Reef : Give Me Your Love
Mary Poppins, are Reef still at it? We assumed they’d evolved into some slightly more advanced lifeform - Neanderthal man, perhaps - and now spend their days crafting rudimentary flint tools. Still, they have reached the rock’n’roll endgame...
Reef : All I Want
Soaring stuff from the big-hearted, bulgy-trousered West Country boys, who've returned home from another world tour only to find their picturesque hamlets covered in greasy ash and bits of charred wool. Shouldn't they be getting together with...
Reef/Crashland: London Shepherd's Bush Empire
Crashland frontman Alex Troup is an intense-looking young man, possessed of the kind of cool haircut, studied vulnerability and world-weary demeanour that practically guarantees you thermonuclear pop star status these days. And he's got songs too....
Getaway
They might be idiots, but at least Reef are happy idiots. How so? Well, they're the kind of no-brainer, surf-bum berks whose attempt at upping their glam-ante involves recording their latest album in Belgium. Sheesh. You'd despair of poor...
London Hoxton Jack The Bass Player's Flat
Reef 's Tarzan-like bass player, Jack Bessant , is being kicked out of his flat in east London's trendy Hoxton. Estate agents and landlords have decided that Hoxton is so happening right now that not even a platinum-selling rock star can afford...
Set The Record Straight
Reef Set The Record Straight (S2) The cliche of the title is just one among many here. Reef are doubtless the sort of band who talk, Judas Priest -style, about "delivering the goods" live. 'Set The Record Straight' is...
London WC2 Astoria
Tread carefully and avoid direct eye-contact, children, they could break into 'Freebird' at any moment. That Reef are a dumbo, derivative rock combo is a truth so banal as to be almost unworthy of repeating. That, with their penchant...
Reef : New Bird
Is there anything more soul-destroying than putting the new Reef single in the CD player and pressing 'Repeat'? It's unlikely. Still, the 'West Country's finest' take time out from their busy festival schedule to bring us this important...
Reef : Sweety
Hard to love but impossible to actively dislike, the yak-lunged hippy-metal knob-flashers of Olde Glastonbury Town here downshift into (relatively) reflective mode as human Viz character Gary Stringer The Hairy Singer delivers a tender...
London SW7 Royal Albert Hall
"I like tequila!/It mek me happy!" No, sorry, that's Terrorvision . This is Reef - the other mighty-biceped bunch of lantern-jawed provincial troglodytes who bring us lumps of ROCK from way beyond the back of beyond. "Oh! Some more ROCK!...
