The Third State "Alone In The Crowd"

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The Third State
Alone In The Crowd
Obscure Delight 1989 UK

The Third State was the one man home taping project of Trevor Hall from Cromer, near Norfolk, in northwestern England. Trevor did many tapes all imbued with his distinctive, personal quality. He used a Fostex 260 cassette recorder for this tape but was later one of the first guys I knew who used a computer ( an early Atari I believe) to record and produce his songs which veered from urgent political outbursts to plaintive , from the heart ballads. An upbeat and gracious fellow we visited him and his wife and two kids in 1996 where he treated us to his excellent vegetarian cooking and hospitatlity.
Trevor ran the Obscure Delight cassette label from the mid 1980s into the 90s although I can’t recall if there were any other artists besides him. For some years he released tapes as The Third State and then switched to his given name. I considered Trevor a pretty good friend but for some reason in the early 2000’s I lost touch with him and could not find a way to contact him. “Alone In The Crowd” was among his best tapes although he made quite a few top quality cassettes. A very wordy songwriter inspired a bit by punk and classic britrock, I miss Trevor and hope he is still producing his songs somewhere.

side one
The Flame
A Bottle Goes Up
Duty
Roses
In My Adolescent World
Inside Out
The KKilling Dance

side two
Up And Out
Media Massage
Confidence
All Your Heroes
Living In The Real World
A Strange Place
This Self Arises

“Anyone finding the lyrical content offensive should be pleased to know that it was written with them in mind”…Trevor Hall