Tendrils

Not to be confused with Tendril.

Tendrils
Also known as	Joel Silbersher and Charlie Owen
Origin	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Years active	1995 (1995)–1999 (1999), 2011
Labels	Dead Meat, Half a Cow
Past members	Charlie Owen Joel Silbersher

Tendrils were an irregular collaboration between two Australian guitarists, Joel Silbersher (of Hoss) and Charlie Owen (of Beasts of Bourbon). A difficult sound to describe, Tendrils features two seemingly chaotic but strangely melodic and complementary, guitar parts and occasionally stripped back percussion. In 1995, starting out billed simply as Joel Silbersher and Charlie Owen, they issued an album, Tendrils. It was produced by Spencer P. Jones and recorded at Atlantis Studios, Melbourne. Drums were provided by Greg Bainbridge for three tracks and Todd McNeair on a track.

For the second album, Soaking Red (1998), they used Tendrils as the band's name. Owen played guitars, pedal bass, piano, organ, percussion, mandolin, banjo, bass recorder, backing vocals on one track and drums on another; while Silbersher supplied vocals, guitars, drums, harmonica, and incidental keyboards. It was produced by Dave McLuney, Owen and Silbersher and mixed at Atlantis studios; with additional drumming by Jim White on one track. Soaking Red was nominated for at the ARIA Music Awards of 1999 for Best Alternative Release. In April 1999 they advertised an intention to tour overseas. In November 2011 Tendrils supported a gig by Gareth Liddiard.

Discography

Charlie Owen & Joel Silbersher

• Tendrils - Dog Meat (DOG065CD) (1995)

Tendrils

• Soaking Red - Half a Cow (HAC71) (21 September 1998)

External links

• Official website archived from the original on 22 April 2003. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
• "Poster advertising performance by Tendrils at The Continental Café, Prahran, Victoria", performance due on 22 April 1999, picture held at State Library of Victoria.