Trespass (English band)

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Trespass
General information
origin Sudbury , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal Hard Rock
founding 1979, 1992, 2014
resolution 1982, 1999 or later
Website https://www.trespassband.com/
Current occupation
Electric guitar , vocals , now only electric guitar
 Mark Sutcliffe
Jason Roberts
Daniel Biggin aka Danny B
Electric guitar
 Joe Fawcett
former members
Electric guitar, in the meantime electric bass
 Dave Crawte
Drums
 James Last
Electric guitar, formerly electric bass (live)
 Paul Martin
Electric bass
 Cris Linscott
Electric bass
 Bob Irving
Electric bass
 Leo Smee
Electric bass
 Ed Neal
Electric bass
 Nick Hodge
Electric guitar
 Andy Harris
singing
 Steve Mills
singing
 Adrian Grimes aka Adrian Linden
singing
 Robert Eckland
Electric bass
 Richard Penny
Drums
 Paul Sutcliffe

Trespass is an English new wave of British heavy metal and hard rock band from Sudbury , which has been active since 1979 intermittently.

history

The band's forerunners go back a few years when the brothers Mark (vocals, electric guitar) and Paul Sutcliffe (drums) with their cousin Rick Sutcliffe on bass formed the group Fusion, which played both covers and their own material. Fusion never made an appearance. The trio met Dave Crawte, who worked there, in a guitar and music store. Crawte was in turn the drummer for the group Black Mariah, where guitarist Nick Hodge also played. The Sutcliffe brothers, guitarist Crawte and Hodge on bass then formed the band Track IV, which in addition to their own songs also played cover versions of Thin Lizzy , UFO , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Status Quo and Deep Purple . In early 1979, Hodge was replaced by Richard Penny. Track IV made its first appearance on March 11, 1979 in a local school theater on behalf of Amnesty International . In April, following the suggestion of Paul Sutcliffe, the name was changed to Trespass.

This was followed by appearances in the east of England, where cover versions, but also own songs such as early versions of One of These Days ... and Lightsmith , were played. Trial Records, a young independent label , offered their support. The band then went to Hillside Studios in Ipswich in October , where the songs One of These Days… , Bloody Moon , Ace of Spades , Money and Bombay Mix were recorded. In January 1980 the self-financed single One of These Days was released ... with the song Bloody Moon as the B-side . The first edition of the single was 2,000 copies, after which several reprints were made, so that a total of around 10,000 copies were sold. As the new bass player, Cris Linscott was now in the line-up, while Steve Mills had come to the band as singer and Mark Sutcliffe concentrated only on playing the electric guitar. Restructured , the band went to the Spaceward Studios in Cambridge , where, among other things, a new version of One of These Days… as well as the new song Stormchild , Lightsmith and Live It Up! were recorded. In early 1980 EMI became aware of the group and included them on their sampler Metal for Muthas Volume II with the new version of One of These Days ... and the song Stormchild . The band was the only one on the sampler who was allowed to contribute two songs. Further appearances in Great Britain followed , including at the London Marquee Club . The success of the first single made the BBC prick up their ears, whereupon they invited the group to John Peel and the Friday Rock Show on May 2, 1980. In addition to the songs One of These Days… and Stormchild, she played the previously unknown songs Live It Up! and visionary . The latter was featured on the BBC sampler Metal Explosion later that year . For EMI, the band recorded the demo Through the Ages , which is a compact cassette consisting of ten songs . However, the group was unable to achieve a contract with the label. After a few months, Steve Mills left the cast and was replaced by Robert Eckland from Liverpool . Towards the end of the year, the double A-side single Jealousy / Live It Up! Recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge and released that same year. The single had a circulation of 4,000 copies. However, due to Miller's departure and the interest of Michael Schenker's management in the song Live It Up , the release was delayed a bit. Although several thousand units of the first two singles were sold, there was no record deal. In 1981 the search for a label continued. With Bob Irving as the new bass player, the group recorded a demo at Hillside Studios, which contains the songs Bounty Hunter , Vendetta and Point of No Return , but which was never officially released. After the recordings, Eckland left the cast. The band then permanently shrank to a quartet, as Mark Sutcliffe took over the vocals again from now on. Then the self-financed EP Bright Lights was released , which contains the title song, The Duel and Man and Machine . The band had already played the last two pieces live several times before. The edition of 2,000 copies of the EP was significantly more limited than that of the first two singles. Due to musical differences, Bob Irving left the line-up, whereupon Dave Crawte played the bass. Adrian Grimes aka Adrian Linden took over the vocals. Demo recordings of songs like After Dark , Turnin 'the Tables and I'm on the Outside followed . After the sudden death of the father of the Sutcliffe brothers, Allan Sutcliffe, the company was dissolved in 1982.

