Trespass were a heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band from Suffolk, England. They were part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

New Wave of British Heavy Metal

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. The movement developed as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black...

 at the beginning of the 1980s.

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

Ritchie Blackmore

Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...

 of Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

 fame, Cris Linscott admired Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd

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 and Rush

Rush (band)

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, while "Sleeve" liked David Coverdale

David Coverdale

David 'Jack' Coverdale is an English rock singer, most famous for his work with the his own hard rock band Whitesnake which achieved massive commercial success.-Early life:...

 and Paul Rodgers

Paul Rodgers

Paul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with...

.

Trial Records

The band came to sign with Trial Records when the owner of the new label, Steve Guy-Clarke, approached them with the proposition to do an album. 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

Extended play

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 which also had a pressing of 2000 copies. Interestingly, the a-side ran at 45 RPM but the b-side ran at 33⅓ RPM.

Other releases

The band recorded a session for Tommy Vance

Tommy Vance

Tommy Vance was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans...

's Friday Rock Show, which secured them an inclusion in Metal Explosion, a BBC compilation record.

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

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. The original compilation was Metal For Muthas , released in February 1980...

 compilation series.

In 1990 Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich

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, the drummer and co-founder of the band Metallica

Metallica

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, released a compilation entitled NWOBHM '79 Revisited commemorating the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal's first decade after the event. 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.

After Trespass

After Trespass' break-up the long time members of the band (Mark, Paul, and Dave) formed a glam metal

Glam metal

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 band by the name of Blue Blud (later Blue Blood). After Blue Blood's break-up in 1992 the brothers revived the Trespass name and released an album in 1993 by the name of 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.

Recording Sessions

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, May 2 - BBC Studios

(the Friday Rock Show

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 1978 to 1993. Throughout most of its run it was hosted by Tommy Vance. Ostensibly for the genre of rock in general, it was most closely associated with heavy metal...

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 aa-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 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"