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The profile · researched 18 September 2026
Red capes and motorik: how Blind Yeo built a band inside a Falmouth arts space
A nine-strong Cornish collective led by Will Greenham and Anoushka Helm, Blind Yeo spent three years turning a lockdown sketchbook into a touring machine — and in August 2026 released a debut album, The Lemoine Point, that critics have treated as one of the year's more serious British psych records.
The bank on the corner
Blind Yeo started in the quiet of lockdown, as a private outlet for the singer and guitarist Will Greenham. What turned it into a band was a room. In 2022 The Cornish Bank opened in the centre of Falmouth — a not-for-profit community arts space, co-founded by Greenham — and the group took a residency there that every account of their history treats as the founding event. The residency gave them a stage to test material on, a scene to draw players from, and a base they still work out of.
The line-up is a collective rather than a fixed quintet. Across records and tours it has run to nine: Greenham on guitar and vocals, Anoushka Helm on vocals and synth, Sam Pert on drums and percussion, Phil Self on guitar, Jake Sheridan on bass, Henry Greenham on synth, Phyllida Bluemel on cello and artwork, with Dan Gilbert and others rotating through. Helm shares the lead vocal with Greenham throughout the catalogue rather than sitting behind it.
Greenham's account of how the music is made is unusually concrete about rooms and objects. He has described thinking in colours rather than notes, and has said that the same guitar played in two different spaces becomes two different instruments — which is why he keeps the accidents in: a strange echo, a buzz off an old instrument. He has also pointed to Gnawa music from Morocco as a reference, specifically the contrast between the warm resonance of the gimbri and the metallic snap of the qraqeb, and the tension that sets up between softness and harshness.
Cassettes, a solar-powered studio, a label
The first release was Echoes, a self-released cassette EP that appeared in April 2023 and picked up plays on NTS, Soho Radio and BBC Introducing. The following year brought a step up: the single Otherside, issued through the Isle of Eigg label Lost Map in May 2024, went to BBC 6 Music, where Lauren Laverne said on air that she absolutely loved the sound of the band — a line the group's booking agency has been quoting ever since.
A second EP, Anam Cara, followed in the summer of 2024, recorded off-grid in a solar-powered studio in woodland Cornwall. On 18 October 2024 Lost Map put both EPs out together on vinyl and digital as Echoes / Anam Cara, with the tracks remixed and remastered — the first time the early material existed as a single, properly finished artefact rather than a cassette run and a download.
Between those releases and the album came a run of singles — Love Not Fire, Half Light, Where Have All The People Gone? — and a festival schedule that ranged from Lost Map's Christmas Humbug in Edinburgh to Great Estate and Tropical Pressure in Cornwall, Shambala, Solfest, Smugglers, the Cornish Bank's own summer camp, and psych festivals in Brighton, Manchester and Edinburgh. They have also played Trans Musicales in Rennes, which is where the French end of their touring began.
The Lemoine Point
The debut album arrived on 28 August 2026, not on Lost Map but on the Geneva label Les Disques Bongo Joe. It was recorded at Airfield Studios near St Agnes in Cornwall, produced and mixed by Sam Jones, with string arrangements by Matt Kelly. Eight tracks run to just under forty minutes: Today / Tomorrow, Hour Glass of the Eye, Colour Pillow / Kologo, Memory to the Soil, Right Side of the Round, The Lemoine Point, Frik and Frak and Magnolia.
The title is taken from geometry — the point inside a triangle where a particular set of lines converge — and the band use it as a working method rather than a decoration: a way of making different timescales, stories and emotional registers meet in one piece. The record is explicitly a move away from documenting the live show. Where the EPs chased the intensity of a room, the album aims at something more composed and inhabited, and the arrangements are noticeably less crowded than the collective's size would suggest.
Personal memory and grief sit alongside pantheistic and mythic material in the lyrics, which is a large part of why the album has been read as a folk record at all — the surfaces are krautrock and synth-pop, the preoccupations are older.
The reception, August to September 2026
Bandcamp Daily made The Lemoine Point its Album of the Day on 31 August 2026. Hayden Merrick described a group of all-ages misfits gathered around The Cornish Bank who dress as wizards in coloured capes on stage and move like spinning tops, called Helm's voice small and mystical, and reached for The New Eves and early Stereolab as comparisons. The same review made the point that matters most for anyone buying a ticket: the band operate with few rules and give a lot of space to improvisation, so no two performances are the same.
Backseat Mafia published John Parry's review the same day, scoring it 89 out of 100 and naming Gong, Ash Ra Tempel and Magma as reference points while insisting the band do not sound like any of them. Parry's summary — that this is a band that will not stand still for long, and that the individuality is what makes them likeable — is about as close to a consensus verdict as the record has attracted.
KLOF Mag ran Alex Neilson's review on 9 September 2026. Neilson traced the Neu!-style motorik of the opener, the kaleidoscopic synth work on Hour Glass of the Eye, a Can-derived groove under Frik and Frak, and a closing fusion of Celtic and highlife guitar on Magnolia, before concluding that Blind Yeo are doing more than most to keep Cornwall weird.
On the road now
The band toured the album's approach before the album existed. A spring 2026 run took them to the Glad Café in Glasgow on 26 May with R. Aggs of Sacred Paws supporting, Norwich Arts Centre on 28 May with Fergus Nolan, and The Rose Hill in Brighton on 29 May with the prog-art-folk quartet Thimble — a 7pm to 11pm room, tickets £9 to £12 in advance, £14 on the door, with a limited pay-what-you-can tier. The scale is small venues and independent promoters rather than theatres.
The autumn schedule keeps that shape. Margate's Where Else? on 18 September 2026 is followed by the Square & Compass at Worth Matravers on 3 October, ALPHABET in Brighton on 3 November, Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath on 4 November, The Jago in London on 7 November, Cobalt Studios in Newcastle on 19 November, The Storey Institute in Lancaster on 20 November and The Jam Jar in Bristol on 11 December. A French date at Le Tempo in Gap is booked for 19 February 2027.
Booking runs through Smugglers Agency. Given how few of these rooms hold more than a couple of hundred people, single dates tend to go on sale and disappear quickly rather than sitting open for months.
The show, now
A Blind Yeo show in 2026 is a headline set in a small independent room, typically with doors around 7pm and a local or label-mate support opening — R. Aggs in Glasgow in May, Fergus Nolan in Norwich, the harmony quartet Thimble in Brighton. The nine-strong collective narrows to a five-piece on the road: Greenham on amplified acoustic guitar and vocals, Helm sharing the lead vocal, Sam Pert on drums, a bassist, and Henry Greenham on synths and percussion, all of them in red hoods and capes. Reviewing the Glad Café date on 26 May 2026, Betty Mayonnaise for Is This Music? noted the band played mostly unreleased material — including the then-new single Colour Pillow / Kologo — and saved an older track for the close, with Greenham breaking off to praise the room's sound and hug a PA speaker. Sets are built on long, motorik-driven pieces with extended instrumental passages, and because a large share of the arrangement is improvised in the room, the same songs come out at different lengths on different nights. Reviewers of the album have described the stage presentation in terms of costume and constant movement rather than production; there is no large-scale lighting or video rig to speak of, and the shows are priced accordingly, generally between £9 and £14.
Researched from lostmap.com · blindyeo.bandcamp.com · daily.bandcamp.com · klofmag.com · backseatmafia.com · isthismusic.com · smugglersagency.com · therosehill.co.uk
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