{"id":107,"date":"2022-05-24T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/24\/dont-talk-wet-trev-teasdel\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:15:00","slug":"dont-talk-wet-trev-teasdel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/24\/dont-talk-wet-trev-teasdel\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Talk Wet (Trev Teasdel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

 DON’T TALK WET<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Advert from Hobo (Coventry Music and Arts Magazine) 1973.<\/div>\n
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BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Trev’s Poetry and Flashing Fiction Books website<\/b> https:\/\/trevteasdelpoet.blogspot.com\/<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Trev’s Lyrics Blogspot<\/b> https:\/\/trevteasdellyrics.blogspot.com\/<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The name Don’t Talk Wet came from a line in a poem by my friend Dave Reid (known to us as Byron).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trev Teasdel <\/b>“When John Bargent (Bo) and I started Hobo magazine in 1973, John was also running Rougestar Promotions and disco. I wrote my own songs and played solo and John promoted me in Hobo and with gigs for the Birmingham Streetpress in Mosely and as support for local bands. (See more on Streetpress towards bottom of this page)<\/span><\/div>\n

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Sometimes musician friends from local bands or folk clubs backed me – especially members of<\/p>\n
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Fission – Johnny Adams (later guitarist with Squad), Ant Callaghan and Simon Lovegrove percussion, Mick Green harmonica, Phil Knapper (Older brother of Stu Knapper later of Riot Act) Andy Cairns and others. It was very ad hoc and I advertised for more permanent musicians but the work of Hobo Magazine and Workshop took over.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Gigs included the Navigation and The Boat Yard, Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead Youth Centre and the Golden Cross in Coventry and Popeyes at the Birmingham Arms  and the Fighting Cocks in Mosley Village for Streetpress.<\/span><\/div>\n

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About 17 of my songs from those days were published by the Broadgate Gnome on their Gnome label in 2007. Mainly solo cassette demos or with later musicians on portastudio.<\/span><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/trevteasdel.bandcamp.com\/album\/songs-from-the-coventry-underground<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Trev’s later recording band up on Teesside was Trev and the Collective Unconscious<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

with Steve Gillgallon (Bass, keys, synth) and Steve Ingledew (keys) Trev guitar \/ vocals and keys)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In August 1973 Don’t Talk Wet were asked to appear at The Windsor Free Festival through Rougestar Promotions and John Bargent (Bo) – in the end it didn’t transpire.<\/span><\/p>\n

WINDSOR FREE FESTIVAL<\/b><\/p>\n

Starts Saturday 25th August in Windsor Great Park, London and is expected to last over a<\/p>\n

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week with well over one hundred groups. There will also be poets, street-theatre, solo singers and everything a far fetched imagination can think of (including free food and beer).<\/p>\n

Some of the more well known groups appearing are – Hawkwind \/ Pink Fairies \/ Skin Alley \/ Third Ear Band \/ Longdancer \/ String Driven Thing \/ Kraan (German Band) but to name a few. Coventry bands possibly appearing include – Trilogy (confirmed) \/ Fission \/ Just Jake \/ A Band Called George \/ Trev Teasdel and Don’t Talk Wet (I didn’t do it in the end -can’t remember why but it was it was nice to be asked!).In fact Fission were the only ones that ended up playing at Windsor.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Trev and Bo in the Coventry Evening Telegraph On the Scene supplement June 1973 for Hobo Coventry Music and Arts Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n


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This is a sketch of Trev Teasdel in 1972 on Broadgate Island beneath the Lady Godiva statue drawn by Scon (Steve Connelly) better known now as Roadent the roady with Sex Pistols and Clash.<\/span><\/div>\n

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An early songwriting collaboration was with Pete Waterman in 1970 (before he was famous)<\/span><\/div>\n

Both working at the GEC in Coventry Pete set acoustic music to Trev’s lyric A Lotta Rain is Fallin’<\/span><\/div>\n

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A LOTTA RAIN IS FALLIN\u2019<\/div>\n
\u00a9Trev Teasdel June \/ July 1970 Coventry<\/div>\n
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A lotta rain is fallin\u2019 but the earth has moved aside<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta bullets flying but the victim\u2019s found somewhere to hide.<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta rivers flowin\u2019 but the seas learned how to fly.<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta clouds a wondering which rockets nicked the sky.<\/div>\n
Cos the roads are moving fast but the cars are standing still<\/div>\n
And so much is happening, yet nothin\u2019s ever done<\/div>\n
Oh we want to see the light but we\u2019re dazzled by the sun.<\/div>\n
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And some people\u2019s only sunshine<\/div>\n
Is their Cornflakes in the morning time<\/div>\n
And the age of Instant sunshine, in packets bright and gay<\/div>\n
I know will be dawning, in some future day.<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s a lotta tears a fallin\u2019 and more are being cried.<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta people trampled on as man takes another stride.<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta smoke arising but the sky\u2019s learned how to swim<\/div>\n
There\u2019s a lotta faces smiling but their hearts are feeling grim.<\/div>\n
Cos a lotta tension\u2019s forming and the bag\u2019s about to burst<\/div>\n
There\u2019s gotta be an answer cos the world is getting worse.<\/div>\n
A lotta help is needed to get that truck back on the road<\/div>\n
Cos too many people are pullin\u2019 too heavier a load.<\/div>\n
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BIRMINGHAM STREEPRESS \/ STREETPOEMS  AND BIRMINGHAM GIGS<\/span><\/b>
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sold copies of Streetpress and Streetpoems in Coventry and they showed me how to do layouts and encouraged me to do a Coventry magazine which became Hobo.<\/span><\/div>\n


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 DON’T TALK WET Advert from Hobo (Coventry Music and Arts Magazine) 1973. BAND INDEX Trev’s Poetry and Flashing Fiction Books website https:\/\/trevteasdelpoet.blogspot.com\/ Trev’s Lyrics Blogspot https:\/\/trevteasdellyrics.blogspot.com\/ The name Don’t Talk Wet came from a line in a poem by my friend Dave … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}