Who Is Trevor Howard?
Born 1961, and again in 1981, Trevor has been a writer of songs
for many, many years. Singing into a cassette player at school
became singing the blues with guitar players at University
(Stuart Townend being one notable accompanist), became learning
the guitar to his own songs at Work.
Early material exists on cassettes under the name
"Abacus" - an attempt to get on the first page of all
the Music books. Some of this material is unlistenable now, but
helped to teach the craft of songwriting.
The idea of much of this material was to produce "albums" - although selling them was not really an option
Playing live, in church services and concerts was always a
priority; there are many who regard one of Trevor's
"blues" as a major landmark in their lives.
A move to Harrow in 1986 brought the opportunity to play music
with Youth group members, firstly as Howard's Broome Cupboard,
then PRAT (Phil, Rupert And Trevor). These concerts were the
stuff of legend.
A move to Gloucester in 1990 brought an end to PRAT, but
eventually resulted in a partnership with Chris Medway, to create
the world's greatest unpublished work "Visions Of
Daniel", a 2 hour plus musical
exploration of the Old Testament book.
Gloucester also brought the opportunity to
lead Holiday Clubs - such great weeks as "Go For Gold",
"On Fire", "Body Builders", "Millennium
Family", "Pirates Of Polzeath" (at Polzeath SU
beach mission), "Ground Breakers", "Woodland
Gospels", "Going Bananas"- ah, memories! This
deserves it's own page - watch out ...
Years of work with Sunday School eventually took it's toll, and
Trevor began penning songs which his own children, followed
shortly by others, could sing, enjoy and use to praise God, all
at the same time.
The songs started to pile up until a 3 month forced absence due
to a detached retina enabled Trevor to sit down for short periods
of time and start transferring songs to CD in a format which
could be bought and enjoyed by others. This resulted in "Living In Extra
Time" towards the end of 2000
- and then "Hold
The Light".
Trevor still lives in Gloucester, with a wife, 2 children and 4
cats. Whilst not writing songs, you may find him in a Baptist
pulpit (for he does that lay-wise), working with computers, or
supporting the mighty Gloucester City FC.
Experience from years of leading worship and Holiday Clubs has been useful in new ventures in 2001 - Trevor has led his first School assembly and will be leading Family Celebrations in Gloucester city centre on 29th September.
Later additions...
In an attempt to grow up with the children, the name on the CD's has changed to t'Revorlution, written in a fancy font. The music has developped a little too, with "Car Park Music" (2002) and "Future Worship" (2003) showing a more mature style and an improvement in recording and production methods.
...and then the EP "Up Up Up" for Holiday Club 2004 and an album "Hear The Voice" for 2005 return to the younger audience of "Hold The Light" - and bring us up to date.