Tree Carr
Encyclopedia
Tree Carr is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist
and actress who has played in a variety of London
based bands and has appeared in several films.
She is also the owner of "Today is Boring" a DVD rental shop and film society based in east London.
noise
project called Tree of Death, using influences from the sounds of black metal
and lo-fi electro. In 2002 she joined the electro punk
band, Gobsausage and appeared as guest vocals on the album "Below The Gumline." In 2003 she formed the art
/punk
duo Ten Minutes With My Dad, drawing musical influences from early girl punk
, heavy metal
and lo-fi electro. A limited edition 10" LP called "Yesterday I Died" was released on Label Catastrophic. She also released some limited editions with American artist, Disastronaut called "White Van Man" in 2003. In 2004 she joined singer song writer M. Craft (Martin Craft) on backing vocals, keyboards and glockenspiel. She appears on the critically acclaimed album "Silver and Fire" released in 2005 by 679 Recordings
. In 2006 she joined the post punk band Cristine, along with Douglas Hart
, formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain
and Robert Schultzberg
, formerly of Placebo (band)
. In 2008, they toured with Primal Scream
on the NME Rock & Roll Riot Tour. In March 2010 she began performing gigs and recording as a backing singer for Adam Ant
2003: Ten Minutes With My Dad: White Van Man (10") Label Catastrophic
2004: Ten Minutes With My Dad: Yesterday I Died (10", EP) Label Catastrophic
2004: Rough Trade Counter Culture 2004: Mute Records
2005: Mond Club Selection (CD, Comp) Sinnamon Records
2006: M.Craft: Silver And Fire (CD) 679 Recordings
2006: M.Craft: Silver And Fire / You Are The Music (7") 679 Recordings
2008: Gobsausage: Below The Gumline (CD) Dada Discs
2009: Cristine: Amerika (CD Album) 51 Records
2010: Ali Love: Love Harder- Done The Dirty (CD Album) Back Yard Recordings
's Evil Aliens (2006), a British "splatstick" horror-comedy film. She also appeared in the 2006 award winning film Cashback
by Sean Ellis
. In 2007, she appeared in a short film by Mike Figgis
called Coole Stories. In 2008 she worked with American visual artist and composer Christian Marclay
and godfather of electroacoustic
improvisation
, Keith Rowe
, on a controversial short film called "Solo." Recently she took a role in Doghouse (film)
, an all female zombie comedy out in 2009 and has also appeared in videos for London based lingerie brand, Agent Provocateur (lingerie)
featuring directors, Douglas Hart
and Nigel Askew. She has also appeared in music videos for fashion designer and singer, Pam Hogg
and appeared in the music video for Peaches (musician)
new single "Talk to Me" released in May 2009.
2006: Cashback
2007: Coole Stories
2008: Solo
2009: Doghouse (film)
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
and actress who has played in a variety of London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
based bands and has appeared in several films.
She is also the owner of "Today is Boring" a DVD rental shop and film society based in east London.
Music
In 1998 she began a black metalBlack metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
noise
Noise
In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...
project called Tree of Death, using influences from the sounds of black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
and lo-fi electro. In 2002 she joined the electro punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band, Gobsausage and appeared as guest vocals on the album "Below The Gumline." In 2003 she formed the art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
/punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
duo Ten Minutes With My Dad, drawing musical influences from early girl punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
and lo-fi electro. A limited edition 10" LP called "Yesterday I Died" was released on Label Catastrophic. She also released some limited editions with American artist, Disastronaut called "White Van Man" in 2003. In 2004 she joined singer song writer M. Craft (Martin Craft) on backing vocals, keyboards and glockenspiel. She appears on the critically acclaimed album "Silver and Fire" released in 2005 by 679 Recordings
679 Recordings
679 Artists is a Warner Music Group-owned record label based in London, England....
. In 2006 she joined the post punk band Cristine, along with Douglas Hart
Douglas Hart
Douglas Hart is a British musician and music video director.-Biography:Hart was the first bassist and founding member of the Scottish band The Jesus and Mary Chain, and played with the group from 1984 to 1991...
, formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...
and Robert Schultzberg
Robert Schultzberg
Robert Schultzberg was the original drummer for alternative rock band Placebo. Schultzberg had known Stefan Olsdal from a band in school in Sweden they were both in in 1993 and joined Placebo when the band formed in September 1994, helping them to record their first studio demo in April 1995,...
, formerly of Placebo (band)
Placebo (band)
Placebo are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bass guitarist Stefan Olsdal. The band was joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was later replaced by Steve Hewitt after conflicts with Molko. Hewitt left the band in October 2007 and...
