Trev Thoms
Trevor Thoms, known as Judge Trev Thoms and Judge Trev, was a British guitarist, best known for being a member of Inner City Unit, Atomgods, and [Steve Gibbons #Steve Gibbons Band|The Steve Gibbons Band].
Background
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he played in a blues-rock group with hints of progressive rock and heavy rock called Iron Maiden - not the famous group of the same name - along with Barry Skeels, who later played for Zior and eventually became a tour manager for acts such as Black Sabbath, Saxon, Manowar, and Yngwie Malmsteen. They recorded one album called Maiden Voyage.He later played in the seminal British Blues Boom band, Spirit of John Morgan. He has backed Graham Bond, Gregory Isaacs and Steve Gibbons, and was a member of Steve Peregrin Took's band Steve Took's Horns with Dino Ferari on drums.
Artists he had played with include, Opal Butterfly, Ray Morrison, Count Prince Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Panchito's High Rockers, The Spiders, the Skin-Deep Blues Band and Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars.
Career
After The Horns broke up in the late 1970s both Thoms and Ferari joined ex-Hawkwind's Nik Turner in Inner City Unit. Thoms also worked with Turner and Twink under the hybrid Pink Fairies/Hawkwind name Pink Wind. He later formed Atomgods and has worked with other ex-Hawkwind members including Ron Tree. He and Ferari formed their own version of Inner City Unit called Judge Trev's Inner City Unit. A regular 'collaborator' he also played with the revived Pinkwind featuring Nik Turner & Twink and after moving to Brighton regularly appeared with Slim Tim Slide sometimes under the pseudonym "Stinky & Stumpy", a partnership that continued sporadically for the rest of Thoms' life.He played festivals such as the Big Green Gathering, Cosmic Puffin Festival, Glastonbury, Earthwise etc., performing his solo acoustic set or with the reformed Inner City Unit with Nik Turner. He also played gigs as Trev and Kev with Kev Ellis, singer from Bubbledubble.
He also ran the website Real Festival Music where he also wrote festival reviews.
Thoms died on 8 December 2010 from pancreatic cancer.