» Music is in our DNA

A recent interview with Simon with the Belgian magazine Luminous Dash.

» Maësharn ('Born into the waves' tour documentary)

An official 'FD' live documentary of the And Also The Trees tour in France October 2016.
Really don't miss this one !! Enjoy !

» Tour dates Spring 2017

AND ALSO THE TREES Spring TOUR DATES 2017

March 2017

23 – BRUSSELS - MAGASIN 4
24 – ESSEN - KULTURZENTRUM GREND
25 – BERLIN - DARK SPRING FESTIVAL (Dark Spring Festival with Golden Apes, etc.)
26 – BROTHERS OF THE TREES show - HAMBURG - PRINZENBAR

May 2017

13 – LONDON - O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY (with In The Nursery)

» And Also The Trees in Greece 2016

A brief live documentary

In 2016 And Also The Trees returned to Greece for two appearances in Thessaloniki and Athens in furtherance of their new album "Born Into The Waves". This short film feature excerpts live snippets from their setlist with songs of the new album and a selection of almost all their career. As well as two exclusive interviews with Simon Jones recorded in Thessaloniki by George Georgiou and Athens by Giannis Frangos.



Special thanks go to:
Simon Jones and AATT
Lovelight Productions
Leonidas Skiada
Death Disco Club

Click here for the live report of the Thessaloniki concert and here for the equivalent of Athens, including setlist.

» Incense Seven Perfumes - The Dutchman

Oliver Flüster the mastermind behind the band Malcom Lowry (who contributed the awesome And Also The Trees homage "Dialoge" to the Beyond The Horizon Project has recoded another homage: The Dutchman. It is released with his former bandname 'Incense Seven Perfumes'.

» Maësharn

Of erotic images in the "Born Into The Waves" of And Also the Trees.
Read the full article by Alexandre François on La Blogothèque. (English)

» Ten albums that changed Simon's life

Didier Becu asked Simon Jones of And Also The Trees to tell about ten records that changed his life
Read here...

» AUTUMN TOUR 2016

AND ALSO THE TREES is very pleased to announce the AUTUMN 2016 TOUR DATES

October 2016

7 – Lisbon (PT) Sabotage Club
8 – Porto (PT) Hard Club
10 – Toulouse (FR) Le Saint Des Seins
11 – Montpellier (FR) Le Rockstore
12 – Marseille (FR) Le Poste à Galène
14 – Limoges (FR) La Fourmi
15 – Dijon (FR) Le Théâtre des Feuillants
16 – * Paris (FR) Café de la Danse (Two sets on the same evening)
* 'Brothers of the Trees'… a unique, semi-improvised, experimental performance of AATT classics and rare adaptations; followed by 'And Also The Trees' full electric concert featuring songs from 'Born into the waves' and an eclectic mix of tracks from the band’s repertoire.
17 – Huy (BE) Atelier Rock
19 – Lyon (FR) Le Sonic
20 – Geneva (CH) La Gravière
21 – Parma (IT) APP Colombofili
22 – Rome (IT) Metamorfosi
23 – Salerno (IT) Terzo Tempo Villange

November 2016

18 – Thessaloniki (GR) Mavri Trypa / Μαύρη Τρύπα
19 – Athens (GR) Death Disco

» Impressions Into the Waves

The new album Born Into The Waves is released and can be ordered from the bands's new website, amazon or any other sorted record seller.

See the former post if you want to listen to a few of the new wonderful songs.

Reviews:

Slapmag review

Obscure

Rate your Music

Folkradio UK

Addict Culture FR




Interviews:

Post-Punk.com
(2016, by Thomas Thyssen)

Post-Punk.com
(2015, by Lucas Lanthier of Cinema Strange)

» Born into the Waves

Im März 2016 veröffentlicht die einflussreiche britische Kultband AND ALSO THE TREES ihr dreizehntes Studioalbum ‘BORN INTO THE WAVES‘ und präsentiert dieses live im kommenden Frühjahr in einigen ausgewählten europäischen Städten.
Angeregt durch Konzertreisen nach Rumänien, Litauen, Japan und in die Ukraine in den letzten Jahren, erwuchs das Material des Albums ‘BORN INTO THE WAVES‘ aus vier Kompositionen des Gitarristen Justin Jones, die durch Liebeslieder aus aller Welt inspiriert waren.
Nach den erfolgreichen Veröffentlichungen ‘(Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man‘ (2007) und ‘Hunter not the Hunted‘ (2012) versprüht ‘BORN INTO THE WAVES‘ einen neuen, optimistischeren Geist und ermöglicht dem Sänger Simon Huw Jones eine größere Freiheit bei der Gestaltung seiner Texte:

"Das Album enthält keine traditionellen Liebeslieder, aber das Thema der Liebe als ein äußerst kraftvolles Gefühl steht im Zentrum des Albums und zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Songs – hell strahlend und düster, belebend und zerstörerisch. Unsere Reisen und das jeweilige Gespür für die verschiedenen Orte waren hilfreich, die große Vielfalt des Themas ‚Liebe‘ intensiver zu ergründen, insbesondere als Gegenkraft zu einem Gefühl wie Hass."

