About the news archive

Treefingers ran a news desk from 2003 to 2006, kept going by a few fans who posted what they heard, often on a tip from a reader. When the site came back in 2026 we wanted the years before and after the desk filled in too, so the band's story can be read the way it unfolded.

Each story starts from what was reported at the time: the music papers, newspapers, radio, old fan pages and the band's own posts, gathered into a corpus. Every page a story cites is kept there, so the story can be checked again after the link dies.

We tell it in our own words, the way a fan desk would have told it on the day. A story set in 1997 doesn't know what happened in 1998.

The date above the headline is the day the story is about. The line under it says when we wrote it up. The old desk posts were rewritten the same way and still carry the name of the editor who first posted them.

Every fact comes from one of the sources listed under the story, from the site's own records, or from the plain public record. A concert story is checked against its show page and setlist, a release story against the release. The draft then goes to a checker who didn't write it, and anything the sources don't back up comes out.

The sources are numbered at the foot of each story, and a quotation carries the number of the one it came from. When they disagree on something that matters, the story says so plainly rather than picking a side.

We don't guess to fill a gap. If no setlist from a night survives, the story says so once and moves on.

Since September 2026 the news is written as it happens, from the band's own channels, the press, radio and video. Quiet days get no story.

Stories are drafted with the help of an AI tool, from the sources listed under each one. We check each one before it goes up.

It isn't perfect, so corrections and suggestions are always welcome. The make a suggestion tab on any story sends a note to the archive, and a fix is kept on record so it stays fixed.