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    The Third State "Alone In The Crowd"

    By Don Campau | 23 January 2016

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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.

    The Third State "Alone In The Crowd", 1989

    The Third State “Alone In The Crowd”, 1989

    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

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