 By 2012, Bruhns had departed from the band, leaving the group without a guitarist.Sherwood took this opportunity to switch to guitar and hired Rick Tierney (previously a touring musician with Alice Cooper and The Monkees) to take over on bass after hearing Tierney flawlessly perform basslines from Sherwood's solo discography.In 2013, all of Circa's studio material and first live album was re-issued through Cleopatra Records.