History Music / TheTeaParty

The Tea Party is a [[CanadianMusic Canadian]] AlternativeRock band active between 1990-2005, known for their distinctive [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusion of rock music and numerous other influences]], especially Indian and Middle Eastern, which earned them the humorous categorisation "Moroccan roll". In 2011, the band reunited for a successful cross-Canada tour; shortly afterwards they announced their reunion was permanent.

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In 2011, the band reunited for a successful cross-country tour of Canada. Shortly afterwards, they announced [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether the reunion was permanent]], embarking on a second cross-Canada tour, talking about recording a new album, and making plans to tour Europe and Australia.

The band suddenly broke up in 2005 due to CreativeDifferences. Martin has gone on to a solo career at first and then formed a new band called The Armada, while Burrows is currently a member of Crash Karma. Stuart Chatwood has arguably received a BreakupBreakout, having earned critical acclaim and a steady job doing the soundtracks for the ''PrinceOfPersia'' games.

Their name has nothing to do with the thing that launched the American revolution, the right-wing populist movement, or y'know, actual parties that involve tea, but instead comes from the nickname for the hash sessions of Beatnik writers AllenGinsberg, JackKerouac and WilliamSBurroughs.

Throughout their career, the band's members were:

* NewSoundAlbum: Every fucking album has a sound that is wholly different from the album before it. TRIPtych very subtly lampshades this in that its sound is a combination of the three previous albums.

* SpokenWordInMusic: RoyHarper has done lead vocals on two of their songs: "Time" and an untitled hidden song on the last track of ''Edges of Twilight''.
* TakeThat: Both "A Slight Attack" and "Dust to Gold" are digs at Marilyn Manson for apparently not being as well-read about the occult as Jeff is.

* TheDandy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Martin_%26_the_Armada.jpg Jeff Martin]]. Possibly also doubles as CampStraight.

* SiameseTwinSongs: More like Siamese Triplet Songs. They pulled this trope on Interzone Mantras. First up is "Cathartik" which plays into "Dust to Gold" which plays into "Requiem."

The Tea Party's music was largely based around a fusion of Blues and ProgressiveRock with Indian and Middle Eastern music, something which earned them quite a {{Hatedom}} that dismissed them as LedZeppelin-meets-TheDoors imitators. However, they became very popular in their native Canada, Europe and Australia. Later in their career, they also added electronics and an IndustrialMetal influence to their basic "Moroccan roll" sound starting with the album ''Transmission''.

* Stuart Chatwood (right) - bass, guitar, keyboards, harmonium, percussion, mandolin, tambura, cello, lap steel guitar, bass pedals
* Jeff Burrows (left) - drums, percussion, djembe, goblet drums, tabla

* RockMeAsmodeus: Sorta. Jeff Martin is an Atheist, but is also rather fond of Aleister Crowley.

TheTeaParty is a [[CanadianMusic Canadian]] AlternativeRock band active between 1990-2005, known for their distinctive [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusion of rock music and numerous other influences]], especially Indian and Middle Eastern, which earned them the humorous categorisation "Moroccan roll". In 2011, the band reunited for a successful cross-Canada tour; shortly afterwards they announced their reunion was permanent.

Their name has nothing to do with the thing that launched the American revolution, the right-wing populist movement, or y'know, actual parties that involve tea, but instead comes from the nickname for the hash sessions of Beatnik writers AllenGinsberg, JackKerouac and WilliamSBurroughs. Though the band has recently placed the internet domain www.teaparty.com (which they've owned since the mid-90s) up for sale, hoping to get as much as $1 million US from American political activists.

* Jeff Martin - vocals, guitar, sitar, sarod, oud, banjo, mandolin, dumbek, RecordProducer
* Stuart Chatwood - bass, guitar, keyboards, harmonium, percussion, mandolin, tambura, cello, lap steel guitar, bass pedals
* Jeff Burrows - drums, percussion, djembe, goblet drums, tabla

* TakeThat: Both "A Slight Attack" and "Dust to Gold" are digs at Marilyn Manson for not being as well-read about the occult as Jeff is.

** "Mantra" runs for nearly 10 minutes.

TheTeaParty is a [[CanadianMusic Canadian]] AlternativeRock band active between 1990-2005, known for their distinctive [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusion of rock music and numerous other influences]], especially Indian and Middle Eastern, which earned them the humorous categorisation "Moroccan roll". In 2011, the band reunited for a successful cross-Canada tour, shortly afterwards announced their reunion was permanent.

TheTeaParty was a [[CanadianMusic Canadian]] AlternativeRock band active between 1990-2005, known for their distinctive [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly fusion of rock music and numerous other influences]], especially Indian and Middle Eastern, which earned them the humorous categorisation "Moroccan roll".

Their name has nothing to do with the thing that launched the American revolution, the right-wing populist movement, or y'know, actual parties that involve tea, but instead comes from the nickname for the hash sessions of Beatnik writers AllenGinsberg, JackKerouac and WilliamSBurroughs.