About Sasha & The Shades

Sasha & The Shades are a five piece band hailing from South-East London. Lyrical content has always been important to the group, but having shed a member to become a five piece and made the decision to concentrate on a stripped down, raw acoustic aesthetic on 'Grin & Bare It', they're pushed even further to the fore.

Where the band's two singers - Sasha Adamczewski and Eli Rose J Sanford - once used to take turns at fronting the outfit, now they operate in precisely choreographed harmony, their contrasting styles adapting to each other and finding strength and power through their union.

The sound of Sasha & The Shades is hard to pin down - it's a complex convergence of rock, blues, folk and psychedelia. Sasha cut his teeth playing open mics in Peckham and practising at home with his older brother Saul Adamczewski (FWF/Insecure Men) - but his music has diverged from the other bands there. Sasha has been writing songs and performing since he was 11 years old and he has also known Eli-Rose Sanford (the female lead vocalist) just as long. Eli-Rose's dad, Gary Sanford, taught Sasha to play guitar way back when.