A mixture of songs written by Trev Teasdel, some solo and some with Steve Gillgallon (Bass / Keys / synth) and Stephen Ingledew (Keys) and Trev (vocals, guitar, keys) as Trev and the Collective Unconscious.

Here's how the Gnome put when the retro album was released this year. (The Gnome Label and Broadgate Gnome are featured on Reverbnation if you check the side bar.

Press Release by the GNOME LABEL - TREV TEASDEL - SONGS FROM THE COVENTRY UNDERGROUND - NEW ALBUM

Album on Amazon USA

"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 (The Hobo Workshop).

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 myradical 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)

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LINKS TO MY OTHER SITES

Trev and the Collective Unconscious on My Space - Here

Hobo magazine (Coventry Music Scene History on Vox) Here

Hobo My Space Here

The Writers' Cafe (Spoken word and acoustic venue in Stockton run by Trev) on Vox

Here

The Writers Cafe My Space Here