'THE TRADE' WERE FORMED IN 1997 AFTER OUR PREVIOUS FIVE PIECE BAND 'CATNAB' SPLIT UP.
THE ORIGINAL LINE UP WAS AS FOLLOWS:
MIKE CLARKE -VOCALS AND GUITAR,
KEV DOWIE -LEAD GUITAR,
JOHN BLACKETT - BASS AND BACKING VOCALS,
JOHN PREST - DRUMS AND BACKING VOCALS.
JOHN BLACKETT LEFT THE BAND TO BE REPLACED BY NICK NOBLE WHO WAS A FOUNDER MEMBER OF 'CATNAB' AND APPEARS PLAYING BASS AND SINGING BACKING VOCALS ON ALL THE TRACKS IN THIS RECORDING.ALL THE MEMBERS WERE FROM THE EAST CLEVELAND AREAS OF SALTBURN,LOFTUS, AND REDCAR. WE PLAYED AT ALL THE MAIN MUSIC VENUES, MOSTLY PUBS.
THESE TRACKS WERE RECORDED LIVE AT THE LODGE, WHICH WAS AT LIVERTON MINES NEAR LOFTUS. THIS PUB/CLUB NO LONGER EXISTS AS IT WAS BULLDOZED RECENTLY.
THE RECORDING WAS MADE BY JOHN TAYLOR EX OF P.A.F. AND NOW PLAYING WITH 'SOD'S LAW'.
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WE WANTED THE RECORDING TO BE TOTALLY LIVE, AND IT IS, APART FROM SOME BACKING VOCALS ON 'WHITE ROOM'.THESE WERE ADDED AT JOHN'S STUDIO IN MARSKE DUE TO SOME TECHNICAL PROBLEMS DURING THE LIVE PERFORMANCE.IT WAS TO BE OUR FINAL GIG AS WE SPLIT SHORTLY AFTER THIS GIG IN DECEMBER 2001.
MIKE AND KEV FORMED A DUO CALLED 'MAK' AND CONTINUED TO GIG FOR A FURTHER FOUR YEARS.
NICK FORMED HIS OWN BAND CALLED 'NORTHERN LIGHTS' WHICH IS STILL GIGING.
JOHN PREST JOINED A BAND CALLED 'STRIKING BACK' WHICH IS ALSO STILL GIGING,
MIKE AND KEV HAVE NOW FORMED A NEW BAND CALLED 'ALPHA PLACE' WITH TWO MORE EAST CLEVELAND LADS, NAMELY STEVE ROWE ON BASS AND MIKE WALLS ON DRUMS.
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