The Tristles
2008 was the year The Trestles - named after the author of a Socialist bible and a lyric from a Bruce Springsteen song - truly arrived. But you've seen (or heard) nothing yet... Picking up the pieces from the first line-up of the group, formed in mid-2007, Liverpool songwriter Al O'Hare ("like Bruce Springsteen fronting Oasis," said NME about O'Hare's previous band) regrouped and recruited 21-year-old virtuoso musician, Tom Carroll.
Tom and Al bonded over the early months of 08 and played lots of acoustic gigs around Merseyside - sometimes accompanied with a fiddle or an electric guitar - and The Trestles started to gather followers. Playing intimate venues like Liverpool's world famous Parr Street studios and Mathew Street's Mellowtone @ View Two Gallery gigs, the lads arrived at a sound that was truly their own.
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