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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
In the 1980's we had A band called Trev and the Collective Unconscious. It consisted of three guys. Trev had been 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 is NOW ACTIVE on a VOX blog Click on HOBO below.
SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND -
Trev Teasdel's new Album on the Gnome Label. NOW AVAILABLE
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. They never performed live - mostly home recording and Trev performing solo. Trevor got involved with developing the Teesside Writing scene and we all got girlfriends / kids / jobs - the usual excuses. These tracks are 1986 recordings and this is the first public hearing! Trevor now runs the Writers Cafe Performance Venue. 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)GNOME LABEL. check this new upcoming people's Label
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LINKS TO MY OTHER SITES
1. OUTLET -MY ARCHIVE Of CREATIVE WRITING INITIATIVES IN THE TEESVALLEY AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AREA. CLICK
This site is currently unavailable owing to a change over of server - be back soon hopefully!
HERE NEW My Space site to promote HOBO - Coventry Music siteHERE
5. THE WRITERS CAFE SITE - 1st Weds of the Month - Georgian Theatre, Green Dragon Yard, Stockon On Tees. (Spoken Word and Music venue) Click on the Writers Cafe Banner below. (Again this site suspended for changes but visit our Vox Writers Cafe site)
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CLICK ON THE WRITERS CAFE PIC TO GO THE WRITERS CAFE AND OUTLET WEBSITES!! LOTS THERE TO FIND!!!
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Yo Trev, looks like you are as active as ever. Thanks for your widget link. Whatever next? Looking forward big-time to summer. In fact, I look MORE forward to it every year! I've had my first dabble with 'self-publishing' recently. Amazing. I was able to put together imagery produced over the last couple of years for a book in a couple of nights and one weekend. It arrived from USA about nine days later. Times like these huh?
Hope your beautiful spirit is well today. Always a pleasure to receive word from you - you had me reading for two days but I thank you always for sharing, and enlightening me.
Continue to reach out and touch others as your beautiful spirit and mind touches me.
Things are going fine. I trust the same of you. Here's my news.
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Hi Trev, just to say that those blues will disappear... some time or another. I'm still pounding away but I'm struggling to actually finish stuff. I guess it's all about commitment. Well, that or (lack of) self-belief. Good to hear from you! Mick.
Its not finished yet Trev! Ive just been putting the demos onto our www. igrooves. net/The_Dave_Pepper_Band site! Great to hear from you, hows things over there?
Yeh doing fine. Have had massive essay and am on the last hurdle. Hand it in on Monday. Hope you're well. I'll listen to your music properly next week Trev. Check out www. flickr. com/photos/graysummers and you'll see my part of the world all be it in black and white! I'll Reply properly to you next week. Good fortune.
I've come to wish my favorite gentle/man and poetic chi a Happy Father's Day. I hope the kids will be doing something special for you, even if it's silence in the house, breakfast in bed or a simple, "You're the greatest father any kid can have."
