The On The Shore Band plays the music of Trees
featuring Bias Boshell & David Costa (Trees) with guest appearances from Stuart Estell, Stewart Lee & more

‘If you are about to listen to On The Shore for the first time, then you are to be envied. In an era of mass communication and commercial misappropriation, there are few genuinely lost treasures to be discovered.’ – Stewart Lee

Signed to CBS in 1969, Trees put down two albums within one year, The Garden Of Jane Delawney and On The Shore. Shortly after the release of the second album, and after two years of intensive live work, the original members had begun to go their separate ways, and their brief appearance and small body of work was left to posterity. Since then their music – described variously as acid-folk, psychedelic, gothic, arcadian, ‘a perfect mixture of west coast acid rock with dark lilting English folk, timeless and beautiful’ – has continued to achieve mythical status and the acclaim of a growing band of devotees, mostly not even born at the time Trees disbanded.

The On The Shore Band is a collective of like-minded musicians from a variety of bands (Friendly Fires/Pattern Forms, Corinthians, more) and genres (psych, pop, drone), working alongside two of the original members of Trees to produce a contemporary and inventive soundscape, exploring a selection of tracks from the two albums. There’s no intent of facsimile or reproduction – simply one of inspiration drawn from the originals, and of the sheer enjoyment of the music of Trees.

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