and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia, self-reproach, and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as enigmatic songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Nap Eyes makes crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Nova Scotian rain. Their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA, brain protein aggregation, and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia, self-reproach, and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as enigmatic songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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