Trespass (band)

Last updated

Trespass
Origin Sudbury, Suffolk, England
Genres Heavy metal
Years active1978–1982, 1992–1993, 2015–present
LabelsTrial Records
Mighty Music
MembersMark Sutcliffe
Joe Fawcett
Wil Wilmot
Jason Roberts
Past membersDave Crawte
Paul Sutcliffe
Steve "Sleeve" Mills
Robert Eckland
Adrian Grimes (AKA Adrian Lynden)
Richard Penny
Cris Linscott
Bob Irving
Leo Smee
James Last
Paul Martin
Dan Biggin
Nigel Booth

Trespass are a British heavy metal band from Sudbury, Suffolk, England. They were part of the new wave of British heavy metal at the beginning of the 1980s. [1] The band reformed in 2015. [2]

Contents

Career

Lineup

Initially the band consisted of brothers Mark Sutcliffe (voice and guitar) and Paul Sutcliffe (drums), Dave Crawte (guitar), and Richard Penny (bass). Later they replaced Richard Penny with Cris Linscott and added vocalist Steve "Sleeve" Mills, all under 21 at the time. They all had day jobs, as the band never became financially viable: "Sleeve" was employed by the Social Security Dapartment, Mark and Paul worked at a factory, Dave worked at a record shop, and Cris was an income tax collector. The band's manager was Steve Kendall. [3]

Mark Sutcliffe cites as a musical influence Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame, Cris Linscott admired Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rush, while "Sleeve" liked David Coverdale and Paul Rodgers.

Trial Records

The band came to sign with Trial Records and their first single, "One of These Days", [1] had a pressing of only 2000 copies, which were sold out in a short time. After that they enlisted vocalist Rob Eckland to record their "Jealousy" / "Live It Up" single, which was a double A-side. [4] The final release for the label was the Bright Lights EP which also had a pressing of 2000 copies. The A-side ran at 45 RPM but the B-side ran at 33⅓ RPM.

The Enid and Lodge Studios

In 1982, the band were represented for a brief period by Lester Mortimer, the manager for British pomp rock band The Enid. Lead vocalist Adrian Grimes (AKA Adrian Lynden) joined them for the recording of a six-track demo, produced by Steven Stewart at The Enid's The Lodge Recording Studio. Some of these tracks were included on One Of These Days: The Anthology. The band played a few gigs with this line-up (the biggest being the Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk), but disbanded after a family tragedy.

Other releases

The band recorded a session for Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show , which secured them an inclusion in Metal Explosion, a BBC compilation record.[ citation needed ]

They also managed to have two of their songs included in the second volume of the Metal For Muthas compilation series.

In 1990, Lars Ulrich, the drummer and co-founder of the band Metallica, released a compilation entitled NWOBHM '79 Revisited celebrating the tenth anniversary of the new wave of British heavy metal. The double-CD includes some of the top acts of the time, with Trespass being represented with their biggest hit "One of These Days" from the BBC session.

Hiatus

After Trespass's break-up, the long-term members of the band (Mark, Paul, and Dave) formed a glam metal band Blue Blud (later Blue Blood), releasing two albums: The Big Noise (1989) and Universal Language (1991). [1] After Blue Blood's break-up in 1992, the brothers revived the Trespass name and released an album of original material in 1993, Head.

Various compilations of released and unreleased material have been issued during the years, both officially by the band and in unofficial bootlegs. Some of these include: Through the Ages, The Works, The Works 2, and One Of These Days: The Trespass Anthology.

Reformation

Trespass started to reform in 2013 into 2014 when they entered the studio once more to re-record their classic material, so it had a consistent sound and feel.[ citation needed ] The band launched an official Trespass Facebook page in December 2013. [5] In 2014, Paul Sutcliffe decided he wanted to pursue other musical avenues so the remaining members of the band, Mark Sutcliffe and Dave Crawte, recruited James Last on drums, Paul Martin on guitars and Dan Biggin (AKA Danny B, who engineered the new album) on bass.[ citation needed ]

The band's new line-up debuted at the Brofest #3 festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 28 February 2015. The new eponymously titled album and accompanying website were launched in March 2015.

