Where are they now? - Billy Sherwood

This page last updated: 11 Jun 2025

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On this page: Solo projects - Tribute albums - World Trade & related

On other pages: Yes news - CIRCA:

Billy Sherwood's official sites: Billy Sherwood music.com; Billy on YouTube

Sherwood is in Yes: news on the main page. Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye continue as CIRCA:, covered on its own page. He was in Arc of Life with Jon Davison, Jay Schellen, Jimmy Haun and Dave Kerzner, but that band is now "parked": see the main page. Sherwood is also in exo-X-xeno: see on main page.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sherwood was doing online clinics and teaching, as he explained in this Apr 2020 Facebook post and this one, but most of all this one. He opened his new Sherwood Studios Online, saying:

The studio is open and operational. Anyone needing real drums, bass, gtrs, keys, vocals or mixing simply message me for details here at my FB page. File sharing makes it all doable from a safe social distance 😎 as I’m not touring nows a good time to help with any artists/bands looking for professional assistance.  I love helping folks along thier musical journey 😇
However, asked about lessons in Nov 2022 on Facebook, he replied, "I'm in the weeds between Yes/Asia & Arc Of Life/ Circa:".

In a May 2025 interview, Sherwood confirmed he is working to get his back catalogue on to Bandcamp.

Solo work
Billy Sherwood was on a solo tour in the US. 10 dates were announced 7-20 May 2025, but the 15 May show was cancelled. 18 May sold out. There was an additional video session with limited tickets, where they were recording the show for later streaming (with a 4-camera set up), on 9 May at the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project (EMEAPP) in Mainland, PA. David Sancious (worked with Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel) was to guest at 1 show. In a May 2025 interview with Tim Conway Jr, Sherwood said the tour is all on the east coast, but that he hoped to take it to the west coast too. In a May 2025 interview with YesShift, he talked of a second leg as "probably going to be in the new year", after Yes touring. The tour is managed by Andre Cholmondeley (works with Yes, Eddie Jobson). Derek Shulman (ex-Gentle Giant, signed World Trade, worked with Yes) was in the audience for the 10 May show.

The band was Sherwood (bass), Scott Connor (ex-CIRCA:, ex-Yoso; drums), Scott Walton (worked with Arc of Life, CIRCA:; keys) and John Thomas (ex-XNA; guitar), although it was originally announced with Jay Schellen rather than Connor, but Schellen had to back out due to scheduling issues. Connor is playing one of Schellen's drum kits. In a May 2025 interview with Joe Cass, Sherwood described how the set is designed to represent key points in his career. He said, "I have selected the Yes songs that I don't think Yes are going to play", explaining, "I don't want to step on any toes", but that "I also wanted to have [...] a spiritual connection to the Yes songs that I'm going to play." He more generally talked about having a "real visceral connections to the songs" he's chosen for the tour. The set is about 90 minutes long. The opening night (7 May) set was "Metaphors" (from solo album No Comment), "Lonely Man" (from Lodgic's Nomadic Sands), "Life-Time" (from World Trade's World Trade), "The Moment is Here" (from World Trade), "Open Your Eyes" (a.k.a. "Wish I Knew" from Yes's Open Your Eyes/Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood's Conspiracy), "The More You Live—Let Go" (from Yes's Union), "Confess" (from Conspiracy's The Unknown), "Violet Purple Rose" (from Conspiracy), The Big Peace medley ("OneDay/Lesson to be Learned"), "The Other Side" (from Toto's Kingdom of Desire), "New Star Rising" (from John Wetton's Raised in Captivity), "Delta Sierra Juliet" (from solo album What was the Question?), "Ever Changing World" (from CIRCA's HQ), "Sophia" (from solo album Citizen: In the Next Life), "Age of the Atom" (from solo album Citizen), "Hold Out Your Hand" (from Chris Squire's Fish Out of Water). Subsequent sets were the same or similar. For example, at the fourth show, "New Star Rising" and "The Other Side" were swapped in the set list, and "Hold Out Your Hand" was omitted. The 19 May show was the same as the opening night up to "New Star Rising", but then finished "Age of the Atom", "Sophia", "Ever Changing World", "Delta Sierra Juliet". In the interview with YesShift, Sherwood said they would be no material from Arc of Life, although they had tried "Don't Look Down" in rehearsals). Sherwood's girlfriend, Kim, was handling merch sales.