Auch im 35. Jahr ihres Bestehens erfinden sich And Also The Trees wieder einmal neu und betreten auch bei anderen Projekten neue kreative Wege. 2015 arbeitete Justin Jones beispielsweise mit Marc Almond auf dessen Album ‘The Dancing Marquis‘ zusammen. Schlagzeuger Paul Hill trat erst kürzlich mit dem international einflussreichen deutschen Multimediakünstler John Bock in London auf. Simon Huw Jones arbeitete mit dem französischen Komponisten Olivier Mellano zusammen und steuerte den Gesang zu der ‚13 Guitars‘-Version einer Auftragsarbeit für das ‚Orchestre symphonique de Bretagne‘ bei. Darüber hinaus wird bald das zweite Album seines gemeinsamen Projektes mit Bernard Trontin von den Young Gods unter dem Bandnamen November erscheinen. Auf ‘BORN INTO THE WAVES‘ ist außerdem Adam Sherry als Gastsänger zu hören, der mit seiner Band A Dead Forest Index bereits gemeinsam mit den Savages und Chelsea Wolfe auf Tour war.
Das Album cover "Running with the wolves" entstammt der in Schottland lebenden niederländischen Folk-Künstlerin Anouk de Groot.



Tracklist:

1 - Your Guess 2 - Hawksmoor & the Savage 3 - Winter Sea 4 - Seasons & The Storms 5 - The Sleepers 6 - Bridges 7 - The Bells of St. Christopher’s 8 - Naito-Shinjuku 9 - Boden 10 - The Skeins of Love

» 2016 Tour Concerts

The band are on the road playing a handful of shows for the new album release. Born Into The Waves concerts: 27.03.2016 - Birmingham, The Flapper 29.03.2016 - Hamburg, Knust 30.03.2016 - Bruessels, L'Os à Moelle - Cabaret 31.03.2016 - Paris, Peteit Bain 01.04.2016 - Frankfurt, Das Bett - (Concert Review) 14.05.2016 - Bochum, Zeche 15.05.2016 - Leipzig, WGT (as 'Brothers of Trees') [Schauspielhaus] 16.05.2016 - Leipzig, WGT (full band) [Landratsamt] (MDR Preview) 15.10.2016 - Dijon, Théâtre des Feuillants

» Thank you Ian!

"Extraordinarily talented bassist Ian Jenkins, who joined AATT in 2004 was unable to play at the festival in Leiria due to an operation on a troublesome shoulder. He is now recovering but has decided that because of this injury and for other personal reasons he will not continue working with the band in the future. He has been amazing and of course we all wish him well for the future...."
Justin, Simon, Paul and Emer

Thank you for 11 'treefull great years.
All the best to you and fast & full recovery!

Meanwhile - work on the new album continues… being aiming for a Feb/March 2016 release with Ian already recorded most of the bass.

» 35th Anniversary Concert London

To celebrate their 35th anniversary And Also The Trees will perform a special concert in
The Garage, London on Fr. 24.04.2015
(Support: The Cesarians)
You can buy tickets here.

*and also the trees*

"This is probably our first band photo taken in 1979, before we had a name. We decided to call ourselves 'And also the trees' later that year but we have always considered our official formation date as January 12th 1980 when we played live for the first time at The Greig hall in Alcester, Warwickshire. So that makes this year our 35th and although we don't want to make a big deal out of it…to mark the event we have organized a few concerts where we will play a special set of songs drawn from throughout our history, starting at The Garage in London on April 24th and followed by the two shows in Tokyo in May."

» Black was your dress

And Also The Trees (the song), Malvern demo 1980

» AATT live in Shinjuku, Tokyo 2015

And Also Thee Trees will make their first visit to Japan performancing live on two days in Shinjuku MARZ, Tokyo

09+10 May 2015
Shinjuku MARZ, Tokyo

Saturday 09.05.2015 - concert starts: 19:00
Sunday 10.05.2015 - concert starts: 18:00

Ticket in advance 6,500 yen (inc VAT)

» And Also The Trees + The Cure live London 2014

The Cure announced that they return to Hammersmith Eventim Apollo for a clutch of Christmas concerts on Sunday 21 and Monday 22 December 2014

The Cure will be performing a 150 minute show playing songs drawn from their entire 37 year old catalogue including deep cuts, pop songs, fan favourites and surprises galore...

Reprising the role they performed at the same venue 30 years ago each concert will also feature And Also The Trees as support

TICKETS ON SALE FROM 8AM FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
Eventim Apollo: (no counter sales, phone and Internet bookings only)
www.eventim.co.uk and 0844 249 4300
Bookings Direct: www.bookingsdirect.com and 0844 581 4940


Update 07 Nov:

The Cure added a thrid date on the 23rd December 2014 to meet demand after tickets went on sale earlier today (November 7). And Also The Trees will support on all three nights.




Update 08 Nov:
All three concerts are sold out.

