And also the trees
Encyclopedia
And Also The Trees are an English
rock
band, formed in 1979 in the United Kingdom
. They are most notable for their poetic lyrics and evocative music which is strongly influenced by their native English countryside.
, a small village in Worcestershire
. A home demo tape was sent to The Cure
which led to a friendship between the two bands. In 1981 And Also The Trees played several shows in support of The Cure's UK tour. Their second demo tape From Under the Hill (1982) was partly co-produced with Robert Smith
and Mike Hedges
.
Their first two single releases ("Shantell" and "The Secret Sea") and their debut album, And Also The Trees
, were produced by The Cure's Lol Tolhurst and released in 1983. They got the attention of BBC Radio 1
DJ
John Peel
, and were invited to do a session in April 1984, which was produced by Dale Griffin for broadcast on 24 April.
The EP A Room Lives In Lucy (1985) introduced the mandolin-like guitar sound which became their trademark for the next few years. The next album Virus Meadow (1986), was followed by their first European tour, from which came the live album
The Evening of the 24th (1987). Another EP The Critical Distance was released in 1987. The singles "Shaletown" and "The House of the Heart", and the next album The Millpond Years (1988) saw the usage of the record producer
Mark Tibenham.
Farewell to the Shade (1989), was followed by the single releases of "Lady D'Arbanville
", a completely revised Cat Stevens
cover
and the French only release "Misfortunes".
In 1990 they changed their management. The following year the band made a US tour and reactivated contact with The Cure, which resulted in the US only release of the EP The Pear Tree, featuring a remix
by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders
.
In 1992 the band released the last album produced by Tibenham, Green is the Sea. They promoted it with a two-leg European tour including Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France. Fan pressure resulted in a digital remastering of their singles and EPs, and From Horizon to Horizon, a CD collection of primarily single and non-album tracks between 1983–1992, was released.
By 1993 The Klaxon was issued, and the following year the band toured which resulted in the release of the live album Le Bataclan and a tour video from the concert in Hamburg.
In 1995 a project called G.O.L.
between Justin Jones and Mark Tibenham, along with Antonia Reiner, resulted in the release of the album Sensations of Tone and the single "Soma Holiday". The album featured a cover version of the early And Also The Trees song "There Were No Bounds". The band's seventh studio album Angelfish (1996) created a British perception of "Americana".
Silver Soul (1998) saw references in sound and voice being made regarding Nick Cave
. It was also the band's first release on their own record label. The band released an EP, Nailed, the same year as well as a video compilation.
After a five year break, And Also The Trees released Further From the Truth (2003), recorded in the Worcestershire countryside and co-produced with Matthew Devenish.
In 2004 and 2005, And Also The Trees played a few shows at some music festival
s, such as the Paleo Festival and the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. They celebrated their 25th anniversary with the Best of 1980-2005 compilation album
.
Live in Geneva (2006) showed the band in action on their Further From The Truth tour, as well as some video and film projects. The same year saw the band's singer Simon Jones releasing his collaboration project with Bernard Trontin of The Young Gods
called November.
Their tenth album (Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man came out in November 2007 with a new member, Ian Jenkins, on double bass
. The photographs of the artwork were taken by the French photographer Jérôme Sevrette. In June 2009, the band released their acoustic
album When The Rains Come. It contained acoustic versions of previously released songs and one new track.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band, formed in 1979 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. They are most notable for their poetic lyrics and evocative music which is strongly influenced by their native English countryside.
History
And Also The Trees started in InkberrowInkberrow
Inkberrow is a village in the district of Wychavon, Worcestershire that is often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of the BBC Radio 4 long running radio serialisation or soap opera The Archers. In particular 'The Bull', the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on a very...
, a small village in Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
. A home demo tape was sent to The Cure
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
which led to a friendship between the two bands. In 1981 And Also The Trees played several shows in support of The Cure's UK tour. Their second demo tape From Under the Hill (1982) was partly co-produced with Robert Smith
Robert Smith (musician)
Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
and Mike Hedges
Mike Hedges
-Career:Mike Hedges started as a tape-op at Morgan Studios in London in the late 1970s. Having graduated to engineer, he went freelance in 1981 and became an engineer/producer....
.
Their first two single releases ("Shantell" and "The Secret Sea") and their debut album, And Also The Trees
And Also The Trees (album)
And Also The Trees is the first album released by, English, Post-punk group, And Also The Trees. It was released in February, 1984.The album was produced by The Cure's Lol Tolhurst and portrays the band in similar musical fields of other Post-punk contemporaries like The Chameleons, The Comsat...
, were produced by The Cure's Lol Tolhurst and released in 1983. They got the attention of BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
, and were invited to do a session in April 1984, which was produced by Dale Griffin for broadcast on 24 April.
The EP A Room Lives In Lucy (1985) introduced the mandolin-like guitar sound which became their trademark for the next few years. The next album Virus Meadow (1986), was followed by their first European tour, from which came the live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
The Evening of the 24th (1987). Another EP The Critical Distance was released in 1987. The singles "Shaletown" and "The House of the Heart", and the next album The Millpond Years (1988) saw the usage of the record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Mark Tibenham.
Farewell to the Shade (1989), was followed by the single releases of "Lady D'Arbanville
Lady D'Arbanville
"Lady D'Arbanville" is a song written and recorded by Cat Stevens, and released in April, 1970. He was already a successful songwriter, and this was his first single released upon signing a contract with Island Records, with the encouragement of his new producer, Paul Samwell-Smith, fostering a...
", a completely revised Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
and the French only release "Misfortunes".
