Any Trouble: Британдық рок тобының тарихы

British rock band

Any Trouble are a British rock band, originating from Crewe, England, best known for their early 1980s recordings. In 1980, Melody Maker stated that Any Trouble were "the most exciting new rock 'n' roll group since the Pretenders".

Any Trouble's founding members Clive Gregson (guitar), Tom Jackson (vocals) and Chris Parks (guitar) met at Crewe and Alsager Teacher Training College in 1974. Soon after, Mel Harley (drums) and Phil Barnes (bass) completed the line up.

After returning from their US tour without a recording contract Any Trouble took a long break, after which Clive Gregson returned to making demos. He had a meeting with subsequent manager Ray Williams who persuaded him Any Trouble had a sufficient following to justify its revival. Gregson re formed the band and, on the strength of the demos, Williams secured a contract with Gery Gersh at EMI America.

In 2007, following the re release of several Any Trouble albums on CD, the group reformed with the Wheels in Motion line up of Clive Gregson, guitarist Chris Parks, bassist Phil Barnes and drummer Martin Hughes. After playing a few live gigs, Barnes had to bow out of the reformed group due to other commitments. With Mark Griffiths as a session musician on bass, the revived group recorded a new album which was released on the reborn Stiff Records label on 10 September 2007. The album was titled Life in Reverse and featured thirteen new Gregson penned songs. It was produced by John Wood, and had unique artwork by the Stiff Records designer Tobbe Stuhre. The band played a headlining reunion gig at the Jazz Cafe in London, England to support the release. After another period of inactivity, in November 2013 Cherry Red Records released the 3 CD set The Complete Stiff Recordings 1980 81, comprising the band's first two studio albums with assorted singles and B sides, plus the Live at the Venue album, packaged in mini sleeves. The band supported this by re forming to perform a one off gig at London's 229 Club. By now, Griffiths was a full official member, and the line up consisted of Gregson, Parks, Griffith and Hughes. Any Trouble stayed together in 2014 to record the new album Present Tense and played a short tour in England in December 2014, which included Band on the Wall, Manchester, on 2 December 2014, dates in Newcastle, Birmingham and the 229 Club in London; they also played at the Purple Weekend Festival, in León, Spain. Present Tense was released in November 2015 featuring 18 new songs written by Gregson.

Phil Barnes worked producing music videos for bands such as Oasis and now produces TV adverts. Andy Ebsworth is now a music technology lecturer at Croydon College, England. Clive Gregson is still a full time musician, living in America and touring countries including the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Japan. Mel Harley runs a design and marketing company and property business. Tom Jackson worked with Clive Gregson again in the Oatcake Brothers. He then left the music business and went into social work. Chris Parks is now working in the UK as a music software developer.