Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious

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"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
TREV'S NEW ALBUM ON AMAZON USA
and on I Tunes in the UK
and on Tunecore/ ITunes
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.
Featuring BACK IN WINTER TOWN by TREV TEASDEL (Video created by The BROADGATE GNOME) Back In Winter Town

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SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND - TREV TEASDEL songs from the coventry underground

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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 HERE

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 site HERE

2. HOBO - TREV'S COVENTRY MUSIC ARCHIVE CHARTING THE COV MUSIC SCENE IN THE 1970'S and BEYOND!!- CLICK. HERE

3. THE POETRY OF ROCKExploring the Poetry and Lyrics of Rock- CLICK HERE

4. SONGS OF TREV TEASDEL (Songs from the Coventry & Teesside Underground) Discussing the process and inspiration of writing - CLICK HERE

NEW WRITERS CAFE VOX BLOG

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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)********************************************

CLICK ON THE WRITERS CAFE PIC TO GO THE WRITERS CAFE AND OUTLET WEBSITES!! LOTS THERE TO FIND!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/22/2006
Band Website: http://trevteasdel"writerscafe.vox.com/

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Band Members: 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.

FOR MORE SONGS AND POEMS CHECK OUT Songs of Trev Teasdel on Vox Songs of Trev Teasdel on Vox

NIGHTFALL IN SORRENTO - NEW - PERFORMANCE POEMS BY TREV TEASDEL - OUT SOON ON GLASS ORANGE PUBLICATIONS - DETAILS OF HOW TO GET IT SOON.

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CHECK OUT COL & COL'S MY SPACE - BRILLIANT ELECTRONICA AND ACOUSTIC SONGS - SEE THESE VIDEOS AND GO VISIT THEIR SITE HERE - I INSIST!!

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.

Record Label: Gnome Label
http://gnome.groups.vox.com/
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CAPTAIN SWING LYRICS

Newly uploaded remix of my song - Captain Swing - which appears on my Songs From the Coventry Underground Album. Written after reading the Hobsbawm / Rude book Captain Swing for A' level Econ and Soc ...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:37:00 PST

SMOKING TOWERS

A little while ago as a Creative Writing tutor I was invited to attend a professional development day at a stately home discussing the Gothic Novel. After a spooky tour of the mansion and all th...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:44:00 PST

Walking along the Streams of Consciousness

WALKING ALONG THE STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Walking along the streams of consciousness, through buttressed leaves in kick crumble rouge, past sloping off boats tugging at their moorings, past g...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:43:00 PST

Nebula Timescapes in East Cleveland (Poems sequence)

These poems written a while ago while teaching a creative writing class there are to be published in an anthology being produced by Geordie poet Keith Armstrong - Between Two rivers - Limerick and New...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:35:00 PST

Song details moved from profile to this blog

SONGS ON THE MAIN MP3 PLAYERLyrics in the player. Songs now on Songs From the Covnetry Underground (Gnome Label)WELL I DON'T KNOW - started as a blues lyric in 1970 and was set to music by Coventry mu...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:32:00 PST

LYRICS TO ADDITIONAL SONGS ADDED TO 2ND MP3 PLAYER

JUST BEFORE DAWN (words 1970 and Music 1976 Trev Teasdel)(Lyric composed from three poem / songs in 1970 for concept sequence) Breeze blowing through the treesSquirrels squating on their kne...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PST

More Raps and Poems by Trev

DOWN OUR STREET Down our street The men bugger off Leave the kids in the trough. So the wives sleep around With everyone in town So now they're all related To people that they hated Things are...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:17:00 PST

LYRICS TO SONGS IN THE OTHER MP3 PLAYER.

JON JON THE SNIPERS SON Jon Jon the snipers son Learned to shoot when he was young No one told him that to kill was wrong. He saw a film when he was eight With a plot th...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:05:00 PST

Trev's Raps, Poems and Lyrics (A few).

CRANIUM SOUND AND A FEW OTHERS SUGGESTED I UPLOAD SOME OF MY POEMS TO THIS BLOG. These are some recent ones I wrote for the Writers Cafe performances and have performed some of them at various gigs w...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:51:00 PST

About Trev & The Collective Unconscious

Trev began writing songs at 15 - at first just lyrics until he mastered the guitar and pigeon piano. Other instruments came later. One of his early songs - A Lotta Rain is Fallin' was set to music by ...
Posted by Trev Teasdel & The Collective Unconscious on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:44:00 PST