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Trespass are a British
heavy metal band from
Sudbury, Suffolk
Sudbury (, ) is a market town in the south west of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour near the Essex border, north-east of London. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 13,063. It is the largest town in the Babergh local government ...
, England. They were part of the
new wave of British heavy metal
The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Journalist Geoff Barton coined the term i ...
at the beginning of the 1980s.
The band reformed in 2015.
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.
Mark Sutcliffe cites as a musical influence
Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968, playing jam-style hard rock music that mixed guitar riffs and organ sounds. He is prolific in creating guitar ...
of
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock music, but their musical style has changed over the course of its existence. Ori ...
fame, Cris Linscott admired
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( ) is an American rock music, rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Ju ...
and
Rush, while "Sleeve" liked
David Coverdale
David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after wh ...
and
Paul Rodgers
Paul Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead vocalist of numerous bands, including Free, Bad Company, The Firm, and The Law. He has also performed as a solo artist, and co ...
.
Trial Records
The band came to sign with Trial Records and their first single, "One of These Days",
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. 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
The Enid are a British progressive rock band founded by keyboardist and composer Robert John Godfrey. Godfrey received his main musical education from The Royal College of Music. He is previously known for his work with Barclay James Harvest, ...
. 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
Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston (11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005), known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster. He was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), al ...
's ''
Friday Rock Show
The ''Friday Rock Show'' was a radio show in the United Kingdom that was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights, from 17 November 1978 until 2 April 1993. For most of its existence, it was hosted by Tommy Vance.
Vance ...
'', which secured them an inclusion in ''Metal Explosion'', a
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compilation record.
They also managed to have two of their songs included in the second volume of the ''
Metal For Muthas
''Metal for Muthas'' is the name given to a series of heavy metal compilations made during the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM).
The original compilation was ''Metal for Muthas'', released in February 1980. The compilation was a sampl ...
'' compilation series.
In 1990,
Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (; ; born 26 December 1963) is a Danish musician best known as the drummer and co-founder of American heavy metal band Metallica. The son and grandson respectively of tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis in his ...
, the drummer and co-founder of the band
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrume ...
, 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
Glam metal (also known as hair metal or pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, upbeat rock anthems, and slow power ballads. It borrows heavily from the fashion and image of 1970s glam r ...
band Blue Blud (later Blue Blood), releasing two albums: ''The Big Noise'' (1989) and ''Universal Language'' (1991).
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. The band launched an official Trespass Facebook page in December 2013. 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.
The band's new line-up debuted at the Brofest #3 festival in
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is ...
, 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.
Recording sessions
[Trespass. "One Of These Days: The Anthology". Sanctuary Records, 2004]
;1979, October - Hillside Studios
# "One of these days" (''released as the A-side of the single "One of these days"'')
# "Bloody moon" (''released as the B-side of the single "One of these days"'')
# "Frogeye"
# "Bombay mix"
# "Ace of spades"
;1980, February - Spaceward Studios
# "8 'til 5"
# "Stormchild" (''released on the compilation album Metal For Muthas, Volume 2: Cut Loud'')
# "Lightsmith"
# "One of these days" (''released on the compilation album Metal For Muthas, Volume 2: Cut Loud'')
;1980, April - EMI Studios
# "Live it up"
# "Change your mind"
# "Visionary"
# "Assassin"
;1980, 2 May - BBC Studios
(the
Friday Rock Show
The ''Friday Rock Show'' was a radio show in the United Kingdom that was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights, from 17 November 1978 until 2 April 1993. For most of its existence, it was hosted by Tommy Vance.
Vance ...
session)
# "One of these days"
# "Stormchild"
# "Live it up"
# "Visionary" (''released on the compilation album Metal Explosion'')
;1980, August - Spaceward Studios
# "Live it up" (''released as the A-side of the single "Jealousy"'')
# "Jealousy" (''released as the A-side of the single "Jealousy"'')
;1981, March - Hillside Studios
# "Bounty hunter"
# "Point of no return"
# "Vendetta"
;1981, July - RG Jones Studios
# "Bright lights" (''released as the A-side of the EP "Bright lights"'')
# "Duel" (''released as the first B-side of the EP "Bright lights"'')
# "Man and machine" (''released as the second B-side of the EP "Bright lights"'')
# "Life beat"
# "It's all over"
;1982, May - The Lodge Studios
# "Make it metal"
# "Rockin' on the radio"
# "Midnight hour"
;1982, November - The Lodge Studios
# "Long way to Hollywood"
# "Rockin' the hard way"
# "Hot on your heels"
;2014 various - recorded at Long Track studios mixed at HVR Studios
#"Stormchild"
#"Assassin"
#"Ace of Spades"
#"Eight til Five"
#"Bloody Moon"
#"One of these Days"
#"Live it Up"
#"Jealousy"
#"The Duel"
#"Lightsmith"
;2016 various- recorded and mixed at HVR Studios, engineered by Dan Biggin
#”Momentum”
#”Be Brave”
#”Mighty Love”
#”Prometheus”
#”Footprints In The Rock”
#”Beowulf & Grendel”
#”The Green Man”
#”Dragons In The Mist”
#”Little Star”
#”Music Of The Waves”
#”Weed”
;2021 & 2022 various- recorded and mixed at Crooks Hall Studio, engineered by John Metcalfe
#”Blackthorn”
#”Daggers Drawn”
#”Force of Nature”
#”Other Worlds”
#”Ghost Pilot”
#”Back To The Woods”
#”Crooked Cross”
#”Unsinkable”
#”Stranger In Paradise”
#”Live Like A King”
#”Wolf At The Door”
See also
*
List of new wave of British heavy metal bands
The late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and ...
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English heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1978
Musical groups disestablished in 1982
Musical groups from Suffolk
New Wave of British Heavy Metal musical groups