About ShedBand

ShedBand is misdirections in music by Tim Armstrong and Tristram Shepard. Playing together in Tim's shed in Canterbury they create what they call ‘Improvision’: the art of experimentally conceiving and exploring paradoxical forms of musicality.

Shedband aim to explore the relationships between ambience, soundscapes, electronica, poetics, and deep space psychedelia. Arising out of spontaneity, chance and uncertainty, each uniquely unrehearsed and improvised piece is subsequently subjected to just a little digital editing and enhancement, ensuring it remains ‘music of the moment’.

“Out of the green of the garden arise golden ideas given form by the white heat of technology and contained by the shed which glows red with creativity against the black backdrop of the everyday.”


Expect to hear:

  • harmonic dissonance and dissonant harmony
  • indolent transitions and jagged changes
  • contemplation, violence and the bizarre
  • malignant melodies, atonal add-ons, earworms, post-mannerist mash-ups and the nebulously lyrical. 


All recordings are made in genuine low-quality shed-fi. For the full shedaurial experience it is recommended you listen on headphones.


These improvisations are unsuitable for those of a musically nervous disposition.


Dancing undertaken strictly at one’s own risk.


What people are saying about ShedBand…


“I loved the music - It’s wonderful”

"Psychedelic experimental dingledanglejinglejangle”


“Junkyard Tom Waite-esque spatial chaos”


“An unusual and abstract adlib”


“I love this. Brian Eno meets Façade meets Takemitsu.”

"It is so innovative and I love the graphics.  I shall continue to play more of your recordings. "

Listen to  Voices In The Mirror (2025)
Listen to  Neptune's Horses  (2024)
Listen to  Welcome To Versailles  (2023)

There are many more ShedBand compositions to come, all recorded over the past twelve months.


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ShedBand Is...

Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong is a prize-winning novelist who plays in the Kamikaze Reunion Blues Band. He has also worked as an educator and translator. Currently cultivating a high level of bewilderment, he improvises on synthesisers and voice.

Tristram Shepard

Tristram Shepard originally played in Death Kit, a Liverpool based multimedia progressive jazz-rock band. In ShedBand he uses a guitar and a range of electronic and digital devices to create unusual sounds and spaces. He also edits and mixes the tracks.

Merchandise

If you are interested in purchasing a CD of any of ShedBand's recordings or a ShedBand T-shirt, please contact us using the Get In Touch form below.

ShedBand is also on BandCamp and Soundcloud

Get in Touch


CONTACT

shedbandinfo@gmail.com

ShedBand is based in Canterbury UK - home of The Canterbury Sound



Acknowledgements

Image credits:




All other photos, website and ShedBand logo design by Tristram Shepard.

Thanks to Tristram Ariss for his essential technical support with the website.



Free Range

ShedBand would like to thank and recommend Free Range for establishing Canterbury as a centre for adventurous music, poetry, film and dance events in the City. Check their programme of events here and listen to recordings of many of their previous events here on Soundcloud.



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