Trev has many solo songs and performance poems and has collaborated with The NERVE on Down Our Street and Jim Pryal's CULTURE FUZIONS contributing words and voice to his dance tracks and poet MARK BEEVERS adding guitar to his poems. Mark is also on My Space - his icon in my Top Friends.
TREV AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONCIOUS in the 80's, consisted of -
Trev Teasdel - Words and Music -
Electric Guitar & some Keyboards & Synth & Vocals.
Steve Gillgallon - Musical Arranger -
Bass guitar & main Keyboards & Synth. Stephen Ingledew AKA Ninja Ghost - see friend section - Recording Techy (4 track Portastudio)-
Main Keyboards & Synth & Drum programming.
NEW NEW NEW!!
OPEN SPACE FILM 1990 ABOUT THE BIRTH OUTLET MAGAZINE AND THE CLEVELAND CREATIVE WRITNG MOVEMENT. OUTLET WAS TREV'S INTIATIVE. Fellow editors included Terry Lawson, Pauline Plummer, Viv Harland, Mel McEvoy. Later editors included Andy Croft, Richard Briddon, Mark Beevers, Margaret Weir. Visit THE NEW OUTLET SITE just being rebuilt -OUTLET TREV'S TEESSIDE LITERARY HISTORY
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LISTEN TO MORE TRACKS BY TREV -BOTH SOLO AND WITH THE COLLECTIVE UNCONCIOUS ON REVERBNATION - CLICK THE WIDGET BELOW OR VISIT THE SITE
TREV ON REVERBNATION
NEW FORTHCOMING COVENTRY ON LINE MAGAZINE - PRIORY STREET BLUES covering the current Coventry scene. Visit the new Vox Blog to view more details.
NIGHTFALL IN SORRENTO - NEW -
PERFORMANCE POEMS BY TREV TEASDEL - OUT SOON ON GLASS ORANGE PUBLICATIONS - DETAILS OF HOW TO GET IT SOON.
Influences
Trev's early lyric influences include Paul Simon, Dylan, Roy Harper, Pete Sinfield (King Crimson), Pete Brown (lyricist with Cream), Joni Mitchell, Beatles, and many more. At least these are ones I look up to!
Band influences on uploaded songs - OMD, Human League, Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, New Order and much more as usual. Not all influences are musical ones.
"TREV AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONCIOUS Also for the WRITERS' CAFE AND HOBO - COVENTRY MUSIC
NEW - TRANCE and DANCE video by Trev (work in progress) with photos of the Writers Cafe by Brian Stubley (Rocking Brian).
HEY UP! WHAT'S THE CRACK - Trev's lively Performance Poem with raging guitar. Recorded at the Green Dragon Studios, Stockton on Tees 2006. Cover pic is a chalk drawing done by Teesside artist Adrian Moule on the floor of the Writers Cafe.
SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND -
Trev Teasdel's new Album on the Gnome Label. NOW AVAILABLE
THE PHOENIX- Video by Broadgate Gnome - one of the songs on the player now on Trev's New Gnome Label album Songs From the Coventry Underground. Recently featured on NME Video Website! NOW ENABLED!
This video was featured on NME Site here - http://www.nme.com/video/id/GjT8zKCAFPs/search/uncon
NEW FUN VIDEO BY TREV FOR ANN'S BIRTHDAY
My above fun video / song for Ann video was featured on NME's Website!
View on NME site here -
http://www.nme.com/video/id/3nNsREGEYCc/search/trev
Featuring
BACK IN WINTER TOWN by TREV TEASDEL (Video created by The BROADGATE GNOME)
Back In Winter Town
Trev was on the Coventry music scene in the 70's writing songs / organising band nights at the Coventry Arts Umbrella and the Hobo Workshop - Holyhead Youth Centre / later the Golden Cross and editor of Coventry's first Music fanzine - HOBO. Pete Waterman was the first to put music to one of my songs (long before he was world famous!). Trevor performed solo at folk clubs and band gigs and also developed as a performance poet. A Hobo Magazine website with full Coventry music archives can be viewed on VOX Click on HOBO below. In 1980 Trev moved to Teesside to do a degree. He met Steve Gillgallon and early work was done on two acoustic guitars and a tape recorder. By 1986 we had a third member - Stephen Ingledew and a range of keyboards / synths / electric guitar and bass and a Fostex 4 track portastudio on which the above tracks were recorded. Trevor got involved with developing the Teesside Writing scene via a magazine called Outlet.. Tracks on the player are mainly 1986 recordings! Until recentlyTrev ran the Writers Cafe Performance Venue at the ARC and then The GEORGIAN THEATRE IN STOCKTON ON TEES.
NEW - SOME EARLY SONGS AND POEMS ON SONGS OF TREV TEASDEL ON VOX -LINK BELOW
Press Release by the GNOME LABEL -
TREV TEASDEL - SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND - NEW ALBUM
"Songs from the Coventry Underground is a collection of the earlier songs from poet and performer Trev Teasdel. It is very apt that he should feature at the very beginning of our Retro-Cov platform.
This is the guy that played an important role in the development of Coventry musical conciousness. He kept an alternative voice alive with the production of Hobo magazine that continued the trail from where the fading footprints of the Gnome could still be identified. Taking over the booking of live bands at the Arts Umbrella, he continued the policy that allowed many of the new local bands an airing as well as bringing in some excellent but not often seen names from outside of the City.
He also created one of the cornerstones of the Coventry Music scene, with the inception of the open jam sessions at the Holyhead Road Arts centre.
He left Coventry to study and has since been as active as ever, with an impressive workload of teaching new writers, running poetry magazines and venues from his Teesside home while still writing and performing his own material.
But that's not the only reason for choosing his work for this release. He is a master craftsman of his artform. His lyrics are carefully honed with the occasional surprise. The working of the words " under the Speenhamland scheme" into the lyric of Captain Swing, written some 20 years before the arrival of Billy Bragg, is phenomenal and deserves a place in the record books.
Aside from that, his work reverberates with the angss and expectations that many living in Coventry at the that time will have felt. Often written on long walks home up the London Road after the last bus, or in teabreaks while working at the GEC. The collective lyrics paint a picture of youthful exhilaration and myradiacl inspirations with echoes of revolt. Some might suggest that they could have been written in and about any city in those times. No they could only come from one place....Our Coventry."
Trev has posted many of his lyrics and the thought and activities behind their writing on his Vox space (See SONGS OF TREV TEASDEL LINK BELOW)
LINKS TO MY OTHER SITES
NEW My Space site to promote HOBO - Coventry Music siteHERE
Dave Cook and I are playing at Nigel Ward's new 'Stoke Folk' club in the Humber Hotel Coventry this Thursday. Chele will be singing with us and Rod Felton is also performing. Hope you can join us for a great launch night for Coventry's latest folk venue.
This years festival is headlined by Billy Bragg (Friday), Seth Lakeman (Sunday) and Peatbog Faeries (Saturday) with many more top artists also performing incl the award winning The Demon Barbers.