Crawte and Martin left the band in January 2016. A new drummer Jason Roberts and lead guitarist Joe Fawcett joined Mark Sutcliffe and Danny B, signalling a return to the original Trespass twin lead guitar sound. An album of new material, entitled Footprints in the Rock was released in late 2016. Nigel Booth joined the band as bassist in 2018.

In 2020 Wil Wilmot replaced Nigel Booth as bassist. On January 27, 2023, they released a digital single, “Blackthorn” as a taster for a new album, followed by further singles “Daggers Drawn” on March 17 and “Live Like A King” on April 28. The album, “Wolf At The Door” was released on May 26, featuring artwork by the English illustrator Mark Wilkinson, who has also provided album cover artwork for Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Marillion and The Darkness amongst others

Although the Covid pandemic and subsequent lockdowns initially curtailed any live work, the new lineup of the band eventually made its live debut at the Wedfest Rocks 7 festival at Club 85 in Hitchin, UK on April 9th 2022, on a bill that also featured other NWOBHM stablemates as Thunderstick and Elixir. The band have since played numerous festivals and gigs in both the UK and Europe, including Up the Hammers festival in Greece and Keep It True and Headbangers Open Air festivals in Germany

Recording sessions

[6]

1979, October - Hillside Studios
  1. "One of these days" (released as the A-side of the single "One of these days")
  2. "Bloody moon" (released as the B-side of the single "One of these days")
  3. "Frogeye"
  4. "Bombay mix"
  5. "Ace of spades"
1980, February - Spaceward Studios
  1. "8 'til 5"
  2. "Stormchild" (released on the compilation album Metal For Muthas, Volume 2: Cut Loud)
  3. "Lightsmith"
  4. "One of these days" (released on the compilation album Metal For Muthas, Volume 2: Cut Loud)
1980, April - EMI Studios
  1. "Live it up"
  2. "Change your mind"
  3. "Visionary"
  4. "Assassin"
1980, 2 May - BBC Studios

(the Friday Rock Show session)

  1. "One of these days"
  2. "Stormchild"
  3. "Live it up"
  4. "Visionary" (released on the compilation album Metal Explosion)
1980, August - Spaceward Studios
  1. "Live it up" (released as the A-side of the single "Jealousy")
  2. "Jealousy" (released as the A-side of the single "Jealousy")
1981, March - Hillside Studios
  1. "Bounty hunter"
  2. "Point of no return"
  3. "Vendetta"
1981, July - RG Jones Recording Studios
  1. "Bright lights" (released as the A-side of the EP "Bright lights")
  2. "Duel" (released as the first B-side of the EP "Bright lights")
  3. "Man and machine" (released as the second B-side of the EP "Bright lights")
  4. "Life beat"
  5. "It's all over"
1982, May - The Lodge Studios
  1. "Make it metal"
  2. "Rockin' on the radio"
  3. "Midnight hour"
1982, November - The Lodge Studios
  1. "Long way to Hollywood"
  2. "Rockin' the hard way"
  3. "Hot on your heels"
2014 various - recorded at Long Track studios mixed at HVR Studios
  1. "Stormchild"
  2. "Assassin"
  3. "Ace of Spades"
  4. "Eight til Five"
  5. "Bloody Moon"
  6. "One of these Days"
  7. "Live it Up"
  8. "Jealousy"
  9. "The Duel"
  10. "Lightsmith"
2016 various- recorded and mixed at HVR Studios, engineered by Dan Biggin
  1. ”Momentum”
  2. ”Be Brave”
  3. ”Mighty Love”
  4. ”Prometheus”
  5. ”Footprints In The Rock”
  6. ”Beowulf & Grendel”
  7. ”The Green Man”
  8. ”Dragons In The Mist”
  9. ”Little Star”
  10. ”Music Of The Waves”
  11. ”Weed”
2021 & 2022 various- recorded and mixed at Crooks Hall Studio, engineered by John Metcalfe
  1. ”Blackthorn”
  2. ”Daggers Drawn”
  3. ”Force of Nature”
  4. ”Other Worlds”
  5. ”Ghost Pilot”
  6. ”Back To The Woods”
  7. ”Crooked Cross”
  8. ”Unsinkable”
  9. ”Stranger In Paradise”
  10. ”Live Like A King”
  11. ”Wolf At The Door”