. In 2008, they toured with Primal Scream
Primal Scream
Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...
on the NME Rock & Roll Riot Tour. In March 2010 she began performing gigs and recording as a backing singer for Adam Ant
Adam Ant
Adam Ant is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of New Wave/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring ten UK top ten hits between 1980 and 1983, including three No.1s...
Discography
Appears On:2003: Ten Minutes With My Dad: White Van Man (10") Label Catastrophic
2004: Ten Minutes With My Dad: Yesterday I Died (10", EP) Label Catastrophic
2004: Rough Trade Counter Culture 2004: Mute Records
Mute Records
Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...
2005: Mond Club Selection (CD, Comp) Sinnamon Records
2006: M.Craft: Silver And Fire (CD) 679 Recordings
679 Recordings
679 Artists is a Warner Music Group-owned record label based in London, England....
2006: M.Craft: Silver And Fire / You Are The Music (7") 679 Recordings
679 Recordings
679 Artists is a Warner Music Group-owned record label based in London, England....
2008: Gobsausage: Below The Gumline (CD) Dada Discs
2009: Cristine: Amerika (CD Album) 51 Records
2010: Ali Love: Love Harder- Done The Dirty (CD Album) Back Yard Recordings
Back Yard Recordings
Back Yard recordings is a UK independent record label based in London.The label was set up by Gil Goldberg and can count acts such as Gossip, Dega Breaks, Chromeo, Seelenluft, The Similou, Tronik Youth and Teenagersintokyo amongst its roster....
Acting
Tree first appeared in Jake WestJake West
-Biography:He directed a movie called "Doghouse", a horror comedy starring Danny Dyer , Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham -Biography:He directed a movie called "Doghouse", a horror comedy starring Danny Dyer (Severance, The Football Factory"), Noel Clarke ("Adulthood", "Kidulthood", "Dr. Who") and...
's Evil Aliens (2006), a British "splatstick" horror-comedy film. She also appeared in the 2006 award winning film Cashback
Cashback
Cashback may refer to:* Cashback website, a site where customers can earn cash rebates on online purchases that they make* Debit card cashback, cash that shoppers receive along with their goods when paying by debit card...
by Sean Ellis
Sean Ellis
Sean Ellis is British film director, writer, and producer. He is best known for his films Cashback and The Broken .- Career :...
. In 2007, she appeared in a short film by Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis
Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer.-Personal life:Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films...
called Coole Stories. In 2008 she worked with American visual artist and composer Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
and godfather of electroacoustic
Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...
improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
, Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
, on a controversial short film called "Solo." Recently she took a role in Doghouse (film)
Doghouse (film)
Doghouse is a 2009 British horror comedy and splatter film.A group of men travels to a remote village in England for a 'boys' weekend'. Upon their arrival, they found out that all the women in the town had been transformed into some kind of man-eating cannibals.-Plot:Vince is depressed over his...
, an all female zombie comedy out in 2009 and has also appeared in videos for London based lingerie brand, Agent Provocateur (lingerie)
Agent Provocateur (lingerie)
Agent Provocateur is a British lingerie retailer founded in 1994 by Joseph Corré and Serena Rees. The first shop was opened on London's Broadwick Street in the Soho district in 1994. Since then, the company has opened 30 stores in 13 countries across the globe. In 2007, Agent Provocateur was...
featuring directors, Douglas Hart
Douglas Hart
Douglas Hart is a British musician and music video director.-Biography:Hart was the first bassist and founding member of the Scottish band The Jesus and Mary Chain, and played with the group from 1984 to 1991...
and Nigel Askew. She has also appeared in music videos for fashion designer and singer, Pam Hogg
Pam Hogg
-Early career:Hogg had a meteoric rise to fame after her studies of Fine Art and Printed Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, where she won the Newbury Medal of Distinction, the Frank Warner Memorial Medal, the Leverhulme Scholarship and the Royal Society of Arts Bursary, which subsequently took...
and appeared in the music video for Peaches (musician)
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
new single "Talk to Me" released in May 2009.
Filmography
2006: Evil AliensEvil Aliens
Evil Aliens , is a British "splatstick" horror-comedy film directed by Jake West, in the tradition of films such as Braindead, House, and Evil Dead....
2006: Cashback
Cashback
Cashback may refer to:* Cashback website, a site where customers can earn cash rebates on online purchases that they make* Debit card cashback, cash that shoppers receive along with their goods when paying by debit card...
2007: Coole Stories
2008: Solo
2009: Doghouse (film)
Doghouse (film)
Doghouse is a 2009 British horror comedy and splatter film.A group of men travels to a remote village in England for a 'boys' weekend'. Upon their arrival, they found out that all the women in the town had been transformed into some kind of man-eating cannibals.-Plot:Vince is depressed over his...