The Sutcliffe brothers then worked on more songs. In late 1986 they formed Blue Blud with Dave Crawte , but in early 1992 the band broke up. In 1990 Lars Ulrich chose the Trespass song One of These Days for the sampler New Wave Of British Heavy Metal '79 Revisited which he put together . Around the same time that Blue Blud broke up, the bootleg Live It Up was released with unreleased or rare song material from Trespass. Due to the success of the bootleg, but its poor sound quality, the members met, founded the Alien Egg Records label and released the compilation The Works , which consists of the singles previously released (with the exception of the song Man and Machine ) and various demo recordings. Since this release also met with keen buyer interest, the compilation was also released in Japan by Pony Canyon with the song Look Alive as a bonus song. The band decided without further ado to be permanently active again, after which the album Head was released in 1993 . In the same year the band took part in the Wacken Open Air . In the following year, more gigs followed, before it was quiet again about the band. For a concert in Tokyo in August 1999 on the 20th anniversary of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, in which Praying Mantis , Tank and Samson also took part, the band reunited with the original line-up. In 2000 the compilation The Works II appeared on Hellion Records , which consists of recordings from the early 1980s and songs with the short-term singer Adrian Grimes. The band later broke up. In 2004 the compilation One of These Days: The Trespass Anthology was released by Sanctuary Records .

After the band was re-founded by Mark Sutcliffe and Dave Crawte in 2014, the album Trespass was released in 2015 and the group presented itself at the Brofest . In 2016 Trespass was seen at the Headbangers Open Air . In the same year Crawte left the band due to musical differences, while guitarist Paul Martin and drummer James Last also left. New songs were then recorded with drummer Jason Roberts, guitarist Joe Fawcett and bassist Daniel Biggin aka Danny B. In 2018 the next album Footprints in the Rock was released via Mighty Music .

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the debut single features catchy material that had one foot in the 1970s, which you would especially notice on the electric guitars that would remind you of Thin Lizzy , with the other in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the style of Praying Mantis and the occasional Demon stand. The single Jealousy is livelier and more metallic , which makes it seem that the band has now fully arrived in the NWoBHM. As a reference band he called White Spirit . The title song by Bright Lights offers an interesting guitar work, whereby the song is reminiscent of Soldier's music overall . The following demo recordings of After Dark , Turnin 'the Tables and I'm on the Outside are clearly more melodic and less “heavy”. On Head could have been slight Thrash Metal influences incorporated, so you sometimes common with Metallica , Corrosion of Conformity and Pantera out hear. As a result, he suspected, one tried to sound more modern, more compact and “heavier”.

Matthias Mader found in NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The Glory Days that Bright Lights offers a “combination of songwriting power, musical complexity and mercilessly hard riffing ”. The depressive lyrics would go well with the music. Head, on the other hand, offers a "crude [n] mixture of Metallica and Nirvana ".

Colin Larkin described One of These Days ... in his book The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition as an undiscovered classic of its time, which combined newer heavy metal with traditional hard rock.

