The Circus Tents were an American band active from 1989 to 1993 from Grass Valley, California, United States.
It consisted of Matt Wedgley as the lead vocalist, Jon Sortland on drums, Chad Cox on bass, Scot Pickering and Jeff Jones on guitar.
[2] They achieved international publicity when Billie Joe Armstrong put a Circus Tents sticker on his guitar[3] and AFI covered their song "Open Your Eyes" on their record Answer That and Stay Fashionable.
In 2018, The Circus Tents and The Force briefly reunited at The Miners Foundry Cultural Center to play a concert in honor of former member Chad Cox, who had died in 2014.
[5] Hunter Burgan played bass for The Circus Tents in Cox's stead, and Jon Sortland filled in his role as drummer for The Force.