Back in 1990, Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood and Jeff Burrows all knew each other and had played together in the close-knit Windsor, Ontario Rock scene. The trio had a marathon jam session in Toronto’s Cherry Beach Rehearsal Studios and decided to keep playing together afterwards.
Once they decided on the name (named for Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs’ legendary has sessions and not that little thing that happened in Boston a couple of hundred years back), they self-released their debut album the year after they formed. Only 3’500 copies of the album were ever made but it was enough to get them a deal with EMI Music Canada, which they signed in 1993.
The album went platinum in its home country the year after its release but it was also their breakthrough hit in Australia, a country where they continue to be very popular to this day. It was with their debut major label album, called “Splendor Solis” that they began experimenting with their trademark Indian music influences.
The band wrote and recorded a lot of the music utilising open tunings and goblet drums to achieve the sound, while still mixing it with their psychedelic blues backing. However, it wasn’t until their third album “The Edges Of Twilight” and specifically the single “Sister Awake” that they truly realized their potential. “The Edges Of Twilight” would be their most commercially succesful album, going double platinum in their home country.
The band would go on releasing albums to great success until 2005, when the band abruptly split due to creative differences. The members would drift into solo careers but they came back together in 2011 for a set of live shows and a new album, 2011’s “The Ocean At The End”. This is a rare act with talent, vision and a desire to create what’s never been heard before, we’re lucky to have them, and they’re a live act to be seen as soon as possible.
The tea party, possibly the only tea that has the effect of coffee! In that it fills you with so much energy you don't know what to do with yourself but move your body!
Fans screaming so loud in admiration, they rivaled the noise of the electric guitar! The energy rippling off these three guys was immense, I have NEVER seen anything like it.
Fans raised their arms in the air and cheered as the band interacted with the passionate crowd as they played 'The River' such an amazing song with an amazing drum pattern! It's one thing to spend many of your nights and evenings listening to a band and learning words to the songs that become your anthems, but to then see them live? that feeling is unrivaled and these men make it fully worth it!
The crowd moved in unison when The Tea Party performed 'waters on fire' this song has such a peaceful and meaningful vibe, it is truly something special. As the group combine rock music with a whole heap of other genres I don't think there is a song they would not dare make, once made it in itself would truly be something terrific!
Live, this trio is something special, they have plenty plenty more years to come and their fan base will only grow.
If they are performing live, buy tickets!