Where are they now? - CIRCA: & related projects
This page last updated: 12 Sep 2021
On this page: CIRCA: (Sherwood, Kaye) - Yoso (Sherwood, Kaye) - Billy Sherwood's tribute albums
In Sep 2021, CIRCA: were reported to be working on a new album. In a Jul 2020 interview, Sherwood said he and Kaye talked about two weeks before about doing the next CIRCA: album. Frontiers have renewed their option for a new album. Sherwood said they hadn't written "a note" yet and that Kaye wanted to keep the line-up from the previous album. In a Feb 2021 interview with SOAL Night Live, Sherwood said, "There's going to be a CIRCA: record down range [...] we're talking about how to do it". He affirmed they are contracted to do another album, but noted he was then busy with Arc of Life. In a 15 Apr 2019 Facebook post, Sherwood said, "Spoke to TK[aye] on the road during the last YES tour and we are both into making more CIRCA: music. Chipping away at various musical ideas already".
CIRCA: has consisted of Billy Sherwood on guitar and lead vocals,
Tony Kaye on Hammond and keys, Scott Connor (ex-Yoso,
Genesis tribute band Squonk) on drums and percussion,
and Rick "Rat" Tierney (Billy Sherwood's solo band,
ex-Alice Cooper, worked with The Monkees) on bass. Asked
about future plans for the band in this Aug
2017 interview, Sherwood replied:
CIRCA: are managed by Derek Shulman (ex-Gentle Giant; managed Yes; signed World Trade, Dream Theater) and Leonardo Pavkovic (MoonJune Records/Management, managed Soft Machine Legacy, Allan Holdsworth; worked with Bill Bruford, Bozzio/Holdsworth/Levin/Mastelotto Band, Eddie Jobson) at 2 Plus Music & Entertainment, Inc., who had previously taken on Yoso and who also work with Frontiers Records (work with Yes, Asia, John Wetton, Unruly Child).Circa is really like a studio-record project at this point, mostly because getting out and touring is very difficult to do [...] My life has become completely complex and busy doing both Asia and Yes now. [...] but Tony and I love working together on that Circa project. We’ve had many albums now out at this point, and we always talk about making more. I think Circa will still exist in a sense of making records, but I don’t know if we’ll ever be really touring or not. I wish we were, because it’s fun to play that music live [...] But as it happens now [...] I doubt we’ll be able to pull it off in terms of getting the calendar together.
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