See also

Related Research Articles

<i>Kill Em All</i> 1983 studio album by Metallica

Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983, through the independent label Megaforce Records. After forming in 1981, Metallica began by playing shows in local clubs in Los Angeles. They recorded several demos to gain attention from club owners and eventually relocated to San Francisco to secure the services of bassist Cliff Burton. The group's No Life 'til Leather demo tape (1982) was noticed by Megaforce label head Jon Zazula, who signed them and provided a budget of $15,000 for recording. The album was recorded in May with producer Paul Curcio at the Music America Studios in Rochester, New York. It was originally intended to be titled Metal Up Your Ass, with cover art featuring a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet bowl. Zazula convinced the band to change the name because distributors feared that releasing an album with such an offensive title and artwork would diminish its chances of commercial success.

<i>The Soundhouse Tapes</i> 1979 EP by Iron Maiden

The Soundhouse Tapes is the debut EP by Iron Maiden, and features the first recordings by the band. Released on 9 November 1979, it features three songs taken from the demo tape recorded at Spaceward Studios on 30 and 31 December 1978. The three tracks appear in a rougher form than they would on the band's eponymous debut studio album and subsequent singles, as they were all recorded in one session.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diamond Head (British band)</span> British heavy metal band

Diamond Head are an English heavy metal band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in 1976. They were part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement and is acknowledged by bands such as Metallica and Megadeth as a significant early influence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angel Witch</span> English heavy metal band

Angel Witch are a British heavy metal band which formed in London in 1976. Despite never achieving major success, they are known for being integral part of the early 1980s new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) movement, and have been acknowledged as an influence by many bands of the then-emerging thrash, speed, doom and extreme metal genres.

Neal Kay is a former London-based disc jockey, who was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), along with Tommy Vance, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Running Free</span> 1980 single by Iron Maiden

"Running Free" is the debut single by Iron Maiden, released on 8 February 1980 on the 7" 45 rpm vinyl record format. It was written by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno. The song appears as the third track on the band's debut album Iron Maiden. In 1985, a live version of the song was released as the first single from Live After Death. In 1990, the original single was reissued on CD and 12" vinyl as part of The First Ten Years box, in which it was combined with the band's next single, "Sanctuary". The 1985 live single was also released as part of this box set, combined with 1985's "Run to the Hills".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thunderstick</span> English drummer

Barry Graham Purkis, more commonly known as Thunderstick, is an English drummer who wore various masks and used to perform on-stage closed in a cage. He was in the cult-band Samson, with whom his name is most associated.

<i>Angel Witch</i> (album) 1980 studio album by Angel Witch

Angel Witch is the first album by British heavy metal band Angel Witch. The album was released in 1980 through Bronze Records, and since then re-released in four editions over the years. The cover features a painting formerly attributed to John Martin titled The Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium. The album made Angel Witch one of the key bands in the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) scene, and has proven influential on subsequent movements, particularly on then-upcoming thrash, speed, doom and extreme metal artists.

