The Insect Trust has been played on NTS shows including Shells, with Been Here And Gone So Soon first played on 7 April 2023.

The Insect Trust was a rock band that formed in New York in 1967, whose characteristic sound was a psychedelic mixture of progressive rock, jazz, folk, blues and rock and roll and had similarities to Fairport Convention, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane.

The original members of the band were Nancy Jeffries, vocals, Bill Barth and Luke Faust on guitars, Trevor Koehler on saxophone, Robert Palmer on clarinet and alto saxophone. The band was named after the poetry journal The Insect Trust Gazette.

The band's sax player Bob Palmer later became the highly lauded rock critic Robert Palmer, while the female vocalist Nancy Jeffries became an important record company executive (A&M, Virgin, Elektra).