The timing is as follows: 18.30 doors open
19.15 to 19.45 - And Also The Trees
20.15 to 23.00 - The Cure

The three mentioned concerts of The Cure together with And Also The Trees in the Hammersmith Odeon London 30 years ago are:

08/09/10 May 1984 - London / Hammersmith Odeon (The Cure, Support: And Also The Trees)

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Rip Ridge - Live 23 December 2014:
(Thanks for sharing theperfectboy77)



Only - Live 22 December 2014:
(Thanks for sharing Lost Forever)



Slow Pulse Boy - Live 22 December 2014:
(Thanks for sharing bekru / Highway 4287)

» Lithuania, new Interview & upcoming new Album

And Also The Trees is working on their next album. The band is hoping to record in the winter of 2014/15 for a later 2015 release.
Meanwhile you might like to read a new interesting interview from Paulius Ilius with Simon Huw Jones that had done along with the band's first concert in Lithuania August, 23th 2014.

» And Also The UK & Greece 2014

And also The Trees will play the UK again as very special guests to "The Eden House"
London, O2 Academy Islington Saturday 8th. Feb. 2014

And Also The Trees will play the first Birmingham show since 1986.
Birmingham, The Cross Saturday 22th. March 2014

And Also The Trees also will visit Greece again to perform show in:
Athens, Bios Saturday 29th. March 2014

» Brothers of the Trees

Justin and Simon Huw Jones have accepted an invitation to play at the intimate, underground venue - Studio 603 in Vevey, Switzerland on Sunday December 15th. It was the first time they have played together as a duo. Justin did play his electric guitar and the set was based around 'And also the trees' Songs including a new song and song versions. It was a unique experience to 40 people (sold out) - maybe a complete one off, or maybe the beginning of a new chapter for the 'Brothers of the trees'.

» Missing in Mâcon

FD Recordings is proud to present its first long live film 'Missing in Mâcon'.

And Also The Trees live on the 28. September 2013 in 'La cave à Musique'
Mâcon, Burgundy, France.



Audio was recorded on multitrack and mixed.
Filmed by Sébastien Faits-Diver.
Made by fans for fans!
Approved by the band.
It's free!

... but you can help FD Recordings if you want via paypal: fdshow@free.fr.

» More French Hunters

Autumn Shows:

27.September 2013 - Metz - Les Trinitaies
28.September 2013 - Macon - Cave a musique
29.September 2013 - Montpellier - Guitar Festival

» France Hunters

» A new combination of notes

Simon Huw Jones did vocals to Olivier Mellano new work How we tried a new combination of notes to show the invisible or even the embrace of eternity. It had been be released on Naive Classique on 6th November as a 3 CD+DVD boxed set:
The first disk features the original symphonic version written by Oliver Mellano and performed by the Symphonic orchestra of Brittany with soprano Valérie Gabail on voclas. On the second disk Mellano transcribes the classical version to a 'electric/noise' version with seventeen electric guitars, percussion and featuring Simon on vocals. And the 3rd CD is 'Electro/hip-hop' version featuring 'MC dälek', Black Sifichi and 'Arm'. Included in the box-set is also a DVD of the award winning film made for the piece directed by Alanté Kavaité.

How we tried a new combination of notes... will be performed live - all 3 versions one after the other - as part of the 'Trans musicales festival' at the Opera House in Rennes on December 7th, 8th and 9th.

You can order the box-set from amazon France and amazon Germany

Detail Information of the versions included in the box set:

Version symphonique : How we tried a new combination of notes...
Orchestre symphonique de Bretagne
Jean-Michaël Lavoie : direction
Valérie Gabail : soprano
Click to see the Trailer Video for this version

Version électrique : How we tried a new combination of noise...
Olivier Mellano Pink Iced Club : ensemble de 12 guitares électriques
Simon Huw Jones : voix
Click to see the Trailer Video for this version

Version électronique : How we tried a new combination of one/o...
Mc Dälek & Black Sifichi : voix
Didier Martin : Lumières
Taprik, Dan Ramaën : Vidéos
Click to see the Trailer Video for this version

» Dark Orange - Horizont

On 5th. October Dark Orange release their upcoming album Horizont. Dark Orange are part on Beyond The Horizon with their contribution of the reinterpretation of 'The House of the Heart'.

Katrin Elna und Dirk Odu's new songs will feature Steven Burrows on Bass Guitar. It also will include a second CD with 17 remixes including "Irgendwo Im Nirgendwo" remixed by Mark Tibenham (former producer of AATT), "Flieg Mit Mir" (remixed by Emer Brizzolara) and "Nebel Zieht" (remixed by Steven Burrows). You can find more information at Kalinkaland and order the album at infrarot.

» Hunter Take Away Videos

Alexandre François and Gaspar Claus produced four acoustic "take away videos" for And Also The Trees in Paris last winter. They are now released in the series Les Concerts A Emporter on La Blogothèque.

They feature "A woman on the Estuary", "Whisky Bride", "Only" and "Burn Down This Town" with commentaries from the band what these songs are about. And from the video producers about the day of shooting of these videos.



Do not miss this excellent insightful presentation presented by La Blogothèque, the guys which also brought you the unique 'Back on Stage' footage of Paris La Maroquinerie 2007.