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"Trev Teasdel is a lively underground  performance poet,

songwriter, editor, poetry activist and organiser and digital archivist. One of the Godfathers of the creative writing movement in the Tees Valley and currently Co-director of the Writers Cafe in Stockton on Tees. He was co-founder of Hobo (Coventry Music Magazine and  Workshop in the 70's) and  Outlet (Poetry) magazine in the Tees Valley in the 80's, He co-founded the Write Around and Merlin's

Cauldron Writers and Arts festivals and has been  a longstanding creative writing tutor and Development Worker for the WEA (Workers' Educational Association) and Leeds University Adult

Education. He has been Writer in Residence in various community and educational settings." Wordfringe Aberdeen

Early collaborations were with Nigel Clark of Cardinal / Mojo Morgan, Pete Waterman (Pre-fame), Johnny Adams (ex Squad) / Andy Cairns (who played lead in a band with Horace Panter long before Two Tone)

The audio ranges from non professional practice tapes - digitally cleaned up - to work produced with the band Trev and the Collective Unconcious on a Fostex X15 portastudio.New digitally produced material may follow and a New album called

SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND released soon on the Gnome Label See the video ad below.

This is a kind of on-line underground bootleg album style to archive it. Some of the songs, written back in the 70's tell part of the Coventry story popular on my Hobo Vox blog.
Gnome Label wrote -

 

"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's 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 angst 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 this Vox space.
17 tracks on Songs From the Coventry Underground - Shortly After Midnight / Well I Don't Know / The Phoenix / The Isolate / Mrs Stress and Strain / Just Before Dawn / A Lotta Rain is Fallin' / Throw Down My Pack / Scarf / A Teardrop in the Tees / Tonight (Loneliness Surrounds me Like the Dark of Night / Back in Winter Town / With Someone Nice Like You / Captain Swing / Shortly After Midnight (Early version) / Postcards of China / Visions of a Brighter Day.

Shortly After Midnight (Full band versions) 1985
Well I Don't Know (Full band version) Co- Written with Johnny Adams (Ex Squad) 1986
The Phoenix (Full band version) Co-written with Steve Ingledew / Steve Gillgallon 1986
The Isolate (Full band version) 1986
The Paris Affair (Music by Steve Ingledew) 1992
Jon Jon the Sniper's Son Music by Steve Ingledew / Lyrics by Trev Teasdel 1992
Postcards of China Music by steve Gillgallon and Steve Ingledew. Words Trev Teasdel 1985
Synth and Metal Folk (working Title) 1992 (Trev solo on Keyboards)
20TH CENTURY INERTIA 1975 / audio - Trev solo and keyboard version 1998
Nothing to Add 1975 / (audio 1985)
Back in Winter Town 1970 (audio 1985)
Lady of Darkness (song by Colin Walker 1983) 


PERFORMANCE POEMS

Nightfall in Sorrento  New - July 2007
Down Our Street with a Trance Track by The Nerve 2006
Hey Up! What's the Crack?  2006
Dance and R & B (The Surround Sound) 2005
Stereophonic London 2005
Streetbattle 1980
Borders (How Many Books?) 2005
Sin City 2005
Circe 1992 - (Music Track)  Words (not included by Margaret Weir) music (included here) by Trev Teasdel
Hardrock Holiday 1982 with music track early demo by Colin Walker
Port of Love and We Talked for Ages Two poems written 1985 + Audio by Trev and Collective Unconscious

CLAWPICKING SONGS
Just Before Dawn 1979
A Teardrop in the Tees 1981 (Several audio versions) with Colin Walker and Ann Wainwright on Violin / Flute
Vision of a Brighter Day 2001
I'll Go with you Anywhere 1999
Oh Why Did Ya Leave 1966

SONGS WITH STEVE GILLGALLON on lead acoustic (audio from cassette working tapes)
Victor Jara (with Steve on bass) This one is a cover of the Adrian Mitchell / Arlo Guthrie song)
No Limit (To How Far You Can Go) 1981
A Lotta Rain is Fallin' 1981 (Originally this lyric written in 1970 had music by Pete Waterman - Pre-fame)
Throw Down My Pack 1973 (audio version with Steve 1981 and a keyboard version by me 1992)
Love Song 1982
Scarf 1981
Political Asylum 1981 (audio with Steve and a later keyboard version)
Reggae Reggae 1982 /4 (with Ian Digby on Keyboards)
Women on the Change 1981

JUST THE LYRICS (NO AUDIO YET WITH THESE)
Black Lizard Stream 1970
Screenplay 1996
A Bottleneck of the Blues 2001
The Elusive Metallic Idol 1969
Flowers of the Wayside 1970
Sepulchre City 1970
Like the Lake of Serbonia 1971
Glaik (The Illusion of the Lake) 1971
Search the Crowd 1971
I Dig Rock n Roll and Shakespeare 1971
It's a Long Hitch Hike Home 1967 / 69
One More Battered Women 1981
Runaway Train 1970
I Need Some Comfort Now 1970
My Sorrow Hid in Shame 1970
Man Supreme, the Perfect Being 1969
Wanna Come Back to My Place 2005


TREV  SONGS - WITH SOLO AUDIO FROM CASSETTE on accoustic guitar or piano.
Melissa's Garden 1998
Captain Swing 1978
With Someone Nice like You 1980
Mrs Stress and Strain 1968 / revised 1978
Tonight Loneliness Surrounds Me 1982 (piano)
Ice Cream Cones 1991
I'm A Capitalist 1974 (Audio 1991)
I Think of You 1977
The Precinct of St. Mary 1969
Sonny Boy (plays them drums) 1973 (Very rough and old cassette version)