“Uncharted Shores” – the locally based band that had a name-rights dispute with the UK’s “One Direction” – will return to San Benito High School for a show Monday.
“Uncharted Shores” is set to perform at the school – some band members graduated from SBHS – at noon Monday, according to Dan O’Leary, the band’s manager and the father of a band member, Sean O’Leary.
The five-member Tres Pinos band had claimed to launch the band as “One Direction” before the Simon Cowell-produced British band came to fruition in the summer of 2010. But under a settlement announced in September, the U.K. band – which released an album that reached the top of the Billboard 200 earlier this year – kept its name and the local group goes by “Uncharted Shores”.
The Tres Pinos band had been pursuing $1 million along with some royalties and filed for a trademark on its name in February 2011, pursuing ownership of the moniker.
After the settlement, the newly named Tres Pinos band started a tour, largely of high schools. The band is in the final few weeks of that tour, Dan O’Leary said.
They have been traveling in a 45-foot tour bus that includes their pictures on the side of it, he said. That bus will arrive at SBHS Monday at around 8:30 a.m.
The band also has a show planned at Gilroy’s Christopher High School on Wednesday.