Sherwood was working on his next solo album. On 22 Sep 2018, he said on Facebook that he had, "Started working on another solo CD… The 1st track is called "pushing into the wind".... its early going of course but I'm feeling that creative wave coming on and so it begins". On 10 Oct 2019, again on Facebook, he said, "Working on my own new song , material for what will become my next solo cd. Recording guitars". In a Feb 2021 interview, Sherwood said, "I'm in the final stages of another solo album [...] called Pushing Into the Wind [...] there's a song called "Love Remains Real" [...] which is about [...] these people who have never seen each other, never touched [having met online] [...] but love remains as real as if you were there in person." (In a Feb 2021 appearance by Arc of Life on SOAL Night Live, Jay Schellen described recently working with Sherwood, which could be for this project.) In a Mar 2021 interview, Sherwood said, "It's basically ready to head over to mastering and bring it home. I just haven't had a moment to get on that because there's always stuff going on..." He posted lyrics to a song from the album called "All is Fair in Love" to Facebook in Jun 2022.



Several years ago, Sherwood was writing dance material for Cleopatra Records. He explained on Facebook (Apr 2012):

Got a cool new gig to add onto the pile... This new mission is to compose/play rave/prog dance tracks, (destine for the club scene). This mission comes from Cleopatra Records who are building an arsenal of this type of material... For this gig I write it, design the basics... groove, chords, lyrics, melody etc..., possibly sing a few of them myself. I'll be delivering the tracks in a sort of framework form, at which point another "dance/rave" producer will take it the rest of the way home... It's a writing gig...

He described 4 songs, including "EMP", "Test of Time" and "Synthetic Life", and was working on a fifth. I don't know what happened with these.

Prog Collective
Sherwood has released a series of albums under the moniker of the Prog Collective and featuring multiple guest musicians. The latest, Dark Encounters, came out Mar 2024. Details on main page.

Tribute albums & related
Cleopatra Records also have some other releases with remixes of Sherwood's earlier work for the label: see on main page for details.

In an Apr 2008 interview, Sherwood said he was working on a tribute to The Police, saying, "I was planning on kind of inviting just like great guitar players to come on and play some great solos and play over the top of the stuff and keep the music kind of pure." However, further news on this did not emerge.

Other news
Sherwood guested on Rob Youngblood's 4-track Thing You'll Never Know (SnailWorx, SN-02301EP), released 23 Aug 2024. Sherwood plays bass on the final track, "Since I Fell" (4:44), written by Youngblood. Frequent collaborator Scott Walton is on keys and engineered. Youngblood produced, sang and played guitars.

Sherwood guests on 3 tracks of The Madrigal Project's 11th Hour: see main page for details.

Sherwood appeared at a 3 Aug 2023 memorial concert for John Wetton: see main page for details.

Billy Sherwood and the late Michael Sherwood appeared on Kurt Michaels' Stones from the Garden, out 7 Jul 2023 through Melodic Revolution Records. The album was written and produced by Michaels (Facebook, Soundcloud), who plays guitar and sings throughout. Also appearing are Len Szymanski, Scott Williams, Dennis Keith Johnson (ex-Survivor, worked with Dennis DeYoung), John Abbey (worked with John Cale), Jim Gully, Jeff Abbott, Chris Ussery, Cory Hance, Annie Carlson, Amanda Lehmann (works with Steve Hackett) and Kathie Mills. It was engineered by Mike Hagler, and mixed and mastered in Jul 2022. Art is by Krista Wallhagen (worked with The Syn, Renaissance). Michaels began writing the album in Feb 2016, and recording began Aug 2018.

"Beyond a Dream" is a digital single released by Cameron Carpenter (keys, harmony vocal), who wrote the piece. Sherwood plays fretless bass, produced and mixed the track. Also performing are Robbie Carpenter (lead vocal) and Wendi Whipple (harmony vocal), and the track was mastered by Maor Appelbaum. "The Fountain of Light, Pt. 2" (3:30) followed on 6 Oct 2023, credited to Carpenter and Sherwood.