<i>Metal for Muthas</i> 1980 compilation album by Various Artists

Metal for Muthas is the name given to a series of heavy metal compilations made during the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sanctuary (Iron Maiden song)</span> 1980 single by Iron Maiden

"Sanctuary" is the second single released by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The single was released on 23 May 1980. Although originally issued as a non-album single, the song was added to the later US release of their debut studio record, Iron Maiden (1980). When the album was re-released in 1998, the song was added in all territories. In 1990, it was reissued on CD and 12" vinyl in The First Ten Years box set, in which it was combined with their first single, "Running Free".

White Spirit were an English heavy metal band from Hartlepool, best remembered for guitarist Janick Gers who went on to play with Ian Gillan, Bruce Dickinson, and ultimately, Iron Maiden. Other original members of the band were Bruce Ruff (vocals), Malcolm Pearson (keyboards), Phil Brady (bass) and Graeme Crallan (drums), with a later lineup including Brian Howe (vocals), Mick Tucker (guitars) and Toby Sadler (bass). Pearson and Tucker revived the band in 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Praying Mantis (band)</span> English heavy metal band

Praying Mantis are an English heavy metal band. Although a part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, they pursued a musical direction more melodic and AOR-sounding than their contemporaries Iron Maiden and Saxon (band).

Jaguar are an English heavy metal band formed in Bristol in December 1979. They had moderate success throughout Europe and Asia in the early 1980s, during the heyday of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.

<i>New Wave of British Heavy Metal 79 Revisited</i> 1990 compilation album by Various artists

New Wave of British Heavy Metal '79 Revisited is a compilation album of various songs by various artists of the NWOBHM. The compilation was assembled by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and music journalist Geoff Barton and released in 1990 on Caroline Records and later Metal Blade Records.

Jameson Raid are a British heavy metal band. They are usually considered to be part of the new wave of British heavy metal, following their inclusion on EMI's album Metal For Muthas II, although they were established on the Birmingham circuit as a hard rock band several years before this.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Salem (British band)</span> English hard rock band

Salem UK is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Hull, England. It was formed following the split of the new wave of British heavy metal band Ethel the Frog. Salem recorded three demos and a single in the early 1980s; a compilation album of these recordings was released in 2010.

Black Rose are an English heavy metal band from Teesside in the north east of England. They formed in 1976 under the name Ice but changed it to Black Rose in 1980. Black Rose was one of the many British bands considered part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. The original line-up was Steve Bardsley, Kenny Nicholson (guitar), Marty Rajn (bass) and Mark Eason (drums). Over the next nine years the band went through various line-up changes and released quite a few records including two albums: Boys Will Be Boys (1984) and Walk It How You Talk It (1986) before splitting up in 1989. The band then re-formed in 2006 and released their third album Cure for Your Disease in 2010. In 2022 they released their fourth studio album WTF on Pure Steel Records.

Stampede are a British hard rock band formed in 1981 by songwriting partnership Reuben Archer and Laurence Archer. The band signed to Polydor Records, emerging as part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene. Stampede disbanded in 1983, and guitarist Laurence Archer went on to play with UFO and Phil Lynott's Grand Slam, amongst other projects. The band reformed 26 years later in 2009, and a new studio album titled 'A Sudden Impulse' was released on 9 May 2011 on the Grind That Axe label, a subsidiary of Rock Candy Records.

Crystal Viper is a Polish heavy metal band founded in 2003 by singer and guitarist Marta Gabriel.

Dan Biggin, more commonly known professionally as Danny B, is a Chilean guitarist and bassist performing with thrash band Criminal, death metal band Pentagram Chile and is also involved in his own side projects Takoma Star and Flight 19 to name a few.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 365. ISBN   0-85112-656-1.
  2. ↑ "Trespass". Trespassband.com.
  3. ↑ Chris Collingwood, Sounds, 1980-08-03 "Trespass - nwobhm.info". Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
  4. ↑ "Trespass biography". 1.nwobhm.info. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008.
  5. ↑ "Log into Facebook". Facebook.com.{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  6. ↑ Trespass. "One Of These Days: The Anthology". Sanctuary Records, 2004
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.