In 1990 they changed their management. The following year the band made a US tour and reactivated contact with The Cure, which resulted in the US only release of the EP The Pear Tree, featuring a remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders
Mark Saunders
Mark Saunders, is a British record producer who has worked on a number of albums. He relocated to New York City in 1996 and currently works from his facility in Manhattan - Beat360 Studios....
.
In 1992 the band released the last album produced by Tibenham, Green is the Sea. They promoted it with a two-leg European tour including Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France. Fan pressure resulted in a digital remastering of their singles and EPs, and From Horizon to Horizon, a CD collection of primarily single and non-album tracks between 1983–1992, was released.
By 1993 The Klaxon was issued, and the following year the band toured which resulted in the release of the live album Le Bataclan and a tour video from the concert in Hamburg.
In 1995 a project called G.O.L.
Gods of Luxury
Gods of Luxury or G.O.L. was a 1995 music project consisting of Mark Tibenham, Antonia Reiner, and Justin Jones. They released one album, Sensations of Tone, that included the tracks "Soma Holiday", "Angelica In Delirium", and cover-versions of the Art of Noise-song Moments in Love and the And...
between Justin Jones and Mark Tibenham, along with Antonia Reiner, resulted in the release of the album Sensations of Tone and the single "Soma Holiday". The album featured a cover version of the early And Also The Trees song "There Were No Bounds". The band's seventh studio album Angelfish (1996) created a British perception of "Americana".
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
. It was also the band's first release on their own record label. The band released an EP, Nailed, the same year as well as a video compilation.
After a five year break, And Also The Trees released Further From the Truth (2003), recorded in the Worcestershire countryside and co-produced with Matthew Devenish.
In 2004 and 2005, And Also The Trees played a few shows at some music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
s, such as the Paleo Festival and the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. They celebrated their 25th anniversary with the Best of 1980-2005 compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
.
Live in Geneva (2006) showed the band in action on their Further From The Truth tour, as well as some video and film projects. The same year saw the band's singer Simon Jones releasing his collaboration project with Bernard Trontin of The Young Gods
The Young Gods
The Young Gods are a Swiss post-industrial band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer. Their instrumentation often includes sampled electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and other samples. The lyrics are depicted in English, French and...
called November.
Their tenth album (Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man came out in November 2007 with a new member, Ian Jenkins, on double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
. The photographs of the artwork were taken by the French photographer Jérôme Sevrette. In June 2009, the band released their acoustic
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
album When The Rains Come. It contained acoustic versions of previously released songs and one new track.
Band members
- Emer Brizzolara (keyboards) 2007–present
- Steven Burrows (bass) 1983–present
- Graham Havas (bass) 1979-1983
- Nick Havas (drums) 1979-1997
- Paul Hill (drums) 1997–present
- Ian Jenkins (bass/double bass) 2004–present
- Justin Jones (guitar) 1979–present
- Simon Huw Jones (vocals) 1979–present
Studio Albums
- And Also The TreesAnd Also The Trees (album)And Also The Trees is the first album released by, English, Post-punk group, And Also The Trees. It was released in February, 1984.The album was produced by The Cure's Lol Tolhurst and portrays the band in similar musical fields of other Post-punk contemporaries like The Chameleons, The Comsat...
(1984, Reflex Records) - Virus Meadow (1986, Reflex Records)
- The Millpond Years (1988, Reflex Records)
- Farewell To The Shade (1989, Reflex Records)
- Green Is The Sea (1992, Normal)
- The Klaxon (1993, Normal)
- Angelfish (1996, Mezentian)
- Silver Soul (1998, And Also The Trees)
- Further From The Truth (2003, And Also The Trees)
- (Listen For) The Rag and Bone Man (2007, And Also The Trees)
- When The Rains Come (2009, And Also The Trees)
- Driftwood (2011, Mini-Album)
- Untitled (2012)
Singles and EPs
- Shantell 7" (1983, Future Records)
- The Secret Sea 7"/12" (1984, Reflex Records)
- A Room Lives in Lucy 12" (1985, Reflex Records)
- The Critical Distance 12" (1987, Reflex Records)
- Shaletown 7"/12" (1987, Reflex Records)
- House of the Heart 7"/12"/CDS (1988, Reflex Records)
- Lady D'Arbanville 7"/12"/CDS (1989, Reflex Records)
- Misfortunes 7" (1989, Reflex Records)
- The Pear Tree 12" (1991, Troy Records)
- Nailed CDS (1998, And Also The Trees)
- And Also The Trees 10"+CDS (2009, Les Disques Du 7ème Ciel, limited to 500 numbered copies)
Live Albums
- The Evening of the 24th (1987, Reflex Records)
- Le Bataclan (1994, self-released, limited to 1,000 numbered copies)
Compilations
- Et Aussi Les Arbres (1986, New Rose)
- A Retrospective 1983-1986 (1986, Reflex Records)
- Boxed Set (all 7"/12") (1990, Reflex Records)
- From Horizon to Horizon (1993, Normal)
- Best of 1980-2005 (CD) (2005, And Also The Trees)
Videos
- Bielefeld PC 69 1992 (VHS PAL) (1994)
- Hamburg Markthalle 1994 (VHS PAL) (1994)
- Live 89-98 (VHS PAL) (1998)
- Live in Geneva (DVD, limited to 1,000 numbered copies) (2006)
Demo tapes
- First Demo Cassette (1980)
- From Under The Hill (Demo-Cassette limited to 200, Produced by Robert SmithRobert Smith (musician)Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
and Mike HedgesMike Hedges-Career:Mike Hedges started as a tape-op at Morgan Studios in London in the late 1970s. Having graduated to engineer, he went freelance in 1981 and became an engineer/producer....
)(1982)