The group played local clubs and joined Battle of the Bands contests, but by Tench's own admission, they were not particularly very good.

[citation needed] After leaving Australia, Tench forgot about guitar playing and returned home to London via a journey of several months through Asia.

After a few months, American singer Joey Lugassy from Los Angeles arrived in London on his first visit to the United Kingdom and advertised that he was looking for a band.

In 2009*, Tench moved into a house in Avesta, Sweden and decided to contact his old Odin of London bandmate, John Culley.

Via chatrooms and Facebook, he began acquainting himself with a number of artists who would soon play important roles in his recording career, including American multi-instrumentalist and singer Blake Carpenter, British singer/songwriter Andy John Bradford, Belgian singer and guitarist Stef Flaming, Argentinian composer Andres Guazzelli, and illustrating artist Sonia Mota of Mozambique.

Before they completed the recordings, they were contacted by American drummer Robert Wolff who expressed interest in joining the band, and Corvus Stone became a four-piece.

Stef Flaming wrote the music for "Jussi Pussi", a whimsical piece named after a type of Finnish bread roll.

While recording Corvus Stone, Tench was asked by Carpenter to play lead guitar for his band project The Minstrel's Ghost's second album, Road to Avalon.

He and Bradford enlisted the assistance of a few musicians with whom Tench was acquainted, such as Andres Guazzelli, Stef Flaming, Victor Tassone, and Italian keyboard player, Marco Chiappini.

The song "6000 Friends" features a guest appearance by vocalist Lorelei McBroom of the Australian Pink Floyd band.

Argentinian composer and musician Andres Guazzelli asked Tench to play lead guitar for his twelve-minute instrumental piece, "Wish You Could Hear".

They chose to cover the Murky Red song "Boots for Hire" and asked Stef Flaming to sing on the track.

Special guests for Corvus Stone II included Andres Guazzelli, Blake Carpenter, German Vergara, Phil Naro, Sean Filkins, and Timo Rautiainen all doing vocals for different songs.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Gresswell asked Tench to play lead guitar for his band project Coalition's second album, Bridge Across Time.

After a flurry of activity in the first half of 2016, Tench turned his attention to a personal project which he had begun back in 2011 and had been working on little by little.

Other names included drummer Vic Tassone and bassist Stephen Speelman of the American progressive metal band, Unified Past, composer Steve Gresswell, flutist Ian Beabout, and German melodic progressive rock band, KariBow's Oliver Rusing, who played drums for one track.

Jones had only just recently been asked by legendary prog rock band, Camel, to join them on tour as a keyboard player.

As Tench continued to tease his fans with new music, one piece titled "The Sad Brazilian" caught the interest of American guitarist and orchestral composer, Gordo Bennett.

The album was based on the multi-part hair In A G-String suite, several instrumental compositions including three acoustic guitar tracks and two re-workings of a Corvus Stone theme, and a few melodic songs in a more classic rock feel.

The album quickly captured one of the top positions on the ProgArchives web site and received praise from reviewers around the world, who noted the successful blend of contributions from so many musicians.

Tench was pleased to receive so much praise but always stressed that the reason for the success of the music was due to the efforts of every single member in the project.

The project was temporarily put on the back burner as he turned to some important renovations on his home, but by the end of the summer, new music teasers were being dropped into his Facebook timeline.

This time the cast of participating musicians was trimmed back to a core group consisting of vocalists Peter Jones and Joey Lugassy, who had sung on the BunChakeze album back in 1985, Petri Lindstrom on bass, Gordo Bennett for orchestral arrangements, and drummer Joe Vitale of the Joe Walsh group.