The Circus Tents

The Circus Tents were an American band active from 1989 to 1993 from Grass Valley, California, United States. It consisted of Matt Wedgley as the lead vocalist, Jon Sortland on drums, Chad Cox on bass, Scot Pickering and Jeff Jones on guitar. They released a 12 song self-titled cassette tape in 1990 (only 100 copies being made) and a 4 song 7" record titled Hard Up [1] on Insurrection Records in 1992 (only having 1,000 copies made). They had a couple of songs featured on early Powell Peralta skate videos for Chris Senn.[2] They achieved international publicity when Billie Joe Armstrong put a Circus Tents sticker on his guitar[3] and AFI covered their song "Open Your Eyes" on their record Answer That and Stay Fashionable. The Circus Tents also recorded the song "I Hate Cops" by The Authorities for an unreleased tribute album to The Authorities, which also featured the bands Screeching Weasel[4] and The Meatmen.

Circus Tents
OriginGrass Valley, California, United States
GenresSkate punk, Punk rock
Years active1989–1993
LabelsInsurrection Records
Associated actsAFI
The Force
Dirty Filthy Mugs
Past membersMatt Wedgley
Jon Sortland
Chad Cox
Scot Pickering
Jeff Jones

Reunion

In 2018, The Circus Tents and The Force briefly reunited at The Miners Foundry Cultural Center to play a concert in honor of former member Chad Cox, who had died in 2014.[5] Hunter Burgan played bass for The Circus Tents in Cox's stead, and Jon Sortland filled in his role as drummer for The Force.

Bands after breakup

Notes and references
  1. "The Circus Tents - Hard Up". Discogs.com. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. Hot Batch (1992), Chaos (1992)
  3. which can be seen in the "Longview" music video
  4. Kill the Musicians "Achtung"
  5. "Punk rock reunion". theunion.com. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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