Sherwood provided backing vocals to "All the Tears That Shine" on David Paich's 2022 release Forgotten Toys, co-written and with lead vocals by older brother Michael: see under Michael Sherwood for details. In a Feb 2021 interview, Sherwood said he'd "recently been doing some sessions with Paich, doing some vocal things". In the Mar 2021 interview, Sherwood said, "I'm working with David Paich on some stuff for his solo album".

Directions is the debut EP from Middlesong, Joe Schneider (vocals, guitar, keys) and Phil Tomczak (keys, guitars). Sherwood produced, mixed and played bass, drums, keys and guitar on the release; Maor Appelbaum mastered. Tracks: "See This Through" (3:53), "Rain to Sun" (4:45), "Directions in D Minor (Make Sure that You Learn)" (5:53). Tracks can be heard on their SoundCloud page. Middlesong are continuing to work on a full album.

Sherwood co-produced, co-wrote and played on In Extremis and Giants, the second and third releases from Los Angeles prog band, Days Between Stations. The band consists of guitarist Sepand Samzadeh and keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills. Samzadeh and Fuentes were in rehearsals in Apr 2021, for planned live shows with Sherwood (drums) and Jennifer Jo Oberle (bass) later in 2021, but they didn't happen. The quartet had previously rehearsed in Nov 2020. The set was expected to include "Giants" and "Eggshell Man". The band then announced a one-off live show/filming session on 15 May 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. The band were Samzadeh (guitars) and Fuentes (keys), with Scott Connor (CIRCA:; drums, backing vocals), Jarrad Lander (bass), Persephone Godwin (backing vocals), Michelle Aragon (vocals) and David Hussey (XNA; vocals). Sherwood and Durga McBroom (works with Dave Kerzner, worked with Pink Floyd) were also billed on vocals as special guests. The show was recorded for Blu-ray/DVD/CD/digital release. A 2025 release is expected.

Samzadeh, Sherwood and Oberle (vocals) are working on a side project. Samzadeh described working on "a side project with Billy Sherwood" in the promo for Giants. Sherwood said in a Jan 2019 interview that he is producing a solo album by Samzadeh, but I think that has become this collaboration. Oberle mentioned on Facebook in 2019 recording vocals for a project with Sherwood and Samzadeh, which she later referred to as the debut album by The Settlements.



Sherwood works extensively with Dave Kerzner (worked with Steven Wilson, Jon Anderson), live and on albums. They were both in Arc of Life. Sherwood has guested on several of Kerzner's studio albums and is also on Kerzner's Sonic Elements projects, including IT - A Celebration of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, released 2025. See on the main page for details.

Billy also guested on the instrumental "The Answered Prayer" (3:37) on the 7-track Projekt Gemineye album, In the Year 3073 - Book II.

Marty Walsh (ex-The Key, ex-Supertramp, worked with Dolly Parton, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond, Julio Iglesias, LeAnn Rimes, Freddie Jackson) is producing and performing on a covers album by singer Becca Levy, with Sherwood contributing bass.

Sherwood has recorded yet to be released material with the band Guild of Others, from Tom Wallace (drums) and Steve Potts (no relation; guitar). Wallace mentioned this on Facebook (see replies to this post) in Aug 2023.

Sherwood guests singing on the forthcoming third album from Treason, Stockwell Road. All instruments on the album are by Ted Stockwell (ex-White), who is also producing, engineering, mixing and mastering, with vocals mainly by Jason Ames Saunders. Ted Hunt also guests on vocals. Originally reported under the name Mindshifter, I asked Stockwell about it in Jun 2018 on Yesfans.com, who replied that it "has been complete since Feb 2016, however it has yet to be released pending a remaster. Hopefully out shortly!" (This project was previously reported back in 2013 as a Stockwell solo album.) To The New Yesfans.com in Jan 2022, he said "There's [...] a Treason album waiting in the wings".


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Sherwood
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