Doug Stone from Allmusic felt the music of this single as if it was from "sinful" Blue Öyster Cult , whereby it was released at the summit of the NWoBHM. In The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal , the songs of the first singles and the EP were referred to as solid hard rock. According to rockdetector.com the band is more melodic than is usual for an NWoBHM band.

Martin Popoff said about The Works in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , that Trespass, besides Sweet Savage , is the best NWoBHM band that did not make it to an album release. At times there are also similarities with Tygers of Pan Tang during the time of the singer Jon Deverill. Tom Küppers from Metal Hammer wrote in his review of Footprints in the Rock that the Metal that can be heard on it is rather traditional, as you play “at a moderate lively pace with lots of double guitars”. In addition to style components from Jaguar , he occasionally noticed licks in the style of Trivium . Matthias Mader from Rock Hard also reviewed the album and counted Trespass among the "misunderstood geniuses of the NWOBHM". The material does not come close to the earlier songs, but surpasses Head , and you still sound typically like Trespass, which is caused by Sutcliffe's charismatic vocals and the “unmistakable guitar harmonies” of Sutcliffe and Fawcett. Sutcliffe's main influence on the electric guitar is Ritchie Blackmore , which becomes clear several times on the album. Occasionally more progressive elements are worked into the songs . Slightly psychedelic moments would be reminiscent of Pink Floyd in the days of Syd Barrett . One issue later, Mader wrote about the album that it would take several listening sessions to fully understand it. You could classify it between the classic songs and Head's “bulky proto- grunge ” . In an interview with him, Mark Sutcliffe stated that Trespass was never able to develop its own style. While he, as the main songwriter of the album, likes bands like Rainbow and Rush , the band fluctuates musically between short, succinct and almost poppy and longer, interlaced and less pop-influenced songs. Since he didn't want to sacrifice this mixture, the songs are less accessible.

Discography

  • 1980: Jealousy / Live It Up! (Single, trial records)
  • 1980: Through the Ages (demo, self-published)
  • 1980: One of These Days ... (Single, Trial Records)
  • 1981: Bright Lights (Single, Trial Records)
  • 1992: The Works (compilation, Alien Egg Records)
  • 1993: Head (album, Alien Egg Records)
  • 1999: Metal Crusade '99 (split with Praying Mantis , Tank and Samson , Pony Canyon )
  • 2000: The Works II (compilation, Hellion Records )
  • 2004: One of These Days: The Trespass Anthology (compilation, Sanctuary Records )
  • 2015: Trespass (album, self-published)
  • 2018: Footprints in the Rock (Album, Mighty Music )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o About. TRESPASS New Wave of British Heavy Metal Legends. trespassband.com, accessed November 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 647 ff .
  3. ^ A b c Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 85 f .
  4. ^ A b c d Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 148 ff .
  5. ↑ a b c Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on October 9, 2016 ; accessed on November 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Trespass (2). Discogs , accessed November 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Giorgos Fillinis: Brofest # 3 @ Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK).. metalkaoz.com, accessed November 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Matthias Mader: Trespass . Traces in the rock. In: Rock Hard . No. 370 , March 2018, p. 63 .
  9. ^ Colin Larkin: The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition . Guinness Publishing, Enfield, Middlesex, England 1995, ISBN 0-85112-656-1 , pp. 365 .
  10. ↑ Doug Stone: Trespass. Allmusic , accessed November 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Tony Jasper, Derek Oliver: The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Facts on File Inc., New York 1983, ISBN 0-8160-1100-1 , pp. 359 f .
  12. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 456 f .
  13. ↑ Tom Küppers: Trespass . Footprints in the Rock. In: Metal Hammer . February 2018, p. 98 .
  14. ^ Matthias Mader: Trespass . Footprints in the Rock. In: Rock Hard . No. 369 , February 2018, p. 102 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Mark Sutcliffe on Facebook , Adrian Grimes and Adrian Linden are the same person. Linden was just his stage name. Other spellings such as "Lynden" or "Lyndon" are therefore misspellings.